Grantees All Genres

Air Quality Orange

Zamani, Eboni

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Air Quality Orange is a docu-series and interactive map that takes an in-depth look at the environmental racism that Black and Latino communities have been facing throughout Philadelphia and how Black and Latino Philadelphians people are fighting for justice and working on environmental solutions

Turbocharging youth voter engagement, especially at community colleges, trade, technical and vocational schools, at People of Color Serving Institutions

Civic Influencers

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Civic Influencers mission is to create more young leaders across the country. We are strategic in recruiting, training, and mentoring young leaders in swing districts and states. These young leaders – called Civic Influencers – helped achieve the remarkable youth voter turnout levels we saw in 2022.

Justice Drawings

Aschheim, Deborah

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Justice drawings is a collaboration with families impacted by law enforcement violence. I make drawings to help the families with healing and to support their fight for justice. For the grant I worked with 33 families on a publication that shares their stories and my drawings of people they loved.

The Never Ending Greed Story

Sanfiorenzo, Phyllis

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

“The NeverEnding Greed Story” is a climate change installation. This design is a response to the struggle against the apathy and complacency of global warming. When the threat of creature comforts are at stake, my design questions what role does money play into global warming?

Generación Perdida

Sosa, Jorge

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Generación Perdida, based on the book by the Mexican poet, and journalist Javier Moro Hernandez, is a monodrama for mezzo-soprano about the more than 100,000 people who have been forcibly disappeared as a direct result of the futile war on drugs.

Growing my Own Art: Thin as Our Skin

Dintiman, Robin

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

The focus of my work work is transience, transformation and vulnerability. How can I through liminal means express the fragility of our lives, so that we see is visually "How we feel inside our skin".

Empowering with Art

Abajian, Srboohie

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Inspired by a 44-day war in 2020, Srboohie Abajian’s "Empowering with Art" public-art project addresses the trauma felt by local residents of war-torn towns in Armenia. Her innovative portable murals share positive messages to evoke resilience.

Urban Nature in Fall/Winter

Miskend, Donna

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

With nature at a tipping point, the art addresses often overlooked vibrant life that cohabits our urban environment in fall/winter. Focus is on why these species are important to a healthy ecosystem, reliance on biodiversity in their preservation, and how we can protect their urban habitats.

Body Politic

Christa Carleton, Tonja Torgerson &

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Bodies have always been a point of control, debate, and controversy within our society. Printmakers Christa Carleton and Tonja Torgerson make work to highlight the tumultuous position of the body and gender roles.

The Golden Thread

VanderKelen, Janelle

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

The Golden Thread is a 16mm single-channel feature that illuminates alternative soil conservation approaches rooted in both scientific innovation and the environmental philosophies of Hildegard of Bingen, a 12th-century abbess and protofeminist scholar.