Artist Enrichment 2006 Grantees
Constance Alexander ( Murray): $2,000 to complete the final draft of her first novel, in which the female protagonist deals with the death of her mother, from breast cancer, and her father, from AIDS.
Nancy Kelly Allen ( Hazard): $2,000 to complete and revise a children's novel that focuses on a ten-year-old girl who practices carpentry as she assists her grandfather in the upkeep of a covered bridge.
Merle Lyn Bachman ( Louisville): $2,000 for interviews, research, and travel to write creative non-fiction about the concept of “home” among Kentucky women who are Jews and Palestinians.
Karen A. Balzer ( Murray): $1,000 to choreograph excerpts from the classical ballet Sleeping Beauty for a company of young female dancers.
Beverly Bartlett ( Louisville): $2,000 to complete a novel that explores women's struggles with their sense of identity as work and family responsibilities compete for priority.
Marie Bradby ( Louisville): $3,150 to complete her children's novel, Harriet's Lost Diaries, which focuses on the young life of Harriet Tubman.
Thea Browning ( Louisville): $1,000 for a video biography of the life of Kentucky native Mary Tacoma Maupin, who is a descendant of former slaves and survived the Tulsa race riots.
Robin Burke ( Louisville): $2,000 for a documentary about a group of Louisville women working to transform an inner-city property into a community center and teaching garden.
Anne Congleton ( Richmond): $1,000 to revise her play that explores the ways in which religion and marital choices affect women and their children.
Erica Ann Cooper ( Highland Heights): $1,000 to research and create a series of drawings and paintings that explores the struggles of young, single mothers in northern Kentucky.
Diane Deaton-Street ( Louisville): $1,500 to create a body of photographs that places a female figure in various abandoned environments in Kentucky.
Anita Douthat ( Alexandria): $3,500 to develop and refine a series of photograms that addresses the role of clothing in perception of the female body.
Normandi Ellis ( Berea): $3,000 to research and begin writing a novel that explores the paradigm of abortion and women's self-esteem at the turn of the last century and today.
Jessica Farquhar ( Louisville): $2,030 to complete, revise, and submit to literary magazines a manuscript of poems that addresses the natural animal aspect of humans, particularly pregnant women and mothers.
Cynthia Ganote ( Louisville): $1,000 to attend a Theatre of the Oppressed workshop, with the goal of expanding her acting and teaching repertoire.
Robin Rainbow Gate ( Lexington): $1,000 to create a documentary film about indigenous Mexican healing practices and paradigms, which will be used as a teaching tool with healthcare providers in Kentucky and nationwide.
Sarah Gorham ( Prospect): $2,000 to develop a series of lyric essays that fuse poetry and prose as they explore the concepts of “good girl” and “bad girl” in family dynamics.
Nicole Hand and Judy Shearer ( Almo): $1,500 to collaborate, using etchings, lithographs, and nonfiction writing, to produce an artist book about feminism.
Stephanie C. Horton ( Louisville): $3,750 to complete a novel that explores the mother/daughter relationship and analyzes sexual abuse from a critical womanist/feminist perspective.
Jennifer A. Hunt ( Brandenburg): $1,500 to create a one-woman touring production for classrooms using various forms of puppetry to perform several of Shakespeare's female characters.
Juneteenth Legacy Theatre ( Louisville): $2,060 to conduct three Intensive Black Theatre Art workshops, which will provide Kentucky women artists advanced training in acting, using scripts from Juneteenth's archive of social change plays that explore images of women.
Cynthia Ryan Kelly ( Lexington): $1,000 to continue a body of paintings that focuses on mountaintop removal and its effects on women and their families in eastern Kentucky, and to create a website that features this work.
Leatha Kendrick ( East Point): $2,500 to research and begin writing a novel that tells the story of a middle-aged woman in the 1990's who is claiming a life of her own.
Regina Lang and Antoinette Oglesby Taylor ( Louisville): $1,600 to collaborate on the development of a one-woman play called The Cleaning Lady that explores feminist values and social change ideas.
Sharon Howerton Leightty ( Louisville): $1,500 to learn construction skills traditionally associated with the “masculine,” and to push her artwork toward a clearer language of social change.
