Grantees
Frances Grace Mortel
County: Spokane County
Website: http://www.mortelmedia.com
Awards
Grants for Artist Projects (GAP) 2026
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About
Frances Grace Mortel (b. 1987, Manila) is an artist, filmmaker, and community organizer. She is the Co-Executive Director for Asians for Collective Liberation in Spokane and Asians for Collective Action, a member of Washington Filmworks Equity Committee, serves on the board of Spokane Film Project, and programs films at Spokane International Film Festival. Her site-responsive installations involve unmaking and perpetual maintenance—exploring labor and care through digital and physical archives—often thinking about displacement and extraction while mapping out collective memory through moving image and placemaking. Fran lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family and completed her MFA at Bard College in New York.
Artist External Links
instagram: http://instagram.com/francesmortel
Featured Works
Frances Grace Mortel, "tastas at kidkid" (rip and wind), site installation (found/used denim garments, straight pins, safety pins, thread, jute twine, needles, seam ripper, bleach, projectors, monitor, 85 lbs. of rice, transducer, amplifier, media players, media storage, digital recordings, time with family, time away from family), 2024 to 2025
Frances Grace Mortel, "tastas at kidkid" (rip and wind), site installation (found/used denim garments, straight pins, safety pins, thread, jute twine, needles, seam ripper, bleach, projectors, monitor, 85 lbs. of rice, transducer, amplifier, media players, media storage, digital recordings, time with family, time away from family), 2024 to 2025
Frances Grace Mortel, "tastas at kidkid" (rip and wind), site installation (found/used denim garments, straight pins, safety pins, thread, jute twine, needles, seam ripper, bleach, projectors, monitor, 85 lbs. of rice, transducer, amplifier, media players, media storage, digital recordings, time with family, time away from family), 2024 to 2025
Frances Grace Mortel, "Paghimay ng special halo-halo" (Unmixing special halo-halo), part of performance/installation documentation, 2023
Frances Grace Mortel, Dear Nanay, short film, 3 min 24 sec, 2021
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Image: Peggy Piacenza, 2024 Fellowship Recipient