Grantee tags environmental

The Planet Earth Farewell Concert

Oppenheim, Jonas

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

"The Planet Earth Farewell Concert" is a climate-crisis show that combines political satire, immersive theater, cabaret, and variety, to take a multifaceted, absurdist look at where we’re at, where we’re going, and what we can do. Read More

King of Nothing

No Exit Theatre Collective

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

King of Nothing is a one-clown/one-sock puppet mangling of King Lear set on a mountain of trash lit entirely by the audience. It was originally workshopped as part of TrashFest/DarkFest in June 2022, and had its world premier in May 2023 at The Brick in association with No Exit Theatre Collective. 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

Ecotones, Blue Ridge Series

Sell, Amie

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

These sculptural forms abstractly explore the overlaps of these thriving buffers, visualizing coexistence. Ecotones are the transitional zone between two ecological communities, often rich in biodiversity. The layered landscapes show interconnections between the terrain, geology, water, flora... 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

OCEANIA: Journey to the Cente

Zimmerman, Natalie

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

OCEANIA begins at the center of the planet on a coral atoll — predicted to become uninhabitable by 2030 due to rising sea levels and temperatures brought by climate change. We journey with a mother and her adult son as they struggle to maintain their culture, freedom and independence. Read More

Slow Drift

McKone, Jonna

Year Grant Awarded: 2021

Slow Drift is a lyrical series of photographs that explores concepts of home, land, boundaries, and afterlives. Former tobacco farms in Maryland provided the starting point. I followed the reverberations of these sites on communities, topsoil, waterways, ownership, and development. Read More

Composition for Forests

Shawn Skabelund

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

A site-specific, place-based installation designed for concert pianist Janice ChenJu Chiang to perform inside the work, and for viewers to be allowed to wander through the installation as they listened to the performance. Read More

ERA

Matheson, William

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

In the fall of 2019 I attended the artist residency program Taipei Artist Village with financial assistance from the Puffin Foundation. At TAV I created a series of video installations that explored ecology, mutation and collapse. Read More

Environmental Reporting Fund

Jacobin

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

Jacobin is a leading voice of the American left, offering perspectives on politics, economics, and culture. The print magazine is released quarterly and reaches 50,000 subscribers, in addition to a web audience of over 2,000,000 a month. Read More