Grantee tags history
Woman Wearing Ring Shields Face from Flash
England, Odette
Year Grant Awarded: 2022
This project investigates relationships between guns, cameras, human hands, and gender violence against women. Read More
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- Website: http://www.odetteengland.com/
Unlearning Imperialism
Bouchard , Renée
Year Grant Awarded: 2022
Renée Bouchard used the grant for The Unlearning Collective which seeks to challenge imperial thought and influences embedded in everyday experiences. In our work, we interrupt the normalization of violence in language, historical narratives, and social, economic, and political othering. Read More
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- Website: https://www.unlearningcollective.com/
If There Is No Struggle
Katsiane, Jared
Year Grant Awarded: 2021
A young photographer celebrates historical figures via Boston’s public art. Read More
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- Website: http://www.jaredkatsiane.com/new-page
The Stranger Disease
Goat in the Road Productions
Year Grant Awarded: 2018
The Stranger Disease is a unique immersive theatrical experience that follows seven characters who live in, or orbit around an 1878 New Orleans boarding house as rumors of a yellow fever epidemic begins to spread. The show examines race, class, and gender lines during the Reconstruction-era. Read More
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- Website: http://www.goatintheroadproductions.org
Señor Plummer’s Final Fiesta
Rogue Artists Ensemble
Year Grant Awarded: 2018
A site-specific, interactive theater experience illuminating the story of Eugene Plummer, the namesake of Plummer Park in West Hollywood, California. Read More
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- Website: www.rogueartists.org
Modoc
Tedford, Matthew Harrison
Year Grant Awarded: 2015
A rugged, agrarian landscape on the California-Oregon border bears witness to the region’s violent past. This cinematic essay meditates on the landscapes that tell, reinvent, and obscure the history of the nineteenth-century Modoc War. Read More
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- Website: http://www.modocfilm.com
Killed In Action
Weatherup, Christine
Year Grant Awarded: 2015
"Killed in Action" is a short film set in 1948 America. A WWII veteran visits the widow of his best friend from the war, to reveal the painful, dark secret he’s been keeping about his friend... but can she come to accept that her husband was not the Read More
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- Website: http://www.christineweatherup.com/
DNA Totem
Suprina
Year Grant Awarded: 2015
The DNA Totem is a 9’ high model of the DNA strand: made of steel pipe and Detritus. It's located in Marcus Garvey Park, and is on view from Mar. 26-Sept. 30, 2016. The DNA Totem refers to our evolution and the footprint we leave behind. Read More
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- Website: http://www.suprinasculpture.com/
LOTS – a 16mm documentary film
Hanley, Sean
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
LOTS is a film-portrait of the landscape of Brooklyn during the millennia from the last Ice Age to the present. The film examines the area’s vacant lots, urban farms, brownfields, and public spaces in order to witness how land transforms over time. Read More
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- Website: http://www.lotsfilm.com
Whale Bones and the Boundary of a Fish (2014)
Dexa, Alexa
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
Curated field recordings and lyrical historical narratives transforming Long Island landscapes into soundscapes. Read More
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- Website: http://www.alexadexa.com/