Grantee tags poetry

East Bay: Redline Redefined

Thingamajigs

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Thingamajigs commissioned eight East Bay artists to create a range of audio and visual pieces for the project, Redline Redefined, a new multi-year project that investigates, narrates and celebrates our diverse and creative formerly redlined neighborhoods. Read More

Windows Into War (a mother’s lament)

Gross-Zuchman, Deborah

Year Grant Awarded: 2018

Windows Into War is a collection of poems and paintings about war I have used the metaphors of windows and the American flag to portray the losses, suffering and unraveling of the American democratic ideal. The creative force is a powerful weapon that encourages life and beauty. Read More

Early Career Artists

Orion Magazine

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

Deemed by the Boston Globe "America’s finest environmental magazine," Orion has received several Puffin grants. Ad-free and artistically presented, Orion produces print and digital editions that address the most pressing environmental issues. Read More

Red Thread: the prisoner and the painter

Spear, Duston

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Two women of the sixties in their sixties examine the choices that has kept one of them in prison for thirty years and find that they share the invisibility of aging and internment. Based on the poetry of former radical, Judy Clark. Read More

The Soul of a River (Mo Shui)

McDonald, Marsha

Year Grant Awarded: 2011

Representing visually mindful, grounded conversations between landscape and perception, this project, created a meditational, sequenced seasonal portrait of the Milwaukee River, a workshop, and a visual/land language reading by poet Robert Grenier. Read More