Looking for Lilith Theatre ( Louisville): $1,000 to develop in-school curriculum for their play about American women in World War II, and to take the tour to several under-funded schools.
Christina Lovin ( Lancaster): $2,920 for a writing residency at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, during which she will develop a book of poetry exploring American women's history from the end of World War II to 1964.
Thea Lura ( Louisville): $3,658 to create a mixed media installation that challenges implied superiority when the female artist assumes the power to spiritually alter the exhibition space.
Madison County Extension Homemakers ( Richmond): $5,000 to develop large-scale paintings of quilt squares created by women of Madison County, and to display them on tobacco barns throughout the community.
Julia Martin ( Crestview Hills): $3,640 to create, document, and exhibit a body of fabric and mixed media artwork that deals with a woman's subconscious.
Kristina McGrath ( Louisville): $2,500 to research and develop her third novel and facilitate publication of her second, both of which focus on working class lesbian characters in unusual situations.
Janice Miller ( Wilmore): $2,000 to create a studio and classroom in her basement, which will expand her own skills and her teaching capacity.
Marie Mitchell and Rebecca Mitchell Turney ( Richmond, Park Hills): $2,000 to create the second volume in a series of books for girls that depicts young heroines in historically accurate Kentucky settings.
Mary Owens ( Crab Orchard): $1,500 to write a full-length play that tells the story of a Kentucky woman who becomes an advocate for agro-ecology and gender equity through her work with Heifer International.
Laura Parker and Jill Frank ( Louisville): $1,200 to produce a mixed media art exhibit focusing on female adolescence in the 1990's.
Esther E. Randall ( Berea): $7,140 to create half-life sized figurative sculptures exploring the psychological and physical state of the middle-aged woman.
Margaret Ricketts ( Berea): $2,100 to write a memoir in the form of prose poems about a life shaped by physical disability and medical ambiguity.
Maggie M. Sasso ( Murray): $3,220 to complete a series of mixed media / video objects that will analyze stereotypes of women from many generations by combining “women's crafts” with technology.
Emily Schuhmann ( Louisville): $2,942 to create a body of wearable art that explores the meaning of beauty and how it is manifested in women's lives.
Roberta Schultz ( Wilder): $1,500 to create a collection of songs about how women and girls in our society face aging.
Pam Swisher ( Louisville): $1,500 for equipment and a workshop to improve her craft as she works to increase exposure of female video artists in Kentucky.
Karen M. Telford ( Wellington): $3,600 for a traveling exhibition of photographs that integrate the image of the archetypical feminine and the natural world.
Toby Wilcher ( Berea): $1,000 to develop a short play that addresses poverty, environmental degradation, drug abuse, and other issues that affect women and families in eastern Kentucky.
Pamala G. Wiley ( Louisville): $1,640 to study folklore, drumming, and dance, and to create a dramatic performance that expresses women's role in society.
Mariam Williams ( Louisville): $1,000 to convert her screenplay Mary, Mary, about a woman who defies God’s calling to be the second Virgin Mary, into a stage play.
Artist Enrichment 2005 Grantees
Dobree Adams ( Frankfort): $4,000 for equipment and a workshop that will enhance her skills as a digital photographer as she begins to build a community of Kentucky women photographers.
Jeanie Adams-Smith ( Bowling Green): $1,000 to create and exhibit a series of portraits and a DVD presentation of regional women who have been raped or sexually abused.
Nancy Kelly Allen (Hazard): $1,000 to revise a children’s novel with a female protagonist who overcomes the upheaval in her life during World War II.
Janet L. Boyd ( Louisville): $1,700 to compile and publish a collection of her feminist newspaper column "Don’t Get Me Started," with the dual goal of promoting her writing and returning the column to circulation.
Nickole Brown ( Louisville): $3,700 to complete a novel-in-verse based on her life experience and addressed to her younger sister as she grows into womanhood.
Beth Burden ( Lexington): $1,050 to produce and market Mother Jane’s new CD of original acoustic pop music reflecting the life and observations of a Kentucky woman.
Mary Carothers ( Louisville): $1,000 to produce a mobile laboratory for engaging the public with paradigms of women depicted in Hollywood movies, and to produce a multimedia presentation to be projected in planetarium format.
