We're funding ten Appalachian artists through the Appalshop Creators Fund

Dustin Hall is a queer painter from Neon, Kentucky who lives just up the road from Tiffany Pyette. An indigenous, two-spirit visual artist, Tiffany is also a poet, like Misty Skaggs, another Kentucky visual artist who wrote poetry specifically for the Creators Fund. 

Ty Murray, from Knoxville, and Michael T. Crawford, from Huntington, both work behind the camera. Ty's photographs show us that "Black is more than a color," while Michael's videography continues the spirit of his original project #iamhuntington, creating positive stories about the city's inhabitants.

Jessica Sturgell's printmaking in Delbarton, West Virginia grapples with the queer experience, just like trans performance artist Marcus Floravante's work as an activist stiltwalker, member of a feminist cabaret, and puppeteer.

Amira Sakalla, a poet and visual artist from Tennessee, is living as a member of the Palestinian diaspora. Her self-portraiture echoes the autobiographical visual art Veronica Jackson creates in Bedford, Virginia to interrogate the idea of black women's invisibility. In Big Stone Gap, rapper Geonoah Davis is working on a new EP.

We are thrilled to fund all of these creative Appalachians' work.