Genres Fine Arts

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

Untitled Film Disinfection Project

Yang, Lilan

Year Grant Awarded: 2025

Guided by state disinfection protocols, this experimental film project applies chlorine to imageless celluloid—transforming the chemical "sanitization" of film into a physical enactment of censorship, memory erasure, and artistic resistance in response to China’s zero-COVID era. Read More