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Shepherdess Released Debut Album in 2022!

Shepherdess Duo

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Shepherdess Duo released our self-released debut album,'tinker, tailor', on Friday, December 24, 2022. This album features all new works written for and recorded by Shepherdess Duo in 2021 and 2022. Composers include: Annika Socolofsky, Paul Pinto, Luis FernandoAmaya, Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh, natalie b

We the People

Sheryl Oring

Year Grant Awarded: 2006

The goal of Sheryl Oring’s “We The People” project is to bring the voices of the American people to the national stage. In her role as performance artist, Ms. Oring set up an office in various public places and invited people to dictate cards to

diásPoRa (previously “Riqueño”)

Sierra, Paloma

Year Grant Awarded: 2018

A bilingual play in verse examining Puerto Rican identity and its evolution during the Hispanic-American War, hurricane María, and the present time. Length: 60-MINUTES Ensemble: 3 Women / 2 Men

The Universal Drum

SIGN & SING

Year Grant Awarded: 2018

The Universal Drum is an experimental work that explores the harmony of Deaf and Hearing worlds through drums. This piece integrates new music, drama, and American Sign Language (ASL) poetry that can be experienced by Deaf and Hearing audiences alike.

QUEENS of Queens: Women of Woodside

Singh, Rashmi

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Modern Day folk songs composed by award-winning singer-songwriter, Rashmi, celebrating local heroines of Woodside, Queens.

Link

Sisters of the Lattice (Agnes Bolt and Nina Sarnelle)

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

The Sisters of the Lattice are modern mystics exploring the metaphysical potential of common technological devices. Link is an 80-min film and interactive group meditation that chronicles the Sisters of the Lattice's 2012 TransAmerican tour.

1,785

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

1,785 used 1,785 black water bottles carried by migrants as they crossed the Sonoran Desert in Arizona and then confiscated when they were caught and arrested by the U.S. Border Patrol.

I Can Only Imagine

Sklar, Hannah

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

Through mixed media ceramic sculptures and layered graphite drawings, I attempt to dismantle visual norms of social categorization, pertaining to the performance of gender. I utilize abstraction as a way to create an undefined spectrum of beauty—A boundless queer abstraction.

The Anna Pierrepont Series (the Afterlife of Public Monument)

Skrill, Howard M.

Year Grant Awarded: 2021

The Anna Pierrepont Series (howardskrill,blogspot,com) that began in 2011, explores in plein-air drawings, pictorial essays and studio works on paper the role of public monuments in the erasure of public and private memory in addition to representations of monuments being actively erased.

Hearts of Glass

Slow Food in the Tetons

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

A documentary about the tumultuous first 15 months of operation of Vertical Harvest, a state-of-the-art hydroponic greenhouse that provides local crops as well as employment for people with disabilities. Plants and people grow together in this intimate portrait of innovation, inclusion & community.

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