2010 Fund Grantees: Visual Art
- The CityKids Foundation
- A Positive Thought Cannot Be Denied: a collaboration between CityKids youth and visual artist Sheppard Fairey. The project will mobilize 150+ youth around the issue of creating personal and social change and culminate in a public presentation of the resulting artworks.
- Culture Push, Inc.
- ArtCraftTech (ACT 2010): a multidisciplinary program in which 5-10 practitioners come together from the fields of fine arts, craft-making, technology and science to create a final product in response to the question, “What surfaces can we use in the urban spaces that would be practical but more comfortable, attractive and environmentally sound than concrete asphalt?”
- Tara Parsons / New York City Audubon Society, Inc
- Not Without a Trace: an interactive public art project culminating in a temporary street mural.
- Society of Illustrators, Inc.
- EARTH: Fragile Planet: a nine-week exhibition showcasing 120 powerful works of art in a variety of media created by some of the world’s foremost illustrators on the subject of the environment and the issues we are presently facing. The exhibition is accompanied by an artist lecture and hands-on workshop for children at the Museum for American Illustration and a workshop for science teachers at Materials for the Arts.
- SOHO20 Artists Inc.
- Savoir-Faire: a three-week event of live performances promoting the work of emerging female performance artists.
- South Asian Women’s Creative Collective
- SAWCC’s 13th Annual Arts Show, featuring South Asian women artists from all visual arts disciplines curated into a group show based on common aesthetic and conceptual parameters. A panel discussion is being planned to coincide with the closing of the show.
