Grantees All Years

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Wi-Moto Nyoka
Year Grant Awarded: 2012
A series of twenty to thirty Webisodes will culminate into a staged motion comic with new works by the Hip Hop collective Community Education. The project brings the motion comic to life, merging its digital avatar with a live production. Read More
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- Website: https://www.wi-motonyoka.com/

The Sebastopol Siege
Wilcox, Mimi
Year Grant Awarded: 2019
On the night of March 2nd, 1973, Michaela Madden, a recently widowed mother of 5, was held hostage for 8 hours in her rural California home — and subsequently vilified by her community. A documentary film. Read More
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- Website: https://www.mimiwilcox.com/sebastopol-siege

Perform La Femme
Wilkerson, Angilee
Year Grant Awarded: 2018
Perform La Femme features the self-portraits of Jana Perez and Angilee Wilkerson. The artists enact roles; performing in partnership to create a stage where cultural ideals are deconstructed and experiential knowledge of female identity is empowered. Read More
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- Website: http://www.performlafemme.com

Prison Arts Project
William James Association
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
WJA's Prison Arts Project is dedicated to providing hands-on fine arts to prisoners. Participation in the arts has been proven to significantly and positively effect self-esteem, discipline, social skills and potential for success outside of prison. Read More
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- Website: http://williamjamesassociation.org/prison_arts/

“Egg Cream”
Willow Pond Films
Year Grant Awarded: 2017
The beloved chocolate soda drink, born in immigrant neighborhoods at the turn of the 20th century, is explored in this short film about a simple beverage and its meaning to generations of Jewish Americans. Read More
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- Website: willowpondfilms.com

“Refugee Kids: One Small School Takes on the World”
Willow Pond Films
Year Grant Awarded: 2017
A short documentary about students at a New York City summer program for children seeking asylum from the world’s most volatile conflicts. Read More
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- Website: https://refugeekidsfilm.com/

SOSÚA: MAKE A BETTER WORLD
Willow Pond Films
Year Grant Awarded: 2012
The story of Jewish and Dominican teenagers in New York City’s Washington Heights, who together with the legendary theater director Liz Swados, put on a musical about the Dominican Republic's rescue of 800 Jews from Hitler’s Germany. Read More
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- Website: https://sosuafilm.com/

Crossing Paths
Wilson, Tona
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
Crossing Paths is a four-channel stop-action animated video in which figures emerge from “clippings” from newspapers and other documents that deal with immigration and migration, and interact with one another across four screens. Read More
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- Website: http://tonawilson.com

Reverence
Windsor, Duke
Year Grant Awarded: 2022
In my exhibition “Reverence”, all things in life are beautiful. I believe that this is where my paintings of ordinary subjects manifest themselves, on a deeper level. My use of Gold leaf is used to evoke the feeling of reverence feeling towards the serenity of the narrative subject. Read More
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- Website: www.dukewindsor.com

IMPulse
Womxn Who Print
Year Grant Awarded: 2019
An exhibition gathering womxn printers across the US to create a collective response to the prompt of “impulse”. Read More
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- Website: https://womxnwhoprint.wixsite.com/womxn