We are pleased to announce that HM&C Artist Juan Sánchez is one of the recipients of the 2025 Ruth Awards. Other recipients include Jennifer Harge, Suzanne Jackson, Carlos Motta, and Theresa Secord. Congratulations! This is the second edition of the Ruth Awards, in which five contemporary artists are awarded an unrestricted prize of $100,000.
“Through the many challenges and ongoing complexities of sustaining a creative practice, there are countless artists who endure, who work with exceptional generosity, who are teachers and mentors for each other and for the next generation, who see art as a vehicle for social transformation. The awarded artists embody these values deeply, for not only their investment in their practices but their commitment to others—and we continue to learn from them each day.”
–Kim Nguyen, Program Director, Ruth Foundation for the Arts
With an inventive approach to philanthropy and artistic support rooted in creativity, care, and experimentation, The Ruth Foundation for the Arts (Ruth Arts) launched in 2022 to support organizations in the visual arts, performing arts, and arts education. Leading with its flagship Artist Choice program that is guided by an artist-driven nomination process, the foundation continues to honor the legacy of its founder Ruth DeYoung Kohler II (1941–2020) with ten distinct grant programs that center the unconventional and the exciting. The foundation has awarded more than $25 million in grants to date.
