Grantees All Years

A Perspective in African American Cultural Art

Isaac, Melvin

Year Grant Awarded: 2011

Depicting cultural awareness in today's society through the vision and perspective of young people. Read More

Meet Murasaki Shikibu Followed by Book-Signing, and Other Things

Izumi, Julia

Year Grant Awarded: 2016

In this theatre/stand-up hybrid comedy, Murasaki Shikibu, author of one of the first novels ever written, comes to our contemporary world and holds a book-signing at a struggling bookstore. It seems she has much to say and many opinions to share on anything and everything -- except for her own book. Read More

J Street Education Fund 2021

J Street Education Fund

Year Grant Awarded: 2021

J Street organizes pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans to promote US policies that help secure the State of Israel as a democratic homeland for the Jewish people.e believe that only a negotiated resolution can meet the legitimate needs and national aspirations of both Israelis and Palestinians. Read More

Sacred Space: An Exploration of the Southern Utah Landscape

Jackson, Amy

Year Grant Awarded: 2011

Inspired by a friend who traveled in the area, Amy Jackson stumbled upon the Paiute Tribe of Southern Utah, and determined that their children greatly needed art supplies. This grant in full provided highest quality art materials for the children. Read More

Environmental Reporting Fund

Jacobin

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

Jacobin is a leading voice of the American left, offering perspectives on politics, economics, and culture. The print magazine is released quarterly and reaches 50,000 subscribers, in addition to a web audience of over 2,000,000 a month. Read More

Owed to The Mountain

Jacobs, Diane

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Owed to The Mountain is a call to action, an artist book that weaves multiple Native stories together contemplating our nonhuman relationships. Featured are handset letterpress-printed text, solar etchings from Sumi ink animal drawings, and colorful woodcut ecosystems showing the changing seasons. Read More

The Buffalo Project, which resulted in a play called Buffalo Heights (2014)

Jake Lipman/Tongue in Cheek Theater Productions

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Starting in late 2013, Producing Artistic Director Jake Lipman tapped 5 actors and playwright Adam Harrell to create a new thought-provoking comedy. Over several months, the company devised a new play, BUFFALO HEIGHTS, which ran May 2014 in NYC. Read More

Joshua Tree Chronicles

James, Shirley

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

The project is a two-fold project that documents Joshua Trees on Joshua Tree wood using the woodburning technique called Pyrography and promote it as a fineart and create a public awareness of the unique qualities of the Joshua Tree. Read More

Perform La Femme

Jana C Perez, Angilee Wilkerson

Year Grant Awarded: 2018

Perform La Femme is a collaboration featuring the self-portraiture of the duo Jana C. Perez and Angilee Wilkerson. Both artists enact roles; performing in partnership to emphasize their lives as women and delving into the psychological states and cultural interpretation of female identity. Read More

Truth or Consequences

Jayanti, Hannah

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

Truth or Consequences is a speculative documentary about time and how we weave the past into the present and our possible future. Set in the small desert town of Truth or Consequences, NM, the film is subtly set in a near future when commercial space travel has begun. Read More