2011 MCAF Grantees: Visual Art
- Andrea Arroyo
- Flor de Tierra, an exhibition consisting of hundreds of drawings paying homage to the 400 women murdered in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
- Art Connects New York
- ACNY Manhattan Art Placement Program, a collaboration between emerging NYC-based artists and curators with social service organizations to create compelling, permanent installations that inspire reflective dialogue for the agencies' visitors, staff, clients and public.
- Art for Change
- Art Belongs to Everyone, a multi-disciplinary exhibition and workshop program that engages the community both in the creation of art and in the curatorial process.
- Elvira Clayton
- Telling Herstory, a collaborative art project that works with members of Harlem's senior citizen community to create an art installation, culminating with a free exhibition at a Harlem venue.
- Katherine Daniels
- Veil Veil, a large scale, site-specific, installation in the chashama Donnell Windows constructed of black netting, ribbon, and plastic scraps. At night it projects a garden of shadows onto the sidewalk creating a scene from a shadow play.
- Elizabeth Felicella
- Reading Room, a catalog of New York City's Branch Libraries Reading Room, a video projection about the city's branch libraries that will run for six weeks in the windows of the former Donnell Branch Library in Midtown.
- Felipe Galindo
- Used/Reused, thirty mixed media works using disposable materials to depict everyday life scenes.
- Rebecca Hackemann
- Visionary Sightseeing Binoculars, eight altered sightseeing binoculars containing stereoscopic images of the past and future of that site to be installed in unlikely places that have traditionally been underserved by public art.
- Harlem Needle Arts, Inc.
- The Blossom of Fiber Art, a public art exhibition which features the work of community fiber and needle artists who construct works through the mediums of crochet, knitting, felting, quilting and weaving.
- Eunjung Hwang
- 976 Characters, a one person exhibition in Manhattan featuring character based drawings, animations and balloon sculptures.
- Amanda Levi
- Harvest Dome, a floating public artwork constructed of found storm-snapped umbrellas and assembled into a giant light-gauge spherical dome set to float on the waters of Inwood Hill Park inlet as a physical revelation of the city's accumulated waste.
- Michelle McGlown
- Projects Under Construction, a large-scale mixed media portrait and workshop series focusing on the human experience of growth, change and development.
- Tequila Minsky
- Haiti = Survival, an photographic exhibition and tribute to Haiti since the earthquake accompanied with written commentary and quotes describing the Haitian reality from minutes and days after the earthquake to the days and months following it.
- NYCSALT
- A Still Photography Documentary Project of Washington Heights, a 20-week digital photography workshop for underserved latino teenagers in Washington Heights resulting in a printed book of photographs and two gallery shows.
- South Asian Women's Creative Collective
- 14th annual South Asian Women's Visual Artists' Show which includes a contemporary arts exhibit and panel on themes elaborated in the show, all featuring a combination of emerging and established South Asian female visual artists.
- Heather G. Stoltz
- Temporary Shelter, an installation piece with fiber art walls that tell the personal stories of homeless New York men, women and children, traveling to five churches and synagogues in Manhattan in the fall and winter of 2011 and 2012.
- Tuesday Evening Hour, Inc.
- Spring 2011, a presentation of twenty-two artists in an ongoing series of slide lecture programs.
- Rico Washington
- We the People: The Citizens of NYCHA in Pictures and Words, a critical photojournalism project focusing on current and former residents of New York City's housing projects.
