The Audiofemme Grant
The Audiofemme Grant is an annual program that supports women and non-binary musicians and music industry professionals in realizing their creative projects.
Each year, we select a cohort of artists to receive funding, mentorship, and a platform to share their work with the Audiofemme community.
Submissions are currently closed.
Srujanika Das is a Kolkata-based hip-hop artist from Orissa, India, currently pursuing music production at Point Blank Music School in London. She came to rap from a background in dance, communications, and visual art in Tokyo, drawn to its power as a “liberatory medium for the disenfranchised.” Performing as The Joyful Creatrix, her debut single “Purple Swag / I’mma Live Forever” — a feminine reimagining of trap drawing on the myth of Lilith — caught the attention of AWAL, who offered her a distribution deal. She approaches music as a healing art and an act of resistance in a male-dominated genre.
Srujanika Das is a Kolkata-based hip-hop artist from Orissa, India, currently pursuing music production at Point Blank Music School in London. She came to rap from a background in dance, communications, and visual art in Tokyo, drawn to its power as a “liberatory medium for the disenfranchised.” Performing as The Joyful Creatrix, her debut single “Purple Swag / I’mma Live Forever” — a feminine reimagining of trap drawing on the myth of Lilith — caught the attention of AWAL, who offered her a distribution deal. She approaches music as a healing art and an act of resistance in a male-dominated genre.
Shailaun is a Texas-based artist and performer rooted in RnB, Soul, and Gospel traditions. Born in Mineral Wells and raised in Arlington, she grew up shaped by the music of Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson, Brian McKnight, and Kirk Franklin. With twenty-eight years of training spanning voice, viola, alto sax, West African tribal drums, songwriting, modeling, and acting, she carries a deep, multidisciplinary craft to every stage — moving fluidly between intimate café performances and large concert venues, connecting with audiences through the stories embedded in every note.
Shailaun is a Texas-based artist and performer rooted in RnB, Soul, and Gospel traditions. Born in Mineral Wells and raised in Arlington, she grew up shaped by the music of Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson, Brian McKnight, and Kirk Franklin. With twenty-eight years of training spanning voice, viola, alto sax, West African tribal drums, songwriting, modeling, and acting, she carries a deep, multidisciplinary craft to every stage — moving fluidly between intimate café performances and large concert venues, connecting with audiences through the stories embedded in every note.
Often is a sound and visual artist from the Midwest weaving stories from the mitochondria of human experience. As a director, writer, and producer, they craft intimate sonic and visual works inviting listeners into the comfort, terror, and possibility of being a small member of a much larger ecosystem. Their 2021 release “Dirty Saint” reached audiences via New Music Friday and Fresh Finds: Indie, and 2023 brought sync placements in Netflix’s Outer Banks, CBS’s East New York, and Starz’s Three Women. Currently working in Los Angeles, Often is milling through the loss of the village — searching to rediscover and redefine its meaning in contemporary times.
Often is a sound and visual artist from the Midwest weaving stories from the mitochondria of human experience. As a director, writer, and producer, they craft intimate sonic and visual works inviting listeners into the comfort, terror, and possibility of being a small member of a much larger ecosystem. Their 2021 release “Dirty Saint” reached audiences via New Music Friday and Fresh Finds: Indie, and 2023 brought sync placements in Netflix’s Outer Banks, CBS’s East New York, and Starz’s Three Women. Currently working in Los Angeles, Often is milling through the loss of the village — searching to rediscover and redefine its meaning in contemporary times.
Ivy Sole is a Black nonbinary Philadelphian by way of Charlotte, NC, committed to a radical practice of audiovisual art devoted to Black soundscape, consciousness, and possibility. With three full-length albums, several EPs, and a live studio project to their name, they are completing “Exploitation Index: Affirmations for the Nonhuman” — a merging of documentary, sculpture, and sound design based on psychographic interviews. Their work explores popular mythologies of race and gender, queerness at the intersection of class, and the anthropocene, drawing on a background in finance and economics to deconstruct humanism in pursuit of explicit, undeniable Black liberation.
Ivy Sole is a Black nonbinary Philadelphian by way of Charlotte, NC, committed to a radical practice of audiovisual art devoted to Black soundscape, consciousness, and possibility. With three full-length albums, several EPs, and a live studio project to their name, they are completing “Exploitation Index: Affirmations for the Nonhuman” — a merging of documentary, sculpture, and sound design based on psychographic interviews. Their work explores popular mythologies of race and gender, queerness at the intersection of class, and the anthropocene, drawing on a background in finance and economics to deconstruct humanism in pursuit of explicit, undeniable Black liberation.
