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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

“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.