Ready to Heal/ Ready to Grieve

Ready to Heal / Ready to Grieve was an interactive installation at the Queens Theatre, on October 17, 23, & 24, 2021, that invited community members to reflect on healing and grief. Throughout the day, participants collectively mapped and memorialized on the installation how they encounter and have encountered healing and grief, alongside their stories of future healing. In the space, participants could connect with themselves and with one another, after a year of isolations changed the shapes of grief and healing in all our lives.

City Artist Corps

Anjali Deshmukh & Purvi Shah were among the 3,000 New York City-based artists to receive a $5,000 grant through the City Artist Corps Grants program, presented by The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), with support from the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) as well as Queens Theatre.

Over the course of three award cycles, more than 3,000 artists received $5,000 grants to engage the public with artist activities across New York City’s five boroughs this summer and fall. Follow us @Circleforart for more on our event and the hashtag #CityArtistCorps on social media to see all the artists in action! 

City Artist Corps Grants was launched in June 2021 by NYFA and DCLA with support from the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) as well as Queens Theatre. The program is funded by the $25 million New York City Artist Corps recovery initiative announced by Mayor de Blasio and DCLA earlier this year. The grants support NYC-based working artists who have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19.