Grantee tags trees

Arterial Forest

Tali Weinberg

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

Silhouettes of endangered tree species are portrayed upside-down to resemble lungs, arteries, and roots—all parts of usually invisible, life-enabling circulatory systems. Hand-woven from cotton and plastic, they embody connections between extraction, illness, species loss, and plastic proliferation. 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

A Life’s Work

Licata, David

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

A LIFE’S WORK is about four people engaged with projects they will not complete in their lifetimes, projects that could have a positive, profound, global impact. It is a meditation on passion, commitment, deep time, and long-term thinking, something that needs to be embraced now more than ever. Read More

Watercolors of Majestic Trees-Awareness of Global Warming

Nappi, Ninetta

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

My watercolors of "Majestic Trees" were created for the purpose of Global Warming Awareness. A major concern in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, trees have the ability to absorb carbon dioxide, the gas most responsible for this greenhouse effect. 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