Caroline Curry (Shepherdsville): $1,000 to research and write the second volume of a series designed to encourage women who have been abused to maintain hope and a sense of community.
Erika Eagan ( Louisville): $5,000 to produce ten large-scale paintings of Kentucky women that portray their own perceptions of beauty and gender roles.
Laura Eklund (Olive Hill): $1,900 to create and promote a series of paintings that express the worldview of a feminist Appalachian artist.
Kathi E. B. Ellis ( Louisville): $1,000 to research women who have had a significant impact on American theatre history, but whose legacies are largely unrecognized, with the goal of creating theatrical works based on the information.
Randi Ewing (Lexington): $1,000 to research and write a novel about an undocumented Mexican woman living in Kentucky who goes in search of the one witness to her son’s American birth.
Linda Fifield (McKee): $1,635 to participate in two national woodturning conferences, at which she will enhance her skills and her profile as a female woodturner.
Phyllis Free ( Louisville): $3,000 to attend two workshops that will enhance her skills as a drummer and her knowledge of traditional world music percussion techniques.
Nancy Gall-Clayton ( Louisville): $1,800 to produce 6 Women Turning 60 in 2006, a festival of staged readings that celebrates the older woman artist.
Suzanne Gonsalez ( Lexington): $4,000 to complete and exhibit a body of digitally produced montages based on genetic coding and the artist’s own family archetypes.
Hillary Harrison ( Louisville): $1,000 to improve the quality and content of her feminist publication Bejeezus, and to produce marketing materials and a website.
Heather Henson (Harrodsburg): $1,000 to complete a novel, geared toward teenage girls, that celebrates self and place.
Suong Nhi Huynh ( Richmond): $3,000 for final editing and submission of her manuscript that deals with a courageous woman who escapes her abusive husband and a corrupt, oppressive government in order to raise her daughter.
Carridder M. Jones ( Louisville): $1,000 to prepare her short stories for publication by enlisting an artist to draw illustrations and an editor.
Juneteenth Legacy Theatre ( Louisville): $2,500 to create a new full length work of theatre based on the Louisville police shooting death in 2004 of African-American youth Michael Newby.
Cynthia Ryan Kelly ( Lexington): $3,750 to create a body of paintings that focuses on mountaintop removal and its effects on women and their families in eastern Kentucky.
Jamie C. Kuli ( Georgetown): $1,000 to create a series of prototypes for a line of women’s undergarments that address body image, particularly for women who have had mastectomies.
Kate Larken ( Louisville): $1,050 to compose and record original music that addresses social injustice themes by putting a face on the issue.
London Writers Group ( London): $2,500 to provide a writing workshop designed to enhance the artistic ability of middle-aged and older writers in and around Laurel County.
Cynthia McCloud ( Lexington): $2,000 to produce a CD of her compositions about the healing process of young girls who are survivors of sexual abuse and illness.
Elizabeth Mesa-Gaido (Morehead): $4,990 to create fabric sculptures for her ongoing Couture Series and to promote her artwork.
Erica A. Meuser ( Lexington): $1,000 to create and exhibit a series of paintings and monoprints about war, mothers, and sons, with the goal of raising the consciousness of Kentucky women about the Iraq war.
Janice Nessibou ( Louisville): $1,000 to develop and produce a series of original compositions made up of intergenerational women’s expressions.
Elizabeth Oakes ( Bowling Green): $3,700 to complete her volume of poems on Emily Dickinson that deconstructs and examines her iconic status and the image of the female poet.
Regina Lang (Louisville): Elizabeth Orndorff Danville): $1,000 to create an actress-centered one-act version of the play The Bathroom Cleaner that will be suitable for touring across Kentucky.
Pat Ramsey ( Louisville): $1,000 to teach a theatre workshop for women who are homeless or in rehab, and to write a monologue based on the women’s stories and their personal exploration.
Jennifer A. Reis (Morehead): $1,000 to create promotional materials for use as she establishes herself as a national and international teaching artist.
Margaret Ricketts ( Berea): $2,500 to attend a workshop to develop her book of narrative poetry about a woman’s view of injustice in Lexington, Kentucky, and Washington D.C.
Valerie Salley ( Louisville): $1,000 to develop four creative nonfiction vignettes about growing up in rural Kentucky.
