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
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- Website: http://www.orionmagazine.org
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
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- Website: https://www.dorotheaosborrn.com
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
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- Website: www.susanosgood.com
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
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- Website: http://thehebrewlesson.wordpress.com/
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
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- Website: www.outofboundsradioshow.com
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
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- Website: https://www.GregPalast.com
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
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- Website: GregPalast.com
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
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- Website: www.paradeofone.org
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
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- Website: www.cherylparry.com
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