Grantees All Genres

Paul Robeson Through His Words and Music

East Lynne Theater Company

Year Grant Awarded: 2008

PAUL ROBESON THROUGH HIS WORDS AND MUSIC is an interweaving of two dozen songs that were sung by Robeson, with a narrative of his life as an actor, singer, activist, and humanitarian. Length:45-80 minutes. minutes. Performed by Derrick McQueen.

EMMA GOLDMAN: MY LIFE

East Lynne Theater Company

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

EMMA GOLDMAN: MY LIFE re-creates the tumultuous life of the early 20th Century American feminist and workers’ advocate who became a target of J. Edgar Hoover’s fledgling FBI. Performer/Playwright: Lorna Lable. Director: Karen Case Cook.

Cinema Organica: Growing Community Films

Echo Park Film Center

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

Cinema Organica: Growing Community Films is an innovative media arts project that combines urban green space, organic plant chemistry and Super 8 filmmaking to create collaborative experimental films celebrating land, food, and gardeners of all ages in the greater Los Angeles area.

Soil Ecology

Eckel, Kelly

Year Grant Awarded: 2018

The soil is the skin of our planet which most people take for granted.  It is vital to understand the systems in our environment so that we don’t degrade them. My work is an expression of joy that engages me to move through the world in respectful manner.

EHRP-Puffin Reporting Fellowships

Economic Hardship Reporting Project

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

Founded by Barbara Ehrenreich in 2012, the Economic Hardship Reporting Project commissions award-winning multimedia journalism about inequality in America. We provide financial and editorial support to independent journalists, many of whom are low-income or disabled.

Trail Magic — Grandma Gatewood: An Appalachian Tale

Eden Valley Enterprises

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

The story of Emma Gatewood who became the first woman to solo thru-hike the Appalachian Trail at the age of 67 after raising 11 children and surviving domestic abuse on September 25, 1955!

Revolution: An Unconscious (Deeper)

Eder, Melissa

Year Grant Awarded: 2018

Revolution: An Unconscious (Deeper) is a photo-based project that explores how early iconic media images from my childhood (growing up in the 1960s through 1970s) have shaped my present world view. I believe that these works question the very nature of freedom and censorship.

We’re Going Home

Eder, Melissa

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

We’re Going Home is a photo-based project that explores the my father’s birthplace and childhood home on Lewis Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. This project further investigates how fantasy, folklore and facts are intertwined to create a personal family narrative.

Machinal

EgoPo Classic Theater

Year Grant Awarded: 2016

EgoPo's production of Machinal by Sophie Treadwell, directed by Brenna Geffers.

Janet Planet

Eleanor, Lerman

Year Grant Awarded: 2008

Janet Planet, a novel based on the life of Carlos Castaneda, is set in the hippie haven of Woodstock where Janet Harris, aka Janet Planet, embarks on her own spiritual journey through the psychedelic years and into the mystery that lies beyond life.