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Musical Access: Music Week (2014)

SOUNDS Academy

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Musical Access exposes students to different professions in the field of music through interactions with musicians. Performers share stories, answer questions, and speak about the importance of perseverance, teamwork, education, and music.

Fabric of the Forest

Sova Dance & Puppet Theater

Year Grant Awarded: 2016

"Fabric of the Forest" a.k.a. "Theatre in the Rough" is a theatrical hiking experience where our playful characters further enliven the breath and space of a variety of outdoor art installations created within the Rebirth Arts Festival, a free & accessible large-scale rural event in Easton, CT.

“While You Are Out”

Sova Theater

Year Grant Awarded: 2018

"While You Were Out" features Justin Perlman & Adelka Polak's original hand, rod & shadow puppets created from natural plant materials, textiles and handmade papers. These larger than life figures construct Shakespeare's fairy kingdom in this live theatrical experience of "Midsummer Night's Dream."

Women and their Work I: Affect + Action

Space One Eleven

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

Women with their Work is a series of all-women group art exhibitions. The first group exhibition, Women and their Work I: Affect + Action features artists who address social issues ranging from institutionalized racism, water pollution, the atrocities of war, and the subjugation of female bodies.

Women with their Work II: Reflections

Space One Eleven

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

Women with their Work is a series of all-women group art exhibitions. Women with their Work II: Reflections, the second exhibition in the series, features works by artists considering the theme of identity.

Women with their Work III: Materiality

Space One Eleven

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

Women with their Work is a series of all-women group art exhibitions. Women with their Work III: Materiality is the third and final group exhibition in the series and features female sculptors.

WE DARE DEFEND OUR RIGHTS: The Gun Show

Space One Eleven

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

Under the banner of the state motto, “We dare defend our rights,” some Alabamians defend rights for gun ownership, while others defend rights for safety from gun violence. Space One Eleven has invited ten artists to exhibit artwork in response to this issue.

“In the Time of the Butterflies” Study Guide

Spanish Theatre Repertory Co. Ltd.

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

Developing of an online study guide of the theatre play “In the Time of the Butterflies” that includes breakdowns of plot, character and setting as well as information about the author, playwright and the historical context of the story.

Red Thread: the prisoner and the painter

Spear, Duston

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Two women of the sixties in their sixties examine the choices that has kept one of them in prison for thirty years and find that they share the invisibility of aging and internment. Based on the poetry of former radical, Judy Clark.

Crazy Bird Lady

Spectromatics LLC

Year Grant Awarded: 2020

An older Indian American woman Uma, obsesses over her pet birds at the expense of her relationships and health in the midst of racial strife and a raging pandemic.