Grantees All Genres
LobbyArts
Central Louisiana Arts & Healthcare Inc.
Year Grant Awarded: 2011
This project enabled us to hire dancers and musicians to pefform in lobbies and waiting rooms of two local hospitals on a regular basis. These artists also visited individual patient rooms as well.
- Website http://www.artsandhealthcare.org
19 Wentworth Alley, Chinatown
Chan, Eugenie
Year Grant Awarded: 2014
Drawing on her grandfather's history, a man caught between medical studies & membership in a 1900s Chinatown prostitution guild, Eugenie Chan layers original material with family documents to explore his world of high hopes & hard choices.
- Website http://www.eugeniechantheater.org/
Coupled
ChoreoNova
Year Grant Awarded: 2015
Dance film "Coupled" depicts fictional L, G, T, and heterosexual couples' equivalent friendship, romance, and devotion; love relationships as equal partnerships. "Coupled" uses the cameras as part of the dance, choreographed to go inside the stories.
- Website http://www.choreonova.org
Body Politic
Christa Carleton, Tonja Torgerson &
Year Grant Awarded: 2022
Bodies have always been a point of control, debate, and controversy within our society. Printmakers Christa Carleton and Tonja Torgerson make work to highlight the tumultuous position of the body and gender roles.
- Website tonjatorgerson.com
Anonymous
Chua, Iu-Hui
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
"Anonymous" explores issues of sexuality, wounding and identity in young women’s lives, reflecting difference and diversity of attitude within this demographic, touching on an intergenerational shift between these women and their older counterparts.
- Website http://www.iuhuichua.com/
Overburden
Ciarrocchi, Maya
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
Overburden occupies a hybrid space between video art and documentary. It centerers on the residents and landscape of the coal fields of West Virginia.
- Website http://www.mayaciarrocchi.com
Rivers, Dreams, Invisible Cities
Ciarrocchi, Maya
Year Grant Awarded: 2022
Rivers, Dreams, Invisible Cities features Maya Ciarrocchi's recent cyanotype prints on silk and works on paper that combine historical narratives with embodied and locative mapping to uncover buried pasts while investigating ecological issues.
- Website https://www.mayaciarrocchi.com
Turbocharging youth voter engagement, especially at community colleges, trade, technical and vocational schools, at People of Color Serving Institutions.
Civic Influencers
Year Grant Awarded: 2022
Civic Influencers mission is to create more young leaders across the country. We are strategic in recruiting, training, and mentoring young leaders in swing districts and states. These young leaders – called Civic Influencers – helped achieve the remarkable youth voter turnout levels we saw in 2022.
- Website civicinfluencers.org
I-5, Windmills
Clairobscur Dance Company / Sefton
Year Grant Awarded: 2011
"I-5, Windmills" examines the issue of power, the wind, air pollution, rolling ridge green or tan mountains and the majestic turbines that grace their slopes. Set to the majestic score by Sasha Matson of the same name.
- Website http://www.clairobscurdance.org
CSC’s YOUNG COMPANY Education & Outreach Initiative
Classic Stage Company (CSC)
Year Grant Awarded: 2012
Through a series of interactive in-school workshops and dynamic productions specially designed for a teen audience, CSC’s YOUNG COMPANY Education & Outreach Initiative makes Shakespeare alive and accessible to underserved public school students.
- Website https://www.classicstage.org/