Grantees All Genres

Oh, The Guilt

Zargari, Shahab

Year Grant Awarded: 2021

Our short film, Oh, The Guilt, is a coming-of-age story set in the 1990s. Following the death of her best friend in a car crash, sixteen-year-old Sara is visited in her dreams by a middle-aged woman from the future bearing a terrifying message: It was actually Sara who perished in the accident.

Art exhibition in Isolation

Ziegler, Treacy

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

This is an art exhibition of my drawings directed towards individuals living in solitary confinement of prisons throughout the United States and sent to them through the mail. The second aspect will be an exhibition of their drawings in response.

OCEANIA: Journey to the Cente

Zimmerman, Natalie

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

OCEANIA begins at the center of the planet on a coral atoll — predicted to become uninhabitable by 2030 due to rising sea levels and temperatures brought by climate change. We journey with a mother and her adult son as they struggle to maintain their culture, freedom and independence.

El Oaxaqueño

Zlutnick, David

Year Grant Awarded: 2021

After 13 years in prison Leyver Martinez was ready to return to his wife and son. But brought to the US as a child, his release becomes his deportation. This documentary explores the complex intersections of incarceration, and the impact on one family in two countries.

Lamentations

Zuchman, Philip

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

"Lamentations" is a handmade, signed and numbered artist's book. It is the culmination of a 22 year project in which I rewrote and illustrated the biblical Lamentations in contemporary language. This is a deep, dark and prophetic story for our time and all time.

Community Arts

ZUMIX

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

ZUMIX takes a leadership role in making arts and culture a more accessible and vital part of local life while providing our youth with opportunities to apply their skills and talents in real-life settings through community arts events.