Grantees All Years
Ouroboros
Miller, Michelle A M
Year Grant Awarded: 2022
“Ouroboros'' is my ongoing series of drawings on recycled handmade paper that I embed with crushed oyster shells, ash, charcoal and graphite. Their abstract imagery traces energy flows, follows photons and re-imagines the subatomic particles of which all matter is composed. Read More
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- Website: https://www.mammiller.com
It Takes a Village
Minnerly, Denise
Year Grant Awarded: 2011
Where we live is fundamental to our human identity and our overall well being. Our dwellings represent us in an economic and social setting. My exploration using the home as a metaphor, for the last twenty years, has been to address these very issu Read More
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- Website: deniseminnerly.com
Direct Route
Minty, Pam
Year Grant Awarded: 2015
Direct Route observes a blind woman navigating her domestic surroundings, presented alongside landscape images and the retelling of memories prior to losing her vision. Read More
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- Website: http://www.pamminty.com/films/direct-route/
MIRA Annual Art Exhibit
Missouri Immigrant & Refugee Advocates
Year Grant Awarded: 2012
Welcoming Missouri, an initiative of Missouri Immigrant and Refugee Advocates, as part of Welcoming America, a national campaign to build mutual respect and cooperation between foreign-born and US-born communities, engages immigrant and welcoming com Read More
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- Website: http:/www.welcomingamerica.org
Musical for Women
ML Droz / Ayil Arts
Year Grant Awarded: 2009
In accordance with the values of Jewish tradition, this production accommodates Sabbath laws and the need for women-only performance setting. The original script with music follows the lives and struggles of 7 women in the orthodox Jewish community. Read More
Eyes on Oakland
Mobile Arts Platform (MAP)
Year Grant Awarded: 2015
Through the journalistic lens of community surveillance, this participatory research project and resulting social sculpture investigated ways in which Oakland communities are changing because of new economic pressures. Read More
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- Website: http://mobileartsplatform.wordpress.com
Harmit Singh’s War
Mohaiemen, Naeem
Year Grant Awarded: 2022
Harmit Singh was trained as an architect but left transnational projects in Kenya in the mid-60s to become a photojournalist in India. One of his most famous projects was on the “discovery” of Black Ethiopian Jews for National Geographic. This project looks at his departure from photojournalism. Read More
Invasive Species Sculpture Project
Moll, Gerry
Year Grant Awarded: 2015
In this public participatory workshop, participants remove invasive plants from workshop grounds. This plant material is woven, tied, and bound together to create invasive species sculptures. Participants then ‘invade’ the grounds via careful install Read More
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- Website: http://www.gerrymoll.com
Labor Day Sunflower Project
Moll, Gerry
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
A participatory installation celebrating our collective work. Thousands of sunflowers are woven together into a massive circle of flowers. Each flower denotes individual efforts while the circle of flowers represents our combined effort for the year. Read More
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- Website: http://labordaysunflower.com
I Am, I Will, I’m Afraid (Wellsville)
Molloy, Traci
Year Grant Awarded: 2015
I Am, I Will, I’m Afraid (Wellsville) is a collaborative print made with 14 rural, disenfranchised youth utilizing photographic and digital processes. The figure does not exist - it’s a constructed composite made by layering individual portraits. Read More
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- Website: http://www.tracimolloy.com