Funding Circle: Grantees

2008-2009 Grantees

Art project

Funding Focus #1: Community Development

  1. Black Sheep Art Collective, Flagstaff, AZ blacksheepartcollective.com
    To support young Native artists to work with youth on cultural preservation and create a series of murals on Navajo reservations.

  2. We Got Issues, Brooklyn, NY wegotissues.org
    To support young women of color to participate in a year-long Leadership Institute that integrates performing arts, personal empowerment and socio-political awareness.

Funding Focus #2: Social Action

  1. Art in the Public Interest, Saxapahaw, NC communityarts.net
    To support a leading global website on community based arts to promote information exchange, research, and critical dialogue.

  2. EcoArts, Boulder, CO ecoartsonline.org
    To create a blended science/arts based model for communities around the country to address climate change and sustainability.

Funding Focus #3: Dialogue

  1. Toronto Playback Theatre, Toronto, Ontario torontoplayback.com
    To engage inner city youth, neighborhood groups and community facilitators in a dialogue about urban and environmental issues using improvisational theater.

  2. ArtCorps, Beverly, MA artcorp.org
    To support placement of 8 artists to work with local NGOs in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador to address issues of environmental degredation, public health, and women's and children's rights.