Genres Fine Arts

Seed Songs
Craney, Katie Ione
Year Grant Awarded: 2022
Exhibition material in Braille including small booklets containing questions about beginnings and endings, with an emphasis on climate communication for equitable and disability-focused futures. Booklets served as a boundary object between audiences and were available for free to everyone. Read More
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- Website: www.katieionecraney.com

The Memory Persists
Creek, Nicole
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
This work consists of three clear acrylic panels, 12”x15”x1/4The first panel is inlaid with rectangular silver wire in the shape of the Star of David. The second panel is embedded with barbed wire. The third panel is a photograph of Holocaust surv Read More
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- Website: http://www,nicoleceek.com

Mapping Nungua
Cross Cultural Collaborative
Year Grant Awarded: 2012
Creating a map to identify artisans in a Ghanaian village so that visitors can locate and interact with artisans on a personal level thus developing an understanding of African art and traditions. Read More
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- Website: http://www.culturalcollaborative.org

North Star
Daniels, Katherine
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
North Star, a fence weaving installation at 2171 Fredrick Douglas Boulevard and 117th Street in Harlem New. York, celebrates the legacy of Fredrick Douglass' first newspaper North Star and transforms the fenced lot into a piece of public art. Read More
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- Website: www.katherinedaniels.com

Cages and Cases
Del Prete, Laura
Year Grant Awarded: 2008
The pieces created are a reflection from my foray into collage and assemblage, exploring how the visual translates into the tactile. Art that is not removed, isolated, and unobtainable, but art that tells a narrative; that is inviting and familiar. Read More
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- Website: http://www.facebook.com/lauradelpreteconde

” These Memories Bear Traces Of Tears: ” Relief Reliquaries/Ex-Voto.
Del Reverda-Jennings, D.
Year Grant Awarded: 2017
The appreciated support enabled the purchase of materials to create a series of sculptural relief artpieces in honor of deceased loved ones, of memory, spirit, sorrow, dispossession..my inner child's utter loneliness, the very act of death itself as well as the stinging acceptance of passing on. Read More

Mary DeWitt: Women Lifers training Canine Partners for Life
DeWitt, Mary
Year Grant Awarded: 2011
I paint the portraits and record the voices of a select group of life-sentenced women. Several women now train puppies for the disabled in the program Canine Partners for Life. I pair their voices describing this with the development of my portraits. Read More
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- Website: http://www.marydewitt.net

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". My proposal would be work on a project in which I grow my work from bacteria and yeast. Read More
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- Website: www.robindintiman.com

Amazons Among Us: An Antidote to Gender Misconceptions
Dodson, Donna
Year Grant Awarded: 2022
My project, Amazons Among Us: An Antidote to Gender Misconceptions, was exhibited at the Brandeis University Women's Studies Research Center Kniznick Gallery in November 2022. The Puffin Funds were used to complete the final animation that became a focal point of the exhibition and related programs. Read More
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- Website: https://www.donnadodsonartist.com/

Illinois River Project
Don Hải Phú Daedalus
Year Grant Awarded: 2016
The Illinois River Projects pilots the process of using the fish bones of invasive carp to remediate soil polluted with heavy metals. Read More
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- Website: http://www.donalddaedalus.art/