2009 MCAF Grantees: Visual Art
- Artists Unite, Inc.
- To support a series of visual art exhibitions in Washington Heights/Inwood in unique public spaces, including MTA elevators and business district streets.
- Karen Bausman
- To support a four-week exhibition called Envisioning the Wall, consisting of drawings, cut-paper assemblages and maquettes, with two gallery lectures to introduce future plans for a monumental sculptural re-contextualization of lower Manhattan’s long-lost topography.
- Paul Clay
- To support a series of 14 digital paintings on canvas, Chronicle of the Essex Street Market, to chart the sociocultural development of the Lower East Side through the story of the Essex Street Market.
- Susan Dessel
- To support the creation and presentation of a mixed media installation in the Lower East Side.
- Vickie Fremont
- To support an exhibition representing immigrants form African Nations in New York City titled RE...Re-Vival...Re-Construction...Re-Cycling-- A Celebration and Installation.
- Friends of 339
- To support an architectural competition, Peace Pentagon Competition: A Call to Action, that will culminate in a public exhibition at the building site.
- Felipe Galindo
- To support an art exhibition inspired by the intertwining of different cultures from all over the world in New York, All the World in Manhattan, featuring humorous watercolor drawings and a short animation.
- Edward Hillel
- To support the Harlem Heritage Documentary Project, a photography exhibition in Harlem.
- Matthew Jensen
- To support a six-month outdoor and online exhibition, Nowhere in Manhattan, that will turn construction-site paneling, scaffolding, and empty store fronts throughout Harlem and the Lower East Side into virtual green, open space.
- Karin Luner
- To support the presentation of four annual, 3-month long exhibitions of underrepresented artists of merit.
- Laura Nova
- To support a visual arts piece Crescendo, an automated praise-singing machine that is triggered at the completion of a race when a runner crosses the finish line to sing his/her name to the melody of Handel’s Hallelujah.
- Yoonhye Park
- To support a live visual art performance and installation, Bodies of Pyongyang, to take place in several public spaces in Manhattan.
- Tara Parsons
- To support an interactive public art project Not Without A Trace, culminating in a temporary street mural.
- Flash Rosenberg
- To support Conversation Portraits, a live illustration of ideas discussed during literary programs sponsored by “LIVE from the NYPL,” including raw notes, annotated panels for gallery display, animations for projection, as well as for posting on the web.
- David A. Scalza
- To support the 56th Street Mural Project, culminating in a completed mural on a 135’ wide x 11’ wall space at sidewalk level, between 9th & 10th avenues.
- Greg Smith
- To support Bearded, a project consisting of sculptures and videos focusing on a group of male characters trying to construct a beard cosmology.
- Michelle J. Smith
- To support a temporary public exhibition of 500 posters to be placed throughout the Lower East Side of Manhattan for one month.
- Claudia Vargas
- To support Teen Voices, a series of 10 three-hour workshops culminating with a public exhibition at the Manhattan Youth Community Center in Lower Manhattan.
- Hong-Ling Wee
- To support 10 new sculptures to be shown in an exhibition in Chinatown evoking the idea of the "first home."
- Jennifer Saya Woolfalk
- To support No Place, to be presented in three one-hour performances as part of PERFORMA 09 at the Studio Museum in Harlem.
- Tingting Xu
- To support a photography and video project culminating with an exhibition in Lower Manhattan in Summer 2008 and a potential exhibition in Chelsea in 2009.
