Grantees All Years

I (heart) Jack LaLanne: A Cartoon Memoir

Erickson, LeAnn

Year Grant Awarded: 2021

The filmmaker, a Lesbian, feminist, baby boomer, shares her coming out story with the help of fitness guru Jack LaLanne. Read More

Borderless

Estevez, Nicolas Dumit

Year Grant Awarded: 2009

Beginning in 2008 I traveled from my home in the South Bronx to my birthplace in Santiago de los Treinta Caballeros, Dominican Republic in order to trace and confirm any roots that I may possibly have to the neighboring Republic of Haiti. Read More

Florasonic

Experimental Sound Studio

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Ongoing since 2001, Florasonic is the longest-running sound installation commissioning program in the U.S. Florasonic invites musicians and artists to create four-channel compositions for installation in Chicago's Lincoln Park Conservatory Fern Room. Read More

Film: “The Power of Dreaming Small” (2014)

Fair Trade Teaneck

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

An investigation of free and fair trade practices in the global south and the inspiration the fair trade movement offers to students at Teaneck High School (New Jersey). Read More

FUNDING THE ARTS

Felice Lesser Dance Theater

Year Grant Awarded: 2010

Felice Lesser’s multi-media (dance/theater/computer animation/video) satire about the lack of funding for the arts in this country. Read More

The Ultimate Stimulus: Now More Than Ever

Felipe Ossa

Year Grant Awarded: 2021

Renegade economist Amanda McCloud has a solution to wealth inequality: a modern-day, pansexual version of concubinage. And she’s got a video to walk us through her plan, rife with socio-economic anxiety, awkward sex and some very eligible billionaires. Read More

Invasion

Ferara, Eileen

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

Invasion is a print-based installation and book art project inspired by a single seedpod known as Devil’s Head Pods. The plant is a non-native invasive species to North America. Exhibited at gaia studio gallery, the work aims to promote contemplation of the fragility of balance in the environment. Read More

‘A Study of Form in Light and Shadow’

Figura, Gregg

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

'A Study of Form in Light and Shadow' is an active metaphor which embodies the environmental and societal changes we experience in a world that is in a constant state of change through… natural chaos. Chaos, is a complex state of order which is experientially rational and irrational - simultaneousl Read More

Climate Change… the future is TODAY!

Figura, Gregg

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Anthropomorphic (man-made) Climate Change is the greatest disaster that threatens man’s existence today. What we as a global community do or don’t do will affect the very existence of mankind and all ‘life’ on this planet. We are the FUTURE… and the future is TODAY! Read More

Amazonomachy

Fillenwarth, Bonnie

Year Grant Awarded: 2010

I linked the ancient Amazon women who would amputate a breast in order to better shoot a bow and arrow to the modern day fight against breast cancer. A portion of the sales went to local breast cnacer research. Read More