Grantees All Years

RED FATHER
Beck-Friedman, Tova
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
RED FATHER is the story of the rise and fall of Bernard Ades. It is the story of a Communist lawyer, from fighting for civil rights in the U.S. and against fascism in Spain, to the dark days of the blacklist that ended his stellar career. Read More
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- Website: http://tbfstudio.com/red_father.html

Bell, Beverly
Bell, Beverly
Year Grant Awarded: 2006
Writer/Activist Beverly Bell of Albuqueque, NM received a Puffin grant for a book which addresses the inequality, poverty and environmental degradation fostered by economic globalization. The project highlights fourteen case studies and focuses on Read More

Intermarried
Ben-Zion, Yael
Year Grant Awarded: 2012
“Intermarried” explores the notion, and questions the implications, of intermarriage. I initiated the project by sending a message to my New York neighborhood’s online parent group inviting couples who define themselves as ‘mixed’ to participate. Read More
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- Website: http://www.yaelbenzion.com

Gridlines
Benedict, Bremner
Year Grant Awarded: 2010
Gridlines images are of electrical towers and lines stretching across open spaces in the American West. These photographs unsettle the viewer’s preconceptions of reality, by revealing patterns of beauty within a subject culturally regarded as ugly. Read More
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- Website: http://www.bremnerbenedict.com

Dryland Water (2014)
Benedict, Bremner
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
Natural springs, a vital origin of life in the desert, dammed river reservoirs, and dry lakebeds exist as oases in the American Southwest’s deserts. My photographs combine B&W and color to emphasize the life and death the struggle through time of dim Read More
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- Website: http://www.bremnerbenedict.com

Beauty & (Im)Balance ~ Quarantine Backyard Mandalas
Bennett, Maureen
Year Grant Awarded: 2022
My backyard woodland is my art laboratory within the greater context of the global climate crisis. Biodiversity is changing due to proliferation of invasive plants which crowd out native ones that have thrived for millennia. I want to bring environmental awareness and create beauty out of chaos. Read More
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- Website: https://www.maureenbennett.com

Ghana Mural Project
Bergart, Andrea
Year Grant Awarded: 2011
The Ghana Mural Project combined my own artistic language with Ghanaian patterns to create a neighborhood mural celebrating and providing color and cultural enrichment to a neglected and impoverished neighborhood. Read More
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- Website: www.andreabergart.com

Expansion of the Performing Arts School (formerly known as beyondEDUCATION)
Bergen Performing Arts Center (bergenPAC)
Year Grant Awarded: 2012
bergenPAC received a grant to support the expansion of its beyondEDUCATION program, specifically the beyondTHEATER initiative. beyondTHEATER was created to provide students with instruction and performance opportunities in musical theater and drama. Read More
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- Website: http://www.bergenPAC.org

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and How It Changed Everything??
Berger, Susan L
Year Grant Awarded: 2015
I created a middle three large panels giving the history of women who worked in the factories and the 1909 strike of women marching and then to the horrific fire at the shirtwaist factory and death of 146 mostly women and the viewer becomes witness. Read More
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- Website: http://www.susanlberger.com

Berks Opera Orchestra Training (BOOT Camp)
Berks Opera Workshop
Year Grant Awarded: 2012
BOOT camp is a two-day intensive rehearsal/workshop experience which brings together instrumental teachers and young players. The students are prepared to play in the Berks Opera Workshop orchestra during our summer performance. Read More
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- Website: http://www.Berks Opera Workshop.org