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ELEGY

Lambertson, Andre

Year Grant Awarded: 2021

An inspired and intimate portrait of a place and its people, Elegy, will follow Isiah Owens, and a group of Harlem residents as they navigate the uncharted waters of death, grief, unimaginable trauma and legacy, in the wake of COVID19. The audience is invited to experience the meaning of ritual and

Recitations in Movement

Lamprea, Stephanie

Year Grant Awarded: 2018

Recitations in Movement is an interdisciplinary performance of George Aperghis' 14 Recitations. This show seeks to express the sufferings of domestic abuse victims through the interaction of movement and voice. Proceeds are donated to Rosie's Place, a battered women's shelter in Boston, MA.

Learning How to Say Goodbye

Landau, Caroline

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

In June of 2019, Caroline and photographer/videographer Oliver Rye traveled to Newfoundland to make molds of icebergs. This is an ongoing project that will continue into 2020 when the mold will then be replicated into glass and filled back up with its own glacier water.

The Long Ride

Lapin Ganley, Valerie

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

The Long Ride is a timely documentary film about the birth of the new Civil Rights Movement for immigrant workers.

Organisms

Laracuente, Andrés

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

I understand these paintings as organisms, generating 2D life. For over a year I created hundreds of ink paintings on paper with the intent of developing a large population or data set. The paintings on paper were then expanded using virtual reality and 3d modeling, circulating digitally.

Centroid Towns: Appalachian Foothills

Larson, Nate

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Centroid Towns is an anthology documentary project chronicling the cities that have been the mean center of population of the US. In the fall of 2022, I traveled to Hillsboro, Ohio, the centroid for the 1870 census, to spend time with land conservation groups and document the changing landscape.

Cosmogram: A Hero’s Journey through the lens of the African Diaspora.

Laster, Gwen

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Cosmogram is new music inspired by the readings from Clyde W. Ford's "The Hero with an African Face", Violinist/composer Gwen Laster joined with Violinists; Trina Basu, Arun Ramamurthy,bassist Damon Banks record new works based on these readings and journeys as Black and South Indian musicians.

Overlooked, Overheard

Laustsen, Douglas

Year Grant Awarded: 2021

Overlooked, Overheard is an Augmented Reality listening experience that looks at how Austin, TX is maintained in ways that we can’t see. Audiences can explore a neighborhood and hear music representing various city projects that don’t necessarily leave any visual indicator.

Plastic Ocean

Lee, Lee

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Plastic Ocean responds to the problems presented by single use plastic and calls for consideration on misplaced notions of “disposability” to question consumer driven waste which has devalued what is in fact a very important material.

No Mercy Art Exhibition:An Exploration of Farm Animal Cruelty (2014)

Lefebvre, Mara

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

The “No Mercy Art Exhibition:An Exploration of Farm Animal Cruelty” project is a mixed media art installation of multiple small scale sculptures created by Mara Lefebvre with additional sculptures crafted by members of the community. The exhibition