SINT MAARTEN/JAMAICA - "Collectively, the grantees are showing the power of art in its many dimensions," said Caribbean Culture Fund (CCF) Executive Director, Kellie Magnus.
From individual arts projects to large-scale collaborations to residencies connecting creatives across the region, Caribbean Culture Fund has announced 21 new projects under its Calls 4 and 5; bringing its portfolio to 100 projects across 32 countries.
The funded projects for these cohorts are led by organisations and artists from Aruba, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Caribbean Netherlands, Martinique, Saint Martin, Sint Maarten and the United States Virgin Islands, while the residency programmes will be hosted in Barbados, Curaçao, Dominica, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin and Trinidad and Tobago.
Call 4 covers the themes Art for Change and Caribbean Collaboration. The projects span film, theatre, photography, multimedia, architecture, digital heritage, libraries and archives, and include initiatives such as the British Virgin Islands' first interactive digital archive for culture and heritage, a documentary exploring shared Afro-Caribbean dance traditions in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, a youth-led digital storytelling project in Aruba, and research into traditional Caribbean architecture linking Saba and Dominica.
Call 5 focuses on Residencies and Fellowships and will support programmes that give Caribbean artists time, space and opportunities to develop new work while building professional networks across the region.
Many of the projects respond to challenges facing Caribbean artists and cultural organisations. Grantees were selected by independent juries based on their alignment with each funding theme, the quality and feasibility of their proposals, and the demonstrated ability of project leaders to deliver their work.
Ryan Oduber, who served on the jury, said evaluating the proposals gave him an even greater appreciation for the quality of creative work emerging across the Caribbean. "I was pretty much amazed by the projects."
For previous grantees, CCF funding has created opportunities that weren’t available before, including increasing the longevity of supported projects.
Belizean designer Damian Moore, whose Wired for Change: Empowering Voices Through Carnival Art received support through CCF's third call, said the project continues to create opportunities beyond the original grant. "It's been quite a ride, in terms of, not only the work, but it's like a jumping board into other things, and the project still continues ....[I]t's taken on a brand of its own, which I'm really, really glad for."
For Sonia Farmer, founder of Poinciana Paper Press based in Nassau, The Bahamas, the grant gave the organisation the stability to invest in its long-term future. "We were able to get a permanent studio, buy the equipment that we needed and run the programme exactly as we wanted to."
The newly announced grantees will begin implementing their projects and residencies over the coming months.
Together, the 100 projects demonstrate how investment in Caribbean arts and culture can strengthen regional collaboration, preserve cultural knowledge and create lasting opportunities for artists and cultural organisations.
Project List
Kickin It
- Project: The Capsule Project
- Genre: Libraries & Archives
- Country of implementation: British Virgin Islands
Geron Richards
- Project: Bamboula / Bomba Documentary Film
- Genre: Film
- Country of implementation: United States Virgin Islands (explores cultural connections with Puerto Rico)
Stephanie Chalana Brown
- Project: Claiming Spaces: The African Story of the Sugar Mill
- Genre: Multimedia
- Country of implementation: United States Virgin Islands (St. Croix)
David Gumbs
- Project: The Tides of Infinite Passage
- Genre: Multimedia
- Country of implementation: Saint Martin
Écritures théâtrales contemporaines en Caraïbe (ETC Caraïbe)
- Project: Tjè nou pa réparé – Théâtre de rue antillais
- Genre: Performing Arts
- Country of implementation: Martinique
Nicola Muirhead
- Project: Descendants of Summer
- Genre: Photography
- Country of implementation: Bermuda
Monica Pulido
- Project: Tribu Lab – Designing Digital Pathways to Cultural Participation for Caribbean Youth
- Genre: Multimedia
- Country of implementation: Aruba
Jean Oneli Blaise
- Project: VR Soualiga
- Genre: Video Games
- Country of implementation: Sint Maarten
TRAYSKREYOL
- Project: Remounizé — Dé-monstration décoloniale caribéenne
- Genre: Libraries & Archives
- Country of implementation: Martinique
Association Zofi
- Project: An Ba Lanmè – Exhibition
- Genre: Photography
- Countries of implementation: Martinique, Dominica and Saint Lucia
Saba Archaeological Center Foundation (SABARC)
- Project: The Resilient Houses Project
- Genre: Architecture
- Countries of implementation: Caribbean Netherlands and Dominica
Imagen 83/2000, 1ER Grupo Fotográfico Femenino / Centro de la Imagen
- Project: Residencia Photoimagen 2026
- Genre: Residency
- Country of implementation: Dominican Republic
Light House Theatre
- Project: Decoding Afro-Caribbean Knowledge Systems
- Genre: Residency
- Country of implementation: Saint Lucia (cultural exchange with Trinidad and Tobago)
Plié for the Arts Foundation
- Project: The Plié for The Arts Caribbean Residency
- Genre: Residency
- Country of implementation: Barbados (participants from Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago)
SAFE
- Project: Bodies and Memories
- Genre: Residency
- Country of implementation: Saint Martin
Stichting Kunst Openbare Ruimte Kòrsou (SKOR)
- Project: Uncommissioned Curaçao
- Genre: Residency
- Country of implementation: Curaçao (includes artists from Aruba, Sint Maarten and Saint Martin)
East Yard Enterprises
- Project: AMPLIFY Connect
- Genre: Residency
- Country of implementation: Trinidad and Tobago (participants from Barbados and Jamaica)
HeadMade Factory
- Project: Résidence HeadMade Factory
- Genre: Residency
- Country of implementation: Saint Martin
Jamaica Musical Theatre Company (JMTC)
- Project: TAP – Theatrix Apprenticeship Programme
- Genre: Residency
- Country of implementation: Jamaica
Listwa
- Project: Listwa Latè
- Genre: Residency
- Country of implementation: Saint Lucia (artist based in Dominica)
Waitukubuli Artist Association
- Project: Cayapa/Koudmen
- Genre: Residency
- Country of implementation: Dominica
ABOUT THE CARIBBEAN CULTURE FUND
The Caribbean Culture Fund (CCF) is a regional fund dedicated to supporting Caribbean artists, cultural practitioners, cultural organisations and institutions. Through competitive open calls, the Fund invests in projects that demonstrate creativity, social commitment, inclusion, sustainability, and the preservation and transmission of Caribbean cultural knowledge and practice. By supporting collaboration, innovation and artistic excellence across the region, CCF contributes to a stronger and more connected Caribbean cultural ecosystem.
