Genres Fine Arts

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". 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

Good Fire, Bad Burn

Hager, Grace

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

Made in response to the recent wildfires across the Northern Hemisphere, this on-going project, titled Good Fire, Bad Burn, is a series of ceramic sculptures that speak to the powerful natural force of fire: harmful and helpful, and deeply connected to our warming planet. Read More

Bad Outdoorsmen

Hargrave, Kathryn

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

We created experimental audition tape titled “Bad Outdoorsmen” for the survivalist reality TV show Alone. Shows like Alone glorify a traditionally masculine, white, individualistic, and extractive relationship with the land. Read More

Radicals and Revolutionaries

Hernandez, Juan

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Radicals and Revolutionaries was a solo exhibit that opened at the Angelica Kauffman Gallery on April 1, 2022, featuring microportraits of leaders from the Black Panther Party, the Civil Rights movement, and the Zapatistas, as well as unknown organizers. Read More

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. Read More

Opulent Mobility

Opulent Mobility

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

Opulent Mobility asks artists and audiences to re-imagine disability as opulent and powerful. Read More