Grantees All Years

Music Therapy with Children Rescued from Child Trafficking or Living in Migrant Shelters in Tijuana

Sharon Katz & The Peace Train

Year Grant Awarded: 2021

I provided weekly music therapy sessions to 15 children living in a safe house who have been rescued from trafficking rings. I also provided weekly music sessions for 30 youth being sheltered in Tijuana while awaiting reunification with their families or aproval of their asylum petitions. Read More

Composition for Forests

Shawn Skabelund

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

A site-specific, place-based installation designed for concert pianist Janice ChenJu Chiang to perform inside the work, and for viewers to be allowed to wander through the installation as they listened to the performance. Read More

NYC in Transition

Shechter, Laura

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

A group of my recent paintings are of blighted/industrial areas of NYC, many with graffiti. Each painting is a moment since the buildings could be razed, renovated and graffiti, written over.I render the graffiti with the same care as 19th. C. vase. Read More

The Feminist Strip Club

Sheets, Monica

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

The Feminist Strip Club is a group of current and former erotic dancers who explore the present conditions of and utopian visions for stripping. We hold events, make performances, publish zines, and more. Read More

Communicating the Climate Crisis: Posters envisioning a better world for the next generations

Shenefield, Barbara

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Engaging the youthful viewer in a vision of a better world and a better future that we can create: what does that future look like? Let’s dream big and beautiful. Read More

Shepherdess Released Debut Album in 2022!

Shepherdess Duo

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Shepherdess Duo released our self-released debut album,'tinker, tailor', on Friday, December 24, 2022. This album features all new works written for and recorded by Shepherdess Duo in 2021 and 2022. Composers include: Annika Socolofsky, Paul Pinto, Luis FernandoAmaya, Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh, natalie b Read More

We the People

Sheryl Oring

Year Grant Awarded: 2006

The goal of Sheryl Oring’s “We The People” project is to bring the voices of the American people to the national stage. In her role as performance artist, Ms. Oring set up an office in various public places and invited people to dictate cards to Read More

diásPoRa (previously “Riqueño”)

Sierra, Paloma

Year Grant Awarded: 2018

A bilingual play in verse examining Puerto Rican identity and its evolution during the Hispanic-American War, hurricane María, and the present time. Length: 60-MINUTES Ensemble: 3 Women / 2 Men Read More

The Universal Drum

SIGN & SING

Year Grant Awarded: 2018

The Universal Drum is an experimental work that explores the harmony of Deaf and Hearing worlds through drums. This piece integrates new music, drama, and American Sign Language (ASL) poetry that can be experienced by Deaf and Hearing audiences alike. Read More

QUEENS of Queens: Women of Woodside

Singh, Rashmi

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Modern Day folk songs composed by award-winning singer-songwriter, Rashmi, celebrating local heroines of Woodside, Queens. Read More