Grantees All Years

WE HEAR YOU—A CLIMATE ARCHIVE

Cassidy, Caitlin

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

WE HEAR YOU—A CLIMATE ARCHIVE is a global performance project exploring youth perspectives on the climate emergency. Read More

Bugs, Trees and Me

Beresford, Madeleine

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

Families are introduced to insects, birds and plants that are struggling to live in our backyards and open spaces. Short puppet plays bring to life the plight of some of our local, endangered wildlife. The show raises awareness of steps we can take to help pollinators and native plants. Read More

Record and Distribute 3ɟutures for Trumpet and Orchestra to Advocate for Environmental Justice

Dalager, Jacob

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

With the help of a Puffin Foundation grant, I was able to record 3ɟutures for Trumpet and Orchestra, trumpet concerto about climate change, with Ming Luke and the Las Cruces Symphony Orchestra. The recording will soon be distributed to streaming services everywhere, elevating the cause of climate ju Read More

Hybrid Zones

Bacon, Rachel

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

Hybrid Zones is research project in the Pennsylvania anthracite coal mining region, exploring its damaged landscapes and social and ecological challenges. For an exhibition in Nov. 2025, I'm making large scale semi-sculptural graphite drawings and a publication on the region's many layers. Read More

Contemporary Floral Medicinal Elucidations from the Codex de la Cruz-Badiano

Amezkua, Blanka

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

Contemporary Floral Medicinal Elucidations from the Codex de la Cruz-Badiano celebrates the knowledge of Indigenous peoples, particularly their expertise with medicinal plants and their applications through the creation of 13 acrylic paintings. Read More

Earth Songs

West Michigan Choral Lab

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

Earth Songs by West Michigan Choral Lab featured music and art by living composers and artists from Michigan as well as pieces from diverse preexisting choral traditions and poetry to promote climate justice and sustainability. Read More

Green Card

Shah, Purvi

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

Green plays hide and seek in a tapestry of grey asphalt and brown buildings. A lack of trees means a dearth of places birds can call home. Read More

The Prisoner

Musiqa

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

In April 2025, Musiqa and Asia Society Texas Center present the world premiere of the chamber version of Karim Al-Zand’s The Prisoner, a gripping song cycle recounting Adnan Latif’s harrowing story of imprisonment, resilience, and injustice at Guantánamo Bay. Read More

Portraits of My People

Guglielmo, Mark

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

“Portraits of My People” honors my Southern Italian lineage while addressing the complexities of identity and the fraught nature of race-making in America through a series layered figurative works, based on archival images of my ancestors, that incorporate a diverse range of materials. Read More

Flight Lessons

Crooks, Deborah

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

"Flight Lessons" is a two-act, 17-song, six-character folk opera about Peregrine Falcons and humans living at the intersection of wild and urban habitats. The narrative follows the lives of a breeding pair of Peregrine Falcons and the humans with whom they interact after one of the birds is shot. Read More