Grantees All Genres
Rechnitz by Elfriede Jelinek, Directed by Ildiko Nemeth
The New Stage Theatre Company
Year Grant Awarded: 2018
Nobel Prize-winning Austrian playwright Elfriede Jelinek's cerebral work examines the silence around an actual event of mind-boggling evil.
- Website www.newstagetheatre.org
Tenderness
The Performance Project
Year Grant Awarded: 2018
First Generation Ensemble toured Tenderness, a multi-lingual, physical theater piece that underscores the connections between racism, the school-to-prison pipeline, mass incarceration, hyper-masculinity, violence and the power of human connection.
- Website https://performanceproject.org
Shmuel Polonski CD of 1931 Soviet Yiddish Songbook Far yugnt/For Youth
The Polonski Project/Eric A. Gordon & Yale Strom
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
A CD produced by historian Eric A Gordon & musician Yale Strom, featuring vocalists Michael Alpert, Judy Bressler, Jack Yankl Falk, Daniel Kahn, Vira Lozinsky, Anthony Russell, Elizabeth Schwartz, and Sholem Singers
The Washington Spectator (2014)
The Public Concern Foundation, Hamilton Fish, President
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
Independent, nonprofit, and reader-supported, the monthly Washington Spectator reports from the ground on the excesses of the public and private sectors that distort our politics and undermine democracy.
- Website http://washingtonspectator.org/
The Rights of Spring
The Puppeteers Cooperative
Year Grant Awarded: 2011
The Rights of Spring is a giant puppet pageant, with the same name but a different plot each year. It features an issue-driven plot, and participation by puppeteers, youth and school groups, and the audience.
- Website http://puppetco-op.org/
The Rights of Spring: The Persistence of Winter (2014)
The Puppeteers Cooperative
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
A giant puppet pageant with adults and youth groups; played out-of-doors, and beginning with a parade.
- Website http://puppetco-op.org/
Raise Your Voice Mural Project
The Rag Collection
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
Raise Your Voice is a series of free youth art workshops located at Alhambra High School, Phoenix, AZ. We invited students to learn how to use their graffiti art talents and inspire their communitiy through mural making on their campus.
- Website http://www.theragcollection.org
1931- by Claire and Paul Sifton
The ReGroup Theatre Company
Year Grant Awarded: 2012
The ReGroup presented this 80+ year old play about mass unemployment to tremendous response in Oct 2012. Originally presented by the Group Theatre, the play resonated now more than it did when opens during the Great Depression.
- Website http://www.regrouptheatre.org
Empowering Youth Mural Project
The Seed House~Casa de la Semilla
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
Community Engaged public art project, a catalyst of cultural inquiry and relational aesthetics in Kansas, with the objective of creating interactive environments in which people come together, re-engaged as participant of their own lives.
- Website https://www.facebook.com/TheSeedHouseCasaDeSemilla
Developing Native Content at the Tahawus Center
The Tahawus Center
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
The Tahawus Center exhibits the art and culture of Mohawk in their indigenous region of the Adirondack Mountains, which today knows little of the people and vibrant culture which existed here before.
- Website https://applebyfoundation.org/Tahawus%20home.html