Grantees All Genres

Everything’s Fine
Seemel, Gwenn
Year Grant Awarded: 2022
Everything's Fine is a project about how everything's not. It comes in three formats--a series of surreal paintings, a free high school art lesson plan, and a mental health workbook with 19 coloring pages--and each format helps you to communicate in different ways about what's going on in your head.
- Email g@gwennseemel.com
- Website https://gwennseemel.com/everythingsfine

Ecotones, Blue Ridge Series
Sell, Amie
Year Grant Awarded: 2022
These sculptural forms abstractly explore the overlaps of these thriving buffers, visualizing coexistence. Ecotones are the transitional zone between two ecological communities, often rich in biodiversity. The layered landscapes show interconnections between the terrain, geology, water, flora...

SEZ ME (2014)
SEZ ME
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
A Queer webseries intended for children and their allies
- Email mor@sezme.me
- Website http://www.sezm.me

Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare's Sister Company/Kris Lundberg
Year Grant Awarded: 2012
This all-female production is set in the roaring 1920s of Chicago amid gang rivalries and power struggles between the Italian and Irish within the underworld culture exploring the violent nature of gangsters and a women’s right to rise up in society.
- Email kris@shakespearessister.org
- Website www.shakespearessister.org

Port Townsend Sails: A Woman, A Place, A Passion
Shapiro, Paul
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
This film offers a look at the life and work of master sailmaker Carol Hasse, whose sail loft is located in beautiful, historic Port Townsend, Washington. The film explores the incredible sailmaking process, the life journey of Hasse as an educator,
- Email shapiropaul@hotmail.com
- Website https://vimeo.com/71520438

Music Therapy with Children Rescued from Child Trafficking or Living in Migrant Shelters in Tijuana
Sharon Katz & The Peace Train
Year Grant Awarded: 2021
I provided weekly music therapy sessions to 15 children living in a safe house who have been rescued from trafficking rings. I also provided weekly music sessions for 30 youth being sheltered in Tijuana while awaiting reunification with their families or aproval of their asylum petitions.
- Email SharonKatz2000@aol.com
- Website https://sharonkatz.com/

Composition for Forests
Shawn Skabelund
Year Grant Awarded: 2015
A site-specific, place-based installation designed for concert pianist Janice ChenJu Chiang to perform inside the work, and for viewers to be allowed to wander through the installation as they listened to the performance.
- Email shawnskabelundstudio@gmail.com
- Website https://shawnskabelund.com

NYC in Transition
Shechter, Laura
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
A group of my recent paintings are of blighted/industrial areas of NYC, many with graffiti. Each painting is a moment since the buildings could be razed, renovated and graffiti, written over.I render the graffiti with the same care as 19th. C. vase.

The Feminist Strip Club
Sheets, Monica
Year Grant Awarded: 2019
The Feminist Strip Club is a group of current and former erotic dancers who explore the present conditions of and utopian visions for stripping. We hold events, make performances, publish zines, and more.
- Email monica@monicasheets.com
- Website http://thefeministstripclub.com/

Communicating the Climate Crisis: Posters envisioning a better world for the next generations
Shenefield, Barbara
Year Grant Awarded: 2022
Engaging the youthful viewer in a vision of a better world and a better future that we can create: what does that future look like? Let’s dream big and beautiful.