Grantees All Years

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

FROM PAGE TO STAGE- A CARIBBEAN JOURNEY- A Tribute to Trinidadian Playwright Zeno Obi Constance
Banana Boat Productions
Year Grant Awarded: 2018
On Monday December 10, 2018, Banana Boat Productions brought together an ensemble comprised of some of New York's best known Caribbean American actors to pay tribute to one of the region's most iconic playwrights, Zeno Obi Constance The event was called, “From Page to Stage- A Caribbean Journey” Read More
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- Website: www.bananaboatproductions.org

Disputed Territories (2014)
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
An interdisciplinary theater/literary project exploring disputed territories around the world. Read More
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- Website: http://www.truthandreconciliationcommission.com/

Bike Shop The Musical
Barkan, Elizabeth
Year Grant Awarded: 2012
Bike Shop is a one woman musical by Elizabeth Barkan, directed by Gretchen Cryer. It is the story of a Brooklyn bicycle store and its owner, Bobby, Two years after a tragic bike accident she tries to get back on her bike and get her own life in gear. Read More
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- Website: http://bikeshopmusical.com/index.htm