Grantees All Genres

Portraits of the Ecological Self

Callas, Kimberly

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Is there an ecological self? Is there a place within us that remembers we are nature? Can this ‘self’ hold the answers about how to live sustainably within the cycles and limits of our home planet? I explore these questions through this art project.

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.

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!

You Know Your Children (formerly “The Bones of Our Tribe”)

Cano Villalobos, Mandy

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

This project retells the family histories of Anishinaabe matriarchs against the larger backdrop of U.S. – Native relations. Rooted in historical research and interviews, the final installation was exhibited at The Lubeznik Center (Michigan City, IN), upon land dispossessed from the Anishinaabe.

Girl Model

Carnivalesque Films

Year Grant Awarded: 2010

GIRL MODEL documents a complex supply chain between Siberia, Japan, and the U.S. within the modeling industry. The story is told through the eyes of the scout and a 13 year-old model.

The Mischlinge Exposé

Carolyn Enger

Year Grant Awarded: 2016

Through music and film, Carolyn Enger's Mischlinge Exposé paints a complex portrait of one of the greatest tragedies in the modern era and its continued relevance to our current historical moment.

To Use A Mountain

Cassingham, Colleen

Year Grant Awarded: 2021

TO USE A MOUNTAIN is a feature documentary that presents vignettes of ruin and salvation in six candidate communities for the nation's nuclear dumping ground.

Be A Mentor / Sea Un Mentor

Cathrine Lee, James E Sanders, Jr

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

This short documentary video intends to recruit volunteer mentors for a bilingual public school. Beacon Hill Academy serves a 98% Hispanic student body, most of whom enter ‘at-risk’ for dropping out. Mentors’ personal attention counteracts insecurities that cause these kids’ poor school performance.

Losing Winter

Cazabon, Lynn

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Losing Winter is a site-specific, participatory artwork and archive of memories and emotions about winter, revealing the personal and cultural ties we have to the season and providing a window onto what we are collectively losing due to climate change impacts on weather patterns.

Corridos de Celestino

Celestino Fernandez

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

“Corridos de Celestino” is a 2-CD project of original corridos, Mexican ballads. The CDs are accompanied by a booklet that sets each corrido in context and includes the words. The songs are interpreted by six different musicians in a variety of styles.