Grantees All Genres

Parent Choreographer Space Grant

BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

The Parent Choreographer Sapce Grant targets the needs of choreographers who are trying to meet the challenges of being an artist and a parent to preschool age children through studio space and childcare stipend.

Bay Area Girls Rock Camp (2014)

Bay Area Girls Rock Camp

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

At Bay Area Girls Rock Camp, we believe that arts education can transform young people’s lives. We are dedicated to empowering girls through music education and promoting an environment that fosters self-confidence, creativity and collaboration.

Girls Rock Summer Camp

Bay Area Girls Rock Camp

Year Grant Awarded: 2016

Girls Rock Summer Camp empowers self-identified girls, trans, and non-binary through music and promotes an environment that fosters self-confidence, creativity, and collaboration.

RED FATHER

Beck-Friedman, Tova

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

RED FATHER is the story of the rise and fall of Bernard Ades. It is the story of a Communist lawyer, from fighting for civil rights in the U.S. and against fascism in Spain, to the dark days of the blacklist that ended his stellar career.

Bell, Beverly

Bell, Beverly

Year Grant Awarded: 2006

Writer/Activist Beverly Bell of Albuqueque, NM received a Puffin grant for a book which addresses the inequality, poverty and environmental degradation fostered by economic globalization. The project highlights fourteen case studies and focuses on

Intermarried

Ben-Zion, Yael

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

“Intermarried” explores the notion, and questions the implications, of intermarriage. I initiated the project by sending a message to my New York neighborhood’s online parent group inviting couples who define themselves as ‘mixed’ to participate.

Gridlines

Benedict, Bremner

Year Grant Awarded: 2010

Gridlines images are of electrical towers and lines stretching across open spaces in the American West. These photographs unsettle the viewer’s preconceptions of reality, by revealing patterns of beauty within a subject culturally regarded as ugly.

Dryland Water (2014)

Benedict, Bremner

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Natural springs, a vital origin of life in the desert, dammed river reservoirs, and dry lakebeds exist as oases in the American Southwest’s deserts. My photographs combine B&W and color to emphasize the life and death the struggle through time of dim

Beauty & (Im)Balance ~ Quarantine Backyard Mandalas

Bennett, Maureen

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

My backyard woodland is my art laboratory within the greater context of the global climate crisis. Biodiversity is changing due to proliferation of invasive plants which crowd out native ones that have thrived for millennia. I want to bring environmental awareness and create beauty out of chaos.

Ghana Mural Project

Bergart, Andrea

Year Grant Awarded: 2011

The Ghana Mural Project combined my own artistic language with Ghanaian patterns to create a neighborhood mural celebrating and providing color and cultural enrichment to a neglected and impoverished neighborhood.