Kate Sedgwick ( Louisville): $2,786 to create a series of large-scale photographic prints depicting a female mental health patient in dramatic scenarios with several doctors.
Angela Shoemaker ( Louisville): $1,000 to develop a photographic essay that documents one of the last active female tobacco farmers in Kentucky.
Rosemary Topie Jacqueline Slone (Covington): $2,575 to produce a series of shrines and altars called Self Storage, which explores the way women "shelve" their true selves in the face of family and societal pressures.
Squallis Puppeteers ( Louisville): $1,000 to create a multifaceted soundtrack for their new touring puppet play that celebrates imagination in response to result-oriented education.
Zoe Strecker (Harrodsburg): $7,500 to create a series of conceptual sculptural women’s garments to be used in installation/ performance pieces and video segments.
Tina Tammaro (Covington): $3,750 to create for exhibition several large-scale figurative paintings that depict the moment when a woman chooses to continue a relationship or begin a new life.
Anne Severn Williamson (Booneville): $2,500 to write a nine-part novel series for pre-teenage children featuring a young Appalachian heroine who exists both in rural Kentucky and in the realm of ancient goddess-centered theology.
Women Who Write ( Louisville): $2,500 to co-sponsor, with the University of Louisville Women’s Center, a two-day book festival featuring Kentucky women authors.
The Women Writers Conference ( Lexington): $2,000 to fund the second annual Sonia Sanchez Lecture Series, which will feature the founding artistic director of the New York-based Urban Bush Women dance company.
Mary Yates ( Louisville): $1,614 to further her professional development by creating new photographic artwork and marketing this work to galleries and museums.
Katy Yocom ( Louisville): $1,000 to support research for her second novel, which deals with female mentor relationships and collaboration among women of different cultures in the struggle to save tiger habitats in India.
Aimee M. Zaring ( Louisville): $1,000 to revise and complete her first novel, which is set in rural Kentucky and explores a married woman’s choice to remain childless.
Artist Enrichment 2004 Grantees
Nancy Kelly Allen ( Hazard): $1,000.00 to attend two workshops with the goal of revising a biography for young women about Alice Slone, an Appalachian woman who started a settlement school in Knott County .
Appalshop, Inc. ( Whitesburg): $4,000.00 for an international cultural exchange and series of follow-up activities focused on creating feminist media as well as feminist art and social change theory.
Sonya Gabrielle Baker ( Murray ): $1,000.00 to finalize production and distribute a CD of vocal music recordings of American women composers.
Theresa Anne Beaumont ( Louisville ): $2,800.00 for an apprenticeship with a Russian iconographer, and to produce icons depicting the sacred feminine.
H.D. Bennett ( Lexington ): $1,105.00 to develop a book of poems exploring how motherhood impacts a woman’s sense of individuality.
Shirley J. Boyd ( Ashland): $1,000.00 to conduct research and complete a biography, to be published by the Jesse Stuart Foundation, that tells the story of Jean Thomas, a champion of Appalachian cultural preservation.
Carrie Burr ( Louisville ): $1,000.00 to create a photographic installation dealing with women's issues such as anorexia, bulimia, and abortion.
Erma Bush ( Louisville): $1,275.00 to present a series of writing workshops that focus on the preservation of traditional and cultural cooking, household tips, and memoirs of female family members, and to develop a book and a one-act play.
Mary T. Carson-Clements ( Morganfield): $2,787.00 to facilitate a series of visual art workshops, which will be accessible to economically and socially diverse women.
Betty L. Carter ( Monticello ): $2,500.00 to complete, illustrate, and give readings from her second book about a young Appalachian woman.
Laura Chenicek ( Hopkinsville ): $1,000.00 to depict the complexity of family relationships and the breakdown of the family unit in large-scale, mixed media, multi-dimensional art pieces.
Stacey R. Chinn ( Lexington ): $5,689.00 to create a series of fifteen to twenty ceramic and mixed media sculptures that will comment on the continued practice of offering dowries and pay tribute to the women this practice affects.
Antoinette Crawford-Willis ( Louisville ): $1,000.00 to develop a modern dance performance to choreo-poems written by abused teenagers, and to take the performance on tour.
