Grantees All Years

Watercolors of Majestic Trees-Awareness of Global Warming

Nappi, Ninetta

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

My watercolors of "Majestic Trees" were created for the purpose of Global Warming Awareness. A major concern in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, trees have the ability to absorb carbon dioxide, the gas most responsible for this greenhouse effect. Read More

Young Adult

Narrative Films

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

Striving to increase the inclusion of persons with disabilities in Hollywood, the short film YOUNG ADULT partners actors with disabilities with fellows from the American Film Institute to tell the story of two teenagers with Cerebral palsy who experience first love on the last night of summer camp. Read More

Jimmy!: A Musical Fable with Almost No Historical Basis (2014)

National Theatre for Student Artists

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

When the press discovers that Jimmy Carter spotted a UFO back in 1969, Jimmy must use his no-count brother Billy's time traveling beer to stop an intergalactic war. Jimmy! was created entirely by high school and college students from across the USA. Read More

Uprooted

Nazari, Zahra

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

Uprooted, a painting exhibition by Zahra Nazari is a spotlight on the lives of immigrants through the unique lens of Nazari’s abstract art style. Read More

Femmes: Residency/Performance Platform

New Dance Alliance

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Femmes: Residency/Performance Platform offers an unapologetic and in-depth forum to develop close dialogue and foster not only the production of highly original artistic work, but also the career development of female artists at different stages of t Read More

New Jersey Peace Action

New Jersey Peace Action

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

Peace Action is the nation's largest grassroots peace organization. It was founded as SANE (later to become SANE/Freeze) in 1957. The Northern New Jersey Affiliate, New Jersey Peace Action, is one of the nation's most active peace groups. Read More

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in Central Park, Prospect Park and Brooklyn Bridge Park

New York Classical Theatre

Year Grant Awarded: 2016

New York Classical Theatre presented a professional, Off-Broadway production of William Shakespeare’s classic comedy “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” on tour throughout Central Park, Rockefeller Park, Prospect Park, and Carl Schurz Park in June and July 2016--at no cost to our diverse, urban audiences. Read More

Incorrigibles

New York Foundation of the Arts

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

This transmedia project tells the stories of ‘incorrigible’ girls in the US over the last 100 years - beginning with NY State. Drawing on the personal narratives of young women in “the system” the work investigates the history and present state of juvenile justice and social service for girls. Read More

Jamaica Bay Pamphleteering Project

Nicholls, Sarah

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

My funded project included three letterpress printed publications on the history, ecology, and communities around Jamaica Bay in NYC, which were distributed to a mailing list of 150 people, as well as a walking tour and an artist talk. Read More

Off and Running

Nicole Opper

Year Grant Awarded: 2006

In her high school, Avery is known as the “black track star.” In her Brooklyn neighborhood she is the adopted daughter of white Jewish lesbians with an older Puerto-Rican brother and a younger Korean brother. At home she’s simply Avery. Now Avery is Read More

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