Genres Fine Arts

Arabesques

Stuckgold, Debra

Year Grant Awarded: 2010

This work examines the balance between structure and decay through the depiction of Arabesques, intricate motifs based on floral and plant designs. The motifs are seen in various states of decomposition,commenting on a decaying social order. Read More

no/Dreams of Yorba Linda

Stuttman, Paula

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

“no/Dreams of Yorba Linda” positions the legacy of Richard M. Nixon as a framework for exploring the instability of human nature. It’s a project of loose connections worked out in the medium of paint. Read More

DNA Totem

Suprina

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

The DNA Totem is a 9’ high model of the DNA strand: made of steel pipe and Detritus. It's located in Marcus Garvey Park, and is on view from Mar. 26-Sept. 30, 2016. The DNA Totem refers to our evolution and the footprint we leave behind. Read More

Art and Politics Now Cultural Activism in a Time of Crisis

Susan Noyes Platt

Year Grant Awarded: 2011

A series of presentations and interactions on the subject of art and politics, focusing on resisting police states, exposing racism, artists strategies for activism, border crossing, opposing globalization Read More

Tenderloin Art Lending Library

Tenderloin Art Lending Library

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

TALL, the Tenderloin Art Lending Library, is a neighborhood-based, queer-artist - run-project, that loans original artwork, much of it by Tenderloin artists, to poor Tenderloin residents and others free-of-charge. Modeled on social practice, TALL cre Read More

Desert Agave

Teppich, Naomi

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

My ferro-cement sculpture "Desert Agave" is inspired by plant forms that have adopted to the desert climate in the southwest US. Perhaps this type of plant will be found in the northeast in the near future as temperatures continue to rise. Read More

1,000 Square Feet Project

Thackray, Amanda

Year Grant Awarded: 2021

I travelled to Florida to create a new section of my project “1,000 Square Feet,” which presents a fictional landscape of an oceanic garbage gyre. It is a large-scale, site-responsive project, created through processes that are rooted in time spent observing global waterways.  Read More

The Oasis Art Gallery

The American Friends of Neve Shalom/Wahat al Salam

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

The Oasis Art Gallery, located in the bilingual, binational, multicultural village of Neve Shalom/Wahat al Salaam, brings Israeli Palestinian and Jewish artists together for in-person workshops and joint art exhibits. Read More

Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument

The Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Statue Fund

Year Grant Awarded: 2018

Monumental Women is creating the first statue of real women in Central Park’s 167-year history. The Women's Rights Pioneers monument, featuring Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth and Susan B. Anthony will be unveiled on August 26th, 2020, the 100th anniversary of women winning the vote. Read More

Empowering Youth Mural Project

The Seed House~Casa de la Semilla

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Community Engaged public art project, a catalyst of cultural inquiry and relational aesthetics in Kansas, with the objective of creating interactive environments in which people come together, re-engaged as participant of their own lives. Read More