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2025 Updates from Unmanageable

Unmanageable is deeply grateful to everyone who believes in artists as essential architects of social change. Together we make space for artist-activists and cultural organizers to gather, learn, and create.

2025 has been about strengthening the bond between artistry and organizing. We’ve created opportunities to connect authentically, share strategies, and transform collective rage into sustainable action and care. Please join us in celebrating these achievements.

As we enter 2026, we renew our pledge to Stay Righteously Unmanageable. We act boldly, grounding care into commitment and belief into action. Together, we build spaces where artists are rooted, resourced, and powerful, as we continue the work of creating the world we want to see.

Celine ThackstonDecember 29, 2025Comment

Unmanageable's 2024 Year in Review

Photo: We Are North Nashville: Community Elders Storytelling Project photo credit: Eric England

2024 has been a huge year for Unmanageable's projects! Since 2020, we have raised more than $2.6M in funding for artists and their visionary projects. These funds came from government grants, foundations, sponsors, and generous individual donors.

Funding went to project and tour support, recordings, disaster relief, and childcare support for artist mothers. This includes funds that Unmanageable has handled directly along with significant funds that have gone directly to artists.

We are proud to report that a transformative organizational capacity building grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation contributed to this growth, helping us to add staff to meet this moment of expansion in 2025 and beyond.

Celine ThackstonDecember 13, 2024Comment

Unmanageable's 2023 Year In Review

This has been a big year of growth! Since launching our non-profit officially in 2020, we have raised more than $800,000 to support artists! This includes project-related funding to help with creative development, workshops and performances, touring, and album recording, along with aid that went directly into the pockets of artists for creative projects, urgent needs, and COVID relief support. Click here to learn more about the artists and projects we supported in 2023.

Christy FrinkJanuary 31, 2024Comment

New Sounds' 2022 Top Ten: Love for Unmanageable Projects

Check out John Schaefer's Completely Opinionated Top Ten of 2022 from New Sounds, which features two Unmanageable-supported projects: Leyla McCalla’s Breaking the Thermometer and the composer collective Rachel Grimes, Angélica Negrón, Shara Nova, Caroline Shaw, Sarah Kirkland Snider along with A Far Cry in a stunning recording of Carolyn Forche’s The Blue Hour.

Unmanageable provided fundraising and project management support for both projects, and we’re thrilled to see them thriving in the world!

Celine ThackstonJanuary 25, 2023Comment

Unmanageable's 2022 Recap!

Unmanageable had a fantastic 2022. We are so grateful to all of our artists, supporters, allies, partners, and networks in the work we have done collectively to create a scaffolding for incredible art to thrive in the world.

If you’re interested in learning more about what we were up to in 2022, click here to peruse a little recap, championing successes of our artists and their projects. It’s been a big year of growth for our non-profit, and we are excited to continue to build a family around this work.

Celine ThackstonJanuary 25, 2023Comment