Genres Fine Arts

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

A SHRINE FOR THE LOST: The Sixth Extinction

Raine, Lauren

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

A "Shrine" Installation, with accompanying book and video "Litany", to remember and name lost and vanishing species in the Sixth Extinction. "A Shrine for the Lost" was created for Dia de los Muertos (the Day of the Dead). Read More

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

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

Beauty for Ashes

Swinton, JaJa

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

Beauty for Ashes is a collection of drawings and paintings that refutes the slanderous narrative that "Black men are Absentee Fathers." This project confronts the diabolical ways Family Law marginalizes Black men, and underscores the resilience of Black Fathers. Read More

Death Wings Project

Welden, Bess

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Death Wings Project is a web of visual and performing arts offering that promoted open dialogue and community art-making about grief and loss. Read More