All Grant Programs

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.

82
Projects Awarded
All
Disciplines
$1.4M+
Total Amount Awarded
2025

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.

2024

Recipients:

Ana Bessie RatnerThe Other Almanac, Brooklyn, NY

Yari Helfeld and Nami HelfeldThe 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 KennedyVanishing 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 DoctaWe Arrive With Fire | Ne-kah Nuue’m Mehl Mech, Weitchpec, Humboldt County, CA

brooke smiley & SOZOEARTH.SPEAKS , Oklahoma & California

Colleen ThurstonDrowned Land, Oklahoma

Shayla BlatchfordThe 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 JimᏗᏂᏠᎯ ᎤᏪᏯ (Meet Me at the Creek) Project, Miami, Oklahoma

Hekima HapaSew Green Fashion Camp, Brooklyn, New York

Victoria-Idongesit Udondian, Okrika’ Reclaimed!, Accra, Ghana

Dorchester WeatherThe Lot Next Door, Boston, MA

Katie Baldwin BasileEmily 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

2023

Recipients:

Nehprii Amenii of Khunum ProductionsHUMAN, 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 GharaviOil Research Group (ORG), New York, NY

Meg GriffithsImpossible 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 JoyFLUX 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 NamEc(h)o,Baton Rouge, LA

Not An AlternativeWe 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 RubensteinEden in Iraq Wastewater Garden Project: Inanna Returns to the Marshes as a Mosaic, El-Chibayish, Southern Iraq

Lauren ShapiroThe Blue Horizon Project, Miami, FL

Swim PonyTrailOff: 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 WormsleyChildren 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

2022

Recipients:

Amara Abdal FigueroaTierrafiltra, 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 GarciaSelf Help Graphics, and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles CountyProspering 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 MayoFlint 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

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