Soft Network

Describing itself as “a community for reimagining artists’ legacies,” New York-based nonprofit Soft Network provides space for shared dialogue around this critical yet overlooked field and works to redress exclusions in art history. They will use their $20,000 grant to establish a digital archiving station that will help expand Soft Network’s programs, including their yearly Archive-in-Residence program that supports estates and artists through research, archiving, public events, digitization, exhibitions, and publications. Their 2025-2027 Archive in Residence is the estate of Sheyla Baykal (1944-1997), the Turkish-American photographer who lived and worked on the Lower East Side beginning in the 1960s.

For more information on Soft Network, please visit their website.