For Us, By Us fellow Diana Diroy was awarded a California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship. Selected as an Established Artist Fellow, she will receive $10,000. Fellows will use their awards to enhance their creative practice and will have opportunities to convene both virtually and at Kala with opportunities to share work through Kala’s exhibitions and public programs throughout the one-year fellowship period.
Diana Diroy‘s current project is Seeds of Ancestral Memory, a documentary exploring how immigrants, refugees and their descendants living in the Bay Area are cultivating seeds and growing heritage crops from their homelands to feed their kin and communities.