2025-2025 Touchstone Foundation for the Arts Emerging Artist Fellows Announced

Touchstone Gallery and Touchstone Foundation for the Arts are excited to celebrate the twelfth year of the Touchstone Foundation for the Arts (TFA) Emerging Artist Fellowship with the announcement of three newly selected 2025-2026 Fellows: Jazz Williams, Brittany Mona’, and Jonathan Fuentes. 

The TFA Fellowship is a two-year program for visual artists that offers representation with Touchstone Gallery, participation in more than 20 group exhibitions, mentorship, networking opportunities, and a solo exhibition at the end of the two-year term with a $1000 stipend. In selecting Fellows, the TFA looks for artistic excellence, creativity, vision, innovation, plus the desire and ability to grow from the Fellowship experiences. Williams, Mona’, and Fuentes were selected from an extremely talented group of applicants. 

Williams employs diverse range of mediums including fiber manipulation, natural dyeing, collage, painting, and 3D elements, to craft visual narratives that resonate universally with women's coming-of-age experiences, using nature as a powerful metaphor. 

Mona’ creates abstract compositions using acrylics, clay, wood, and digital mediums. Her work reflects themes of culture, community, and ancestral heritage, aiming to celebrate and uplift the beauty of Black identity through vibrant, layered visuals. 

Fuentes’ art is full of fun and experimentation. While his focus is on collage, he is also very interested in illustration, sculpture, and digital design. 

The 2025-26 TFA Fellows will have artwork featured in a group show at Touchstone Gallery starting December 4, alongside the culminating solo exhibitions of 2023-2024 Fellowship artists Neville Barbour and Brianne Anderson. These exhibitions will be on view through January 5, 2025. The TFA Fellowship will solicit new applications in Spring 2026.