Genres Fine Arts

Ouroboros

Miller, Michelle A M

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

“Ouroboros'' is my ongoing series of drawings on recycled handmade paper that I embed with crushed oyster shells, ash, charcoal and graphite. Their abstract imagery traces energy flows, follows photons and re-imagines the subatomic particles of which all matter is composed. Read More

It Takes a Village

Minnerly, Denise

Year Grant Awarded: 2011

Where we live is fundamental to our human identity and our overall well being. Our dwellings represent us in an economic and social setting. My exploration using the home as a metaphor, for the last twenty years, has been to address these very issu Read More

Urban Nature in Fall/Winter

Miskend, Donna

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

With nature at a tipping point, the art addresses often overlooked vibrant life that cohabits our urban environment in fall/winter. Focus is on why these species are important to a healthy ecosystem, reliance on biodiversity in their preservation, and how we can protect their urban habitats. Read More

Invasive Species Sculpture Project

Moll, Gerry

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

In this public participatory workshop, participants remove invasive plants from workshop grounds. This plant material is woven, tied, and bound together to create invasive species sculptures. Participants then ‘invade’ the grounds via careful install Read More

Labor Day Sunflower Project

Moll, Gerry

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

A participatory installation celebrating our collective work. Thousands of sunflowers are woven together into a massive circle of flowers. Each flower denotes individual efforts while the circle of flowers represents our combined effort for the year. Read More

I Am, I Will, I’m Afraid (Wellsville)

Molloy, Traci

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

I Am, I Will, I’m Afraid (Wellsville) is a collaborative print made with 14 rural, disenfranchised youth utilizing photographic and digital processes. The figure does not exist - it’s a constructed composite made by layering individual portraits. Read More

TREE OF WAR

Monroe, Derek

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

The idea for accounted life. Read More

PAINTING: HIGGS BOSON, PORTRAIT OF THE FIRST WOMAN

Montealegre, Eva

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

PAINTING: HIGGS BOSON, OIL ON CANVAS, 64" X 100", PETER HIGGS CREATION THEORY, A DANCE, FABRIC, RIBBON, PAINTING 3-D EXPERIENCE WITH MUSIC BY IMPROV CLASSICAL COMPOSER, JONATHAN GRASSE, TRUMPETER, BRUCE FRIEDMAN AND CHOREOGRAPHER, BEATRIZ VASQUEZ Read More

“Transmigration – Magic Mushroom World Series” Project

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Mushroom spores are parasitic to dead-creatures or plants and grow mushroom. This is like a Transmigration or Reincarnation. The shape, color, and fragility of mushroom is very mysterious. This mystery inspired me to start my Magic Mushroom project Read More

Burning Ice

Mueller, Ellen

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

This body of work examines the changing societal attitudes about land and its uses. Using satellite imagery as my source material, I meticulously rendered views of endangered geographies in graphite on paper, eventually publishing an artist book. Read More