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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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