Grantees All Genres

Bang! Bang!

Margi Weir

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

“Bang! Bang!” is the title of a traveling solo exhibition that dealt with gun violence, social justice and systemic racism. It consisted of four to six installation works and three paintings that traveled to Coastal Carolina University, St. Louis Community College (Ferguson) and Tulsa Oklahoma.

Justice in America

Margi Weir

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

Justice in America is a series of paintings that deal with the privatization and institutional racism in the U.S. prison system, military prisons, rendition, and immigration cruelty. The floor piece is about the tent cities where children were held after being separated from their parents.

In the Lion’s Den

Mark Judelson

Year Grant Awarded: 2010

“In the Lion’s Den” featured Mark Judelson as Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was murdered in early 2002 in Karachi, Pakistan. The presentation, written by Mr. Judelson included musicians Anna Teigen on violin and Steve Lee on

With Our Eyes Closed

Mark Ludak

Year Grant Awarded: 2016

In 2015, I photographed the memorial site for the nine parishioners murdered by Dylan Roof at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Among those killed was the senior pastor, state senator Clementa C. Pinckney; three victims survived. One of those victims, Felicia Sanders said in a news

The Materiality of Impermanence

Marroquin, Sharon

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

The Materiality of Impermanence is an evening-length dance production based on my journey as a breast cancer survivor. A post-performance panel, "Art and Healing", features breast cancer survivors who have used art to transform their experience.

Frenemies

Martinelli, Mirella

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

Frenemies is a feature-length documentary that tells the story of the close yet conflicted relationship between the United States and Cuba from 1950 to 2020. How much longer can this small Caribbean island survive the longest embargo in history?

Mother Me

Mary Prescott

Year Grant Awarded: 2021

An interdisciplinary performance that explores the complex relationships, psychology and sociology surrounding motherhood.

Vision Disturbance

Masciotti, Christina

Year Grant Awarded: 2010

In this work from rising star, Christina Masciotti, a middle-aged Greek woman’s divorce causes her retinal distress that leads her to develop an unexpectedly intimate connection with the ophthalmologist who treats her.

Unified Field

Masley, Caitlin

Year Grant Awarded: 2010

These found plate glass works were made on location at the Abrons Art Center for AIRspace 2010. This site-specific installation was "grown" for the mass population to maximize their freedom to determine potential future of imagined structures.

ERA

Matheson, William

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

In the fall of 2019 I attended the artist residency program Taipei Artist Village with financial assistance from the Puffin Foundation. At TAV I created a series of video installations that explored ecology, mutation and collapse.