PAST FELLOWS

FALL 2019

Nisã

Nisã (New York imagined sisterhood for ãrts) aspires to be a mobile education and collaboration platform of visual art, performance, theatre and creative writing for Muslim women-identified participants and educators that travel in the five boroughs of NYC. Read more -->

Samantha CC: Mamatropolis

Mamatropolis combines oral history, poetic performance, and social space to explore the birth and motherhood transition. It stems from an oral history of mothers in the months after giving birth. It will look at the emotions and expectations associated with motherhood in various cultural contexts within New York. Read more -->

SPRING 2019

OlaRonke Akinmowo: Free Black Women’s Library (FBWL)

The Free Black Women's Library is partnering with a women's homeless shelter/short term residency to install a permanent installation of the library, create a space for the residents to read, writer, draw and gather together. The area will contain, books, plants, cozy comfortble furniture, an altar and art supplies. Read more -->

FALL 2018

Claudia Prado, Escritura en tránsito / Writing in Transit

Is a transitory writing workshop for the commuters of the St. George Ferry Station in Staten Island. Read more -->

Mel McIntyre & Adelaide Matthew Dicken

Will gather communities fighting for disability justice and trans justice to envision solidarity economy endeavors rooted in these connected liberation struggles. Read more -->

Damali Abrams, Radical Self-Care Workshops for Busy Black New Yorkers

These workshops will provide an opportunity for busy Black New Yorkers to heal in community, and to share techniques for bringing self-care into unlikely spaces such as the workplace and the subway, in order to facilitate health and well being as a way of life. Read more -->

SPRING 2018

Sonia Louise Davis, Become Together Freedom School

Is an experimental platform to cultivate critical improvisation: tactics for self-articulation and collective engagement as we demand a more just society. Read more-->

Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow,  Junkanooacome

Will build a more informed history of NYC through its historic landmarks, inviting participants to join in a series of workshops and embodied public performances.  Read more -->

Eli Brown, Trans Family Archive

Is a community led year-long series of facilitated round table discussions designed to increase the contact and communication between generations of trans and non-binary individuals and to develop a nationwide trans family audio archive. Read more -->

FALL 2017

Chris Ignacio, Co-written

A series of songwriting and performance workshops in New York for young people of color with limited access to arts and education. Read more-->
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Theodore (Ted) Kerr, What Would An HIV Doula Do? 

As part of a collective made up of artists, activists, chaplains, doulas, and others, Ted and his collaborators will be growing their work to reflectively respond to the ongoing AIDS crisis. Read more -->

Hidemi Tagaki, The Bed-Stuy Social 'Photo' Club

A free community photography studio that offers portraits and classes to community members to learn skills in documenting and capturing their everyday lives. Read more -->

SPRING 2017

Aida Šehović, w_i_t_n_e_s_s_ assembly

Is the first iteration of a multi-year project that addresses the prevalent culture of impunity surrounding gender-based violence. Read more -->

Walis Johnson, The Red Line Project

An investigative, multi-generational project examining Johnson's research and family history of  property ownership in Brooklyn. Read more -->

Chinatown Art Brigade

A cultural collective of Asian American women artists, media makers and activists, whose community-driven work is guided by the core belief that fighting against racial and economic inequity must be central to the cultural and art making process. Read more -->

FALL 2016

Clarivel Ruiz, Dominicans Love Haitians Movement

A multimedia project that aims to heal wounds inflicted by colonialism that reverberate in the relationship between Dominicans and Haitians today. Read more-->

Ranjani Chakraborty & Salvador Muñoz, Say What?! Street Harassment Intervention Strategies

A grassroots, multimedia-based project that aims to equip the NYC community with the skills necessary to respond to and intervene in street harassment when witnessing it. Read more -->

Yvonne Shortt, Women Who Build. Artists Who Own

A woman-led and woman-grown initiative to empower women to learn construction skills, grow their networks, and increase their confidence as problem solvers. Read more -->

SPRING 2016

PISO Proyecto (Noemi Segarra), Cuerpo y Ciudad

A platform for intervention, mobilization, and improvisation, that channels bodily movement as a political tool in order to explore ideas related to identity and personhood for Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico and abroad. Read more -->

Corinne Cappelletti & Eva Perrotta, ro͞odərəl

A movement-based practice and information-sharing platform where Corinne Cappelletti and Eva Perrotta bring audiences onto the streets of New York to understand the role that wild medicinal and edible plants have on our well-being, our community relationships, and our understanding of reciprocity. Read more -->

Piper Anderson, Mass Story Campaign

A national participatory story exchange that will travel to more than twenty U.S cities situating the stories of people directly impacted by incarceration as a transformative lens through which communities reimagine justice. Read more -->

Stephano Espinoza & Cristobal Guerra Naranja, Sacúdete

A series of workshops that brought individuals in Corona, Queens together to experiment with various forms of performance, allowing for an unconventional exploration of one’s body, and notions of power, accessibility, and privilege. Read more -->

