Grantees All Years
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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
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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
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Turbocharging youth voter engagement, especially at community colleges, trade, technical and vocational schools, at People of Color Serving Institutions.
Civic Influencers
Year Grant Awarded: 2022
Civic Influencers mission is to create more young leaders across the country. We are strategic in recruiting, training, and mentoring young leaders in swing districts and states. These young leaders – called Civic Influencers – helped achieve the remarkable youth voter turnout levels we saw in 2022. Read More
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- Website: civicinfluencers.org
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I-5, Windmills
Clairobscur Dance Company / Sefton
Year Grant Awarded: 2011
"I-5, Windmills" examines the issue of power, the wind, air pollution, rolling ridge green or tan mountains and the majestic turbines that grace their slopes. Set to the majestic score by Sasha Matson of the same name. Read More
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- Website: http://www.clairobscurdance.org
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CSC’s YOUNG COMPANY Education & Outreach Initiative
Classic Stage Company (CSC)
Year Grant Awarded: 2012
Through a series of interactive in-school workshops and dynamic productions specially designed for a teen audience, CSC’s YOUNG COMPANY Education & Outreach Initiative makes Shakespeare alive and accessible to underserved public school students. Read More
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- Website: https://www.classicstage.org/
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Raw Thought, a documentary theatre play about the life, death, and work of Aaron Swartz
Co-Op Theatre East/Ashley Marinaccio
Year Grant Awarded: 2016
Co-Op Theatre East Presents: Raw Thought An interpretation of the life, death, and writings of Aaron Swartz Written by Tyrus Holden Devised by Co-Op Theatre East ensemble members - Tyrus Holden, Ashley Marinaccio, Robert A.K. Gonyo, Gil Sperling, and Michael Rehse Directed by Ashley Marinaccio Read More
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- Website: www.cooptheatreeast.org
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The Trip Wire Project
Colburn, Michele
Year Grant Awarded: 2015
The Trip Wire Project documents deaths of U.S. soldiers and noncombatant civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan since the beginning of US involvement 15 years ago.The artist knitted a stitch in military surplus trip wire. Read More
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The Seven by Will Power, directed by Carl Cofield (2014)
Columbia Stages / Erik Kaiko
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
For his Columbia directing thesis, Carl Cofield chose to direct THE SEVEN by Will Power. This rap/hip-hop adaptation of Aeschylus' tragedy, THE SEVEN AGAINST THEBES, played the Connelly Theatre in NYC in Feb. 2014. Produced by grantee Erik Kaiko. Read More
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- Website: http://www.columbiastages.org/season/2014/theseven.html
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Living American Composers
Compact Discoveries, Inc.
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
The Puffin Foundation's funds were used to help pay the costs of producing two one-hour Compact Discoveries radio programs featuring, exclusively, the recorded works of living American composers. Read More
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- Website: http://www.compactdiscoveries.com
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Camp Interesting
Conklin, Lydia
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
A graphic novel set at an unusual sleep away camp in the north woods of Vermont. Read More