Genres Fine Arts

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? Read More

Ecotones, Blue Ridge Series

Sell, Amie

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

These sculptural forms abstractly explore the overlaps of these thriving buffers, visualizing coexistence. Ecotones are the transitional zone between two ecological communities, often rich in biodiversity. The layered landscapes show interconnections between the terrain, geology, water, flora... 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

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

1,785

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

1,785 used 1,785 black water bottles carried by migrants as they crossed the Sonoran Desert in Arizona and then confiscated when they were caught and arrested by the U.S. Border Patrol. Read More

I Can Only Imagine

Sklar, Hannah

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

Through mixed media ceramic sculptures and layered graphite drawings, I attempt to dismantle visual norms of social categorization, pertaining to the performance of gender. I utilize abstraction as a way to create an undefined spectrum of beauty—A boundless queer abstraction. Read More

The Anna Pierrepont Series (the Afterlife of Public Monument)

Skrill, Howard M.

Year Grant Awarded: 2021

The Anna Pierrepont Series (howardskrill,blogspot,com) that began in 2011, explores in plein-air drawings, pictorial essays and studio works on paper the role of public monuments in the erasure of public and private memory in addition to representations of monuments being actively erased. Read More

WE DARE DEFEND OUR RIGHTS: The Gun Show

Space One Eleven

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

Under the banner of the state motto, “We dare defend our rights,” some Alabamians defend rights for gun ownership, while others defend rights for safety from gun violence. Space One Eleven has invited ten artists to exhibit artwork in response to this issue. Read More

Women and their Work I: Affect + Action

Space One Eleven

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

Women with their Work is a series of all-women group art exhibitions. The first group exhibition, Women and their Work I: Affect + Action features artists who address social issues ranging from institutionalized racism, water pollution, the atrocities of war, and the subjugation of female bodies. Read More