Grantees All Years

Awaken the Imagination
Yeghiazaryan, Lusine
Year Grant Awarded: 2017
Awaken the Imagination was a collaborative effort between the artist and various NYP Library branches. It was a series of window displays featuring large paper sculptures depicting powerful imagery from books with socially conscious and educational messages intended to draw in younger people. Read More
- Email: lusinyegh@gmail.com
- Website: lucyjazznyc.com

365 Release Project
YK Hong
Year Grant Awarded: 2011
Giving away one thing each day for 1 year to create a practice of non-attachment, letting go, and change. Read More
- Email: ykart@ykhong.com
- Website: http://www.ykhong.com/365release

The Three Bears
Youth Stages LLC
Year Grant Awarded: 2012
The Three Bears, an interactive theatre experience for 3-5 year olds, was performed in three libraries along the New Jersey shore in communities adversely affected by Hurricane Sandy Read More
- Email: manager@youthstages.com
- Website: http://www.youthstages.com

Misread Signs
Yuliya Lanina
Year Grant Awarded: 2019
"Misread Signs" is a multimedia three channel installation. It explores the effects of trauma on human psyche. All images are hand painted and then animated on the computer. Each channel is projected onto the adjacent walls, creating a seamless immersive story. Read More

reefscollapse
Zallman, Toby
Year Grant Awarded: 2022
“reefscollapse” is a project that attempts to bring awareness to how we, as individuals, by the choices we make, contribute to climate change and the destruction of the earth’s ecosystems. The work addresses the catastrophe of the bleaching and collapse of the world’s coral reefs. Read More
- Email: zart@tobyzallman.com
- Website: tobyzallman.com

Air Quality Orange
Zamani, Eboni
Year Grant Awarded: 2022
Air Quality Orange is a docu-series and interactive map that takes an in-depth look at the environmental racism that Black and Latino communities have been facing throughout Philadelphia and how Black and Latino Philadelphians people are fighting for justice and working on environmental solutions Read More
- Email: ebonizamani@gmail.com
- Website: https://linktr.ee/ebzamani

Oh, The Guilt
Zargari, Shahab
Year Grant Awarded: 2021
Oh, The Guilt, is a coming-of-age film set in the 1990s featuring a Persian-American teen as the main character. The plot tackles death, and survivor’s guilt, elements of the human condition that transcend age, race, and creed. Read More
- Email: shahab@gcrecords.com
- Website: https://thinkspeak.org/oh-the-guilt/

Oh, The Guilt
Zargari, Shahab
Year Grant Awarded: 2021
Our short film, Oh, The Guilt, is a coming-of-age story set in the 1990s. Following the death of her best friend in a car crash, sixteen-year-old Sara is visited in her dreams by a middle-aged woman from the future bearing a terrifying message: It was actually Sara who perished in the accident. Read More
- Email: shahab@gcrecords.com
- Website: https://thinkspeak.org/oh-the-guilt/

Art exhibition in Isolation
Ziegler, Treacy
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
This is an art exhibition of my drawings directed towards individuals living in solitary confinement of prisons throughout the United States and sent to them through the mail. The second aspect will be an exhibition of their drawings in response. Read More
- Email: treacyziegler@yahoo.com
- Website: http://www.treacyziegler.com

OCEANIA: Journey to the Cente
Zimmerman, Natalie
Year Grant Awarded: 2022
OCEANIA begins at the center of the planet on a coral atoll — predicted to become uninhabitable by 2030 due to rising sea levels and temperatures brought by climate change. We journey with a mother and her adult son as they struggle to maintain their culture, freedom and independence. Read More
- Email: njzimmerman@sbcglobal.net
- Website: www.oceaniathefilm.com