Genres Fine Arts

Keeping Time with Needle and Thread

Goncarova, Sarah Beth

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

A series of sculptures and interactive installations incorporating textiles, sewing, weaving and other time-intensive processes. which explore subtle nuances of the human experience, feminist themes and other issues of social significance. Read More

Groundswell Community Mural Project

Groundswell Community Mural Project

Year Grant Awarded: 2006

Groundswell Community Mural Project is a Brooklyn-based organization that brings together professional artists, grass-roots groups and communities to create high quality murals in underserved neighborhoods. Groundswell’s Teen Empowerment Mural Read More

The Newark Arts Photo Documentary Project

Gutwein, Colleen

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

The Newark Arts Photo Documentary Project is a a documentary photographed with the Jem Jr. camera, manufactured in Newark Nj in the 1940's. The project creates portraits of contemporary artists and art activists currently working in Newark, NJ. Read More

New Generation Arts Lab

Halleckson, Lindsy

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

New Generation Arts Lab, a series of open studio events encouraged creativity, increased participation in the arts, and developed dialogue and connections within the Twin Cities community through activities that are unexpected, fun, and interactive. Read More

Art Changing the View

Hamilton, Pam

Year Grant Awarded: 2010

Art Changing the View transformed an empty storefront into a public art exhibit in the village of Romeoville, Illinois. The project has brought a bright spot of art to a community otherwise lacking in visual art. Read More

The Disappearing Drumlin

Harries, Mags

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

Drone video map projected onto black sheep skin. Waves lap the shores of Sheep Island. Once 25 acres, the island is now just a few acres in size due to erosion from the waves. Read More

Weather Report

Harrison, Susan Rowe

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Weather Report is a pictorial cycle on the gallery walls that explores how humans are destroying the living world in a gothic landscape where plants that once flourished progressively fade or thrive depending on how you move through the room. It is neither a hopeful future nor a catastrophic one. Read More

Nowhere to Run: Climate Refugees

Heath, Jennifer

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

Scholarly art book/cataogue and traveling visual art exhibition about displacement of communities and individuals due to climate change, environmental degradation and ecological abuses. Read More

The Veil: Visible & Invisible Spaces — a traveling exhibition

Year Grant Awarded: 2008

A traveling visual arts exhibition that engages received wisdom about veils and veiling practices -- particularly stereotypes about Islam, featuring twenty-nine international new media artists, filmmakers, painters, sculptors and photographers. Read More

Resurrections: ECO-logy & ECO-nomy — a functional trash art exhibiton

Year Grant Awarded: 2010

An exhibition of trash reconstructed into items of use, and including four small satellite exhibits about ocean waste, nuclear waste, reuse of building materials in construction, and children's art made from trash. Read More