Grantees All Genres
The Buffalo Project, which resulted in a play called Buffalo Heights (2014)
Jake Lipman/Tongue in Cheek Theater Productions
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
Starting in late 2013, Producing Artistic Director Jake Lipman tapped 5 actors and playwright Adam Harrell to create a new thought-provoking comedy. Over several months, the company devised a new play, BUFFALO HEIGHTS, which ran May 2014 in NYC.
- Website www.tictheater.com
Joshua Tree Chronicles
James, Shirley
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
The project is a two-fold project that documents Joshua Trees on Joshua Tree wood using the woodburning technique called Pyrography and promote it as a fineart and create a public awareness of the unique qualities of the Joshua Tree.
- Website http:/www.sejamesartist.com
Perform La Femme
Jana C Perez, Angilee Wilkerson
Year Grant Awarded: 2018
Perform La Femme is a collaboration featuring the self-portraiture of the duo Jana C. Perez and Angilee Wilkerson. Both artists enact roles; performing in partnership to emphasize their lives as women and delving into the psychological states and cultural interpretation of female identity.
- Website http://www.performlafemme.com/
Truth or Consequences
Jayanti, Hannah
Year Grant Awarded: 2017
Truth or Consequences is a speculative documentary about time and how we weave the past into the present and our possible future. Set in the small desert town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, the film takes place in the shadow of the world's first commercial Spaceport.
- Website www.hannahjayanti.com, www.torcfilm.com
Truth or Consequences
Jayanti, Hannah
Year Grant Awarded: 2017
Truth or Consequences is a speculative documentary about time and how we weave the past into the present and our possible future. Set in the small desert town of Truth or Consequences, NM, the film is subtly set in a near future when commercial space travel has begun.
- Website www.hannahjayanti.com, www.torcfilm.com
making ourselves visible: a day-long project in feminist space-making
Jen Kennedy and Liz Linden
Year Grant Awarded: 2010
Making ourselves visible is Jen Kennedy and Liz Linden’s one-day experiment in feminist space-making at the Sackler Center for Feminist Art in the Brooklyn Museum.
- Website http://www.contemporaryfeminism.com
100 Years All New People (previously Paradise Begins With a Shipwreck)
Jessica Segall
Year Grant Awarded: 2017
100 Years, All New People is an installation of material collected at U.S. borders where asylum seekers have circumvented increasingly severe immigration control.
- Website www.jessicasegall.com
INTERNAL BLEEDING Workshop
Johnson, Christine Toy
Year Grant Awarded: 2010
An exploratory workshop and public reading of INTERNAL BLEEDING by Christine Toy Johnson. The lead character (written as both disabled and non-disabled) was cast with an actor with a disability, followed by a panel discussion about the process.
- Website http://www.christinetoyjohnson.com
EYE D
Johnson, Christine Toy
Year Grant Awarded: 2012
A documentary theatre piece with music, reflecting issues of identity amongst multi-generational and multi-cultural women.
- Website http://www.christinetoyjohnson.com
Arriving in Asian America
Johnson, Christine Toy
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
The Asian American Composers & Lyricists Project collaborated to collectively write a song cycle called "Arriving in Asian America", performed at Symphony Space in NYC on December 8, 2014
- Website http://www.christinetoyjohnson.com