Grantees All Genres

Raw Thought, a documentary theatre play about the life, death, and work of Aaron Swartz

Co-Op Theatre East/Ashley Marinaccio

Year Grant Awarded: 2016

Co-Op Theatre East Presents: Raw Thought An interpretation of the life, death, and writings of Aaron Swartz Written by Tyrus Holden Devised by Co-Op Theatre East ensemble members - Tyrus Holden, Ashley Marinaccio, Robert A.K. Gonyo, Gil Sperling, and Michael Rehse Directed by Ashley Marinaccio

Once She Dries

Cohen, Nancy

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

Once She Dries is an experimental opera and multimedia installation about coral reefs and climate change, created by 6 artists across 4 continents.

The Trip Wire Project

Colburn, Michele

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

The Trip Wire Project documents deaths of U.S. soldiers and noncombatant civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan since the beginning of US involvement 15 years ago.The artist knitted a stitch in military surplus trip wire.

The Seven by Will Power, directed by Carl Cofield (2014)

Columbia Stages / Erik Kaiko

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

For his Columbia directing thesis, Carl Cofield chose to direct THE SEVEN by Will Power. This rap/hip-hop adaptation of Aeschylus' tragedy, THE SEVEN AGAINST THEBES, played the Connelly Theatre in NYC in Feb. 2014. Produced by grantee Erik Kaiko.

Living American Composers

Compact Discoveries, Inc.

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

The Puffin Foundation's funds were used to help pay the costs of producing two one-hour Compact Discoveries radio programs featuring, exclusively, the recorded works of living American composers.

Camp Interesting

Conklin, Lydia

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

A graphic novel set at an unusual sleep away camp in the north woods of Vermont.

Jazz Arts Program for all Ages (2014)

Contemporary Arts Inc

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Jazz Arts Program for all ages supports our mission to perpetuate the art form of jazz through performance and education, bring jazz music to a variety of audiences in our community and create an uplifting environment for children, youth and families

Full Still Hungry

CONTRA-TIEMPO

Year Grant Awarded: 2011

#SoSadSoSexy

Cordes, Emily

Year Grant Awarded: 2021

Drawing inspiration from contemporary Internet culture and narratives around mental illness, as well as accounts of Victorian insane asylums, “#SoSadSoSexy” is a devised play exploring Western culture’s ongoing fascination with, and misrepresentation of, depressed and unstable women.

Welcome to Camp America: Inside Guantánamo Bay

Cornwall, Debi

Year Grant Awarded: 2016

A vivid and disorienting glimpse into the U.S. Naval Station in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba and its global diaspora of released men, through photographs, declassified archival material, and first-person texts. Award-winning as both fine-art book (Radius, 2017) and international exhibition.