Alison Clancy is an interdisciplinary artist integrating music composition, choreography, and film. Her solo performances weave tapestries of electric guitar into expansive, brooding drone-psyche Americana, with recordings spanning trip-hop, shoegaze, dark disco, and ambient experimental work. Her dance films subvert classical ballet technique to illuminate each body's authentic story. The 2022 recipient of the New York State Choreographer's Initiative Award, she also dances at The Metropolitan Opera, where she has performed the longest Principal Dance Solo in Met Opera history. She grew up off-the-grid in rural Northern California; that duality of stress and tranquility comes through in all her work.
Alison Clancy is an interdisciplinary artist integrating music composition, choreography, and film. Her solo performances weave tapestries of electric guitar into expansive, brooding drone-psyche Americana, with recordings spanning trip-hop, shoegaze, dark disco, and ambient experimental work. Her dance films subvert classical ballet technique to illuminate each body's authentic story. The 2022 recipient of the New York State Choreographer's Initiative Award, she also dances at The Metropolitan Opera, where she has performed the longest Principal Dance Solo in Met Opera history. She grew up off-the-grid in rural Northern California; that duality of stress and tranquility comes through in all her work.
Artemis Montague is a multi-hyphenate composer-lyricist-librettist-singer who believes in art and musical theater as an affinity space, or place for community members to see themselves without the gaze of oppression. They write music and musicals for POC, queer/trans folks, and disabled communities, and are working on an EP of feminist, radically soft music about love, friendship and healing.
Artemis Montague is a multi-hyphenate composer-lyricist-librettist-singer who believes in art and musical theater as an affinity space, or place for community members to see themselves without the gaze of oppression. They write music and musicals for POC, queer/trans folks, and disabled communities, and are working on an EP of feminist, radically soft music about love, friendship and healing.
Mal Devisa is the stage name of Massachusetts-based songwriter Deja Rene Carr, what she calls a "liberation project" as she grapples with identity, disability, and other struggles related to making art. We fell in love with Mal Devisa at our SXSW showcase this spring, and can't wait to help her realize her goal of broadening her genre scope and recording a record with some new gear.
Mal Devisa is the stage name of Massachusetts-based songwriter Deja Rene Carr, what she calls a "liberation project" as she grapples with identity, disability, and other struggles related to making art. We fell in love with Mal Devisa at our SXSW showcase this spring, and can't wait to help her realize her goal of broadening her genre scope and recording a record with some new gear.
Kyoko Takenaka is a multi-disciplinary performance artist, musician, actor and filmmaker splitting their time between L.A., Tokyo and London. They believe artistic expression is a conduit for personal and collective liberation, and are constantly exploring unbinary ways of thinking, moving and creating. Through their music and art, they channel diasporic experience and create a sensory space for queer folks to take refuge.
Kyoko Takenaka is a multi-disciplinary performance artist, musician, actor and filmmaker splitting their time between L.A., Tokyo and London. They believe artistic expression is a conduit for personal and collective liberation, and are constantly exploring unbinary ways of thinking, moving and creating. Through their music and art, they channel diasporic experience and create a sensory space for queer folks to take refuge.
Farmer Zoe is the alter-ego of Delaware-based multi-disciplinary artist Zoe Scruggs, whose work explores how systematic oppression has shaped her relationship with nature. She does this by contextualizing her personal stories into America's ideological framework for understanding the relationship between the human and non-human worlds, particularly where Black, ecological and labor issues collide. She's working on a live set bridging the research-heavy fine art side of her musical practice with the freeform aspect of the Farmer Zoe persona.
Farmer Zoe is the alter-ego of Delaware-based multi-disciplinary artist Zoe Scruggs, whose work explores how systematic oppression has shaped her relationship with nature. She does this by contextualizing her personal stories into America's ideological framework for understanding the relationship between the human and non-human worlds, particularly where Black, ecological and labor issues collide. She's working on a live set bridging the research-heavy fine art side of her musical practice with the freeform aspect of the Farmer Zoe persona.
Julia Sinelnikova is a singer-songwriter and DJ who performs as ORACLE666. Light as a fluid medium and Eastern European folk tales from their upbringing in Russia serve as the foundations for their artistic practice, as they aim to create a womb-like setting for the audience's healing and self-observation. They are working on their full-length album TIMEBENDER, which will ultimately be presented as a multi-day audiovisual showcase and performance.
Julia Sinelnikova is a singer-songwriter and DJ who performs as ORACLE666. Light as a fluid medium and Eastern European folk tales from their upbringing in Russia serve as the foundations for their artistic practice, as they aim to create a womb-like setting for the audience's healing and self-observation. They are working on their full-length album TIMEBENDER, which will ultimately be presented as a multi-day audiovisual showcase and performance.
