Grantee tags climate change

OCEANIA: Journey to the Cente

Zimmerman, Natalie

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

OCEANIA begins at the center of the planet on a coral atoll — predicted to become uninhabitable by 2030 due to rising sea levels and temperatures brought by climate change. We journey with a mother and her adult son as they struggle to maintain their culture, freedom and independence. Read More

reefscollapse

Zallman, Toby

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

“reefscollapse” is a project that attempts to bring awareness to how we, as individuals, by the choices we make, contribute to climate change and the destruction of the earth’s ecosystems. The work addresses the catastrophe of the bleaching and collapse of the world’s coral reefs. Read More

Imagining the Future

Crossways Theatre

Year Grant Awarded: 2021

We challenged five member playwrights and a guest playwright of Crossways Theatre to imagine the future in a fifteen-minute play. Many of our plays have been focused on stories set in the past and present engaging with social issues. We asked our playwrights to look at the future. Read More

Departing Landscape: Shooting Stars

Frances White

Year Grant Awarded: 2021

This is a work for clarinet, saxophone, vibraphone, and violin, inspired by the incomparable and sublime beauty of Denali National Park, a wilderness that is, for all its power, as fragile as the wildflowers that blanket its tundra. Read More

Hearing Climate Change in NYC

Kate Amrine

Year Grant Awarded: 2021

Hearing Climate Change in NYC involved three new commissions of three new works for trumpet tied to three specific locations in NYC that have been and will be affected by climate change. Read More

Composition for Forests

Shawn Skabelund

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

A site-specific, place-based installation designed for concert pianist Janice ChenJu Chiang to perform inside the work, and for viewers to be allowed to wander through the installation as they listened to the performance. Read More

Tower

Sari Nordman

Year Grant Awarded: 2021

Tower, an interdisciplinary installation, reflects on climate change. Combining sculpture, video, archiving and community participation, the work highlights interviews of people of diverse backgrounds sharing their personal experiences with climate change. Read More

Learning How to Say Goodbye

Landau, Caroline

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

In June of 2019, Caroline and photographer/videographer Oliver Rye traveled to Newfoundland to make molds of icebergs. This is an ongoing project that will continue into 2020 when the mold will then be replicated into glass and filled back up with its own glacier water. Read More

Got Drought?

Fiorito, Karen

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

‘Got Drought?’ is a public art and social media campaign that raises awareness about how animal agriculture wastes water, pollutes the environment and contributes to climate change. Read More

Environmental Reporting Fund

Jacobin

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

Jacobin is a leading voice of the American left, offering perspectives on politics, economics, and culture. The print magazine is released quarterly and reaches 50,000 subscribers, in addition to a web audience of over 2,000,000 a month. Read More