Grantee tags environment

3 Volumes

Briggs, Priscilla

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

The fingers of capitalism touch every aspect of our lives. This group exhibition explores our collective experience living in its grasp. The works, curated by Priscilla Briggs from submissions for an international call for art, explore themes of consumerism, social justice, and the environment. Read More

“Uprooted Trees, Magicicadas and Climate Change”

Hoenig, Susan

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

My project for the Puffin Foundation grant was a series of twelve paintings with writings: "Uprooted Trees, Magicicadas and Climate Change". I exhibited these paintings at the Princeton Public Library in Princeton, New Jersey from September 19 - November 27, 2022. Read More

Spring 2022 issue of ZEKE Magazine features sustainable solutions to the climate crisis

Reportage International (DBA Social Documentary Network)

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

The Spring 2022 print and digital issue of “ZEKE: The Magazine of Global Documentary” focuses on sustainable solutions to the climate crisis with photographs by Kiliii Yuyan, Giacomo d'Orlando, and Sarah Fretwell, and others. Read More

Tune in to Green short film series

Diorama Room, LLC

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Tune in to Green short film series, featured artists who work in dialogue with nature and was available for rent on Vimeo with three live screenings. Nine shows were created, featuring over 155 international filmmakers and sound producers. Several virtual, artist talks also took place. Read More

Treading on Thin Ice

Lin, Jia-Jen

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Treading on Thin Ice contemplates human conditions under progressive catastrophes resulting from social issues and climate change. This project integrates sculpture, video projections, and sound into a large site-specific installation at Locust Projects in Miami. 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

land and flower

David Wayne Reed

Year Grant Awarded: 2021

land and flower is a short film by David Wayne Reed about tallgrass prairie remnants, the lands lost, and the flowers that remain. land and flower is a poetic acknowledgment of the native prairie, an emergent benediction, and a call to conservation of this rare and endangered ecosystem. Read More

Learning How to Say Goodbye

Landau, Caroline

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

In June of 2019, Caroline and photographer/videographer Oliver Rye traveled to Newfoundland to make molds of icebergs. This is an ongoing project that will continue into 2020 when the mold will then be replicated into glass and filled back up with its own glacier water. Read More

Good Luck with the Sun

Steinke, Krista

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

"Good Luck with the Sun" is a photographic project that focuses on the sun as the main subject in order to explore the complexity of the natural world and the physical and psychological impact of our greatest energy source. Read More

The SCRIABIN SONATAS Reimagined, Part 1

Akselrud, Elina

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

This Intertwining Arts project is a blend of live piano performance of the first five Piano Sonatas by Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) and a simultaneous projection of artistic video collages, with the Planet Earth and humanity's impact on it as the main subject matter. It was premiered in June'19. Read More