Grantees All Genres
Death Wings Project
Welden, Bess
Year Grant Awarded: 2022
Death Wings Project is a web of visual and performing arts offering that promoted open dialogue and community art-making about grief and loss.
- Website www.deathwingsproject.org
EcoReport
WFHB Community Radio
Year Grant Awarded: 2015
Independent media coverage of environmental and ecological issues. One story focused on the life-cycle of bees, role of the Queen, honey production, and colony collapse disorder, etc.
- Website http://www.wfhb.org
Agua, Vida y Tierra
What Will the Neighbors Say?
Year Grant Awarded: 2022
"Agua, Vida y Tierra" is a bilingual multimedia documentary theatre piece about Puerto Rico and the colonial relationship between the island and the United States.
- Website www.wwtns.org
Whole Children Radio Hour
Whole Children
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
Whole Children, which has been serving children with special needs for 9 years, is launching a radio-production class that will teach teens and young adults with developmental disabilities to create and produce a regular weekly radio show.
- Website http://www.wholechildren.org
Hero How To
Wi-Moto Nyoka
Year Grant Awarded: 2012
A series of twenty to thirty Webisodes will culminate into a staged motion comic with new works by the Hip Hop collective Community Education. The project brings the motion comic to life, merging its digital avatar with a live production.
- Website https://www.wi-motonyoka.com/
The Sebastopol Siege
Wilcox, Mimi
Year Grant Awarded: 2019
On the night of March 2nd, 1973, Michaela Madden, a recently widowed mother of 5, was held hostage for 8 hours in her rural California home — and subsequently vilified by her community. A documentary film.
- Website https://www.mimiwilcox.com/sebastopol-siege
Perform La Femme
Wilkerson, Angilee
Year Grant Awarded: 2018
Perform La Femme features the self-portraits of Jana Perez and Angilee Wilkerson. The artists enact roles; performing in partnership to create a stage where cultural ideals are deconstructed and experiential knowledge of female identity is empowered.
- Website http://www.performlafemme.com
Prison Arts Project
William James Association
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
WJA's Prison Arts Project is dedicated to providing hands-on fine arts to prisoners. Participation in the arts has been proven to significantly and positively effect self-esteem, discipline, social skills and potential for success outside of prison.
- Website http://williamjamesassociation.org/prison_arts/
SOSÚA: MAKE A BETTER WORLD
Willow Pond Films
Year Grant Awarded: 2012
The story of Jewish and Dominican teenagers in New York City’s Washington Heights, who together with the legendary theater director Liz Swados, put on a musical about the Dominican Republic's rescue of 800 Jews from Hitler’s Germany.
- Website https://sosuafilm.com/
“Egg Cream”
Willow Pond Films
Year Grant Awarded: 2017
The beloved chocolate soda drink, born in immigrant neighborhoods at the turn of the 20th century, is explored in this short film about a simple beverage and its meaning to generations of Jewish Americans.
- Website willowpondfilms.com