The Ellies

Creator Award

This award supports Miami-based artists with grants of $2,500 to $25,000 to realize a significant visual arts project that will advance their careers.

Current Winners

Xavier-Cortada — Xavier Cortada
2023 Creator Award Winner

JPrintz – bakehouse — Jennifer Printz
2023 Creator Award Winner

Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-9.12.47-AM—Kareem-Tabsch — Kareem Tabsch
2023 Creator Award Winner

Phillip Agnew Headshot — Phillip Agnew
2023 Creator Award Winner

Susan Kim Alvarez

2023 Creator Award Winner

Samuel Lopez De Victoria

2023 Creator Award Winner

Motyko_Headshot – Motyko Morales — Motyko Morales
2023 Creator Award Winner

Alexander Zastera Headshot — Alexander Zastera
2023 Creator Award Winner

Agua Dulce Headshot — Agua Dulce
2023 Creator Winner Award

carmen pelaez – Carmen Pelaez — Carmen Pelaez
2023 Creator Award Winner

Devora Perez

2023 Creator Award Winner

Gregory Clark

2023 Creator Award Winner

Self Portaits_08_20_2327353 – Elliot _ Erick Jimenez — Elliot + Erick Jimenez
2023 Creator Award Winner

Aaron Jackson — Aaron Jackson
2023 Creator Award Winner

Sean Mick

2023 Creator Award Winner

Jennifer Basile

2023 Creator Award Winner

Headshot_smaller – Sydney Rose — Sydney Maubert
2023 Creator Award Winner

Aldeide Delgado. Photo by Melanie Metz – Aldeide Delgado — Aldeide Delgado
2023 Creator Award Winner

ELISA TURNER_PHOTO – Ishmaelita — Elisa Turner
2023 Creator Award Winner

Shot with NOMO CAM 135 GR. — Edny Jean Joseph
2023 Creator Award Winner

Sue Montoya in front of purple flowers — Sue Montoya
2023 Creator Award Winner

Elle Barbeito

2023 Creator Award Winner

Greg Clark Headshot — Gregory Clark
2023 Creator Award Winner

Diana Larrea_portrait 02 – Diana Larrea — Diana Larrea
2023 Creator Award Winner

NicoleCombeauHeadshot – Nicole Combeau — Nicole Combeau
2023 Creator Award Winner

Chachamovits_headshot – Beatriz Chachamovits — Beatriz Chachamovits
2023 Creator Award Winner

Luis Gispert

2023 Creator Winner

Lowres_Monica Headshot_JuanLuisMatos – Monica Sorelle — Monica Sorelle
2023 Creator Winner

Alicia Edwards

2023 Creator Winner

Joshua Jean-Baptiste – HS2 – Joshua Jean b — Joshua Jean-Baptiste
2023 Creator Winner

Foto Carola Bravo – Carola Bravo — Carola Bravo
2023 Creator Winner

Maria Lino

2023 Creator Winner

Chris Friday — Friday
2023 Creator Award Winner
2021 Creator Award Winner

Anita Sharma

2023 Creator Award Winner
2021 Creator Award Winner

Roscoe-B.-Thicke-III — Roscoè B. Thické III
2023 Creator Award Winner
2021 Creator Award Winner

Tom Scicluna — Tom Scicluna
2023 Creator Award Winner
2020 Creator Award Winner

Yanira Collado Portrait — Yanira Collado
2023 Creator Award Winner
2019 Creator Award Winner

