Grantee tags nature

Seed Songs

Craney, Katie Ione

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Exhibition material in Braille including small booklets containing questions about beginnings and endings, with an emphasis on climate communication for equitable and disability-focused futures. Booklets served as a boundary object between audiences and were available for free to everyone. Read More

Florasonic

Experimental Sound Studio

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Ongoing since 2001, Florasonic is the longest-running sound installation commissioning program in the U.S. Florasonic invites musicians and artists to create four-channel compositions for installation in Chicago's Lincoln Park Conservatory Fern Room. 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

Deep Green: Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, Jackson County, Oregon, July 20, 2019

Tribe, Mark

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

Deep Green: Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, Jackson County, Oregon, July 20, 2019 is the second in a series of archival landscape films. Each recording is 24 hours long, shot in real time on a stationary camera, and exhibited in a loop. The Puffin funds were used for camera equipment rental. 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

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

The Loneliest

Mehrel, Lilian

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

Go 'behind-the-scenes' of British nature show Ocean Discovery in this comic mockumentary short film: Violet (a wry camera-girl) Ingrid (a passionate marine biologist) look for the loneliest whale (with a voice too high for other whales to hear.) Read More

Legacy of the Land Through Art

Legacy Land Conservancy

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

The Legacy of the Land Through Art project chose artists to create works about the lands preserved through the Conservancy. Both private and public lands gave the artist an opportunity to connect with the natural spaces through three seasons. Read More

The Anacostia Project

Schlyer, Krista

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

This is a multi-year documentary project about the Anacostia River in Washington DC. Photography of this river, its wildlife and people, will be used to raise public consciousness about degradation and restoration of this historic watershed. Read More

Breeze

Ghormley, Jennifer

Year Grant Awarded: 2009

I created an installation piece that reflects the intangible experience of being submerged in nature - a time and space to slow down, observe, and reflect. The core content of my work revolves around the figure, here the viewer exists below the art. Read More