In Round 6 of the Alternative Exposure Grant Program, Southern Exposure awarded $65,000 to 16 projects at levels ranging from $1,400 to $5,000.

Round 6 Grantees: Art Poem Performance Discourse, Canyon Cinemazine, Colpa Press’s Edicola, Et Al. Materials Library, Hacking for Artists, In the Make, The Lecturers, Mission Mini Comix, n/a, Oakland Nights…Live!, Other Cinema, Real Time and Space, San Quentin Prison Report, S.H.E.D. Projects, Oakland Stock, and Will Brown.

An outside panel selected the 2012 grantees. Jurors included Joyce Grimm, a curator, consultant and educator, as well as the Co- Director/Curator and Owner of Triple Base Gallery from 2005-2011; Eleanor Hanson Wise, co-founder and director of The Present Group and Art Micro Patronage; and Kristan Kennedy, an artist and curator who is currently the Visual Art Curator for the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art.