Grantee tags public art

Empowering with Art

Abajian, Srboohie

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Inspired by a 44-day war in 2020, Srboohie Abajian’s "Empowering with Art" public-art project addresses the trauma felt by local residents of war-torn towns in Armenia. Her innovative portable murals share positive messages to evoke resilience. 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

Eyes on Oakland

Mobile Arts Platform (MAP)

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

Through the journalistic lens of community surveillance, this participatory research project and resulting social sculpture investigated ways in which Oakland communities are changing because of new economic pressures. 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

Table Alchemy

Amber Art and Design

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

Table Alchemy advocates for food equity and addresses the lack of access to fresh produce within low income neighborhoods. Read More

North Star

Daniels, Katherine

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

North Star, a fence weaving installation at 2171 Fredrick Douglas Boulevard and 117th Street in Harlem New. York, celebrates the legacy of Fredrick Douglass' first newspaper North Star and transforms the fenced lot into a piece of public art. Read More

Stack and Rack

BroLab Collective

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

A large scale public sculpture, Stack and Rack, consists of sixteen modular blocks assembled in two variations on during Newark Open Doors 2012 in Newark, NJ. 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

Be Black Baby: a House Party Presents

Recess Activties Inc.

Year Grant Awarded: 2011

Presented by Simone Leigh and Recess, it fostered group and individual exploration and dialogue through a series of performances and events that broke down and problematized racial and queer identity along with other conventions of cultural politics. Read More

Bonaparte/Patterson

Murals of Baltimore (2006)/MIchael Kirby

Year Grant Awarded: 2006

A mural depicting the love affair between Napolean's younger brother, Jerome Bonaparte, and a girl from Baltimore, Elizabeth Patterson. The mural is a 3D Street Art project that is meant to be viewed on an angle. Read More