2008 MCAF Grantees: Visual Art
- Aaron Krach, Longer Periods of Happiness
- To support a four-week public art intervention throughout Manhattan, from Wall Street to Morningside Heights, during June, 2008.
- Alice Wells & Tara White, Wells and White Present the Cave of Wonder
- To support production of a collaborative installation in a vacant space/apartment in Lower Manhattan.
- Andrea Arroyo, Flor de Terra, An Homage to the Women of Juarez
- To support art exhibition, “Flor de Tierra, An Homage to the Women of Juarez” consisting of 400 drawings, created as an homage to the 400 women murdered in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, to be presented in multiple venues in Manhattan.
- Anonda Bell, Green Spaces
- To support an ephemeral art installation installed in ‘non-art’ spaces in East Harlem with a map showing the locations of artworks and the local community gardens.
- ArtSpirit Inc., Many Faces
- To support an exhibit of masks and full size collage portraits made by a local group of street artists
- Barrie Cline, Richard Alvarez, Frank Paske, ICONOCLASMS an exhibition of works by Barrie Cline, Richard Alvarez, and Cousin Frank
- To Support a three-person exhibition ICONOCLASMS, with the express goal of presenting our unusual perspectives together and drawing a uniquely diverse audience for art, whether it be held at Chahama’s midtown or at an alternative site in SoHo.
- Beth Dary, Equilibrium
- To support a public art installation of cast concrete and glass “bubbles” in Battery Park City’s Lily Pool, culminating in a show at the Battery Park City Parks Conservancy.
- Chang-Jin Lee, Comfort Women Wanted
- To support “Comfort Women Wanted,” a public art project involving billboards, poster-like prints at bus stops and phone booths around Downtown which brings to light the memory of the 200,000 women exploited as sex slaves in Asia during World War II, and increases awareness of sexual violence against women during wartime.
- Children's PressLine, Expressions of Youth Voices
- To support an exhibition featuring the Children’s PressLine artists whose work was published in Harlem’s Amsterdam News.
- Claudia Plaza, Cuentos
- To support six mixed-media collage pieces that will explore the evolution of personal and cultural identity of immigrants or children of immigrants, culminating in an exhibition in East Harlem.
- Cocolart, Bathroom Space
- To support a new space residency project, to use graffiti as an art tool to transform a school and creatively connect different organizations in bringing together community resources and use of public spaces in Washington Heights.
- Edward Cheng , Edward Cheng
- To support a project documenting through photography the diversity and changing community on Eldridge Street, culminating in an exhibition in spaces across the street.
- Elvira Clayton, Herstory/Mystory
- To support a Harlem-based community arts project that will culminate in a public exhibition.
- Felipe Galindo, Manhatitlan Codex
- To support the presentation of “Manhatitlan Codex,” an art exhibition and animated film, inspired by the intertwining of Mexican and American cultures in New York. The project features a series of humorous watercolor drawings and short animated film. It will be presented in various venues in Manhattan.
- Florencio Gelabert, Birth and Accumulations
- To support an interactive artwork developed with high tech media to be displayed for a 2-month period in Harlem.
- Hong-Ling Wee, Spaces a Virtue
- To support 10 new sculptures for a public art exhibition for the low-income immigrant Chinatown community showcasing secular spaces for prayers
- Humble Arts Foundation, Inc. , No. 2
- To support a two-week fine are photography exhibition in Chelsea, New York, NY.
- Jun Shuo Wu, The Art Exhibition of the Left Oppose Chinese Calligraphy
- To support for 3 days, in one long weekend, introductory an unique Chinese art in Chinatown.
- Karin Luner , Dietzspace
- To produce 4 annual 3-month long exhibitions of underrepresented artists of merit.
- Lahary Pittman, The Shifting Boundaries & Culture of Manhattan’s Lower East Side
- To support black and white documentary photography project culminating in a group show, a solo exhibit and outreach forums.
- Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center, The Center Show: Installations 2008
- To support the promotion and supplies for 10 artists featured in a three-month on-site multi-discipline visual art installation/exhibit at the Center.
- Michele Brody, Garden Sentinels
- To support a site-specific installation at the Chashama Art Gallery set to open in May 2008.
- Miriam Berkley, Hell’s Kitchen: Portrait of a Neighborhood
- To support the cost of painting, matting, framing, and promoting a show of 50 digital photographs of rapidly changing Hell’s Kitchen, the neighborhood in which I have lived for 25 years, and which I have been documenting artistically--with a wide range of images--for the last two or three years, a period of accelerating gentrification of the area.
- Nader Sadek, EXHUME TO CONSUME
- To support a solo exhibition about the liberation of warfare from human practice symbolically presented by combining a tree-trunk and car engines made out of petroleum resins, in The Michael Steinberg Fine Arts Gallery.
- Nicole Tammelleo, To Become American
- To support a photography and audio installaion.
- Oona Stern, reSurfacing - Station Domination
- To support a 1 month installation of poster in a Manhattan subway station.
- Peter Ferko, Boites du Bois
- To supporta mixed-media, public art installation in Washington Heights.
- Richard Sears, Pier 17 Hands-on Frottage: Recording History
- To support a week-long collaborative art project making a mural-size rubbing of paper of the pier surface at the outdoor entrance to Pier 17 Pavilion at South Street Seaport.
- Shen Wei, Almost Naked
- To support completing a long-term photography project, culminating with a limited edition photo book and exhibition.
- South Asian Women’s Creative Collective (SAWCC), 11th Annual Visual Arts Show
- To support eannual South Asian Women Visual Artists’ show including a contemporary arts exhibit, video screening event and panel on themes elaborated in the visual arts show.
- Susan J. Rosenberg, Conversation Portraits
- To support series of live “Conversation Portraits” (drawings with text) to illustrate over 20 discussions for “LIVE from the NY Public Library” to be displayed immediately in the lobby after each program and in an exhibition in the Library.
- Yasmine Soiffer, New Street
- To support a photographic series culminating in an exhibition on the Lower East Side.