Yucef Merhi — Yucef Merhi
2023 Creator Award Winner
2019 Creator Award Winner

2022 2021 2020 2019 2018

Past Winners: 2022

Alexandra Field O’Neale — Alexandra Fields O’Neale
2022 Creator Award Winner

Yi Chin Hsieh — Yi Chin Hsieh
2022 Creator Award Winner

William Osorio — William Osorio
2022 Creator Award Winner

Victoria Ravelo — Victoria Ravelo
2022 Creator Award Winner

Smith Durogene — Smith Durogene
2022 Creator Award Winner

Smita Sen — Smita Sen
2022 Creator Award Winner

Robert Thiele — Robert Thiele
2022 Creator Award Winner

Ricardo E. Zulueta — Ricardo E. Zulueta
2022 Creator Award Winner

Rhonda Mitrani — Rhonda Mitrani
2022 Creator Award Winner

Oscar Rieveling — Oscar Rieveling
2022 Creator Award Winner

Nadia Wolff — Nadia Wolff
2022 Creator Award Winner

Monica Uszerowicz — Monica Uszerowicz
2022 Creator Award Winner

Margaret Cardillo — Margaret Cardillo
2022 Creator Award Winner

Leslie Gomez-Gonzalez — Leslie Gomez-Gonzalez
2022 Creator Award Winner

Larissa Perez — Larissa Perez
2022 Creator Award Winner

Johann C. Muñoz — Johann C. Muñoz
2022 Creator Award Winner

Jee Park

2022 Creator Award Winner

Jayme Kaye Gershen — Jayme Kaye Gershen
2022 Creator Award Winner

Jacek Kolasiński — Jacek Kolasiński
2022 Creator Award Winner

Fola Akinde — Fola Akinde
2022 Creator Award Winner

George Sanchez-Calderon — George Sanchez-Calderon
2022 Creator Award Winner

Ema Ri — Ema Ri
2022 Creator Award Winner

Dainy Tapia — Dainy Tapia
2022 Creator Award Winner

Clara Toro — Clara Toro
2022 Creator Award Winner

Carolina Cueva — Carolina Cueva
2022 Creator Award Winner

Carolina Casusol — Carolina Casusol Valle
2022 Creator Award Winner

Carlos Sandoval De Leon — Carlos Sandoval De Leon
2022 Creator Award Winner

Cara Dodge — Cara Dodge
2022 Creator Award Winner

Anastasia Samoylova — Anastasia Samoylova
2022 Creator Award Winner

Amanda Linares — Amanda Linares
2022 Creator Award Winner

Antonia Wright — Antonia Wright
2022 Creator Award Winner
2020 Creator Award Winner

Cornelius Tulloch — Cornelius Tulloch
2022 Creator Award Winner
2020 Creator Award Winner

Francisco Masó — Francisco Masó
2022 Creator Award Winner
2020 Creator Award Winner

Lee Pivnik — Lee Pivnik
2022 Creator Award Winner
2020 Creator Award Winner

Rose Marie Cromwell — Rose Marie Cromwell
2022 Creator Award Winner
2019 Creator Award Winner

Liz Ferrer

2022 Creator Award Winner
2019 Creator Award Winner

T. Eliott Mansa — T. Eliott Mansa
2022 Creator Award Winner
2019 Creator Award Winner

Coralina Rodriguez-Meyer — Coralina Rodriguez Meyer
2022 Creator Award Winner
2019 Creator Award Winner

Dara Friedman — Dara Friedman
2022 Creator Award Winner
2018 Creator Award Winner

Past Winners: 2021

Colin Foord

2021 Creator Award Winner

Cooper Jacoby — Cooper Jacoby
2021 Creator Award Winner

Headshot_Regina_Jestrow_Courtesy-of-The-Studios-of-Key-West — Regina Jestrow
2021 Creator Award Winner

Andrea Nones-Kobiakov

2021 Creator Award Winner

Arsimmer McCoy — Arsimmer McCoy
2021 Creator Award Winner

Chris Friday — Friday
2023 Creator Award Winner
2021 Creator Award Winner

Carlos Estevez — Carlos Estevez
2021 Creator Award Winner

Aurora Molina — Aurora Molina
2021 Creator Award Winner

Diana Eusebio — Diana Eusebio
2021 Creator Award Winner

Donna Ruff — Donna Ruff
2021 Creator Award Winner

Edison Peñafiel — Edison Peñafiel
2021 Creator Award Winner

Gabriela Gamboa — Gabriela Gamboa
2021 Creator Award Winner

Jamila Rowser — Jamila Rowser
2021 Creator Award Winner

Jessica Gispert — Jessica Gispert
2021 Creator Award Winner

Juan Barquin

2021 Creator Award Winner

Karla Caprali — Karla Caprali
2021 Creator Award Winner

Abhi Chatterjee — Abhi Chatterjee-Dutt
2021 Creator Award Winner

Anita Sharma

2023 Creator Award Winner
2021 Creator Award Winner

Anthony Mendez (Queef Latina) — Antonio Mendez (Queef Latina)
2021 Creator Award Winner

