Latest Grantees
Specific Opportunity Stipend
Bree Barton
- Specific Opportunity Stipend
- "SOS" OCTOBER 2022: Bree, a writer and author, received funds for an the installation of her "Naming the Unnameable: Youth Stories of Resilience & Survival" at the CAP Artspace. The powerful exhibit features 10 young artist's video, audio and visual art.
nicole v. basta
- Specific Opportunity Stipend
- "SOS" OCTOBER 2022: nicole, a poet and visual artist, received funds for a Terra Cultura artist residency in California.
- website: http://www.nicolevbasta.com
Janet Batch
- Specific Opportunity Stipend
- "SOS" MARCH 2022: Janet Batch is a singer-songwriter and frontwoman of an alt-country band. In the Spring and Summer of 2022, she is organizing a PR campaign for the premiere release of her upcoming music video as well as gearing up to hit the road.
- website: http://www.janetbatch.com/
Black Hands Universal
- Specific Opportunity Stipend
- "SOS" MARCH 2022: Live Community Performance Ending the Downtown Black Market. They will have multiple artists perform live at the Ithaca Commons to help wrap up a series of weekly performances for the new up and coming BIPOC market.
- website: http://blackhandsuniversal.com
Regi Carpenter
- Specific Opportunity Stipend
- "SOS" OCTOBER 2022: Regi, storyteller, received funds for a Healing in Medicine artist residency at Florida Gulf Coast University.
- website: http://www.regicarpenter.com
Tilia Cordata
- Specific Opportunity Stipend
- "SOS" OCTOBER 2022: Tilia is a performer and producer of drag and queer performances. SOS funds are for streaming equipment and support.
Nicole Costa
- Specific Opportunity Stipend
- "SOS" MARCH 2022: Nicole Costa is creating, cultivating and installing artwork for a show in the CAP Art Space during the month of November 2022. Costa is a mixed media visual artist who creates acrylic paintings on newspaper, sculpture/installations with cardboard, and papier-mâché masks.
- website: http://n-costa.squarespace.com/
Daraisi
- Specific Opportunity Stipend
- "SOS" MARCH 2022: Daraisi is a professionally trained Hip-Hop Dance and Culture artist. Daraisi will create a statement piece for The Southside Community Centers Juneteenth Celebration, touching on the experiences of black men in the LGBTQ community, specifically trans, gender-fluid, and feminine black men.
Peaches Gillette
- Specific Opportunity Stipend
- "SOS" OCTOBER 2022: to run writing workshops, "Youth and Poetic" for local youth
- website: http://www.racethroughtime.online
Robert W. Grant
- Specific Opportunity Stipend
- "SOS" MARCH 2022: Robert W. Grant creates colorful and thematic paintings, primarily acrylic on canvas. Grant will have a show in the CAP ArtSpace in 2022.
- website: http://www.Grantiste.com
Lesley Lisa Greene
- Specific Opportunity Stipend
- "SOS" MARCH 2022: Lesley Lia Greene is a theater artist who has written and directed several short plays. Lesley will have a workshop and public discussion of her play-in-progress "The Turnaway Play." The discussion will take place in Ithaca, in a free forum hosted by Story House Ithaca.
Ithaca Murals
- Specific Opportunity Stipend
- "SOS" MARCH 2022: Ithaca Murals is a network of people transforming gray walls into meaningful works of art. They will build an advisory team and working board for Ithaca Murals and join the Center for Transformative Action as their umbrella nonprofit organization.
- website: http://ithacamurals.com
Clare Jones
- Specific Opportunity Stipend
- "SOS" OCTOBER 2022: Clare is a writer and visual artist. Funds will help her attend the Colgate Writers Conference.
- website: http://www.clarejonespoet.com
Sorayya Khan
- Specific Opportunity Stipend
- "SOS" OCTOBER 2022: Author. Funds are for costs associated with her national book tour, for her recently published memoir, "We Take Our Cities With Us."
- website: http://www.sorayyakhan.com
Seth Koproski
- Specific Opportunity Stipend
- "SOS" OCTOBER 2022: Seth is a writer, storyteller, and performer. Funds are for the creation of a large scale circus project, "Cirquest."
Louis DiPietro
- Louiston
- Specific Opportunity Stipend
- "SOS" MARCH 2022: Louiston is hiring a four-piece string ensemble and other local musicians to collaborate on the next Louiston album, to be recorded at Sunwood Recording in Trumansburg.
- website: https://louistonmusic.com
Luna Fiber Studio
- Specific Opportunity Stipend
- "SOS" MARCH 2022: Sarah Gotowka is the owner and director of Luna Fiber Studio, a natural dye and weaving studio in Trumansburg. Sarah will be traveling to study indigo dye techniques in Korea for Luna Fiber Studio.
