Genres Fine Arts

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

Women with their Work II: Reflections

Space One Eleven

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

Women with their Work is a series of all-women group art exhibitions. Women with their Work II: Reflections, the second exhibition in the series, features works by artists considering the theme of identity. Read More

Women with their Work III: Materiality

Space One Eleven

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

Women with their Work is a series of all-women group art exhibitions. Women with their Work III: Materiality is the third and final group exhibition in the series and features female sculptors. Read More

Miracle Grow

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Miracle Grow is a site specific wallpaper installation in which patterning and historical decoration of mid-century kitchen wallpaper has been co-opted to explore the glorification of herbicides and pesticides in the 21st century. Read More

Find Your Voice Mural

Stone, Laura

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

To foster a positive learning environment and enrich my community, elementary students painted a mural of diverse global leaders, who advanced civil rights. Next year, we’ll celebrate community with portraits of former students. The third year, a fabric piece will highlight the beauty of inclusion. Read More