Grantees All Years
I Can Only Imagine
Sklar, Hannah
Year Grant Awarded: 2019
Through mixed media ceramic sculptures and layered graphite drawings, I attempt to dismantle visual norms of social categorization, pertaining to the performance of gender. I utilize abstraction as a way to create an undefined spectrum of beauty—A boundless queer abstraction. Read More
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- Website: www.hannahsklar.com
The Anna Pierrepont Series (the Afterlife of Public Monument)
Skrill, Howard M.
Year Grant Awarded: 2021
The Anna Pierrepont Series (howardskrill,blogspot,com) that began in 2011, explores in plein-air drawings, pictorial essays and studio works on paper the role of public monuments in the erasure of public and private memory in addition to representations of monuments being actively erased. Read More
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- Website: howardskrill.blogspot.com
Hearts of Glass
Slow Food in the Tetons
Year Grant Awarded: 2017
A documentary about the tumultuous first 15 months of operation of Vertical Harvest, a state-of-the-art hydroponic greenhouse that provides local crops as well as employment for people with disabilities. Plants and people grow together in this intimate portrait of innovation, inclusion & community. Read More
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- Website: https://heartsofglassfilm.com/
Missing 411: Into the Void: The Movie
SlugFest Theatre
Year Grant Awarded: 2021
Missing 411: Into the Void is a constantly evolving interdisciplinary performance project that meditates on the subjects of disappearance. In this installment, vaudeville, horror, multimedia, music, and satire come together to tell the story of the disappearance of five best friends. Read More
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- Website: https://www.michaelgalligan.com/
Youth Jazz Legends Tribute
SONGBIRD MULTIMEDIA AND PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION
Year Grant Awarded: 2016
Thanks to the charitable efforts of the Puffin Foundation, Songbird Multimedia, and Performing Arts Foundation hosted a tribute to jazz legends to provide performing arts and educational opportunities for youth ages 6-11. Read More
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- Website: www.songbirdmultimedia.com
Farmworker Women in Western New York
Sorrentino, Joseph
Year Grant Awarded: 2006
Although the majority of farmworkers in the US are men from Latin America, in recent years, more women have started to work on farms. For this project, I documented the lives of Mexican women working on farms in western New York. Read More
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- Website: http://www.sorrentinophotography.com
Los Cafetaleros: The Coffee Growers
Sorrentino, Joseph
Year Grant Awarded: 2008
Some of the world’s best coffee is grown in the remote mountains of southern Mexico. I traveled to villages in the mountains of Oaxaca and Puebla to document what life is like for coffee growers, who typically earn just $2 a day. Read More
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- Website: http://www.sorrentinophotography.com
Fair Trade Coffee
Sorrentino, Joseph
Year Grant Awarded: 2010
Although coffee growers in the mountains of Oaxaca and Puebla in Mexico grow gourmet coffee that may sell for as much as $10 a pound, they typically earn about $2 a day. Fair Trade organizations pay farmers more for their coffee. I visited villages Read More
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Graniceros of Amecameca, Mexico
Sorrentino, Joseph
Year Grant Awarded: 2022
Graniceros are traditional Mexican shamans who perform ceremonies to control the weather, ceremonies that have remained essentially unchanged for hundreds of years. The ceremonies follow the agricultural cycle, taking place from February through November. Read More
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- Website: sorrentinophotography.com
Generación Perdida
Sosa, Jorge
Year Grant Awarded: 2022
Generación Perdida, based on the book by the Mexican poet, and journalist Javier Moro Hernandez, is a monodrama for mezzo-soprano about the more than 100,000 people who have been forcibly disappeared as a direct result of the futile war on drugs. Read More
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- Website: www.jorgesosa.com