Annie Koyama, founder of Koyama Press, has been giving away art gallery passes, magazine ... [+] subscriptions and grants to artists in 2020 under her initiative Koyama Press Provides. Koyama PressAnnie Koyama founded Toronto-based Koyama Press in 2007 when she published its first book, Trio Magnus: Equally Superior by Aaron Leighton, Clayton Hanmer and Steve Wilson. The two are related in that some of the grants have gone to the press’s authors, along with artists Koyama admires. Amy Lam received a $5,000 Koyama Press Provides grant for work on a series of autobiographical ... [+] poems. Lam and collaborator Jon McCurley also received a separate $5,000 Koyama Press Provides grant to fund the first episode of their TV show, Life of a Craphead.

Source: Forbes September 03, 2020 11:48 UTC