Genres Fine Arts

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. Read More

Launch of the public art Mural Project: A Sense of Place

Appleby Foundation - Tahawus Center

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Support for the 2022 launch of Au Sable Forks Outdoor Public Art Mural Project: "A Sense of Place" to foster local arts, culture, civic engagement - and joy! CHANGE is coming to Au Sable Forks, NY. Artist Georgeanne Gaffney, from Saranac Lake, is the selected muralist. Work begins in 2023. Read More

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. Read More

Hybrid Zones

Bacon, Rachel

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

Hybrid Zones is research project in the Pennsylvania anthracite coal mining region, exploring its damaged landscapes and social and ecological challenges. For an exhibition in Nov. 2025, I'm making large scale semi-sculptural graphite drawings and a publication on the region's many layers. Read More

Mosaic: An Immersive Artist’s Book of Immigrant Stories

Bayar, Tulu

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

"Mosaic" grew from healing, community workshops where immigrants shared stories, memories, and photos. I transformed these into a hand-bound artist’s book—an intimate, tactile archive celebrating resilience, belonging, and the layered experiences that shape American life. Read More

Colonial Colonnade

Bittar, Doris

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Colonial Colonnade, an immersive and interactive installation of text, sound, and movement layers the Arabic and English languages to make visible current and past iterations of colonialism. Arabic, often feared when seen in "Western" contexts, is accompanied by its English translations. Read More

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. Read More

Once She Dries

Cohen, Nancy

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

Once She Dries is an experimental opera and multimedia installation about coral reefs and climate change, created by 6 artists across 4 continents. Read More

American Masculinity

Denil, Markus

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

AMERICAN MASCULINITY is a collaborative project by Markus Denil and Marval Rex focused on expanding out collective memory of what it means to be trans/masculine today. Read More

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". My proposal would be work on a project in which I grow my work from bacteria and yeast. Read More