Dondre Stutley
Adrian L. Burrell (MFA in Documentary Film, '21) has been awarded the 2024 Rainin Arts Fellowship.
In April 2024, the Kenneth Rainin Foundation announced the recipients of The Rainin Arts Fellowship, an annual program honoring visionary artists and collaboratives for their significant contributions to the Bay Area’s cultural ecosystems. Administered by United States Artists, the Fellowship awards four artists annually with unrestricted grants of $100,000, as well as supplemental support tailored to address each Fellow’s specific needs and goals, including financial planning, communications and marketing help and legal services. The Fellowship funds artists working across dance, film, public space and theater who push the boundaries of creative expression, anchor local communities and advance the field. The 2024 Fellows received multiple nominations from Bay Area artists and cultural leaders in previous years, and were chosen by four Bay Area jurors.
Adrian L. Burrell is a third-generation Oakland artist utilizing photography, installation, film and experimental media. Burrell’s work examines issues of race, class and intergenerational dynamics, inviting moments where collective storytelling can be a site for remembering. Burrell’s multimedia practice has been exhibited and published across the world and he has held residencies at SFFILM, Black Rock Senegal and the Black Freedom Fellowship in Salvador, Brazil. Burrell’s series “It’s After the End of the World, Don’t You Know That Yet?,” which examines normalized violence inflicted on Black lives, resides in SFMOMA’s permanent collection. His short documentary “The Game God(S)” premiered via The New Yorker in 2022. He is in development on his first feature film, “Cousins,” which follows three kids from East Oakland who are sent on a wild adventure after their favorite cousin escapes house arrest. The film was the recipient of a 2022 SFFILM Rainin Grant.