Olga-Maria Cruz ( Louisville ): $3,500.00 to complete her first full-length manuscript of poetry, which addresses, from a feminist perspective, themes of family, sexuality, and recovery.
ENID , Generations of Women Sculptors ( Lousville): $4,206.00 to provide ten women sculptors the opportunity to attend the twentieth International Sculpture Conference in Cincinnati .
Freda Fairchild ( Paducah ): $5,000.00 to create a series of printed symbolic garments that represent woman’s private and public selves during specific historical periods.
Natacha Feola ( Lexington ): $3,000.00 for completion of one feature-length film and one short film.
Jenrose Fitzgerald ( Louisville ): $2,880.00 to produce a CD of story songs exploring themes of identity and community, with an emphasis on the personal/political connection and the connections between rural and urban experiences.
Heather Floyd ( Louisville ): $1,000.00 for Alpha Betty, an all female punk band, to make and distribute a CD of their original music.
Mary Hamilton ( Frankfort ): $1,750.00 to record and market a storytelling CD of fairy tales that feature girls and women as active heroines who create their own fates.
Kiya Heartwood ( Stamping Ground): $3,600.00 to produce folk duo Wishing Chair's sixth CD of original music, which is infused with feminist and lesbian themes and commitment to politcial, social, and economic justice.
Mary Johnson ( Louisville): $1,500.00 to develop a series of four articles about women getting older and fearing dependency, offering as couterpoint the views of disabled women activists.
Amanda Johnston ( Elizabethtown ): $2,920.00 for a summer retreat at Cave Canem to develop new performance poetry focusing on multicultural women's encounters with social injustice.
Lisa Kaplan ( Lexington ): $1,000.00 to attend "Healing through Story," a workshop that will enhance her skills as a facilitator of women's healing experiences achieved through telling their own stories.
Kentucky Domestic Violence Association, Inc. ( Frankfort ): $1,029.00 to offer three acting workshops for the cast of its production of The Vagina Monologues.
D. Cameron Lawrence ( Louisville ): $1,000.00 for additional mid-career training in radio and writing that will sharpen her skills as she begins planning new feminist-themed radio productions and a collection of essays.
Lorna Littleway ( Louisville ): $2,466.00 to develop a full-length version of her one-act play Young Sistas, and to make the script available to social change and feminst organizations.
Sarah Lyon ( Louisville ): $2,000.00 to create portraits for a twelve-month calendar featuring real women mechanics photographed in their shop environments.
Barbara McNew ( Louisville ): $1,500.00 for a computer upgrade and writing time to improve her novel about the trauma of child sexual abuse on two adult lives.
Pam Oldfield Meade ( West Liberty ): $1,000.00 to create a body of mixed media visual work that reflects the strength, spirit, and intelligence of females growing up and working on or near the typical small farm in the foothills of Kentucky .
LeeAnn Honeyman Nay ( Louisville ): $1,000.00 to attend workshops in hot glass techniques to expand her skills in the traditionally male-dominated field of glass working.
Jane Olmsted ( Bowling Green): $1,000.00 to complete a collection of short stories which follows the members of one family from central Kentucky as they face issues such as addiction, sexual assault, loss, love, and disability.
MacKenzie Mae Outlund ( Lexington ): $2,000.00 to support research at the Lesbian Herstory Archives for the completion of seven short stories about past, present, and projected lesbian experiences.
Owsley County Arts Council, Inc. ( Booneville): $2,788.00 for a visual artist to work with the community to design and create two large outdoor murals.
Tanya Palmer (Louisville): $1,000.00 to conduct interviews and develop a play about women in the military who have served in Iraq, exploring their feelings about, and experience of, the conflict and their relationship to power within the military.
Abbie Potter ( Louisville ): $1,000.00 to complete a novel about two women from very different cultures and the "chosen family" relationship that develops between them.
Susan Receveur ( Louisville ): $1,000.00 to finish a fantasy novel that shows a central female character in a heroic light.
Sara Reinke ( Louisville ): $1,000.00 to begin research, production, and marketing of a novel based on the life of a fifth century woman from the Eastern Roman Empire .
