2023 Nan Yeomans Grant for Artistic Development - Recipient Announced

The Kingston Arts Council (KAC) and the Community Foundation for Kingston & Area (CFKA)
are pleased to announce that Kelsey Dawn Pearson is the recipient of the 2023 Nan Yeomans
Grant for Artistic Development.
The Nan Yeomans Grant, valued at $2,500 and made possible through an endowment fund held
by the CFKA, assists promising young artists and artisans in furthering their education and
professional artistic growth. Nan Yeomans was a prominent Kingston artist dedicated to
supporting local and emerging artists in the visual arts. The KAC administers the grant and the
recipient is selected by a peer jury of artists and arts professionals. The 2023 jury included local
artists Jung-Ah Kim, Jobelle Quijano, and Pengyuan Wang.

About Kelsey Dawn Pearson
Kelsey Dawn Pearson is an artist residing in
Katarokwi/Kingston. They recently graduated
from Concordia University with an MFA in Print
Media and hold a BFA from NSCAD. Pearson is
a multidisciplinary artist using print, natural fibres
and puppetry/performance as their main media.
Pearson’s work explores themes of gender and
body dysmorphia in relation to bodily connection
to land.
Their work is supernatural, chaotic and colourful
swampwater.
They explore themes of distorted reality, confront
personal ethics, battle dysphoria, bridge fiction
and the present through the use of portals,
touch, feel and play in a world bordering ours.