FALL 2015

Aiesha Turman, Black Girl Muse (BGMuseum)

A traveling museum, digital exhibition and pop-up space that utilizes art-making as a liberating and healing tool for Black women and girls dealing with issues of sex/uality, gender, identity, community, family, and place-making. Read more-->

James Andrews, Spatial Resistance

An investigation of the spatial dimension of civil resistance and how to visualize decentralized protests that are disciplined, segmented and responsive to their environments. Read more -->

Victoya Venise, Protect the Art

A hub and resource that provides artists in under-resourced communities with the tools to properly develop their craft, and in return, become community leaders for youth in need. Read more -->

SPRING 2015

Sarah Dahnke, Dances for Solidarity

An ongoing project that invites individuals in solitary confinement to perform a series of movements, correspond with individuals outside of prison, and contribute choreography to the series of movements. Read more -->

aricoco, PIPORNOT (= Premus Inter Pares + OR NOT)

A workshop series that combined collective strategizing and inspiration from social insects and their maintenance of non-hierarchical self-organization to explore how to build temporary communities during emergency situations. Read more -->

Lise Brenner, Vox Populi

A multimedia project that takes an intimate look at the gentrifying neighborhood of Dutch Kills in Long Island City by giving voice to and documenting the stories of those who have lived there for decades. Read more -->

FALL 2014

Olaronke Akinmowo, The Free Black Woman's Library

An interactive, pop-up library containing books written exclusively by Black women that hosts readings, performances, and events in which the public is invited to bring books written by Black women to trade or donate to the library. Read more-->

Sol Aramendi & Barrie Cline, Usa Tu Celular

A multi-media project that created and publicized an app that helps undocumented workers combat wage theft, including an installation with day laborers using self-representations to combat stereotypes. Read more -->

Or Zubalsky, The Ongoing Listenings

A series of participatory performances in the dark using music as a tool for mediation, to create a contemplative exchange about the conflict in Israel and Palestine. Read more -->

FALL 2013

Jen Kennedy & Liz Linden, The NYTFRG Yearbook

A yearlong series of collaborative public performances and print publication that challenge antiquated notions of feminism, locate such notions within the news media, and aim to create a long lasting archive of readers’ responses to daily news. Read more-->

Go! Push Pops (Katie Cercone and Elisa Garcia de la Huerta, with Char Johnson), Diamond Tribe

A participatory workshop offered to low-income female youth that emphasizes collaboration through creative movement. A combination of hip hop, yoga, and vocalization, as well as media literacy breakout groups that explore the goddess archetype in contemporary culture, the Diamond Tribe workshop creates a safe space for self-empowerment within a group dynamic. Read more -->

Chloë Bass, Department of Local Affairs

A project that asks Bed-Stuy residents to help design “tourism” materials to reflect real experience rather than real estate hype. Read more -->

SPRING 2013

Benton C Bainbridge (with Minou Maguna and Bill Etra), Telematic Etra

A series of video chat room discussions with Bill Etra about his lifelong pursuit of “total plasticity of the moving image.” Read more -->

Torkwase Dyson (Studio South Zero), Shapes We Need, Kitchens We Don't

A temporary collaborative public sculpture and ecological activity workshop where participants turned common food storage and urban gardens into unique living wall systems. Read more -->

Fantastic Futures, Reading Writing Writing

A series of public reading and writing groups organized around issues such as identity, technology and language. Read more -->

Alicia Grullon, Campaign Headquarters

A tangible central hub for communities to discuss everyday environmental challenges in order to stimulate exchange information and promoting new legislation. Read more -->

FALL 2012

Konstantin Prishep, The Aquatorium Barge

A visionary place of social and ecological engagement, docked along one of New York City’s waterways. Read more-->

Melanie Crean, Memories of the Future

A series of art projects created in conjunction with Hometown Security Laboratories, acting as conduits for Hunts Point, South Bronx residents to articulate how they have transcended the over-incarceration and environmental discrimination that seem to be encoded in their surroundings. Read more -->

Nancy Nowacek, Citizen Bridge

Citizen Bridge is a temporary floating pedestrian bridge for passage between Brooklyn and Governors Island. Read more -->

SPRING 2012

Tracy Candido, Youth Food Lab

Blurring the lines between art, politics, and daily life, the Youth Food Lab is a series of workshops for LGBTQ teens that uses food and creativity as vehicles for personal growth and transformation. Read more -->

Daniel Lang/Levitsky, Just Like That

Just Like That is a project investigating, participating in, and intervening on the choreography of protest. Read more -->

Esther Neff & Yelena Gluzman, Theorems, Proofs, Rebuttals and Propositions: A Conference of Theoretical Theater

Is a durational conference that is foremost is a collaborative performance project between the conference organizers and conference participants. Read more -->