Grantees All Genres

The Appointment

Alice Yorke

Year Grant Awarded: 2018

A dark satire with original music, THE APPOINTMENT examines the misogyny, hypocrisy, and absurdity of the contemporary abortion debate in America. The work unpacks the economic, societal, and political systems that disempower groups of people from making informed reproductive decisions.

Night Sky

Alison

Year Grant Awarded: 2010

Two girls search for help after their car breaks down in the desert and discover portals to other dimensions, sound chambers and the magic of wanderlust.

COMMUNITY CONCERTS FOR BERGEN COUNTY

All Seasons Chamber Players, Inc.

Year Grant Awarded: 2018

The Community Concerts for Bergen County provide 15 free, public chamber music concerts in public libraries, churches and an art center to make professional chamber music concerts accessible to people of all economic levels, races and ages.

Boston Don’t Dump

Allen, Jane Ingram

Year Grant Awarded: 2011

For the “Boston Don’t Dump” project Jane created a new series of handmade paper artworks focused on the environmental issue of clean water and urban runoff and pollution of Boston’s waterways.

Lights & Shadows

Allen, Francie

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

I created a sculpture installation made of life size dancing figures in wire netting, with theatre lights shining on them to form an environment of shadows. Located in downtown Bellingham, WA, opening night featured local dancers doing shadow play.

“The Power of Good Will: African Americans and Jews together for Civil Rights”

Alliance of Ethics & Art Inc.

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Interviews with Blacks and Jews who fought for equality, North and South—even risking death--are powerful evidence of what Eli Siegel, founder of the education Aesthetic Realism, identified: "the force of ethics” working in people throughout history.

Enduring Alliances: Jewish Refugee Scholars & Black Colleges in the South

Alliance of Ethics and Art, Inc.

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

Original research/interviews reveal how Black colleges in the segregated South (1930s-60) saved the lives of Jewish Refugee Scholars and their families from the Nazi Holocaust by offering them jobs, after US quotas were met. These Enduring Alliances continue today.

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.

A Journey of Conditional Love

Alston, Laura

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

Multimedia collage series highlighting the cultural identities of West Indian people and their influence across the diaspora.

Table Alchemy

Amber Art and Design

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

Table Alchemy advocates for food equity and addresses the lack of access to fresh produce within low income neighborhoods.