Karla Kantorovich — Karla Kantorovich
2021 Creator Award Winner

Miguel-Yurrita — Miguel Yurrita
2021 Creator Award Winner

Alberto Checa — Alberto Checa
2021 Creator Award Winner

Samuel-Murrain — Samuel Murrain
2021 Creator Award Winner

Sandra Ramos photo by Rogelio López Marín (Gory) — Sandra Ramos Lorenzo
2021 Creator Award Winner

SteveSaiz — Steve Saiz
2021 Creator Award Winner

MonicaBauhausPortraitByThomasMeyer — Monica Lopez De Victoria
2021 Creator Award Winner

NAOMI-FISHER—PORTRAIT — Naomi Fisher
2021 Creator Award Winner

Raymel-Casamayor-Bello — Raymel Casamayor Bello
2021 Creator Award Winner

Roscoe-B.-Thicke-III — Roscoè B. Thické III
2023 Creator Award Winner
2021 Creator Award Winner

RUBEN-MILLARES-PORTRAIT — Ruben Millares
2021 Creator Award Winner

Summer-Jade-Leavitt — Summer Jade Leavitt
2021 Creator Award Winner

Stephen Arboite — Stephen Arboite
2021 Creator Award Winner

Dimitry–Saïd_Chamy-02 — Dimitry Chamy
2021 Creator Award Winner

Juliana Tafur — Juliana Tafur
2021 Creator Award Winner

william cordova — william cordova
2021 Creator Award Winner,
2020 Creator Award Winner

Director Photo Cristine Brache — Cristine Brache
2021 Creator Award Winner,
2019 Creator Award Winner

Morel-Doucet — Morel Doucet
2021 Creator Award Winner,
2019 Creator Award Winner

Carl Juste — Carl Juste
2021 Creator Award Winner,
2019 Creator Award Winner

Elysa-Batista — Elysa D. Batista
2021 Creator Award Winner

Gabriela Serra — Gabriela Serra
2021 Creator Award Winner,
2019 Creator Award Winner

Leo Castaneda Portrait — Leo Castaneda
2021 Creator Award Winner,
2018 Creator Award Winner

Past Winners: 2020

Robert McKnight Portrait — Robert McKnight
2022 Michael Richards Award Winner
2020 Creator Award Winner

barbarafernandezheadshot — Barbara Fernandez
2020 Creator Award Winner

Amalia Caputo — Amalia Caputo
2020 Creator Award Winner

Anja Marais — Anja Marais
2020 Creator Award Winner

Antonia Wright — Antonia Wright
2022 Creator Award Winner
2020 Creator Award Winner

Barron Sherer

2020 Creator Award Winner

Carla Jerez — Carla Jerez
2020 Creator Award Winner

Charles Humes — Charles Humes Jr.
2020 Creator Award Winner

Charo Oquet

2020 Creator Award Winner

Clara Varas — Clara Varas
2020 Creator Award Winner

Cornelius Tulloch — Cornelius Tulloch
2022 Creator Award Winner
2020 Creator Award Winner

Katja Esson — Katja Esson
2020 Creator Award Winner

Evelyn Politzer — Evelyn Politzer
2020 Creator Award Winner

Ezekiel Binns — Ezekiel Binns
2020 Creator Award Winner

Faren Humes — Faren Humes
2020 Creator Award Winner

Francisco Masó — Francisco Masó
2022 Creator Award Winner
2020 Creator Award Winner

