The Oscar Cintas Foundation awarded Ania Moussawel the Photography Fellowship, where she received a $25,000 stipend to support the realization of a proposed project. Four other creators of Cuban heritage were also awarded the prestigious Cintas Fellowship in the disciplines of Architecture & Design, Creative Writing, Music Composition, and Visual Arts.
Ania Moussawel is a Cuban-Lebanese American artist and educator based in Miami. Working in photography and video, her practice explores themes of family, memory, and loss through portraiture, ritual, and close observations of everyday life.
She holds a BFA in Photography from Barry University and an MFA in Photo, Video, and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her work has been exhibited at institutions including the Art Museum of the Americas and the Griffin Museum of Photography, and is part of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs collection.
The additional four Oscar Cintas Fellows are :
Frida Mouchlian, Architecture & Design
Carmen Peláez, Creative Writing
Daniel Toledo Guillén, Music Composition
José Manuel Mesías, Visual Arts
