Grantees All Genres

Art and Politics Now Cultural Activism in a Time of Crisis

Susan Noyes Platt

Year Grant Awarded: 2011

A series of presentations and interactions on the subject of art and politics, focusing on resisting police states, exposing racism, artists strategies for activism, border crossing, opposing globalization

Displacement

Svalbonas, Krista

Year Grant Awarded: 2016

Displacement captures the traces of former WWII Displacement Camps in a series of laser cut pigment prints on paper.

DRIVING THE BODY BACK

Swanderwoman Productions

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

A performance tour of Iowa Poet Mary Swander's poetic narrative, DRIVING THE BODY BACK. This intimate story of Irish family history staged and performed by actor Karan Benton has won critical and audience acclaim throughout the midwest.

River’s Edge

Swim Pony

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

River’s Edge is a role-playing game that invites its players to help avert an imagined environmental disaster threatening a large body of water much like Philadelphia’s own Schuylkill River.

SURVIVE!

Swim Pony Performing Arts

Year Grant Awarded: 2010

Part performance, part installation, and part choose-your-own-adventure, SURVIVE! takes on themes of science, sustainability and humanity’s existence in the universe by letting audiences wander through 20,000 sq ft of performance installation.

In Deep Water: Turning the Tide

Taback, Jami

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

This installation at The Tides Converge Gallery, San Francisco is the result of a collaboration of two California artists, Printmaker, Jami Taback, and Papermaker, Jane Ingram Allen, about our climate crisis and environmental problems related to water.

Past is Present: Margaret Horn presents “Mohawk Ironworkers”

Tahawus Center

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

“Past is Present” - Margaret Horn, Mohawk from the Kahnawake, Bear Clan, curator of past Tahawus exhibits is also Associate Producer/ Director, and now through Tahawus Center, presents her new documentary, “Mohawk Ironworkers.”

Au Sable Forks Film Series

Tahawus Center, Au Sable Forks, NY

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

In 2015, Tahawus Center began a new collaboration with its next door neighbor, the Hollywood Theater, playing the key role in designing and launching the new film series devoted to cultural, educational, foreign, indie fare.

IDENTITIES

Takagi, Hidemi

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

IDENTITIES is a photography installation project (Portraits + Interview) portraying biracial/multiracial subjects. I seek to envision deep roots and explore issues of mixed-race identities as they manifest in neighborhoods in New York, other cities, that contain diverse racial intersections.

¡BIENVENIDOS BLANCOS! OR WELCOME WHITE PEOPLE!

Team Sunshine Performance Corporation

Year Grant Awarded: 2016

¡BIENVENIDOS BLANCOS! OR WELCOME WHITE PEOPLE! explores Cuba’s long history of appeasing/revolting against dominantly “white” nations and economic forces. The piece puts on display how this history has shaped the ways contemporary individuals of Cuban descent understand themselves and their culture.