Genres Photography

Displacement

Svalbonas, Krista

Year Grant Awarded: 2016

Displacement captures the traces of former WWII Displacement Camps in a series of laser cut pigment prints on paper. Read More

IDENTITIES

Takagi, Hidemi

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

IDENTITIES is a photography installation project (Portraits + Interview) portraying biracial/multiracial subjects. I seek to envision deep roots and explore issues of mixed-race identities as they manifest in neighborhoods in New York, other cities, that contain diverse racial intersections. Read More

Bad Luck, Hot Rocks

Thompson, Ryan

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

'Bad Luck, Hot Rocks' is a series of photographs of stolen and confiscated petrified wood at the Petrified Forest National Park. 'Temporary Monument' (pictured) was built with returned and confiscated petrified wood at the Petrified Forest. Read More

Still, Life: A Photographic Journey Through Grief

Treanor, Sarah

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

"Still, Life" is a photographic self-portrait series exploring the transformative power of art during times of grief. Created by the artist resulting a death in her life, this project aims to raise awareness about the value of art and creativity in healing, both for the creator and the viewer. Read More

Perform La Femme

Wilkerson, Angilee

Year Grant Awarded: 2018

Perform La Femme features the self-portraits of Jana Perez and Angilee Wilkerson. The artists enact roles; performing in partnership to create a stage where cultural ideals are deconstructed and experiential knowledge of female identity is empowered. Read More

Killing Season Chicago

Wortendyke, Krista

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

Killing Season Chicago is a data driven installation comprised of photographs from 172 homicide sites in Chicago during the summer of 2010. This grant translated the large-scale art installation into an impactful, online representation of the work. Read More

At the Hands of Persons Unknown

Würfel, Gesche

Year Grant Awarded: 2018

"At the Hands of Persons Unknown" explores how trees have been silent witnesses to the lynching of women in the U.S.. Given the renewed interest into the many ways women are oppressed by contemporary power structures, exploring the forgotten history of female lynching is both timely and relevant. Read More