Tiny Grant 2025 Cohort
Tiny Grant 2025 Cohort
Adalina Aladro
“Adalina is a Franco-American mixed media artist whose work unearths the hidden architecture of thought—a dreamscape of memory, transformation, and the quiet dialogue between chaos and harmony. Based in New York, she assembles the fragments of the seen and unseen, weaving together found materials, dry flowers, and layered textures into intricate collages of the subconscious. Each piece is an invitation—an open door to a universe where symbols shift, time bends, and the familiar dissolves into the abstract.
@ninjaniblax
Andrea Coleman
Andrea Coleman is a Brooklyn based stand-up comic, storyteller, playwright and lawyer originally from Virginia. Andrea’slaw comedy show “Wack or Woke? Andrea Coleman Judges the Law” was featured in the NY Times, TimeOut NY, NPR and PBS. Andrea has performed stand-up and storytelling at Joe’s Pub, Comic Strip, Women in Comedy Festival, San Francisco Sketch Fest and Austin Sketch Fest. You can currently see and hear Andrea on AppleTV and Amazon Prime in either of her 2 reality shows, “Iconic Justice” and “Hot Haus.” She’s currently touring her solo show “3 White Guys Named John” about how John Hughes, John Mayer and Jon Bon Jovi changed her life.
@_andreacoleman
Emily Draper
Emily Draper (she/her) is a queer, Brooklyn-based filmmaker with a background in comedy (UCB, Edinburgh Fringe Festival) and commercial work (Naadam, Harry’s Razors, Ollie). She loves creating highly specific worlds, finding humor in painfully relatable moments, and exploring stories that ask more questions than they answer. When she’s not working, you can find her desperately trying to be the funniest person at the rock climbing gym.
@grrremily
Kariny Padilla
Kariny Padilla is a Dominican-born visual artist based in Queens, NY. She earned her BFA in Fine Arts from the Fashion Institute of Technology in 2021. Her work has been featured in prominent exhibitions, including the 15th A.I.R. Biennial at A.I.R. Gallery, and she was a participant in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Program in 2022.
@karinypadilla
Sadie Monroe
Sadie Monroe is an interdisciplinary artist examining value systems through play, materiality, and historical context. Rooted in curiosity, she challenges norms and imagines new possibilities. Her work blends fabric, collage, paint, poetry, and sound into a visual language expressed through installations, wall hangings, wearables, performances, and paintings—revealing dialogue through abstraction and form.
@sadie_monroe_
Song Lu
Song Lu is a multimedia artist born in Guizhou, China, and currently based in Brooklyn. She obtained her Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts. Song Lu's artistic exploration delves into the multiple layers of memory, emotion, and relationships, with a focus on individual consciousness within social experiences. Her works span various visual media, including photography, video, 3D animation, and AI-generated imagery, breaking traditional boundaries of familiar objects while reinterpreting and redefining them in a whimsical manner.
@real_songlu