Grantee tags art

Mary DeWitt: Women Lifers training Canine Partners for Life

DeWitt, Mary

Year Grant Awarded: 2011

I paint the portraits and record the voices of a select group of life-sentenced women. Several women now train puppies for the disabled in the program Canine Partners for Life. I pair their voices describing this with the development of my portraits. Read More

Art Changing the View

Hamilton, Pam

Year Grant Awarded: 2010

Art Changing the View transformed an empty storefront into a public art exhibit in the village of Romeoville, Illinois. The project has brought a bright spot of art to a community otherwise lacking in visual art. Read More

making ourselves visible: a day-long project in feminist space-making

Jen Kennedy and Liz Linden

Year Grant Awarded: 2010

Making ourselves visible is Jen Kennedy and Liz Linden’s one-day experiment in feminist space-making at the Sackler Center for Feminist Art in the Brooklyn Museum. Read More

Cultural Victimizations in War

Aguirre, Amber

Year Grant Awarded: 2010

Ceramic figurative sculptures that explore the issues that are common to all victims of injustice during war. Read More

I Said I Would Never Paint This Way Again

Lowdown Entertainment

Year Grant Awarded: 2010

I SAID I WOULD NEVER PAINT THIS WAY AGAIN is a documentary that tells the story of five American Indian artists, the Urban Indian 5 (UI5), and their unique partnership through art. Read More

“Flor de Tierra, Homage to the Women of Juarez”

Arroyo, Andrea

Year Grant Awarded: 2009

“Flor de Tierra, Homage to the Women of Juárez” ia a project in progress of 400 drawings in tribute to the victims of femicide in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Part of the exhibit "Raza con A" at NYU's Wagner Gallery. Read More

The Veil: Visible & Invisible Spaces — a traveling exhibition

Year Grant Awarded: 2008

A traveling visual arts exhibition that engages received wisdom about veils and veiling practices -- particularly stereotypes about Islam, featuring twenty-nine international new media artists, filmmakers, painters, sculptors and photographers. Read More