The 18th edition of Charlottesville SOUP was held on Thursday, January 11, 2024 at Quirk Hotel Charlottesville. Linda Staiger, Somé Louis, Phượng-Duyên Hải Nguyễn, and Daisy Dee were selected by a committee of community members to pitch their creative projects in need of funding. Each artist presenter was guaranteed a $250 honorarium.
Phượng-Duyên Hải Nguyễn won the night’s $4,235 crowd-funded grant to create a large-scale, immersive textile installation exploring the notions of home and sense of belonging. This was the 18th SOUP grant awarded. Since the first Charlottesville SOUP event in 2013, a total of $47,262 has been awarded to 21 artists working on 18 different projects.
SOUP is a community dinner series to create a crowdfunded grant for an artist in the Charlottesville area. At each SOUP, attendees give a $10 donation and in return they receive a meal and a vote. During the meal, artists make short presentations about their creative projects in need of funding. At the end of the meal, each attendee enters a voting booth to cast their vote for which project to fund with the money raised from the meal that night. We’ll award the grant right then and there. Consider SOUP an experiment in civic engagement and a chance to play a role in supporting creativity in our community.
Winter 2024 Charlottesville SOUP
At our event on January 11, join us at Quirk Hotel Charlottesville to get to know Charlottesville artists, vote on your favorite creative project, and enjoy a delicious dinner.
Thanks to the generosity of community members, this event's grant will exceed $3,000! All artist presenters are guaranteed a $250 honorarium.
Meet the Artists Pitching Their Projects
These four artists were selected from a competitive pool of applicants by a committee made up of Eboni Bugg, Aleen Carey, and Elizabeth Mayer. They will pitch their projects at the January 11 meal in the hopes of winning the crowdfunded grant.
Linda Staiger: A painter working in collaboration with artists and current descendants of enslaved persons in Fluvanna County to create connection and advance community through a portrait series.
Somé Louis: A visual artist seeking to recover cherished objects from and create a body of work around her childhood home in the Caribbean before it is lost to the sea.
Phượng-Duyên Hải Nguyễn: A Vietnamese American artist planning to create a large-scale, immersive textile installation exploring the notions of home and the sense of belonging.
Miss Daisy Dee: A Taiwanese American artist seeking to compare the roles of artists in building community in Taiwan and Charlottesville through connection of cultural identity, local mythos, and social responsibility.
Attend
Tickets to this event are now sold out. A $10 ticket gets you dinner, dessert, a complimentary happy hour drink, parking, and a vote. While tickets are sold out for the January 11 event, you can still join the waitlist to be notified if tickets become available.
Questions? Email Lindsey.
Thank you
Charlottesville SOUP is a program of New City Arts. The Winter 2024 SOUP dinner is presented by Quirk Hotel Charlottesville and made possible by generous sponsors like the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation, The Caplin Foundation, Ting Charlottesville, Rachel Baker and James Burnett, In The Mixx, The AV Company, Kate Bennis, Susan McCulley, The Jefferson School Foundation, and Nest Realty.
