Grantees All Years

Breaking the Cycle of Youth Vandalism Through Beautification
Arts to Grow
Year Grant Awarded: 2015
Arts to Grow students ages 6 and up living in Lincoln Park Apartments in Newark worked with visual arts TA Catt Melendez to create a mural celebrating their neighborhood. Read More
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- Website: http://www.artstogrow.org

Paid, art and skill-building internships for teens
ArtWorks for Milwaukee
Year Grant Awarded: 2017
“I developed a stronger sense of responsibility and a more positive outlook on my community.” That’s what one ArtWorks’ high school intern said about their internship. Thirty-four teens not only earned income, but explored their creativity, helped the community, and developed transferable job skil Read More
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- Website: www.artworksformilwaukee.org

Nurse Asistio: Living the Filipino American Dream
Asistio, Lesley
Year Grant Awarded: 2016
Nurse Asistio is about a Pilipina woman, who in an attempt to fulfill her mother’s hopes for her to become a nurse, tries to attain the American Dream while still staying true to her roots. This multi-character, surrealist-comedy explores dreams, happiness, relationships, and self-actualization. Read More

Aliza Augustine-Photographic Constructions
Augustine, Aliza
Year Grant Awarded: 2012
Aliza Augustine’s series of photographs entitled Playing Grown Up and Is It Safe are narratives using miniature dolls. The Puffin Grant helped pay for printing and mounting photographs for a solo show at the Monmouth Museum in Lincroft, Read More
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- Website: http://www.alizaaugustine.com

Where You From? What You Be About?
Avilés, Eric
Year Grant Awarded: 2016
"Where You From? What You Be About?" is an autobiographical play addressing issues of poverty, racism, and gun violence, and the need for healing. Read More
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- Website: http://www.ericaviles.com/

E Pluribus Unum: Dinétah
Axle Projects
Year Grant Awarded: 2016
This free mobile portrait studio was in locations on and near the Navajo Nation for two weeks, creating over 800 photo portraits. One copy of each was distributed to each participant; another was pasted to the exterior of the gallery-studio. Read More
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- Website: https://www.axleart.com/epu-dinetah

In the Fields of the North / En los campos del norte
Bacon, David
Year Grant Awarded: 2017
In the Fields of the North tells the story of the migration, grinding poverty yet vibrant culture of indigenous Mexican farmworkers on the Pacific Coast. Read More
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- Website: http://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com/

Hands up Dis/Unity Make This Not Us Against Them aka Border Conjure Dazzle
Baker-Tarpaga, Esther
Year Grant Awarded: 2015
A performance installation created by an interdisciplinary team united to confront racism through art. Read More
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- Website: http://www.btdanceproject.com

Monkey Chant for the Catskill Mountains
BALAM Dance Theatre
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
A 12 day arts-in-education workshop for 40 school children, ages 6-12 from the Hunter-Tannersville, NY communities on Balinese culture and the Kekcak (Monkey Chant). This project concluded with a full company performance incorporating the kids. Read More
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- Website: http://balamdancetheatre.blogspot.com/

Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy (2014)
Baltimore Annex Theater
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
This reinterpretation of one of the eight model Beijing Operas of the Chinese Cultural Revolution emphasized how propaganda can be exciting and engaging. Read More
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- Website: http://www.baltimoreannextheater.org