In loving memory of Creative Coder, Zachary Watson. Each year on March 14, Pi Day, one promising young artist/technologist will receive a $5,000 grant to help further their education.
The fund is held and administered by Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, a 501(c)3 Non-Profit Organization. Donations made through the link below are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law, and will be directed towards the Zachary Watson Memorial Fund.
2018 - Anastasia Victor
2017- Irene Alvarado
2016- Yiliu Shen-Burke
2015- Matthias Dörfelt and Enrico Borba
Sha Hwang
Eric Rodenbeck
Jon Christensen
Zachary Watson was a creative coder with strong interest in data visualization, emergent behavior, mapping, and learning new things. He worked on the overlap between code and design, building interactive and procedural graphics.
Zach suffered severe brain injuries in a traffic collision on July 28, 2014. In an effort to honor Watson's enduring love of math, his life support was removed on Saturday August 16th, 2014 at 3:14 p.m., a time intended to symbolize the mathematical constant pi.
Zachary Watson was known for creating works such as the Stamen Design map of Silicon Valley’s private shuttle network that gained attention in the transportation planning world in 2012. He most recently worked as an Exploratorium employee.
