Grantees All Genres
SOSÚA: MAKE A BETTER WORLD
Willow Pond Films
Year Grant Awarded: 2012
The story of Jewish and Dominican teenagers in New York City’s Washington Heights, who together with the legendary theater director Liz Swados, put on a musical about the Dominican Republic's rescue of 800 Jews from Hitler’s Germany.
- Website https://sosuafilm.com/
“Egg Cream”
Willow Pond Films
Year Grant Awarded: 2017
The beloved chocolate soda drink, born in immigrant neighborhoods at the turn of the 20th century, is explored in this short film about a simple beverage and its meaning to generations of Jewish Americans.
- Website willowpondfilms.com
“Refugee Kids: One Small School Takes on the World”
Willow Pond Films
Year Grant Awarded: 2017
A short documentary about students at a New York City summer program for children seeking asylum from the world’s most volatile conflicts.
- Website https://refugeekidsfilm.com/
Crossing Paths
Wilson, Tona
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
Crossing Paths is a four-channel stop-action animated video in which figures emerge from “clippings” from newspapers and other documents that deal with immigration and migration, and interact with one another across four screens.
- Website http://tonawilson.com
IMPulse
Womxn Who Print
Year Grant Awarded: 2019
An exhibition gathering womxn printers across the US to create a collective response to the prompt of “impulse”.
- Website https://womxnwhoprint.wixsite.com/womxn
Journey without a Map
Woodward, Jill
Year Grant Awarded: 2015
In the short documentary "Journey without a Map", Abduol discovers an unlikely passion in contemporary dance, tapping into the healing power of art as he seeks asylum in Greece from his native Afghanistan.
- Website http://www.jillwoodward.com
Antiwar Billboard Project NYC
World BEYOND War
Year Grant Awarded: 2018
World BEYOND War puts up billboards in numerous cities across the world to bolster public antiwar education efforts and amplify our global antiwar voices. The unique public approach has helped create difficult conversations that otherwise wouldn't happen.
- Website https://worldbeyondwar.org/
Killing Season Chicago
Wortendyke, Krista
Year Grant Awarded: 2015
Killing Season Chicago is a data driven installation comprised of photographs from 172 homicide sites in Chicago during the summer of 2010. This grant translated the large-scale art installation into an impactful, online representation of the work.
- Website http://killingseasonchicago.com
Pete Seeger’s Legacy: IF I HAD A HAMMER
WQ7856P
Year Grant Awarded: 2016
Assessing the folk-singer/activist's lasting gifts to the world.
At the Hands of Persons Unknown
Würfel, Gesche
Year Grant Awarded: 2018
"At the Hands of Persons Unknown" explores how trees have been silent witnesses to the lynching of women in the U.S.. Given the renewed interest into the many ways women are oppressed by contemporary power structures, exploring the forgotten history of female lynching is both timely and relevant.
- Website https://geschewuerfel.com