2022 – Current
Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grants
The Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grants supports environmental art projects led by women-identifying artists in the United States and U.S. Territories.
Recipients:
BEAM (Annie Chen, Zoe Lee, Ellen Fritz), Tidelands 2100: Coastal Futures Beyond Displacement, Rhode Island
Heidi K. Brandow, The Living Chart: Diné Knowledge for a Post-Extractive Future, Santa Fe, NM
Charlotte Brathwaite, Forgotten Paradise: The Meeting, Popenguine-Ndayane, Senegal
Chantal Calato, PLAY, Niagara County, New York
DeepTime Collective (Amanda Leigh Evans and Tia Kramer), When the River Becomes a Cloud / Cuando el río se transforma en nube, Prescott, WA
Earth Rise Collective, Earth Church, Vinton, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana
Erika Cohn (Director/Producer), Nicole Docta (Producer), This Was The Place, Salt Lake City, Utah
Susie Ganch, Radical Jewelry Makeover: Lending Library (RJM-LL), online in collaboration with the Museum of Art and Design
Madeline Gunderson, Untitled Monarch Butterfly Project, Estado de México, México
Herban Cura, Plants to the People, Hudson Valley and NYC
Tomiko Jones, These Grand Places, Madison, Wisconsin
Maryam Kazeem, The Future Protest, Lagos, Nigeria
Leilehua Lanzilotti, Moananuiākea, San Francisco, California
Sujin Lim, The Land, Dark and Muddy, Yeongheung Island, South Korea
Jemila MacEwan, Dead Gods, New York City, New York
Maria Hernandez May, Follow the Water, Barrigada, Guam
Jennifer Neptune (Penobscot) with Erin Hutton (Erin Hutton Projects), We Have Stories to Tell: Reclaiming the Penobscot Nation Museum as a Site of Cultural Continuance, Indian Island, Maine
Natalia Neuhaus, Greetings from Niagara, Niagara Falls, NY
Margaret Pearce, in collaboration with Prairie Island THPO and Ho-Chunk Nation Cultural Resources and The Anderson Center, Mississippi Dialogues, Mississippi River
Emily Raboteau, Voices from the Cross-Bronx Expressway, Bronx, NY
Zahra Rasool and Ariel Ritchin, Contamination, Hoosick Falls, New York
Tiare Ribeaux, Akakū – The Dreamer Awakens – Ola Hawai’i i ka Wai, Honolulu, Hawai’i
Cara Romero, Cultural Transmission Through Stories: When Animals Were People, Santa Fe, New Mexico and Chemehuevi Indian Reservation, California
LaRissa Rogers, subterranean convergence, Los Angeles, California
Virginia San Fratello, Smoke Screen, California
Nina Sarnelle, Breath Work, Los Angeles, California
Theresa Secord, Weaving a Legacy Through Climate Change, Farmington, Maine
Supermrin, FIELD [autoimmune], Brooklyn, New York and Cincinnati, Ohio
Xochipilli Collective, Milpa Movil, Houston TX – Harris County
Panelists:
Rehema C. Barber, Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
Clarinda Mac Low, Executive Director, Culture Push, Inc. & Co-Director, Works on Water
Dakota Mace (Diné), artist
Mari Robles, CEO at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Mary Ellen Strom, Professor of the Practice, Media Arts, SMFA-Tufts University, Boston, MA, U.S.
