Grantees All Genres

Las Patronas: A Lesson In Compassion

Sorrentino, Joseph

Year Grant Awarded: 2014

Las Patronas is a group of women in the tiny pueblo of La Patrona, Veracruz who hand out food and water to Central American asylum-seekers riding the freight trains they call La Bestia.

Graniceros of Amecameca, Mexico

Sorrentino, Joseph

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Graniceros are traditional Mexican shamans who perform ceremonies to control the weather, ceremonies that have remained essentially unchanged for hundreds of years. The ceremonies follow the agricultural cycle, taking place from February through November.

Generación Perdida

Sosa, Jorge

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Generación Perdida, based on the book by the Mexican poet, and journalist Javier Moro Hernandez, is a monodrama for mezzo-soprano about the more than 100,000 people who have been forcibly disappeared as a direct result of the futile war on drugs.

Musical Access: Music Week (2014)

SOUNDS Academy

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Musical Access exposes students to different professions in the field of music through interactions with musicians. Performers share stories, answer questions, and speak about the importance of perseverance, teamwork, education, and music.

Fabric of the Forest

Sova Dance & Puppet Theater

Year Grant Awarded: 2016

"Fabric of the Forest" a.k.a. "Theatre in the Rough" is a theatrical hiking experience where our playful characters further enliven the breath and space of a variety of outdoor art installations created within the Rebirth Arts Festival, a free & accessible large-scale rural event in Easton, CT.

“While You Are Out”

Sova Theater

Year Grant Awarded: 2018

"While You Were Out" features Justin Perlman & Adelka Polak's original hand, rod & shadow puppets created from natural plant materials, textiles and handmade papers. These larger than life figures construct Shakespeare's fairy kingdom in this live theatrical experience of "Midsummer Night's Dream."

Women and their Work I: Affect + Action

Space One Eleven

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

Women with their Work is a series of all-women group art exhibitions. The first group exhibition, Women and their Work I: Affect + Action features artists who address social issues ranging from institutionalized racism, water pollution, the atrocities of war, and the subjugation of female bodies.

Women with their Work II: Reflections

Space One Eleven

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

Women with their Work is a series of all-women group art exhibitions. Women with their Work II: Reflections, the second exhibition in the series, features works by artists considering the theme of identity.

Women with their Work III: Materiality

Space One Eleven

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

Women with their Work is a series of all-women group art exhibitions. Women with their Work III: Materiality is the third and final group exhibition in the series and features female sculptors.

WE DARE DEFEND OUR RIGHTS: The Gun Show

Space One Eleven

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

Under the banner of the state motto, “We dare defend our rights,” some Alabamians defend rights for gun ownership, while others defend rights for safety from gun violence. Space One Eleven has invited ten artists to exhibit artwork in response to this issue.