New Hampshire Charitable Foundation Artist Advancement Grant Exhibit
works by 2025 award recipient Jihye Han
and finalists Cozette Russell + Isabella Rotman
June 4 - July 26, 2026 | Opening Reception / Meet the Artists: Thursday, June 4 / 6 - 8pm
// Art 'Round Town: Friday, June 5 / 5 - 8pm

Exhibit Statement
The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation’s Piscataqua Region Artist Advancement Grant provides a financial award of up to $25,000 each year to a Seacoast-area visual artist or craftsperson to promote their artistic growth. The Artist Advancement Grant reflects the Foundation’s long-term commitment to supporting the arts, and it recognizes the importance of artists who live and work in the region and help to make it such a vital community. By providing meaningful and substantive support, this grant enables artists to advance their work and careers while remaining in the area, mutually benefiting individual artists and the region as a whole. Recipients are selected based on work that demonstrates an artistic vision, a strong commitment to their discipline and a plan for utilizing the grant to further their artistic development.
Artist Bios
Jihye Han (Exeter, NH)
Jihye Han earned a BFA in Sculpture and Ceramics from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and an MFA in Ceramics from the University of North Texas. She was awarded the Texas BIPOC Ceramic Emerging Artist Award from Clay Houston in 2021 and received the 2022 Emerging Artist Award from the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA). She has participated in numerous exhibitions at institutions nationally and internationally. She is currently a full-time faculty member in the Art Department at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire.
Cozette Russell (Lee, NH)
Born 1978, Exeter, New Hampshire
Working in photography, video, installation, and text, Cozette Russell explores ways photographic space can expand into sculptural objects. At the intersection of disability and art, Russell investigates the aesthetics of care and care as access through an embodied approach that uses tactile interventions. Russell’s work has shown at galleries and museums including SFMOMA, the Wexner Center for the Arts, NADA Curated, and A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn, New York where she is a member. Her films are held in permanent collections at The Getty Institute and various universities.
Isabella Rotman (South Berwick, ME)
Isabella Rotman is a cartoonist and illustrator living and drawing in Maine. Her art is usually about the ocean, women, crushing loneliness, people in the woods, or sex. She proudly self-publishes both narrative and educational comics. Her published titles include "A Quick and Easy Guide to Consent," "Wait, What?: A Comic Book Guide to Relationships, Bodies, and Growing Up," "This Might Hurt Tarot," and "Abortion Pill Zine." Isabella is a three-time NHAAG finalist, was nominated for the Promising New Talent Ignatz award in 2017, and her comic Like the Tide was nominated for Outstanding Online Comic in 2020. She is a founding organizer of Comic Arts Maine Portland.
The grant is made possible by the Artist Advancement Initiative Fund, which was created at the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation by a Seacoast philanthropist, and expanded by the Foundation's Joan Dwyer and Jayne Dwyer Charitable Fund.
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Grant support provided by:
3S Artspace is supported in part by grants from the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation and NHCF's Geoffrey E. Clark and Martha Fuller Clark Fund; Horizon Foundation; and Little Bay Fund.
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