The following individuals are not available to serve as advocates for artists applying for the 2025 Artist Awards. They play a central role in evaluating and shaping the next round of award recipient.

  • Any member of the BANF Steering Committee or the BANF Advisory & Accountability Council.
  • Community Consultants and Community Panelists
    • Brian Ellison
    • Dr. Daintee Glover
    • Ezra Hezekiah
    • Eileen Morris
    • Gwendolyn Diaz-Ridgeway
    • Jeremy Johnson
    • Koomah
    • Miriam Damaris
    • Risky Cereal
    • Rose Tylinski 
    • Shondra Muhammad
    • Stacey Allen
    • Tahirah James
    • TAME (Andrew Davis)
    • Veronica Ibargüengoitia
  • Leaders of these Operational Partners
    • Latino Woman Artists of Houston (LAWAH)
      • Zulma Vega, Lorena Morales
    • Multicultural Education and Counseling through the Arts (MECA)
      • Armando Silva, Esmerelda "Liz" Salinas
    • Advocates of a Latino Museum of Cultural and Visual Arts & Archive Complex in Houston, Harris County (ALMAAHH)
      • Carlos Duarte, Rose Tylinski, Gwendolyn-Díaz-
    • Community Artists' Collective
      • Michelle Barnes, April M Frazier

The following individuals are free to serve as advocates for artists applying for the 2025 Artist Awards.

  • 2023 Artist Award recipients are welcome to serve as advocate for applicants, except for those individuals named above.
  • Other artists who are applying for the award.
  • Community reviewers. These individuals will not review any application for which they have submitted an advocate statement of support, but they are free to advocate for artists who ask them to.
  • Leaders of organizations who are BANF grantees, including organizations in which you play a role such as artistic director, curator, program director, lead artist, for example. You will be asked to identify your relationship with current or prior BANF grantee organizations for the sake of transparency, but that relationship plays no role in the review of applications.