Grantees All Years

#SoSadSoSexy

Cordes, Emily

Year Grant Awarded: 2021

Drawing inspiration from contemporary Internet culture and narratives around mental illness, as well as accounts of Victorian insane asylums, “#SoSadSoSexy” is a devised play exploring Western culture’s ongoing fascination with, and misrepresentation of, depressed and unstable women. Read More

Welcome to Camp America: Inside Guantánamo Bay

Cornwall, Debi

Year Grant Awarded: 2016

A vivid and disorienting glimpse into the U.S. Naval Station in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba and its global diaspora of released men, through photographs, declassified archival material, and first-person texts. Award-winning as both fine-art book (Radius, 2017) and international exhibition. Read More

Incorrigibles

Cornyn, Alison

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

Incorrigibles is a transmedia documentary project that aims to reexamine and redefine the language used to label, define and confine young women as told by those who were incarcerated at the New York State Training School for Girls and other state-run institutions over the last 100 years. Read More

Ring around the rosy – Booster Chair for Death Row

Cortes, Esperanza

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Booster chair for Death Row is an interdisciplinary installation which intersects my work as an educator and my interest as an artist. The work incorporates, sculpture, painting and street interviews concerning the issue of trying minors as adults. Read More

iView: Analysis

Coughlin, Linda Rae

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

iView: Analysis is an international textile exhibit featuring sixteen artist from around the world who created artworks using the techniques of fiber hooking and stitching. This exhibit will be traveling through 2014. Read More

Social Fabric

Craft and Folk Art Museum

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

The Craft and Folk Art Museum presented Social Fabric, an exhibition of seven contemporary artists who confront the problems of mass production and consumption through fiber-based art that incorporates social engagement and public interaction. Read More

Seed Songs

Craney, Katie Ione

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Exhibition material in Braille including small booklets containing questions about beginnings and endings, with an emphasis on climate communication for equitable and disability-focused futures. Booklets served as a boundary object between audiences and were available for free to everyone. Read More

The Memory Persists

Creek, Nicole

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

This work consists of three clear acrylic panels, 12”x15”x1/4The first panel is inlaid with rectangular silver wire in the shape of the Star of David. The second panel is embedded with barbed wire. The third panel is a photograph of Holocaust surv Read More

Mapping Nungua

Cross Cultural Collaborative

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

Creating a map to identify artisans in a Ghanaian village so that visitors can locate and interact with artisans on a personal level thus developing an understanding of African art and traditions. Read More

Honoring Refugee Composers

Crossing Borders Music

Year Grant Awarded: 2018

Crossing Borders Music honored refugees around the world in this performance of music written by or about refugees! Read More