Grantee tags Activism

Fracking Photographs

Merolla, Brandi

Year Grant Awarded: 2018

I illustrate the many dangers associated with the entire fracking production process in my staged photographs, telling big stories with little figures. These vintage figurines are now living in an industrial nightmare just like many Americans. They, are us. BAN FRACKING NOW! Read More

Art As Social Inquiry

Theresa BrownGold aka TBG Pussi Artist

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

Art As Social Inquiry combines art and advocacy as a way to engage audiences. Read More

Driftless

Hatch Arts Collective

Year Grant Awarded: 2016

Driftless unearths the full cost of fracking and asks us to consider lives, relationships, and heritage as we seek answers for the future of our world. Read More

Raw Thought, a documentary theatre play about the life, death, and work of Aaron Swartz

Co-Op Theatre East/Ashley Marinaccio

Year Grant Awarded: 2016

Co-Op Theatre East Presents: Raw Thought An interpretation of the life, death, and writings of Aaron Swartz Written by Tyrus Holden Devised by Co-Op Theatre East ensemble members - Tyrus Holden, Ashley Marinaccio, Robert A.K. Gonyo, Gil Sperling, and Michael Rehse Directed by Ashley Marinaccio Read More

Interference Archive exhibition series

Interference Archive

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

Interference Archive is an archive of social movement culture that curates public exhibitions and programs as a way to empower people to understand their histories in relationship to social movements. Read More

New Jersey Peace Action

New Jersey Peace Action

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

Peace Action is the nation's largest grassroots peace organization. It was founded as SANE (later to become SANE/Freeze) in 1957. The Northern New Jersey Affiliate, New Jersey Peace Action, is one of the nation's most active peace groups. Read More

Marking Time: Prison Arts & Activism (2014)

Institute for Research on Women

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

“Marking Time: Prison Arts and Activism” was designed to bring together scholars, writers, artists, and activists to explore the cultural aspects of imprisonment, with a focus on art produced by prisoners and in response to mass incarceration. Read More

Coal Cocked

Bernofsky, Gene

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Coal Cocked is an advocacy film meant to help stop Arch Coal from strip mining 1.3 billion tons of coal in the Tongue River and Powder River Basins of Montana. Read More

Empowering Youth Mural Project

The Seed House~Casa de la Semilla

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Community Engaged public art project, a catalyst of cultural inquiry and relational aesthetics in Kansas, with the objective of creating interactive environments in which people come together, re-engaged as participant of their own lives. Read More

Fracking Photographs (2014)

Merolla, Brandi

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

I illustrate the many dangers associated with the entire fracking production process in my staged photographs, telling big stories with little figures. These vintage figurines are now living in an industrial nightmare just like many Americans. Read More