2016 Summer Stipend panelists announced

The 2016 Summer Stipend application opens soon.

On June 17, check macktez.com/stipend for your chance to receive $1000 to finish your summer project.

We are delighted to have the following colleagues, clients, and friends participating in the selection of our 2016 Summer Stipend recipient:

Marco Castro Cosio is an artist, designer, and curator of digital art and experiences. His work explores the sensory intersection of nature, food and urban landscapes and questions how we can redesign our collective relationship to natural systems. He works at the Met’s MediaLab.

Philipp Engelhorn is the founder and executive director of Cinereach, a film foundation and production company that has supported over 200 film projects from the past decade including Citizenfour, The Cold Lands, and Beasts of the Southern Wild.

Doug Jaeger is the co-founder of JaegerSloan Studio, advising companies on modern approaches to brand & business problems through film, photography and design.

As president and executive director of Creative Capital from its founding in 1999 to 2016, Ruby Lerner has helped support hundreds of innovative artists across many disciplines with funding, counseling, and career development services.

Cassim Shepard spent six years working with local architects, designers, artists, writers, and public servants to share their stories of urban innovation as the founding editor-in-chief of Urban Omnibus. His media consulting and production practice, S/Q Projects, focuses on finding the most appropriate, evocative, and informative format for complex stories about innovative institutions and challenging environments.