Grantees All Genres

Ouroboros

Miller, Michelle A M

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

“Ouroboros'' is my ongoing series of drawings on recycled handmade paper that I embed with crushed oyster shells, ash, charcoal and graphite. Their abstract imagery traces energy flows, follows photons and re-imagines the subatomic particles of which all matter is composed.

It Takes a Village

Minnerly, Denise

Year Grant Awarded: 2011

Where we live is fundamental to our human identity and our overall well being. Our dwellings represent us in an economic and social setting. My exploration using the home as a metaphor, for the last twenty years, has been to address these very issu

Direct Route

Minty, Pam

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

Direct Route ​observes a blind woman navigating her domestic surroundings, presented alongside landscape images and the retelling of memories prior to losing her vision.

Urban Nature in Fall/Winter

Miskend, Donna

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

With nature at a tipping point, the art addresses often overlooked vibrant life that cohabits our urban environment in fall/winter. Focus is on why these species are important to a healthy ecosystem, reliance on biodiversity in their preservation, and how we can protect their urban habitats.

MIRA Annual Art Exhibit

Missouri Immigrant & Refugee Advocates

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

Welcoming Missouri, an initiative of Missouri Immigrant and Refugee Advocates, as part of Welcoming America, a national campaign to build mutual respect and cooperation between foreign-born and US-born communities, engages immigrant and welcoming com

Absence/Presence

Mistry , Yasmin

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

ABSENCE/PRESENCE is a half-hour documentary film which celebrates foster youth, showing how school, extended-family and the kindness of strangers can help a child find their path in life.

Absence/Presence

Mistry , Yasmin

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

ABSENCE/PRESENCE is a half-hour documentary film which celebrates foster youth, showing how school, extended-family and the kindness of strangers can help a child find their path in life.

Musical for Women

ML Droz / Ayil Arts

Year Grant Awarded: 2009

In accordance with the values of Jewish tradition, this production accommodates Sabbath laws and the need for women-only performance setting. The original script with music follows the lives and struggles of 7 women in the orthodox Jewish community.

Eyes on Oakland

Mobile Arts Platform (MAP)

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

Through the journalistic lens of community surveillance, this participatory research project and resulting social sculpture investigated ways in which Oakland communities are changing because of new economic pressures.

Harmit Singh’s War

Mohaiemen, Naeem

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Harmit Singh was trained as an architect but left transnational projects in Kenya in the mid-60s to become a photojournalist in India. One of his most famous projects was on the “discovery” of Black Ethiopian Jews for National Geographic. This project looks at his departure from photojournalism.