Grantees All Genres

A SHRINE FOR THE LOST: The Sixth Extinction

Raine, Lauren

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

A "Shrine" Installation, with accompanying book and video "Litany", to remember and name lost and vanishing species in the Sixth Extinction. "A Shrine for the Lost" was created for Dia de los Muertos (the Day of the Dead).

Augmented

Rea, Raymond

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

“Augmented” (working title) is a short experimental animation incorporating traditional analog photography with digital animation techniques and digital editing to examine and educate about disability in a visceral way.

Speakeasy (2014)

Reading Theater Project

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Speakeasy is a play about Reading, Pennsylvania, during prohibition, from 1920-1933. It was written by Sue Lange and composed by Chris Heslop. The play took place in a speakeasy, a microcosm of the changes Reading and the whole country faced.

The Jobs Project

RealLivePeople(in)Motion

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

"The Jobs Project" is an evening-length dance based upon interviews with 25 Philadelphians about their jobs: what they actually do at work, what they think about it and how it does/not relate to their sense of identity.

Be Black Baby: a House Party Presents

Recess Activties Inc.

Year Grant Awarded: 2011

Presented by Simone Leigh and Recess, it fostered group and individual exploration and dialogue through a series of performances and events that broke down and problematized racial and queer identity along with other conventions of cultural politics.

Immigrants are not the enemy

Reed, Fran

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

Notary/Notaria, Translator/Truductora Fran Reed (843)7150123 calls, I've worked with immigrants 63 yrs & they help me .Their stories are in We Are Not The Enemy;We Come Only With Our Dreams (Amazon) I'm collecting immigrant photos for a book.

Mapping Violence

Regal, Celeste

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

Codex format, with six signatures, where text drawn from internet news sources, resides next to hand-painted atlas fold maps. Images of women grace the country's topography. Brass metalwork and attachments on cover reference sacred books.

…and this is the story thus far

Regina Nejman & Company

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

"…and this is the story thus far" is a new multimedia dance choreographed by Regina Nejman, created for six dancers with live electronic guitar accompaniment interwoven with Brazilian music. It will premiere at Dixon Place on December 11th and 12th.

Art Class at Sing Sing

Rehabilitation Through The Arts

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

RTA is an established leader in arts-in-corrections, producing theatre, dance, music, creative writing and visual arts workshops and performances in five maximum and medium-security New York State prisons.

Visual Arts Workshop at Sing Sing Correctional Facility

Rehabilitation Through The Arts

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

RTA uses the transformative power of the arts to help people in prison develop skills to unlock their potential and succeed in the larger community. This grant allowed RTA to launch a visual arts workshop for our members at Sing Sing Correctional Facility.