Our mission at Curious Elixirs is to transform how we drink socially... and the past year has been anything but social!  Yet it's also been one of profound growth for us as a community.  Hundreds of thousands of booze-free craft cocktails have been shipped to the sober-curious, while simultaneously we've seen our working artist friends and colleagues pushed out of work.

Last fall, we thought long and hard about how to help, and our response echoes the time-honored tradition of supporting artists with no-strings CASH grants.  We raised over $10,000 and this winter we announced an open call for artists to submit one existing work within the loose theme of "REBIRTH" across 6 categories (CULINARY, IMAGES, MOVEMENT, MUSIC, VISUAL ARTS, WORDS).

Over 2000 artists applied. Now YOU get to decide who wins.

Our Creative Council has spent the past 6 weeks sorting and scoring and we've been floored by the incredible level of talent in the Curious Elixirs community.  We wish we could afford to give you all the grant money!

Starting today, the first day of Spring, you can vote for your favorite in each category. The deadline to vote is next Saturday, March 27th, 2021 at midnight EST.

CLICK HERE TO VOTE

Thanks again to ALL the artists who applied.  It was so close in every category! KEEP GOING. KEEP CREATING!

Below is the full list of finalists (in no particular order):

CULINARY
Zoey Gong (Brooklyn, NY)
Suzu Furga McNevin (Makawao, HI)
Sinnidra Taylor (New Orleans, LA)
Phillip Childers (Dallas, TX)
Denzell Washington (New York, NY)

MUSIC:
Martika Ragan (Hyattsville, MD)
Cooper Lynn Hays (Nashville, TN)
Doe Paoro (Nicoya, Costa Rica)
Issadora Ava (Elk Grove, CA)
Zain Alam (Brooklyn, NY)

MOVEMENT:
Brandon Gray (New York, NY)
Jamal Wade (Los Angeles, CA)
Dillon Vance (Denver, CO)
Nathaniel Allister (Minneapolis, MN)
Bethel Lindsley (Denver, CO)

IMAGES:
Autumn Palen (Los Angeles, CA)
Sarah Remethc (Alhambra, CA)
Shawn Antoine II (New York, NY)
Chineze Okpalaoka (Columbus, OH)
Emilia Tapprest (Maastricht, Netherlands)

VISUAL ARTS:
Caro Arévalo (Queens, NY)
Ivy Thompson (Seattle, WA)
JP Morrison Lans (Tulsa, OK)
Tianna Bracey (Chicago, IL)
Yulia Pink (El Sobrante, CA)

WORDS:
Chloe Baldwin (Chicago, IL)
Shelly Strothers (South Orange, NJ)
Drew Pisarra (Brooklyn, NY)
Rowen Haigh (Danville, KY)
Serena Huang (Morris Plains, NJ)

Be sure to vote for your favorite in each category before March 27th at midnight EST.

CLICK HERE TO VOTE

We are so thankful for EVERY artist and wanted to shout-out a few more artists in each category that made spectacular work and deserve recognition.

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

CULINARY
Kate Savage (Brooklyn, NY)
Jenny Dorsey (Los Angeles, CA)
Tytianna Harris (Grants Pass, OR)
Hyacinth-Rosalind Rios (Bloomfield, NJ)
Caroline Schacht (Greenville, NC)

MUSIC
Lexie Lowell (New York, NY)
Neffy Russell (Arlington, VA)
Nicole Zuraitis (West Haven, CT)
GANSER + Nadia Garofalo (Chicago, IL)
D’rok THE menace (Panorama City, CA)

MOVEMENT
Cristina Camacho (Silver Spring, MD)
Nina Sawant + The Dahlias (Oakland, CA)
Lauren DeVera (Alexandria, VA)
Trisha Zuvich (USA)

VISUAL ARTS
Vernon Byron (Newburgh, NY)
Stuart Holland (Boise, ID)
Sky Cubacub (Chicago, IL)
H. James Hoff (Tarrytown, NY)

IMAGES
Tashiann Fraser (Paterson, NJ)
Cree Renee (Brooklyn, NY)
Karoline Xu + Mia P. Walker (New York, NY)
Jasmine Rosario (Valley Stream, NY)

WORDS
Danielle Colin (Chicago, IL)
Fatima Bhojani (Chevy Chase, MD)
Ayendy Bonifacio (Toledo, OH)
Curtis Harris (New York, NY)
Purvi Shah (Brooklyn, NY)