Grantee tags photography

Nowhere to Run: Climate Refugees

Heath, Jennifer

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

Scholarly art book/cataogue and traveling visual art exhibition about displacement of communities and individuals due to climate change, environmental degradation and ecological abuses. Read More

Grassroots Battle by the Gichigami (2014)

Boswell, Tom

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Wetlands and Chippewa culture are threatened by plans for an open-pit mine in Wisconsin. This documentary project by journalist Tom Boswell, to include a photo exhibit and news articles,is designed to inform the public about risks posed by the mine. Read More

Maternal Landscapes

Loomis, Jennifer

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Large 6’ wide photographic black and white prints of the pregnant nude shot on black and white film and printed on traditional gelatin silver fiber paper. The size abstracts the form leaving the viewer unable to recognize this body shape. Read More

Buffalo: Rule of Three

Davidson, Bug

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Buffalo: Rule of Three is a image investigation on history, personal narrative, and transgender. It is my intention to envision beyond the boundaries of established materiality, into a creative imaginary of unexpected theories & representations. Read More

The Female Mariners Project (2014)

LeJeune, Margaret

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

The Female Mariners Project explores the lives and work of women in the maritime industries including live aboard sailors and cruisers. Read More

The Newark Arts Photo Documentary Project

Gutwein, Colleen

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

The Newark Arts Photo Documentary Project is a a documentary photographed with the Jem Jr. camera, manufactured in Newark Nj in the 1940's. The project creates portraits of contemporary artists and art activists currently working in Newark, NJ. Read More

Fracking Photographs (2014)

Merolla, Brandi

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

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. Read More

Inside the Walls, Three Judges

Idle Wild Films Inc.

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

The purpose of the photography exhibit “Inside the Walls” and the documentary film “Three Judges” is to address American misperceptions of Islam, life in the Middle East, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and depictions of Arab and Muslim women. Read More

Legacy of Exiled NDNZ (2014)

Peters, Pamela J.

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

LEGACY OF EXILED NDNZ documents the lives of seven American Indian young adults currently living in Los Angeles, California. Shot in a neorealist visual aesthetic reminiscent of Kent Mackenzie’s 1961 film, The Exiles. Read More

Through Others’ Eyes

Givat Haviva Educational Foundation

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Givat Haviva's Through Others' Eyes is a dialogue & community building project that uses photography as the lens to explore questions of identity and coexistence between Israeli Arab and Jewish youth who rarely, if ever, have an opportunity to meet. Read More