Artadia, a non-profit grantmaking organization and nationwide community of visual artists, curators, and patrons, is thrilled to announce the 2025 San Francisco Bay Area Artadia Awardees: Rose D’Amato, Jenifer Wofford, and Michelle Yi Martin. 

The 2025 San Francisco Bay Area Artadia Awards application was open to visual artists working in any visual media, at any stage in their career, who have been living and working within Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma Counties for a minimum of two years. We received 385 applications, with 51% of the applicants identifying as African, African American or Black, Multiracial, Arab, Arab American, Asian or Asian American, Latina/e/o/x, Middle Eastern, or North African; 63% as women, gender nonconforming, or nonbinary; and 50% as emerging artists. 

The Awards decision was reached after an extensive two-tiered jurying process. This year’s finalists for the Awards included Shao-Feng Hsu, Rupy C. Tut, and Vanessa Woods, selected by Round 1 jurors Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of Architecture and Design, SFMOMA; James Glisson, Chief Curator, Santa Barbara Museum of Art; and Misa Jeffereis, Associate Curator, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis. 

All six finalists held virtual studio visits with Round 2 jurors Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher and Victoria Sung, Phyllis C. Wattis Senior Curator, BAMPFA. 

“As a curator from outside of the region, it was an honor to jury this year’s San Francisco Bay Area Artadia Awards, during which I was exposed to so many stellar artists’ practices and got a sense of the strong artistic talent of the region,” shared Round 1 juror Misa Jeffereis. “In our group of finalists, I was impressed by the artists’ deft material explorations across a wide range of mediums, as well as their ability to integrate form with content, grappling with themes of cultural memory, labor, displacement, and fragmentation among many other salient topics.”

Fellow Round 1 juror James Glisson reflected on the breadth of submissions. “Because of the sheer number of submissions, their strikingly different approaches, and the artists’ wide ranging backgrounds, this process became a window for me into the Bay Area’s artistic community.”

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