Grantees All Years
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I Said I Would Never Paint This Way Again
Lowdown Entertainment
Year Grant Awarded: 2010
I SAID I WOULD NEVER PAINT THIS WAY AGAIN is a documentary that tells the story of five American Indian artists, the Urban Indian 5 (UI5), and their unique partnership through art. Read More
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- Website: http://www.lowdown-entertainment.com
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Goddess On Earth: Women of Essex County, A Multi-Media Installation by Lisa Levart
Luna Stage
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
Award winning photographer Lisa Levart's ongoing multi-media installation that celebrates the strength and self-esteem of contemporary women and girls by photographing them portraying ancient archetypes and sacred myths. Read More
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- Website: http://www.goddessonearth.com
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Mels Love Land
Lutz, Melanie
Year Grant Awarded: 2019
A loving docu-series that asks the question..."WHAT IF all your thoughts were loving? Using 21st Century media and spiritual technology Melanie develops a new language, a high vibratory broadcast in coherence with our collective heart, baring witness to a world of love. Read More
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- Website: https://www.melsloveland.com/
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Birders
Lynn Cazabon
Year Grant Awarded: 2016
Birders is an ongoing series of photographs focused on birdwatchers living in large urban centers. My interest is in capturing the complex relationship between people and wildlife, as well as the social ecosystem of the activity of birdwatching itself. Read More
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- Website: http://lynncazabon.com
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Living Concert Series
Mad haPPy
Year Grant Awarded: 2012
The Sustainable Living Concert Series, now shortened to Living Concert Series was actually inspired by the stated purpose of the Puffin and Puffin West Foundations in the funding of projects that use Art to cultivate a progressive cultural vision. Read More
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- Website: http://www.madhappy.com
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Making Contact Media Justice Fellowship
Making Contact
Year Grant Awarded: 2010
Making Contact produces media that analyzes critical issues and showcases grassroots solutions, in order to inspire audiences to action. Read More
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Undue Influence: the power of Police and Prison Guards’ Unions
Making Contact/ National Radio Project
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
Puffin Foundation supported the production and distribution of an edition of Making Contact investigating the undue influence of police and prison guards’ unions. MC’s radio documentary series can be heard on 141 stations and at www.radioproject.org Read More
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No Mercy Art Exhibition:An Exploration of farm Animal Cruelty
Mara, Lefebvre
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
The No Mercy Art Exhibition project is a mixed media art installation of multiple small scale sculptures created by Mara Lefebvre with additional sculptures crafted by members of the community. The exhibition, lectures by animal advocates and hands Read More
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- Website: http://www.artspire.org
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OPHELIA
Marcin, Nadja Verena
Year Grant Awarded: 2018
“OPHELIA” is an architectural performance and video sculpture that draws from the Shakespearean character and Millais’s homonymous painting (1851-52) and re-imagines this mythical character within the framework of gender inequality and climate change. Read More
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- Website: http://www.nadjamarcin.com/
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Bang! Bang!
Margi Weir
Year Grant Awarded: 2017
“Bang! Bang!” is the title of a traveling solo exhibition that dealt with gun violence, social justice and systemic racism. It consisted of four to six installation works and three paintings that traveled to Coastal Carolina University, St. Louis Community College (Ferguson) and Tulsa Oklahoma. Read More
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- Website: www.margiweir.weebly.com