Grantees All Genres

Orchestrating Change

Me2/Orchestra, Inc.

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

Orchestrating Change is the feature documentary that tells the inspiring story of the only orchestra in the world created by and for people living with mental illness.

Sacrifice Zones

Media Project

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

Sacrifice Zones, a one-hour radio documentary, investigates the push to turn the Pacific Northwest into a fossil fuel export hub and tracks opposition to these proposals from broad segments of the community.

IN HER SHOES

Media Projects Inc.

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

IN HERS SHOES is a documentary about Dallas County female inmates participating in an innovative art and writing course where they reflect on where they have been, where they are, and where they hope to go through their relationship with shoes and the long, winding paths they have traveled with them

Small Town, Turn Away

Medina, Dolissa

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

A documentary portrait of the filmmaker’s Mexican-American border hometown of Brownsville, Texas 30 years after she left as a queer teenager, following in the footsteps of a cousin who died from AIDS. Meditating on home, history and migration, the director explores how place can exile and embrace.

The Loneliest

Mehrel, Lilian

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

Go 'behind-the-scenes' of British nature show Ocean Discovery in this comic mockumentary short film: Violet (a wry camera-girl) Ingrid (a passionate marine biologist) look for the loneliest whale (with a voice too high for other whales to hear.)

Fracking Photographs (2014)

Merolla, Brandi

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

I illustrate the many dangers associated with the entire fracking production process in my staged photographs, telling big stories with little figures. These vintage figurines are now living in an industrial nightmare just like many Americans.

Fracking Photographs

Merolla, Brandi

Year Grant Awarded: 2018

I illustrate the many dangers associated with the entire fracking production process in my staged photographs, telling big stories with little figures. These vintage figurines are now living in an industrial nightmare just like many Americans. They, are us. BAN FRACKING NOW!

The Climate Change Solutions Project: Billboard Art

Merolla, Brandi

Year Grant Awarded: 2021

I enlarged one of my Climate Change Solutions images into a large billboard. Public art has the power to connect with the curious and unite the viewers. 18,000 cars pass this billboard weekly reading "SOLAR POWER!" Thank you to The Puffin Foundation for making this project happen!

Very Serious Theatre

Messenger Theatre Company

Year Grant Awarded: 2016

Very Serious Theatre features masked performers who attempt to stage Shakespeare’s plays but always mess them up. For our two improvised performances to International High School at LGCC, we incorporated what the students were reading so we did a comedy mash-up of Romeo and Juliet and The Stranger.

“Immortal Structures: Here & There After”

Mijares, Maria

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

The MORRIS MUSEUM in Morristown, NJ, hosted a one-woman exhibition of contemporary realist paintings entitled, “IMMORTAL STRUCTURES: Here & There After” (January 31 - March 31, 2013) Fifty-five paintings spanned 30 years and the Atlantic Ocean.