Gady Alroy — Gady Alroy
2020 Creator Award Winner

Glexis Novoa — Glexis Novoa
2020 Creator Award Winner

Itzel Basualdo

2020 Creator Award Winner

James Brazil

2020 Creator Award Winner

Juan Carlos Zaldivar — Juan Carlos Zaldivar
2020 Creator Award Winner

Lauren Shapiro

2020 Creator Award Winner

Lee Pivnik — Lee Pivnik
2022 Creator Award Winner
2020 Creator Award Winner

Liz Shanon — Liz Shannon
2020 Creator Award Winner

Luna Goldberg — Luna Goldberg
2020 Creator Award Winner

Maria — Maria Theresa Barbist
2020 Creator Award Winner

Mark Fleuridor — Mark Fleuridor
2020 Creator Award Winner

Nicolle Nyariri

2020 Creator Award Winner

Patrick Farrell — Patrick Farrell
2020 Creator Award Winner

Pedro Wazzan — Pedro Wazzan
2020 Creator Award Winner

Reginald O'Neal — Reginald O’Neal
2020 Creator Award Winner

Robert Colom

2020 Creator Award Winner

Sasha Wortzel — Sasha Wortzel
2020 Creator Award Winner

Sebastian Elizondo

2020 Creator Award Winner

Tom Scicluna — Tom Scicluna
2023 Creator Award Winner
2020 Creator Award Winner

Tony Vasquez — Tony Vazquez-Figueroa
2020 Creator Award Winner

william cordova — william cordova
2021 Creator Award Winner,
2020 Creator Award Winner

Christina Pettersson — Christina Pettersson
2020 Creator Award Winner
2019 Creator Award Winner

Johnnie-Bess — Johnnie Bess
2020 Creator Award Winner
2019 Teacher Travel Grant Winner

silvia-ros-square — Silvia Ros
2020 Creator Award Winner
2018 Creator Award Winner

Pepe Mar — Pepe Mar
2020 Creator Award Winner
2018 Creator Award Winner

Jenna Balfe
2020 Creator Award Winner
2018 Creator Award Winner

GeoVanna Gonzalez Portrait — GeoVanna Gonzalez
2020 Creator Award Winner
2018 Creator Award Winner

Past Winners: 2019

A.G.
2019 Creator Award Winner

Christina Pettersson — Christina Pettersson
2020 Creator Award Winner
2019 Creator Award Winner

Aja Monet Bacquie — Aja Monet Bacquie
2019 Creator Award Winner

Germane Barnes — Germane Barnes
2019 Creator Award Winner

Director Photo Cristine Brache — Cristine Brache
2021 Creator Award Winner,
2019 Creator Award Winner

Liene Bosque — Liene Bosquê
2019 Creator Award Winner

Neil Brideau — Neil Brideau
2019 Creator Award Winner

Otari Oliva Buadze — Otari Oliva Buadze
2019 Creator Award Winner

Linda Chamorro — Linda Chamorro
2019 Creator Award Winner

Clifton Childree — Clifton Childree
2019 Creator Award Winner

Yanira Collado Portrait — Yanira Collado
2023 Creator Award Winner
2019 Creator Award Winner

Rose Marie Cromwell — Rose Marie Cromwell
2022 Creator Award Winner
2019 Creator Award Winner

CYJO — CYJO
2019 Creator Award Winner

Dana De Greff — Dana De Greff
2019 Creator Award Winner

Morel-Doucet — Morel Doucet
2021 Creator Award Winner,
2019 Creator Award Winner

Marcelo Ertorteguy — Marcelo Ertorteguy
2019 Creator Award Winner

Liz Ferrer

2022 Creator Award Winner
2019 Creator Award Winner

Torrance Gettrell — Torrance Gettrell
2019 Creator Award Winner

Gaspar González — Gaspar González
2019 Creator Award Winner

Brookhart Jonquil — Brookhart Jonquil
2019 Creator Award Winner

Carl Juste — Carl Juste
2021 Creator Award Winner,
2019 Creator Award Winner

David McCauley — David McCauley
2019 Creator Award Winner

Juan Ledesma — Juan Ledesma
2019 Creator Award Winner

T. Eliott Mansa — T. Eliott Mansa
2022 Creator Award Winner
2019 Creator Award Winner

Octavia-Yearwood — Octavia Yearwood
2019 Creator Award Winner

Yucef Merhi — Yucef Merhi
2023 Creator Award Winner
2019 Creator Award Winner

Coralina Rodriguez-Meyer — Coralina Rodriguez Meyer
2022 Creator Award Winner
2019 Creator Award Winner