- website: http://www.lunafiberstudio.com
Beth Milles
- Specific Opportunity Stipend
- "SOS" OCTOBER 2022: Production of her clown plan play on.....(forgetting), "Heading into Night" at The Cherry Arts.
Leanora Mims
- Specific Opportunity Stipend
- "SOS" OCTOBER 2022: Leanora, a fabric artist, will display her work and give a talk at the Africana Studies & Research Center."
- website: http://www.leanoramims.wixsite.com/artincolor
Pedro Molina
- Specific Opportunity Stipend
- "SOS" OCTOBER 2022: Internationally published cartoonist and Illustrator. Funds are for updated equipment.
- website: http://@pxmolina
Daniela Rivero
- Specific Opportunity Stipend
- "SOS" OCTOBER 2022: Visual Artist. Daniela curated Semillas al Viento: We Are Scattered Seeds, the 2022 Latinx Heritage Month Art Exhibition
- website: https://www.instagram.com/sailor____mercury/
Jennifer Savran Kelly
- Specific Opportunity Stipend
- "SOS" OCTOBER 2022: For a professional web designer to upgrade her website as Jennifer launches her debut novel, "Endpapers."
- website: http://www.jennifersavrankelly.com
Norman Scott
- Specific Opportunity Stipend
- "SOS" MARCH 2022: Norman Scott has been invited by the Beyond Art Collective in Ithaca to collaborate and submit sculptural/installation works for an immersive community art show in April 2022. Norman makes sculptural objects referencing fictional machines, functional soundmaking devices, and interactive audio installations.
- website: https://normscott.com
Southside Community Center
- Specific Opportunity Stipend
- "SOS" MARCH 2022: Southside Community Center would like to take their girls on a trip to Atlanta, GA. Their goal for this trip is to experience Black culture outside of Ithaca, in hopes that these experiences will further develop their artistic skills, views, and truths.
- website: http://sspride.org
Story House Ithaca
- Specific Opportunity Stipend
- "SOS" OCTOBER 2022: To support a pilot session of "Artist Gym," an innovative workshop series that uses drama, movement, music, visual arts, writing, and structured play to build connections and inspire creative collaboration in a diverse group of participants.
- website: https://www.storyhouseithaca.org/
Taylor Rae Tate
- Specific Opportunity Stipend
- "SOS" OCTOBER 2022: Ceramist, funds are for a BIPOC ceramics apprenticeship program that Taylor will attend.
The Cherry Arts, Inc.
- Specific Opportunity Stipend
- "SOS" MARCH 2022: The Cherry Arts is expanding into creating and exhibiting visual art, in connection with a segment of Ithaca’s low-income and recently housing-insecure communities. They are commissioning a work of public art to be created on the Arthaus, painted by a local artist in collaboration with the residents themselves.
- website: http://www.thecherry.org
The Rest Gallery
- Specific Opportunity Stipend
- "SOS" MARCH 2022: The Rest Gallery is a gathering place for emerging artists and the public. They will build an interactive website that features current and upcoming exhibitions and highlights and sells artists’ work.
- website: http://www.therestithaca.com
Theatre Incognita
- Specific Opportunity Stipend
- "SOS" MARCH 2022 and OCTOBER 2022: Theatre Incognita is a community-based theater company focusing on local artists producing works in multiple venues with an emphasis on inclusivity. They will produce a multi-media, experimental production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth for live in-person performance in Fall 2023, using local artists.
- website: http://theatreincognita.org
Damaris Vazquez
- Specific Opportunity Stipend
- "SOS" MARCH 2022: Damaris Vazquez and Black Girl Alchemy will be breaking new ground by creating unique blacklight reactive bodypaint portraiture together through their self-directed process to empower black women by honoring their black joy, bodies, and specific personal expressions.
- website: https://www.damarisvazquez.com/
Achala Wali
- Specific Opportunity Stipend
- "SOS" MARCH 2022: Achala Wali is a visual artist working in multi-media, primarily graphite, inks, and pastel. Achala will present a solo exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art through their inaugural Central NY Regional Artists Exhibition Initiative from June 25–August 7, 2022.
Maddy Walsh
- Specific Opportunity Stipend
- "SOS" MARCH 2022: Maddy Walsh, the co-founder, lead singer, and songwriter of the band Maddy Walsh & the Blind Spots, will re-record and remix the song "Hey Boy" into two different versions--one Spanish, one electropop dance--with Miami-based Cuban producer Tony Laurencio.
- website: http://www.MaddyWalsh.net
Anniemarie Zwack
- Specific Opportunity Stipend
- "SOS" MARCH 2022: Annemarie Zwack is a visual artist specializing in engaging communities in creating collaborative public art. Annemarie will work with BEYOND to create an immerisve art experience at the ArtHaus Gallery on Cherry St.
- website: http://ZwackArt.com