New York City nonprofit Artists & Mothers has named the 2026 recipients of its eponymous $25,000 grant for artists who identify as mothers. The landmark program provides funding to cover nine months of childcare and is open to emerging and mid-career artists raising a child under the age of three. From photography and sculpture to collage and bookmaking, this year’s awardees span a wide range of artistic practices, conceptual concerns, and styles. Mimi Ọnụọha centers human and machine relationships, sometimes combining family photographs with video and images sourced from the internet. The 2025 single-channel video Ground Truths, for example, unearthed a buried history—literally, a mass grave—in Sugar Land, near the artist’s hometown, using a machine-learning model trained to identify similar sites across the state.  Related Articles Mimi Ọnụọha. Photograph by Casey Horsfield. Courtesy the artist Nickola Pottinger, an artist born in Jamaica and raised in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, works across drawing, collage, and sculpture. Her sculptural works, which she calls “duppies”—the Jamaican patois word for ghosts—pay tribute to her cultural heritage through its physical remnants. …