Grantee tags environment

Metra: A Climate Change Play with Songs

Hartford, Emily

Year Grant Awarded: 2018

In Metra, ancient Greek myth meets dystopian climate sci-fi. Metra roots out the oppressive structures upholding climate change—while using original rock songs, magic, and myth to explore the transformative power of both storytelling and collective action. Read More

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

Paradigm Shifts

Encompass New Opera Theatre

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

Music and Cinema come together to celebrate true stories of courageous change-makers from around the world who are preserving our Planet, Oceans, and Wildlife. Read More

Walking in Antarctica

Glazer, Helen

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

Walking in Antarctica is a solo exhibition of photographs and sculpture of the Antarctic landscape by visual artist Helen Glazer inspired and informed by her experiences as a grantee of the National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers Program. Read More

Fabric of the Forest

Sova Dance & Puppet Theater

Year Grant Awarded: 2016

"Fabric of the Forest" a.k.a. "Theatre in the Rough" is a theatrical hiking experience where our playful characters further enliven the breath and space of a variety of outdoor art installations created within the Rebirth Arts Festival, a free & accessible large-scale rural event in Easton, CT. Read More

Birders

Lynn Cazabon

Year Grant Awarded: 2016

Birders is an ongoing series of photographs focused on birdwatchers living in large urban centers. My interest is in capturing the complex relationship between people and wildlife, as well as the social ecosystem of the activity of birdwatching itself. 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

FERC Into FREC Campaign

Beyond Extreme Energy

Year Grant Awarded: 2016

The FERC Into FREC Campaign, aims to replace the corrupt Federal Energy Regulatory Commission with a Federal RENEWABLE Energy Commission as part of the Green New Deal. We went on a roadshow through impacted communities screening our film FERC Doesn't Work and created a new film about FREC! Read More

Pete Seeger’s Legacy: IF I HAD A HAMMER

WQ7856P

Year Grant Awarded: 2016

Assessing the folk-singer/activist's lasting gifts to the world. Read More

“Dark Garden” Presentation

Huey, Linda

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

The Puffin Grant enabled me to print and distribute promo materials for my “Dark Garden” installation at the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) conference in Providence, RI in March 2015 and at the Erie Art Museum in 2016. Read More