Grantees All Years

Jimmy!: A Musical Fable with Almost No Historical Basis (2014)

National Theatre for Student Artists

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

When the press discovers that Jimmy Carter spotted a UFO back in 1969, Jimmy must use his no-count brother Billy's time traveling beer to stop an intergalactic war. Jimmy! was created entirely by high school and college students from across the USA. Read More

Uprooted

Nazari, Zahra

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

Uprooted, a painting exhibition by Zahra Nazari is a spotlight on the lives of immigrants through the unique lens of Nazari’s abstract art style. Read More

Femmes: Residency/Performance Platform

New Dance Alliance

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Femmes: Residency/Performance Platform offers an unapologetic and in-depth forum to develop close dialogue and foster not only the production of highly original artistic work, but also the career development of female artists at different stages of t Read More

New Jersey Peace Action

New Jersey Peace Action

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

Peace Action is the nation's largest grassroots peace organization. It was founded as SANE (later to become SANE/Freeze) in 1957. The Northern New Jersey Affiliate, New Jersey Peace Action, is one of the nation's most active peace groups. Read More

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in Central Park, Prospect Park and Brooklyn Bridge Park

New York Classical Theatre

Year Grant Awarded: 2016

New York Classical Theatre presented a professional, Off-Broadway production of William Shakespeare’s classic comedy “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” on tour throughout Central Park, Rockefeller Park, Prospect Park, and Carl Schurz Park in June and July 2016--at no cost to our diverse, urban audiences. Read More

Incorrigibles

New York Foundation of the Arts

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

This transmedia project tells the stories of ‘incorrigible’ girls in the US over the last 100 years - beginning with NY State. Drawing on the personal narratives of young women in “the system” the work investigates the history and present state of juvenile justice and social service for girls. Read More

Jamaica Bay Pamphleteering Project

Nicholls, Sarah

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

My funded project included three letterpress printed publications on the history, ecology, and communities around Jamaica Bay in NYC, which were distributed to a mailing list of 150 people, as well as a walking tour and an artist talk. Read More

Off and Running

Nicole Opper

Year Grant Awarded: 2006

In her high school, Avery is known as the “black track star.” In her Brooklyn neighborhood she is the adopted daughter of white Jewish lesbians with an older Puerto-Rican brother and a younger Korean brother. At home she’s simply Avery. Now Avery is Read More

Un-War

Niro, Maria

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

"Un-War! features artist Krzysztof Wodiczko and his thought provoking political urban-interventions. Since 1968, the radical artist has been single-mindedly creating works for the purpose of challenging audiences all over the world on some of the mo Read More

The Art of Un-War

Niro, Maria

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

In "The Art of Un-War" Krzysztof Wodiczko challenges our complacency towards war, xenophobia, and displacement with his unique large-scale projections onto monuments and facades. Read More