Genres Fine Arts

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

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

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

Plant Based Portraits

Fiasconaro, Lauren

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

“Plant Based Portraits” is a solo art exhibition of nine anthotype portraits, each depicted in a unique plant, which explores themes of gendered oppression as a form of ecofeminism. Read More

Compensation for Loss

Fine Foer, Anna

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

The series comments upon historic and contemporary scientific inquiry into biological and mineral realms. Anna combines traditional collage, digital media, and painting as she explores the pressing issues of loss, adaptation, and survival in the natural world. Read More

FACE-ADE: THE HUMAN LANDSCAPE

Freedman, Nina

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

An iconic home facade, transformed from an opaque threshold into a translucent wall, is embedded with diverse hair waste, sourced from local hair salons. FACE-ADE is about thresholds, borders, home and the neighborhoods we live in. How we, in our differences, live together. Read More

Portraits of My People

Guglielmo, Mark

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

“Portraits of My People” honors my Southern Italian lineage while addressing the complexities of identity and the fraught nature of race-making in America through a series layered figurative works, based on archival images of my ancestors, that incorporate a diverse range of materials. Read More