The national non-profit arts organization Artadia is thrilled to announce Jenifer Wofford as the recipient of the 2025 ARTPOWER Award.

The ARTPOWER Award is a new partnership between Artadia and ARTPOWER that celebrates artists who demonstrate a commitment to building community abundance through their practice. The award provides $15,000 in unrestricted funds to one artist selected from the pool of current year’s Artadia Awardees, recognizing those who, in addition to their individual artistic practice, have proven themselves as conveners or organizers with a demonstrated commitment to sharing resources, fostering access, and strengthening networks of care within their community.

“We created the ARTPOWER Award to celebrate artists who envision abundance—not just for themselves, but for their communities,” shared janera solomon, Founder and CEO, ARTPOWER. “Artists deserve resources that honor both their individual practice and their commitment to building ecosystems for others. This award recognizes practitioners who see their own sustainability and their community’s flourishing as interconnected, and who actively create pathways for both.”

This recognition isn’t limited to artists whose work directly engages community themes; it honors those who demonstrate community abundance through their practice and outreach, making space for others while building sustainable art practices. 

Wofford is a San Francisco-based artist and educator whose interdisciplinary practice is informed by hybridity, history, and moments of cultural rupture. A co-founding member of the Filipina-American artist trio M.O.B. (Mail Order Brides) since 1995, Wofford has spent decades using humor and camp to explore issues of culture and gender through public performances and activations. She is deeply active in the Filipinx community of the Bay Area and is inherently interested in the rewriting and reclamation of immigrant history in the region.

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