Grantees All Years

Early Career Artists

Orion Magazine

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

Deemed by the Boston Globe "America’s finest environmental magazine," Orion has received several Puffin grants. Ad-free and artistically presented, Orion produces print and digital editions that address the most pressing environmental issues. Read More

Rear view

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Dorothea Osborn explored the history of whiteness in her own family going back to her first paternal settler in 1637 Each of the 6 panels in Osborn's fabric installation, Rear View, represents a different generation and their economic/social status of the artist's family. Read More

Map of Water Project

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

With a fascination for maps, the concept of mapping, and a deep sense of environmental changes, artist Susan Osgood began a series of monotype prints, paintings and drawings seeking to find and document the very essence of water. Read More

The Hebrew Lesson

Ouray, Esther

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

A rite of return about the Right of Return, The Hebrew Lesson is an hour long one-woman play, written and performed by Esther Ouray, with live music by composers and musicians Tim O’Keefe, Maryam Yusefzadeh and Greg Herriges, and directed by Zaraawar Read More

Out of Bounds Radio Show

Out of Bounds Radio Show

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

The Out of Bounds Radio Show, now heading into its ninth year, is a 30-minute public affairs/arts interview show that airs on three NPR affiliates and one community radio station (WEOS, NY; WSKG,NY; WRNC,WI; KKRN,CA), and is independently produced in Read More

Greg Palast

Palast, Greg

Year Grant Awarded: 2010

Greg Palast’s reporting team investigated crucial, difficult stories for BBC TV, Democracy Now! Rolling Stone and In These Times: vote suppression, vulture finance attacks on Africa, oil pollution in the Amazon and the Deepwater Horizon blow-out. Read More

The Purge: Vanishing America’s Minority Voters – Palast Investigative Fund

Palast Investigative Fund

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

Greg Palast and his team uncover vote theft, through undercover investigative journalism, documenting the crimes for film and print with support from the Puffin Foundation. Read More

Jeremy Danneman and Sophie Nzayisenga

Parade of One

Year Grant Awarded: 2016

In 2017, Jeremy Danneman and Sophie Nzayisenga released their collaborative album, Honey Wine, with famed bassist William Parker and percussionist Tim Keiper. The album has been very well-received in the press, and the group has been invited to perform at the 2021 Krakow Jewish Culture Fest. Read More

A Girl Mad as Birds (Nellie Bly and the Lunatic’s Ball)

Parry, Cheryl

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

This installation of portraits, poetic objects, preserved bird skins, nests and text explores the commonly belief in 19th century psychiatry that women were predisposed to madness. Journalist Nellie Bly’s exposé, Ten Days in a Madhouse, shed light on their misdiagnosis and horrific treatment. Read More

Passage Theatre Company

Passage Theatre Company

Year Grant Awarded: 2006

Passage Theatre Company received a grant from the Puffin Foundation to support two public performances of Vince de Mura’s new electronic sonic symphony, “For Lost Words.” Inspired by the Pulitzer Prize winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa’s, Vietnam opus, Read More