Anna Sapozhnikov ( Louisville ): $3,000.00 to bring together several feminist choreograhers to create modern dance works focusing on the depiction of women in media, relationships, and history.
Joanne Seiff ( Bowling Green ): $5,080.00 to complete, edit, and promote a non-fiction book that promotes knitting as an avenue towards women's intellectual stimulation and health.
Anne Shelby ( Oneida ): $2,500.00 to research and write several columns that employ Appalachian voices and experiences to challenge the culture's conservative attitude toward women and other marginalized groups.
Angela Shoemaker ( Louisville ): $2,000.00 to develop a photographic essay that explores the societal pressures on aging women to retain youthful beauty, through documentation of the Ms. Senior American Pageant.
Judy Sizemore ( McKee): $5,500.00 to write and edit a book of poems which reconnect women to the forest.
Kate Sprengnether ( Lexington ): $1,000.00 for a residency at the Mary Anderson Center , during which she will create a new body of ceramic sculpture work.
Kopana Terry ( Lexington ): $2,000.00 to create for national exhibition 25 photographs that draw attention to working women in the thoroughbred horse industry in Kentucky .
Vision for Education, Inc. ( Louisville ): $1,000.00 for its Youth Cultural Theatre Institute to begin research and production of a series of plays about individual minority women with connections to Louisville .
Jennifer Zingg ( Frankfort ): $1,625.00 to professionally photograph and display her artwork on a website with the intention of communicating to others what is means to be a female American folk artist.
Artist Enrichment Grantees for 2003
Constance Alexander and Jeremy Beck ( Murray ): $ 2,000 to create a chamber opera about women’s health and end-of-life issues.
Ann Stewart Anderson( Louisville): $ 2,500 to produce and distribute postcards made from a series of her paintings, Mythic Women, Ancient and Modern.
Sonya Gabrielle Baker( Murray): $1,440 to complete, produce, and distribute her debut recording as a vocalist of classical music, including songs by five American women composers.
Martha Barnette( Louisville): $2,500 to write at least five short essays for newspapers across the state examining the ways lesbians in Kentucky are adversely affected by sex discrimination in marriage law.
Terena Elizabeth Bell( Louisville): $1,000 to research and complete a book-length manuscript of short stories, based on the everyday lives of rural Kentucky women.
Joan Brannon( Lexington): $2,500 to purchase a broadcast quality video editing system to edit a number of documentaries and short films about the lives of African-American women and girls in Kentucky .
Megan Burnett( Louisville): $4,000 to develop the Anne Ludlum play, Shame the Devil! An Audience with Fanny Kemble, into a one-woman show that she will tour among schools and professional venues throughout the state.
Nancy Cassell( Union): $1,400 to create new artworks, including a collection of women’s responses to nature, for "a natural response," her exhibit at the Weston Art Gallery in Cincinnati, OH in April 2004.
Judy Rae Cavagnero ( Lexington): $2,500 to write a collection of poems on the subject of what women inherit, socially and psychologically, from their mothers, grandmothers, and preceding generations.
Vickie Cimprich( Fort Mitchell): $1,050 to be in residence for five days at Pleasant Hill Shaker Village, to research and develop a series of dramatic monologues.
Cynthia Lovan Del Bianco ( Louisville): $1,000 to produce two episodes of a children’s television/video series, focusing on "Miss Peacock," who collects cats, champions individuality, battles discrimination, and breaks stereotypes.
Monica Duncan and Annie Langan ( Louisville): $1,000 to enhance their abilities to teach, create new work, and engage in collaborative activities by establishing a residency workshop for women artists in video and digital print technologies.
Gaela Erwin( Louisville): $2,500 to complete a series of large-scale paintings presenting a feminist version of religious icons that, for centuries, have been left in the hands of male artists.
Jenrose Fitzgerald( Lexington): $4,660 to record and produce a concept album - an original CD of story songs, focusing on themes of identity, family, and community from a progressive, queer, feminist perspective.
Valerie Sullivan Fuchs( Shelbyville): $1,000 to create a multi-channel video project installation, exploring the undervalued presence of women and their work throughout history, to be a part of an exhibition planned for the Speed Museum of Art.
Angelique Cain Galskis( Lexington): $3,200 to research and complete a first draft of The Idiot’s Daughter, a nonfiction book about her family, investigating the complex lives of its women and the men to whom they deferred.