Emmett Moore — Emmett Moore
2019 Creator Award Winner

Ernesto Oroza — Ernesto Oroza
2019 Creator Award Winner

Terence Price II — Terence Price II
2019 Creator Award Winner

Maria Corina Ramirez — Maria Corina Ramirez
2019 Creator Award Winner

Agustina-Woodgate — Agustina Woodgate
2019 Creator Award Winner

Martha Raoli — Martha Raoli
2019 Creator Award Winner

Freddy Rodriguez — Freddy Rodriguez
2019 Creator Award Winner

Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova — Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova
2019 Creator Award Winner

Gabriela Serra — Gabriela Serra
2021 Creator Award Winner,
2019 Creator Award Winner

Frances Trombly — Frances Trombly
2019 Creator Award Winner

Federico-Uribe — Federico Uribe
2019 Creator Award Winner

virgin-square — Tom Virgin
2019/2018 Creator Award Winner

Past Winners: 2018

ArchivalF-square — Thom Wheeler Castillo
2018 Creator Award Winner

SymoneTMajor-squaret — Symone Titania
2018 Creator Award Winner

Sheldon-square — Stuart Sheldon
2018 Creator Award Winner

silvia-ros-square — Silvia Ros
2020 Creator Award Winner
2018 Creator Award Winner

Rosa Naday Garmendia

2018 Creator Award Winner

RAYMOND-ELMAN-square — Raymond Elman
2018 Creator Award Winner

Pepe Mar — Pepe Mar
2020 Creator Award Winner
2018 Creator Award Winner

Onajide-square — Onajide Shabaka
2018 Creator Award Winner

Nicolas-square — Nicolas Lobo
2018 Creator Award Winner

Michelle-Lisa-Polissaint-square — Michelle Lisa Polissaint
2018 Creator Award Winner

marcus-square — Marcus Blake
2018 Creator Award Winner

RUBIO-farrell-square — Lydia Rubio
2018 Creator Award Winner

ralph-and-lou-square — Lou Anne Colodny
2018 Creator Award Winner

Leo Castaneda Portrait — Leo Castaneda
2021 Creator Award Winner,
2018 Creator Award Winner

Kevin_Arrow_square — Kevin Arrow
2018 Creator Award Winner

Julie-Fliegenspan-square — Julie Fliegenspan
2018 Creator Award Winner

Juana_Valdes_headshot_Portrait-Photo-Credit-Andrew-Robinson — Juana Valdes
2018 Creator Award Winner

Johanne_Rahaman_square — Johanne Rahaman
2018 Creator Award Winner

joe-square — Joe Cardona
2018 Creator Award Winner

Jillian Mayer Portrait — Jillian Mayer
2018 Creator Award Winner

Jenna Balfe
2020 Creator Award Winner
2018 Creator Award Winner

Figueras-square — Guadalupe Figueras
2018 Creator Award Winner

GF.portrait-square — Gonzalo Fuenmayor
2018 Creator Award Winner

GeoVanna Gonzalez Portrait — GeoVanna Gonzalez
2020 Creator Award Winner
2018 Creator Award Winner

Cruz-square — Franky Cruz
2018 Creator Award Winner

Fereshteh-Toosi-square — Fereshteh Toosi
2018 Creator Award Winner

Dara Friedman — Dara Friedman
2022 Creator Award Winner
2018 Creator Award Winner

cara-despain-square — Cara Despain
2018 Creator Award Winner

Bo-Droga-square — Bo Droga
2018 Creator Award Winner

Ayesha Singh

2018 Creator Award Winner

4B9A7743-square — Asif Farooq
2018 Creator Award Winner

april-2-square — April Dobbins
2018 Creator Award Winner

Alina Rodriguez

2020 Teacher Travel Grant Winner
2018 Creator Award Winner

Adler Guerrier Portrait — Adler Guerrier
2018 Creator Award Winner

virgin-square — Tom Virgin
2019/2018 Creator Award Winner

simmons-square — Troy Simmons
2018 Creator Award Winner

Woosler-square — Woosler Delisfort
2018 Creator Award Winner