Grantees All Years
Indigenous Plant Knowledge Series
Jacobs, Margaret
Year Grant Awarded: 2023
My project focuses on the Emerald Ash Borer and explores ways of reclaiming and relearning Indigenous knowledge systems to establish paths toward self-sustainability and decolonization through the creation of physical objects. Read More
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- Website: margaretjacobs.com
No More Walks in the Wood: Songs about Trees
Hinchliffe, Margaret
Year Grant Awarded: 2024
"No More Walks in the Wood" is an initiative to commission new classical works for voice and piano by Texas-based artists on the topic of trees and nature in Texas. Composers and poets wrote new music and texts, which were performed on a recital tour in Nacogdoches, Fort Worth, and Houston. Read More
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- Website: https://www.maggiehinchliffe.com/nomorewalksinthewood
Plant Based Portraits
Fiasconaro, Lauren
Year Grant Awarded: 2024
“Plant Based Portraits” is a solo art exhibition of nine anthotype portraits, each depicted in a unique plant, which explores themes of gendered oppression as a form of ecofeminism. Read More
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- Website: www.laurenfiasconaro.com
Green Map’s Local Food Icons
Green Map System
Year Grant Awarded: 2024
We share mapmaking and engagement tools used to produce perspectives on local progress towards wellbeing and sustainability. With local food as a gateway to participation, with this grant, we completed an open source iconography that celebrates food enterprise, specialties, growing and dining. Read More
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- Website: http://GreenMap.org/localfood
Exiles and Emigres in Hollywood
Ensemble for These Times
Year Grant Awarded: 2024
A recording of music by émigré composers who fled the Third Reich for Hollywood and changed movie music as we know it. Read More
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- Website: https://E4TT.org
the beautiful
Rasmussen, Elise
Year Grant Awarded: 2024
“the beautiful” explores the role of photography in contributing to mythologies and ideologies surrounding notions of American West, addressing the grief embedded within the medium as depictions of the landscape are more prescient and problematic than ever in this time of climate change. Read More
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- Website: www.eliserasmussen.com
Exceptional Trees
Friends of Fremont Troll's Knoll
Year Grant Awarded: 2024
"Exceptional Trees" tiles were installed at The Troll's Knoll in Seattle WA. The tiles highlighted trees that had been deemed exceptional by The City of Seattle. Read More
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- Website: https://www.fremonttrollsknoll.org/
Strings
Donnet Johnson, Mary
Year Grant Awarded: 2024
A captivating vision of three generations of Vermont women whose relationship to our planet is a love letter to the little things. This deceptively simple story aims to powerfully inspire its audiences to honor the earth and perform even small acts of rescue that could reap big benefits. Read More
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- Website: www.marydonnetjohnson.com
From Trash to Treasure: Bagaceira Workshops in Miami
Steketee, Julia
Year Grant Awarded: 2024
With Puffin’s support, Bagaceira brought its mission to Miami: transforming sugarcane waste into sustainable design. Through hands-on workshops, Julia Steketee and Igor Barboza created space for participants to explore circular economy concepts and experiment with bio-based materials. Read More
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- Website: https://www.bagaceira.org/co-lab
FACE-ADE: THE HUMAN LANDSCAPE
Freedman, Nina
Year Grant Awarded: 2024
An iconic home facade, transformed from an opaque threshold into a translucent wall, is embedded with diverse hair waste, sourced from local hair salons. FACE-ADE is about thresholds, borders, home and the neighborhoods we live in. How we, in our differences, live together. Read More