Grantees All Years

Puppetry in Practice Stop-Motion Animation Artist Residency
Puppetry in Practice
Year Grant Awarded: 2015
Puppetry in Practice reaches approximately 20 NYC schools with its diverse arts-based and literacy-driven programming. More than half request Stop-Motion Animation or Film projects. This program improves digital literacy and creativity. Read More
- Email: tovaa@aol.com
- Website: puppetryinpractice.org

MIZARU ~see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil~
Purring Tiger/ Aaron Sherwood & Kiori Kawai
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
MIZARU is a dance performance with interactive multimedia and live music, exploring life and death, technology and the human body. Read More
- Email: info@purringt.com
- Website: http://www.purringt.com/mizaru

The Lazarus Rose
Rael, Christopher
Year Grant Awarded: 2011
Centuries-old Sephardic Jewish songs arranged and performed by contemporary world music chamber ensemble with instruments from India, Andalusia, Turkey, string orchestra and a chorus of soaring voices, a diasporic experience in the age of technology. Read More
- Email: raelsy@aol.com
- Website: www.chrisrael.com

Lee Baby
Raidt, Leah
Year Grant Awarded: 2023
Lee, a trans man, and his wife Charlie are smack dab in the middle of creating a family. Insecurities, hormone imbalances, loss of bodily autonomy, and the exhaustion of new parenthood test the limits of this resilient queer couple. Read More
- Email: lraidt@gmail.com
- Website: https://www.instagram.com/leebabyfilm/p/CwD2BH6PSrj/

A SHRINE FOR THE LOST: The Sixth Extinction
Raine, Lauren
Year Grant Awarded: 2022
A "Shrine" Installation, with accompanying book and video "Litany", to remember and name lost and vanishing species in the Sixth Extinction. "A Shrine for the Lost" was created for Dia de los Muertos (the Day of the Dead). Read More

Augmented
Rea, Raymond
Year Grant Awarded: 2023
“Augmented” (working title) is a short experimental animation incorporating traditional analog photography with digital animation techniques and digital editing to examine and educate about disability in a visceral way. Read More
- Email: prodcoor@gmail.com
- Website: https://raymondrea.com

Speakeasy (2014)
Reading Theater Project
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
Speakeasy is a play about Reading, Pennsylvania, during prohibition, from 1920-1933. It was written by Sue Lange and composed by Chris Heslop. The play took place in a speakeasy, a microcosm of the changes Reading and the whole country faced. Read More
- Email: vicki@readingtheaterproject.com
- Website: http://www.ReadingTheaterProject.com

The Jobs Project
RealLivePeople(in)Motion
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
"The Jobs Project" is an evening-length dance based upon interviews with 25 Philadelphians about their jobs: what they actually do at work, what they think about it and how it does/not relate to their sense of identity. Read More
- Email: gina.hochstall@gmail.com
- Website: http://www.rlpim.org/the-jobs-project.html

Be Black Baby: a House Party Presents
Recess Activties Inc.
Year Grant Awarded: 2011
Presented by Simone Leigh and Recess, it fostered group and individual exploration and dialogue through a series of performances and events that broke down and problematized racial and queer identity along with other conventions of cultural politics. Read More
- Email: info@recessactivities.org
- Website: http://www.recessactivities.org

Immigrants are not the enemy
Reed, Fran
Year Grant Awarded: 2017
Notary/Notaria, Translator/Truductora Fran Reed (843)7150123 calls, I've worked with immigrants 63 yrs & they help me .Their stories are in We Are Not The Enemy;We Come Only With Our Dreams (Amazon) I'm collecting immigrant photos for a book. ML888888@aol.com Read More
- Email: ML888888@aol.com