Recipients:
Ana Bessie Ratner, The Other Almanac, Brooklyn, NY
Yari Helfeld and Nami Helfeld, The Parade of Time, Orocovis, Puerto Rico
Tia-Simone Gardner, Chronotopophobias, Fairfield, Alabama
Emily Cohen Ibañez (Director/Producer), Orquídea, Colombia, South America
Koyoltzintli,Tinkui, Seven Acts for the beginning, end and beginning of time, Hudson Valley, New York
Petra Kuppers/Turtle Disco, Crip Drifts: Michigan, 4 sites in Michigan
Amy Kennedy, Vanishing Points: Words for Disappearing, The Gulf Coast of Louisiana
Dara Friedman, Sky Woman Women Project, Seneca Nation of Indians, Cattaraugus Indian Territory, Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne, Buffalo and Great Valley,New York
Director Roni Jo Draper, Co-Director Marissa Lila, Producer Jenn Lee Smith, Producer Nicole Docta, We Arrive With Fire | Ne-kah Nuue’m Mehl Mech, Weitchpec, Humboldt County, CA
brooke smiley & SOZO, EARTH.SPEAKS , Oklahoma & California
Colleen Thurston, Drowned Land, Oklahoma
Shayla Blatchford, The Anti-Uranium Mapping Project, Santa Fe, NM
Leila Mattina /Trama Antillana, Decolonizing Blue, Barrio Llano, Aibonito, Puerto Rico
Jenni Morello, Age of Loneliness, New York, New Jersey, California, Texas, Japan, Guyana, Alaska
Loren Waters and Rebecca Jim, ᏗᏂᏠᎯ ᎤᏪᏯ (Meet Me at the Creek) Project, Miami, Oklahoma
Hekima Hapa, Sew Green Fashion Camp, Brooklyn, New York
Victoria-Idongesit Udondian, Okrika’ Reclaimed!, Accra, Ghana
Dorchester Weather, The Lot Next Door, Boston, MA
Katie Baldwin Basile, Emily Schiffer, Lessons From Newtok, Mertarvik, Alaska and Provincetown, Massachusetts
Panelists:
Hannah Chalew, visual artist
J. Sarah Gonzales, Senior Director, Sponsored Projects Program at Allied Media Projects
Patricia Johanson, artist
Wendy Shenefelt, Interim Co-Executive Director at Alternate ROOTS
Connie Zheng, artist and writer
Recipients:
Nehprii Amenii of Khunum Productions, HUMAN, Brooklyn, NY
Sol Aramendi and Sara Angel Guerrero-Mostafa,Migrant Forest School (MFS) – Escuela Migrante del Bosque, Ellenville and New York, NY
Ensayos Tierra del Fuego,Humedales Olorosos | Odorant Wetlands, Chicago, IL/Tierra del Fuego
Maryam Monalisa Gharavi, Oil Research Group (ORG), New York, NY
Meg Griffiths, Impossible Town, Minden, WV
Susie Ibarra,Floating Gardens, Ulster County and Greene County, NY
Emily Johnson,Build And Reworld Now: Land Back Conference and Community Celebration, Lenapehoking and Haudenosaunee Nation Lands, NY
Rebekah Joy, FLUX BENE 10k Garment Project, Pittsburgh, PA
Sarah Kavage, Weaving the River (working title), Seattle, WA
Nyasha Laing, Fairweather Wilds, Washington, DC, New York, NY, and Belize River Valley
Jaclyn Fawn Mendez,Rez Dayze, Akwesasne Reservation, NY
Hye Yeon Nam, Ec(h)o,Baton Rouge, LA
Not An Alternative, We Refuse to Die; Pittsburgh, PA, and locations in southwest PA and the Ohio River Valley, King County, WA, and locations along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf South
Mika Rottenberg, Reclaimed Plastic ‘Factory’, Tivoli, NY
Meridel Rubenstein, Eden in Iraq Wastewater Garden Project: Inanna Returns to the Marshes as a Mosaic, El-Chibayish, Southern Iraq
Lauren Shapiro, The Blue Horizon Project, Miami, FL
Swim Pony, TrailOff: Diversifying Trails Through Storytelling, Philadelphia, PA
Diana Thater, Kazakh, The Altai Mountains, Mongolia
Dawn Weleski, Refuse Refuse, Unceded Oneida Nation Land, Earlville, NY
Alisha B Wormsley, Children of NAN: a Survival Guide, Pittsburgh, PA
Panelists:
Mary Mattingly, artist
Jessi Mueller, registered architect and Director of Exhibitions at Counterpublic
Jina Valentine, artist and educator
Monique Verdin, artist and director of The Land Memory Bank & Seed Exchange
Minoosh Zomorodinia, interdisciplinary artist, documentruan, and Co-Chair of Women Eco Artists Dialog
Recipients:
Amara Abdal Figueroa, Tierrafiltra, Puerto Rico (Borikén)
Erika Bolstad, SUBSURFACE, Oregon
Kaitlin Bryson, Bellow Forth, New Mexico
paris cyan cian with theShoreCo.’s Cameron Mitchell Ware and jeremy de’jon, modjeskamodjeskamodjeska, Louisiana
Maru Garcia, Self Help Graphics, and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County; Prospering backyards; California
Michelle Glass, WE ARE HERE/ESTAMOS AQUI, California
Nansi Guevara and Monica Sosa, The Magic Valley y Nuestra Delta Magica : settler imaginaries and community resistance, Texas
Autumn Leiker, Into the Unknown Together, New Mexico
Shanjana Mahmud and Luke Eddins, Winter Species, New York
Cyan Meeks and Susan Mayo, Flint Hills Counterpoint, Kansas
Jan Mun, The Fairy Rings, New York
Júlia Pontés, Env-IRON-ment, New York
Mary Swander, The Squatters, Iowa
Ixchel Tonāntzin Xōchitlzihuatl, Borders Like Water, Texas
Panelists:
Patricia Watts, founder/curator of ecoartspace
Angie Tillges, Great River Passage Fellow, City of Saint Paul, MN
Alicia Grullón, conceptual multimedia artist, educator, and organizer