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The Ultimate Stimulus: Now More Than Ever

Felipe Ossa

Year Grant Awarded: 2021

Renegade economist Amanda McCloud has a solution to wealth inequality: a modern-day, pansexual version of concubinage. And she’s got a video to walk us through her plan, rife with socio-economic anxiety, awkward sex and some very eligible billionaires.

Invasion

Ferara, Eileen

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

Invasion is a print-based installation and book art project inspired by a single seedpod known as Devil’s Head Pods. The plant is a non-native invasive species to North America. Exhibited at gaia studio gallery, the work aims to promote contemplation of the fragility of balance in the environment.

Casting Shadows: Life on the Embankment

Ferara, Eileen

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Casting Shadows: Life on the Embankment is an environmental art project connecting community to nature through hands-on paper making workshops along the Jersey City Embankment. The paper created is integrated into artworks featuring non-native plants which grow on the Embankment wall.

‘A Study of Form in Light and Shadow’

Figura, Gregg

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

'A Study of Form in Light and Shadow' is an active metaphor which embodies the environmental and societal changes we experience in a world that is in a constant state of change through… natural chaos. Chaos, is a complex state of order which is experientially rational and irrational - simultaneousl

Climate Change… the future is TODAY!

Figura, Gregg

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Anthropomorphic (man-made) Climate Change is the greatest disaster that threatens man’s existence today. What we as a global community do or don’t do will affect the very existence of mankind and all ‘life’ on this planet. We are the FUTURE… and the future is TODAY!

Amazonomachy

Fillenwarth, Bonnie

Year Grant Awarded: 2010

I linked the ancient Amazon women who would amputate a breast in order to better shoot a bow and arrow to the modern day fight against breast cancer. A portion of the sales went to local breast cnacer research.

Compensation for Loss

Fine Foer, Anna

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

The series comments upon historic and contemporary scientific inquiry into biological and mineral realms. Anna combines traditional collage, digital media, and painting as she explores the pressing issues of loss, adaptation, and survival in the natural world.

Got Drought?

Fiorito, Karen

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

‘Got Drought?’ is a public art and social media campaign that raises awareness about how animal agriculture wastes water, pollutes the environment and contributes to climate change.

The Absent Referent Exhibition

Fiorito, Karen

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

The Absent Referent is a powerful art exhibition of 10 international, interdisciplinary, ecofeminist artists whose work echoes the books “The Sexual Politics of Meat” and “The Pornography of Meat” by American author and activist Carol J. Adams.

Envision: Community Portrait Day

First Exposures

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

First Exposures' Envision brought together the Women's Building, de Young Museum, and the Center for Cultural Power for a day of community portraits made by our mentee photographers. In just 4 hours, First Exposures youth photographed and gifted framed portraits to over 400 people— an absolute feat!

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