Grantee tags installation

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

Land Use Intervention Library

Almeida, Nora

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Land Use Intervention Library is part of an ongoing project about land use, climate change, and self-determination based in Gowanus, Brooklyn. The library exist(s)ed temporarily as two site-specific public performances and permanently as a handmade catalog, video, and collection of ephemera. Read More

A SHRINE FOR THE LOST: The Sixth Extinction

Raine, Lauren

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

A "Shrine" Installation, with accompanying book and video "Litany", to remember and name lost and vanishing species in the Sixth Extinction. "A Shrine for the Lost" was created for Dia de los Muertos (the Day of the Dead). Read More

Killing Season Chicago

Wortendyke, Krista

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

Killing Season Chicago is a data driven installation comprised of photographs from 172 homicide sites in Chicago during the summer of 2010. This grant translated the large-scale art installation into an impactful, online representation of the work. Read More

Eyes on Oakland

Mobile Arts Platform (MAP)

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

Through the journalistic lens of community surveillance, this participatory research project and resulting social sculpture investigated ways in which Oakland communities are changing because of new economic pressures. 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

Space as Substance: Beyond the Scenic Hudson

Friday, Matthew

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

A mobile and modular field station used to document the changing ecologies of the Hudson River watershed and accompanying public programming displayed at Wave Hill. Read More

The Journey Home Project

Dunnagan, Lindsey

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

This labyrinth is made from ideas of home. For the past year, people from North Texas and beyond submitted special locations and then I painted them onto clear acrylic walls that form a meditative path. The project offers a journey of treasures. Read More

The Disappearing Drumlin

Harries, Mags

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

Drone video map projected onto black sheep skin. Waves lap the shores of Sheep Island. Once 25 acres, the island is now just a few acres in size due to erosion from the waves. Read More

No Mercy Art Exhibition:An Exploration of farm Animal Cruelty

Mara, Lefebvre

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

The No Mercy Art Exhibition project is a mixed media art installation of multiple small scale sculptures created by Mara Lefebvre with additional sculptures crafted by members of the community. The exhibition, lectures by animal advocates and hands Read More