The WOMAN. LIFE. FREEDOM.: Year of Hope virtual exhibition features over 100 contemporary artworks by artists inside Iran and beyond its borders. The exhibition serves as a dedication to the bravery of the Iranian people. All artworks are shown anonymously for security purposes and in solidarity with all those who have and continue to risk their lives for freedom. Honoring outstanding contemporary artworks for creative excellence across the following categories: originality, personality, quality of composition, creativity, skills, concepts of activism, justice or representation, overall emotional impression, and adherence to the awards’ interpretive theme: WOMAN. LIFE. FREEDOM.: Year of Hope. View The Exhibition Here

The 2023 Future Art Awards: The Digital Awakening extended an open call to U.S. artists from all walks of life and creative expressions wishing to use their art to reimagine what a high-tech, highly connected future metaverse could look that is also deeply human. Over 350 artists submitted works that contemplated our relationship to the digital realm, including the impact of Web 3.0. on individual and collective identity, the environment, and the latent potential of a democratized, decentralized art world. Grants for emerging and established art writers, covering the art on view in the current Digital Awakening exhibition.

In the spirit of renewal and hope, and in cross-cultural celebration of Norooz 1402, MOZAIK Philanthropy opens its second international open call art; inviting all artists of all ages and creative practices, from around the world, to submit works that represent the future of Iran in this year of hope. Selected artists will be featured in the WOMAN. LIFE. FREEDOM.: Year of Hope virtual exhibition and will receive a $1,000 prize honorarium. Submit and learn more here.

In support of the largest women-led Iranian freedom movement in history, the 5th Annual Future Art Awards presents its latest virtual group exhibition, titled: WOMAN. LIFE. FREEDOM. Spotlighting the universal power of art, the 3D exhibition showcases the artwork of 50 international contemporary artists, using their creative works to demonstrate solidarity with the people of Iran as an offering to the movement for freedom, human rights, and human dignity. All the artwork is shown ANONYMOUSLY out of sensitivity for the severe security concerns for the artists inside Iran and in solidarity with all those who have and continue to risk their lives for freedom. Explore the exhibition here.

The 2023 Future Art Awards: WOMAN. LIFE. FREEDOM. is an arts-based expression of solidarity with the brave women of Iran, in their intersectional movement for freedom and human rights. This emergency open call-to-action is an invitation to global artists wishing to use their art to express emotional support of the women in Iran at this pivotal moment in history. The awards will honor outstanding contemporary artworks for creative excellence across the following categories: originality, personality, quality of composition, creativity, skills, concepts of activism, justice or representation, overall emotional impression, and adherence to the awards’ interpretive theme: WOMAN. LIFE. FREEDOM. Learn more here.

The 2022 Future Art Awards celebrates the creative achievements of all 40 winning artists in a virtual exhibition now open and free to the public. Welcoming hundreds of artists with submissions historically from over 70% BIPOC and underrepresented artists across the country, MOZAIK Philanthropy’s 3rd Annual Awards program drew inspiration from socio-environmental values that we so strongly believe are intrinsically important in catalyzing a just, equitable, and morally inclusive future for all people in all places. The 2022 Future Art Awards celebrate the individual and collective reimaginings of artists who dare to vision a just and flourishing future through the healing power of art. Join us in honoring these cutting-edge, creative changemakers who work to transform our world. Explore exhibition.

Ecosystem X is an open call to all U.S. artists to reimagine life on Earth by expressing an aspirational vision of Humanity through their art. 10 artists will be selected by a jury of their peers in a blind review process to receive $5,000 artist honorariums and a featured spot in a curated virtual exhibition. This 3rd edition of the awards also launched the inaugural Future Student Art Award – a $5,000 academic scholarship or stipend open to any U.S. rising high school senior or higher ed student looking to advance their studies in the arts. Learn more.

In the spirit of supporting an inclusive arts ecosystem around the annual Future Art Awards that celebrates the essential power of scholarly discourse in the arts, MOZAIK presents the Future Art Writers Award — a $2,000 grant for emerging and established art writers who write about contemporary visual art and its contributions to democracy. Learn more.

In keeping with MOZAIK’s mission to democratize philanthropy through a participatory grantmaking practice, the organization welcomed an independent jury of art professionals to assess the art submissions in a blind review, ultimately selecting 10 featured artists to receive $2,000 honorarias and an additional 40 special mention artists to receive $1,000 honorarias. Meet the artists.

The NEW ECONOMY Flow Fund received over 100+ proposals from social enterprise organizations and changemaker entrepreneurs across Los Angeles County. 10 social enterprise grantees were selected to receive grants for their innovative models that balanced mission and margin while demonstrating a breadth of experiences and skills, a spirit of innovation and creativity, and an unwavering commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and access. Meet the grantees and funders.

Congratulations to our fearless leader and change agent, Neda Nobari, for receiving the honor of being named the San Francisco State University “Alumni of the Year”, along with oscar-winning producer Jonas Rivera.

Gather is an intimate portrait of the growing movement amongst Native Americans to reclaim their spiritual, political and cultural identities through food sovereignty, while battling the trauma of centuries of genocide.

MOZAIK Opens The Future Art Awards “Curating The Creative Reimagining” 3D Virtual Exhibition, featuring the work of 50 artists across the nation. The opening weeks of the group exhibition saw over 50,000 virtual gallery patrons.

A Peabody Winner for Best Stories of 2019, MIDNIGHT TRAVELER is a gripping vérité story made by a family on the run. When the Taliban puts a bounty on Afghan director Hassan Fazili’s head, he is forced to flee the country with his wife and two young daughters, providing an intimate portrait of the refugee experience.

MOZAIK Launches The Future Art Awards with $2,000 relief grants in support of artists of all ages and mediums impacted by the pandemic, nationwide. The ten featured artists selected from over 1,100 art submissions in a blind review by the foundation’s panel of flow fund judges in the art was subsequently announced online.

MOZAIK’s task is to explore and model new practices in philanthropy with disruptive, creative, and catalytic potential.

MOZAIK piloted its first Flow Fund in July 2019, welcoming a group of community artists and arts professionals working across diverse expressive mediums to allocate the foundation’s resources to six innovative artists and organizations working to empower arts activism across Los Angeles.

The Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies at SF State presents its Inaugural International Conference. With over sixty scholars from 40 countries around the world, the conference recognized the cultural, political, and national terrain(s) that have defined the approximately 5 million Iranians who have left Iran in the years immediately following the 1979 revolution as well as in subsequent migrations throughout the past four decades.

CinéEqual represents filmmakers, institutions, and community members with a focus on social justice cinema. As an integrated unit of Cinema Without Borders, it promotes a diverse, inclusive, and equitable democratic society that values the worth of all humans.

Humanity on the Move shines a light on the global struggle for safety and equal rights for refugees, migrants and displaced people through their own powerful stories.

The HOTM documentary short “Los Comandos” was shortlisted in consideration for the 91st Oscars®.