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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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