Grantee tags social justice

Florasonic

Experimental Sound Studio

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Ongoing since 2001, Florasonic is the longest-running sound installation commissioning program in the U.S. Florasonic invites musicians and artists to create four-channel compositions for installation in Chicago's Lincoln Park Conservatory Fern Room. Read More

3 Volumes

Briggs, Priscilla

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

The fingers of capitalism touch every aspect of our lives. This group exhibition explores our collective experience living in its grasp. The works, curated by Priscilla Briggs from submissions for an international call for art, explore themes of consumerism, social justice, and the environment. Read More

ACLU-NJ: Automated Injustice

ACLU of New Jersey Foundation

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Automated Injustice Project: a series of animated shorts to explain how government use of algorithms can perpetuate racial bias, with no opportunity or due process to challenge unjust decisions. Read More

Funding for Arts and Cultural Programming at Camp Kinderland

Camp Kinderland

Year Grant Awarded: 2021

Every summer, Camp Kinderland is grateful to receive very generous grant from the Puffin Foundation which provides funding for the arts for our campers. On behalf of the entire Camp Kinderland community, THANK YOU to the Puffin Foundation! Read More

The Art of Un-War

Niro, Maria

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

In "The Art of Un-War" Krzysztof Wodiczko challenges our complacency towards war, xenophobia, and displacement with his unique large-scale projections onto monuments and facades. Read More

Jazz Age in the South: An African American Perspective

Tiffany Parks/DeKalb History Center

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

It was the 1920s, the Jazz Age. There were wild parties! And while Al Capone was busy unleashing violence upon Chicago, African Americans in Bible Belt Georgia were fighting racial, social, and political battles, thus transforming America in unexpected ways. Read More

Arts Funding for Camp Kinderland

Camp Kinderland

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

Camp Kinderland is a multicultural summer camp and community that honors our progressive secular Jewish roots through our commitment to economic, racial, and social justice. Our programming  integrate progressive values with arts, recreation, and activism in a compassionate and caring environment. Read More

Vote Everywhere

The Andrew Goodman Foundation

Year Grant Awarded: 2018

Vote Everywhere, The Andrew Goodman Foundation’s signature program, is a national, locally-focused, nonpartisan, civic engagement movement of student leaders and university partners. Our Campus Teams work to register and turn out voters, bring down voting barriers, and tackle social justice issues. Read More

Puffin Democracy Fellows

The Andrew Goodman Foundation

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

The Puffin Democracy Fellows program is The Andrew Goodman Foundation's post-graduate, multiyear fellowship offered to alumni of its Vote Everywhere program. Fellows work on promoting AGF’s mission to make young voices and votes a powerful force in democracy by increasing access for student voters. Read More

Recitations in Movement

Lamprea, Stephanie

Year Grant Awarded: 2018

Recitations in Movement is an interdisciplinary performance of George Aperghis' 14 Recitations. This show seeks to express the sufferings of domestic abuse victims through the interaction of movement and voice. Proceeds are donated to Rosie's Place, a battered women's shelter in Boston, MA. Read More