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Eyes on Oakland

Mobile Arts Platform (MAP)

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

Through the journalistic lens of community surveillance, this participatory research project and resulting social sculpture investigated ways in which Oakland communities are changing because of new economic pressures.

Harmit Singh’s War

Mohaiemen, Naeem

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Harmit Singh was trained as an architect but left transnational projects in Kenya in the mid-60s to become a photojournalist in India. One of his most famous projects was on the “discovery” of Black Ethiopian Jews for National Geographic. This project looks at his departure from photojournalism.

Labor Day Sunflower Project

Moll, Gerry

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

A participatory installation celebrating our collective work. Thousands of sunflowers are woven together into a massive circle of flowers. Each flower denotes individual efforts while the circle of flowers represents our combined effort for the year.

Invasive Species Sculpture Project

Moll, Gerry

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

In this public participatory workshop, participants remove invasive plants from workshop grounds. This plant material is woven, tied, and bound together to create invasive species sculptures. Participants then ‘invade’ the grounds via careful install

I Am, I Will, I’m Afraid (Wellsville)

Molloy, Traci

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

I Am, I Will, I’m Afraid (Wellsville) is a collaborative print made with 14 rural, disenfranchised youth utilizing photographic and digital processes. The figure does not exist - it’s a constructed composite made by layering individual portraits.

TREE OF WAR

Monroe, Derek

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

The idea for accounted life.

PAINTING: HIGGS BOSON, PORTRAIT OF THE FIRST WOMAN

Montealegre, Eva

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

PAINTING: HIGGS BOSON, OIL ON CANVAS, 64" X 100", PETER HIGGS CREATION THEORY, A DANCE, FABRIC, RIBBON, PAINTING 3-D EXPERIENCE WITH MUSIC BY IMPROV CLASSICAL COMPOSER, JONATHAN GRASSE, TRUMPETER, BRUCE FRIEDMAN AND CHOREOGRAPHER, BEATRIZ VASQUEZ

Music Connects Lives

Moonlight Serenade

Year Grant Awarded: 2011

Moonlight Serenade has made it their mission to enrich the quality of life for seniors and people with disabilities in nursing homes, senior living facilities and independent senior groups by presenting concerts of fine classical music.

“Transmigration – Magic Mushroom World Series” Project

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Mushroom spores are parasitic to dead-creatures or plants and grow mushroom. This is like a Transmigration or Reincarnation. The shape, color, and fragility of mushroom is very mysterious. This mystery inspired me to start my Magic Mushroom project

Silent Sentinels

Morris, Allen

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Along the invisible line that divides North and South Dakota lies a string of quartzite monuments, this line of stone monuments to politics, separation, and territoriality is documented and explored in the body of work titled “Silent Sentinels,” a series of photogrammetric models and 3D prints.