Grantees All Genres
In These Times Growth Plan
In These Times
Year Grant Awarded: 2018
In These Times—a nonprofit, independent magazine—provides readers with thoughtful political coverage, investigative journalism and unparalleled reporting on the labor movement. The Growth Plan supports In These Times’ reader engagement efforts, building audience and fueling the progressive movement.
- Website InTheseTimes.com
Marking Time: Prison Arts & Activism (2014)
Institute for Research on Women
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
“Marking Time: Prison Arts and Activism” was designed to bring together scholars, writers, artists, and activists to explore the cultural aspects of imprisonment, with a focus on art produced by prisoners and in response to mass incarceration.
- Website http://irw.rutgers.edu
Interference Archive exhibition series
Interference Archive
Year Grant Awarded: 2015
Interference Archive is an archive of social movement culture that curates public exhibitions and programs as a way to empower people to understand their histories in relationship to social movements.
- Website http://interferencearchive.org
La Bestia: Sweet Mother
International Human Rights Art Festival
Year Grant Awarded: 2018
La Bestia: Sweet Mother" is a multi-media theatrical exploration based on Tom Block's play, of one immigrant's voyage from her home in Tegucigalpa, Honduras through Guatemala and Mexico and into the desert of the USA, looking for a better life.
- Website tomblock.com
A Perspective in African American Cultural Art
Isaac, Melvin
Year Grant Awarded: 2011
Depicting cultural awareness in today's society through the vision and perspective of young people.
- Website http:www.artistictalentsinc.webs.com
Meet Murasaki Shikibu Followed by Book-Signing, and Other Things
Izumi, Julia
Year Grant Awarded: 2016
In this theatre/stand-up hybrid comedy, Murasaki Shikibu, author of one of the first novels ever written, comes to our contemporary world and holds a book-signing at a struggling bookstore. It seems she has much to say and many opinions to share on anything and everything -- except for her own book.
- Website juliaizumi.com
J Street Education Fund 2021
J Street Education Fund
Year Grant Awarded: 2021
J Street organizes pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans to promote US policies that help secure the State of Israel as a democratic homeland for the Jewish people.e believe that only a negotiated resolution can meet the legitimate needs and national aspirations of both Israelis and Palestinians.
- Website www.jstreet.org
Sacred Space: An Exploration of the Southern Utah Landscape
Jackson, Amy
Year Grant Awarded: 2011
Inspired by a friend who traveled in the area, Amy Jackson stumbled upon the Paiute Tribe of Southern Utah, and determined that their children greatly needed art supplies. This grant in full provided highest quality art materials for the children.
- Website http://www.amyjackson.cc
Environmental Reporting Fund
Jacobin
Year Grant Awarded: 2019
Jacobin is a leading voice of the American left, offering perspectives on politics, economics, and culture. The print magazine is released quarterly and reaches 50,000 subscribers, in addition to a web audience of over 2,000,000 a month.
- Website https://jacobinmag.com/
Owed to The Mountain
Jacobs, Diane
Year Grant Awarded: 2022
Owed to The Mountain is a call to action, an artist book that weaves multiple Native stories together contemplating our nonhuman relationships. Featured are handset letterpress-printed text, solar etchings from Sumi ink animal drawings, and colorful woodcut ecosystems showing the changing seasons.
- Website www.dianejacobs.net