Grantees All Years

Boston Don’t Dump
Allen, Jane Ingram
Year Grant Awarded: 2011
For the “Boston Don’t Dump” project Jane created a new series of handmade paper artworks focused on the environmental issue of clean water and urban runoff and pollution of Boston’s waterways. Read More
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- Website: http://www.janeingramallen.com

Lights & Shadows
Allen, Francie
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
I created a sculpture installation made of life size dancing figures in wire netting, with theatre lights shining on them to form an environment of shadows. Located in downtown Bellingham, WA, opening night featured local dancers doing shadow play. Read More
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- Website: http://www.francieallen.com

“The Power of Good Will: African Americans and Jews together for Civil Rights”
Alliance of Ethics & Art Inc.
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
Interviews with Blacks and Jews who fought for equality, North and South—even risking death--are powerful evidence of what Eli Siegel, founder of the education Aesthetic Realism, identified: "the force of ethics” working in people throughout history. Read More
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- Website: http://www.allianceofethicsandart.org

Enduring Alliances: Jewish Refugee Scholars & Black Colleges in the South
Alliance of Ethics and Art, Inc.
Year Grant Awarded: 2019
Original research/interviews reveal how Black colleges in the segregated South (1930s-60) saved the lives of Jewish Refugee Scholars and their families from the Nazi Holocaust by offering them jobs, after US quotas were met. These Enduring Alliances continue today. Read More
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- Website: www.Allianceofethicsandart.org, www.Allianceofethicsandart.net

Land Use Intervention Library
Almeida, Nora
Year Grant Awarded: 2022
Land Use Intervention Library is part of an ongoing project about land use, climate change, and self-determination based in Gowanus, Brooklyn. The library exist(s)ed temporarily as two site-specific public performances and permanently as a handmade catalog, video, and collection of ephemera. Read More
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- Website: https://noraalmeida.com/land-use-intervention-library/

A Journey of Conditional Love
Alston, Laura
Year Grant Awarded: 2017
Multimedia collage series highlighting the cultural identities of West Indian people and their influence across the diaspora. Read More
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- Website: lauraalston.com

Table Alchemy
Amber Art and Design
Year Grant Awarded: 2015
Table Alchemy advocates for food equity and addresses the lack of access to fresh produce within low income neighborhoods. Read More
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- Website: www.amberartanddesign.com

“If I Had a Trillion Dollars” Youth Film Festival
American Friends Service Committee - IHTD Film Festival
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
The "If I Had A Trillion Dollars" youth film festival asks youth ages 23 years old and younger, “If YOU had the power to choose, how would you spend 1 trillion dollars? What could that money do for your family, for your community?" Read More
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- Website: http://ihtd.org

Labor Arts Program (2014)
American Labor Museum/Botto House National Landmark
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
Labor Art classes for students grades 3-5 are held on Saturdays at the American Labor Museum to introduce children to the story of immigrants and the labor movement,then & now, as a means of inspiration to create performing and visual arts projects. Read More
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- Website: http://www.labormuseum.net

Labor Arts Program
American Labor Museum/Botto House National Landmark
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
Labor Art classes for students grades 3-5 are on Saturdays at the Museum. Classes introduce students to the history and contemporary issues of immigrants and the labor movement, as a means of inspiration to create visual & performing arts projects. Read More
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- Website: http://www.labormuseum.net