Grantees All Genres

Sheroes of the Ocean

ARTSail Residency and Research Initiative

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

Sheroes of the Ocean is an ARTSail spearheaded initiative that aims to shed light on the inspiring stories of women who are making significant contributions to ocean conservation.

Opulent Mobility

Opulent Mobility

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

Opulent Mobility asks artists and audiences to re-imagine disability as opulent and powerful.

Flight Lessons

Crooks, Deborah

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

"Flight Lessons" is a two-act, 17-song, six-character folk opera about Peregrine Falcons and humans living at the intersection of wild and urban habitats. The narrative follows the lives of a breeding pair of Peregrine Falcons and the humans with whom they interact after one of the birds is shot.

Portraits of My People

Guglielmo, Mark

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

“Portraits of My People” honors my Southern Italian lineage while addressing the complexities of identity and the fraught nature of race-making in America through a series layered figurative works, based on archival images of my ancestors, that incorporate a diverse range of materials.

The Prisoner

Musiqa

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

In April 2025, Musiqa and Asia Society Texas Center present the world premiere of the chamber version of Karim Al-Zand’s The Prisoner, a gripping song cycle recounting Adnan Latif’s harrowing story of imprisonment, resilience, and injustice at Guantánamo Bay.

Green Card

Shah, Purvi

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

Green plays hide and seek in a tapestry of grey asphalt and brown buildings. A lack of trees means a dearth of places birds can call home.

No More Walks in the Wood: Songs about Trees

Hinchliffe, Margaret

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

"No More Walks in the Wood" is an initiative to commission new classical works for voice and piano by Texas-based artists on the topic of trees and nature in Texas. Composers and poets wrote new music and texts, which were performed on a recital tour in Nacogdoches, Fort Worth, and Houston.