Grantees All Years

tracing(s) belonging(s)

Davis, Sonia Louise

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

"tracing(s) belonging(s)" is an ongoing site-specific investigation made both in and about Harlem. Using a large format view camera, I mine the public and private archive, exploring collective memory and family history. *see image credit below* Read More

The Wider Earth (2014)

Dead Puppet Society LLC

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

The Wider Earth was a twenty-minute work-in-progress showing of a new production by Dead Puppet Society based on Charles Darwin’s voyage on the Beagle and parallels drawn to the current state of our planet. This was presented by St. Ann’s Warehouse. Read More

Cages and Cases

Del Prete, Laura

Year Grant Awarded: 2008

The pieces created are a reflection from my foray into collage and assemblage, exploring how the visual translates into the tactile. Art that is not removed, isolated, and unobtainable, but art that tells a narrative; that is inviting and familiar. Read More

” These Memories Bear Traces Of Tears: ” Relief Reliquaries/Ex-Voto.

Del Reverda-Jennings, D.

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

The appreciated support enabled the purchase of materials to create a series of sculptural relief artpieces in honor of deceased loved ones, of memory, spirit, sorrow, dispossession..my inner child's utter loneliness, the very act of death itself as well as the stinging acceptance of passing on. Read More

Counterpoint 2010: Approximating Truth

Dempsey, Dean

Year Grant Awarded: 2010

2nd Annual West Coast Exhibition of Artists Using Photography Read More

Mary DeWitt: Women Lifers training Canine Partners for Life

DeWitt, Mary

Year Grant Awarded: 2011

I paint the portraits and record the voices of a select group of life-sentenced women. Several women now train puppies for the disabled in the program Canine Partners for Life. I pair their voices describing this with the development of my portraits. Read More

Whale Bones and the Boundary of a Fish (2014)

Dexa, Alexa

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Curated field recordings and lyrical historical narratives transforming Long Island landscapes into soundscapes. Read More

La Familia

Diavolo

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

L.A. Familia is the Diavolo Institute’s multi-generational dance program that uses dance and everyday movement to get entire families working together. Held at Plaza de la Raza, L.A. Familia is focused on the underserved communities of northeast L.A. Read More

Growing my Own Art: Thin as Our Skin

Dintiman, Robin

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

The focus of my work work is transience, transformation and vulnerability. How can I through liminal means express the fragility of our lives, so that we see is visually "How we feel inside our skin". My proposal would be work on a project in which I grow my work from bacteria and yeast. Read More

Growing my Own Art: Thin as Our Skin

Dintiman, Robin

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

The focus of my work work is transience, transformation and vulnerability. How can I through liminal means express the fragility of our lives, so that we see is visually "How we feel inside our skin". My proposal would be work on a project in which I grow my work from vegan leather which is environm Read More