Genres Fine Arts

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

gen)d(re: a rehearsal for survival

Jheneall, yrécha gay

Year Grant Awarded: 2025

gen)d(re: is a community-engaged art project exploring connections between the Caribbean and Gulf South through sound, water, migration, and collective making. Through construction of a floating sound system, the project invites participants to engage diasporic, ecology, and cultural continuity. 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

Rear view

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Dorothea Osborn explored the history of whiteness in her own family going back to her first paternal settler in 1637 Each of the 6 panels in Osborn's fabric installation, Rear View, represents a different generation and their economic/social status of the artist's family. Read More

A Girl Mad as Birds (Nellie Bly and the Lunatic’s Ball)

Parry, Cheryl

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

This installation of portraits, poetic objects, preserved bird skins, nests and text explores the commonly belief in 19th century psychiatry that women were predisposed to madness. Journalist Nellie Bly’s exposé, Ten Days in a Madhouse, shed light on their misdiagnosis and horrific treatment. Read More

Progressive Diasporas

Prajapati, Sheetal

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Progressive Diasporas is a curatorial project series exploring the experiences and intersections of immigrant diasporas through a set of collaboratively developed, cumulative experiences and events featuring artist Umber Majeed and artist collective Adobo-Fish-Sauce. 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

Queen of Wands Mural

sudduth, simiya

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

Queen of Wands is a site-specific public mural painted in Midtown St. Louis in 2024. Adapted from the artist’s ongoing The Confluence Tarot series, the mural centers Indigeneity, healing, and resilience through bold color, botanical imagery, and spiritual symbolism. Read More