Dr. Jessie Mae Colson Award
The Foundation supports an emerging visual artist who is not yet a professional artist and may be on the threshold of a professional career by providing a $3,000.00 monetary award biennially.
Jessie Mae Colson 2024 Awardee:
Ms. Rebecca Marimutu
– submitted by the Montgomery County, MD Chapter
Dr. Jessie Mae Colson Awardee Ms. Rebecca Marimutu (Montgomery County MD Chapter) Rebecca Marimutu is a photographer and educator from New York City. Her artistic practice explores self, identity, and material tactility through photography, collage, paper sculpture, and audiovisual abstraction. Her work diverts from the traditional photography canon by emphasizing contemporary artists' interrogation of the medium’s history. She received her MFA in 2020 from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Photographic and Electronic Media, with a concentration in Critical Studies. Rebecca is the founder and director of Anchovy Press, an independent publishing company dedicated to storytelling that centers around BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) experiences. Her work has been shown at the Spring/Break Art Fair in New York, the Waller Gallery, the Catalyst Contemporary, the Black Artists Research Space, the Eubie Blake Cultural Center in Baltimore, MD, and the Black Rock Center for the Arts in Germantown MD. She is currently an adjunct photography professor at Parsons School of Design, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and at Towson University.
