In Round 8 of the Alternative Exposure Grant Program, Southern Exposure awarded $70,000 to 15 projects at levels ranging from $2,138 to $5,000.

Fifteen recipients were selected from 143 applications: 3.9 Art Collective, Alter Space, Bench Projects, Birdhouse Arts Collective, Book and Wheel Works, Free Oakland UP, Haxan Film Festival, Heavy Breathing, Incline Gallery, KIDmob / Public Workshop, Material Print Machine at the OMNI Commons, Publication Studio Oakland, Ramon’s Tailor, San Francisco Zine Fest, Y’all Come Back: Stories of Queer Southern Migration.

An outside panel selected the 2014 grantees including Deana Haggag, director of The Contemporary, a nomadic and non-collecting museum in Baltimore, MD; Carrie Hott, interdisciplinary artist and former Alternative Exposure grantee; and Frank Smigiel, Associate Curator of Public Programs at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.