Grantees All Years

Jazz Age in the South: An African American Perspective

Tiffany Parks/DeKalb History Center

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

It was the 1920s, the Jazz Age. There were wild parties! And while Al Capone was busy unleashing violence upon Chicago, African Americans in Bible Belt Georgia were fighting racial, social, and political battles, thus transforming America in unexpected ways. Read More

Woof & Chirp

Tofu Riot

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

"Woof & Chirp" is an animated short film about a drifting bird named “Chirp” and a lonely dog named “Woof”. It is a story about loss and coping, and examines the displacement of the refugee and isolationism on a tiny coconut island. Read More

Shalom/Salaam: A Story of a Mystical Fraternity (2004)

Tom Block

Year Grant Awarded: 2005

The Shalom/Salaam Project highlights the strong Sufi influence on the development of Jewish mysticism, following this unfamiliar tale from 10th century in Spain, Egypt and the Holy Land, through the Kabbalah and into contemporary Jewish practice. Read More

The Last Gatekeeper

Toussaint, Germono

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

The Last Gatekeeper is a three-act, extended-reality (XR) enhanced, Afro-futurist, musical inspired by the teachings of West African shaman and scholar Malidoma Patrice Somé. Read More

Still, Life: A Photographic Journey Through Grief

Treanor, Sarah

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

"Still, Life" is a photographic self-portrait series exploring the transformative power of art during times of grief. Created by the artist resulting a death in her life, this project aims to raise awareness about the value of art and creativity in healing, both for the creator and the viewer. Read More

Deep Green: Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, Jackson County, Oregon, July 20, 2019

Tribe, Mark

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

Deep Green: Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, Jackson County, Oregon, July 20, 2019 is the second in a series of archival landscape films. Each recording is 24 hours long, shot in real time on a stationary camera, and exhibited in a loop. The Puffin funds were used for camera equipment rental. Read More

PerspectiveS: ROBESON, PAPA DOC, THE MASK IN THE MIRROR (2014)

TRILOGY: AN OPERA COMPANY

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

THREE DISTINCT OPERATIC PRODUCTIONS - PAUL ROBESON (ARTIST/ACTIVIST), THE HAITIAN DICTATOR FRANCOIS DUVALIER (PAPA DOC), AND POET PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR AND HIS WIFE ALICE RUTH MOORE, IN THE OPERA "THE MASK IN THE MIRROR". DONE WITH ORCHESTRA OR PIANO. Read More

An Everlasting Experience

Tully , Graciela

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

An Everlasting Experience was a live-streaming play with artists from Argentina, Chile, and the US to raise money and awareness for a poverty-stricken indigenous community, Los Wichis, in Argentina. Read More

Just AART

TWP-The Youth Movement

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Just AART (Artist, Activist, Relying on Technology) gives young people a chance to facilitate a unique community based program using music, spoken work and drama to make Public Service Announcements. Read More

Flower and Willow

Tze Chun Dance Company

Year Grant Awarded: 2011

Flower and Willow is a dance-art performance inspired by the truelife story of Sada Yakko, a Japanese geisha who greatly shaped Western perception of Japanese theater and dance at the turn of the century. Read More