Grantees All Years
Be A Mentor / Sea Un Mentor
Cathrine Lee, James E Sanders, Jr
Year Grant Awarded: 2017
This short documentary video intends to recruit volunteer mentors for a bilingual public school. Beacon Hill Academy serves a 98% Hispanic student body, most of whom enter ‘at-risk’ for dropping out. Mentors’ personal attention counteracts insecurities that cause these kids’ poor school performance. Read More
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- Website: https://vimeo.com/mediaproductionjs/videos
Losing Winter
Cazabon, Lynn
Year Grant Awarded: 2022
Losing Winter is a site-specific, participatory artwork and archive of memories and emotions about winter, revealing the personal and cultural ties we have to the season and providing a window onto what we are collectively losing due to climate change impacts on weather patterns. Read More
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- Website: https://www.losingwinter.net/
Corridos de Celestino
Celestino Fernandez
Year Grant Awarded: 2022
“Corridos de Celestino” is a 2-CD project of original corridos, Mexican ballads. The CDs are accompanied by a booklet that sets each corrido in context and includes the words. The songs are interpreted by six different musicians in a variety of styles. Read More
LobbyArts
Central Louisiana Arts & Healthcare Inc.
Year Grant Awarded: 2011
This project enabled us to hire dancers and musicians to pefform in lobbies and waiting rooms of two local hospitals on a regular basis. These artists also visited individual patient rooms as well. Read More
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- Website: http://www.artsandhealthcare.org
19 Wentworth Alley, Chinatown
Chan, Eugenie
Year Grant Awarded: 2014
Drawing on her grandfather's history, a man caught between medical studies & membership in a 1900s Chinatown prostitution guild, Eugenie Chan layers original material with family documents to explore his world of high hopes & hard choices. Read More
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- Website: http://www.eugeniechantheater.org/
Coupled
ChoreoNova
Year Grant Awarded: 2015
Dance film "Coupled" depicts fictional L, G, T, and heterosexual couples' equivalent friendship, romance, and devotion; love relationships as equal partnerships. "Coupled" uses the cameras as part of the dance, choreographed to go inside the stories. Read More
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- Website: http://www.choreonova.org
Body Politic
Christa Carleton, Tonja Torgerson &
Year Grant Awarded: 2022
Bodies have always been a point of control, debate, and controversy within our society. Printmakers Christa Carleton and Tonja Torgerson make work to highlight the tumultuous position of the body and gender roles. Read More
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- Website: tonjatorgerson.com
Anonymous
Chua, Iu-Hui
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
"Anonymous" explores issues of sexuality, wounding and identity in young women’s lives, reflecting difference and diversity of attitude within this demographic, touching on an intergenerational shift between these women and their older counterparts. Read More
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- Website: http://www.iuhuichua.com/
Overburden
Ciarrocchi, Maya
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
Overburden occupies a hybrid space between video art and documentary. It centerers on the residents and landscape of the coal fields of West Virginia. Read More
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- Website: http://www.mayaciarrocchi.com
Rivers, Dreams, Invisible Cities
Ciarrocchi, Maya
Year Grant Awarded: 2022
Rivers, Dreams, Invisible Cities features Maya Ciarrocchi's recent cyanotype prints on silk and works on paper that combine historical narratives with embodied and locative mapping to uncover buried pasts while investigating ecological issues. Read More
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- Website: https://www.mayaciarrocchi.com