Julie A. Gawne( Morehead): $1,000 to complete a digital video production on memory, history, and the memorializing process, with a particular focus on women and their role as family "record keepers" and on the artist’s own personal memories.
Suzanne Gonsalez ( Lexington): $2,000 to develop and exhibit a series of nine photographic and mixed-media works in the format of the traditional Hispanic/Catholic altar.
Nicole Hand( Almo): $2,500 to create a series of six etchings deconstructing traditional ideals of femininity and gender roles by juxtaposing images with text drawn from a 1971 etiquette book.
Amanda Johnston ( Elizabethtown): $2,300 to develop new slam poetry focusing on multicultural women’s encounters with violence and its intergenerational impact.
Carridder M. Jones ( Louisville): $3,000 to research, develop, videotape, and provide on-camera narration for a television documentary entitled The Black Hamlets of Lexington .
Diane Kahlo( Lexington): $1,000 to paint eight to twelve full-length portraits of Kentucky women artists, each of whom has suffered experiences of violence in her life, yet emerged as a survivor through her own creativity.
Leatha Kendrick( East Point): $2,500 to write and publish a series of essays exploring the tensions between achievement and nurturing in women’s lives.
Christine Kuhn( Lexington): $1,000 to participate in a two-month artist residency at the Dharmapala School of Thangka painting in Kathmandhu, Nepal, where she will learn ancient techniques for painting female deities.
Mary K. Lewis( Glasgow): $1,000 to self-publish a collection of short stories, chronicling six generations of Kentucky women who rose from adversity to triumph and have proven influential in her life.
Liz Mandrell(Morehead) $1,000 to research the unheralded work performed by thousands of women in the Kentucky tobacco industry.
Karen J. Mann (Louisville): $4,200 to assemble and revise a manuscript that tells the story of the artist’s grandson, whose birth defects required extensive hospitalization and surgeries, and honors the women who have cared for him.
Collis Caroline Marshall ( Louisville): $2,000 to continue a series of beaded and mixed media textile artworks, including woven tapestries and improvisational sculptures in the form of "affirmation dolls."
Jessica Mathis( Louisville): $1,500 to produce a feature-length documentary about Kentucky women who have suffered physical and/or sexual abuse as children, created by the abuse survivors themselves, whom the artist will train on video equipment.
Jenny Montgomery ( Augusta) $1,000 to create a body of eight to ten interrelated, mixed-media pieces, illuminating the complex relationships women have with their immediate environments.
Cynthia L. Norton( Louisville): $4,700 to build and present a kinetic sculpture that displays four spinning square dance dresses.
Susan O’Brien(Murray): $5,000 to complete The Bad Girl in the Dining Room, a series of functional ceramics challenging traditional notions of the decorative arts while confronting contemporary societal views of women.
Laura Ospital( Louisville): $2,000 to meet with and photograph six immigrant women who are mothers.
Enid Roach ( Philpot): $1,000 to develop Silent Cries, a series of paintings, including single canvases and diptychs, exploring the theme of women in abusive relationships.
Deborah Sachs( Louisville): $1,000 to complete and notate her first choral work, Ever as Before, a three-movement classical composition arising from a feminist vision of life as an eternal circle of compassion, openness, and nonviolence.
Belinda Stanley ( Louisville): $2,000 to adapt, direct, and produce a short feature film based on Carrider Jones’ play Lady of the House, which follows an African-American woman who leaves her home in Kentucky to work as a domestic in New York .
Shannon Stelzer( Louisville): $1,000 to develop a two-hour-long progressive dance performance fusing original choreography, musical score, video projection, and sculpture, to be performed with a local troupe of young dancers.
Zoe Strecker( Harrodsburg): $4,000 to engage in new, small-scale sculptural work that explores how our culture appears to expose and free the female body, but actually subverts its meaningful engagement with the world.
Cynthia Torp( Louisville): $1,000 to complete her design and production work on an Underground Railroad exhibit, which will include a ninety-minute DVD interactive learning experience and original recordings of spirituals.
Maggie Towne ( Louisville): $2,000 to enhance her pottery-making skills by participating in an eight-day clay workshop offered in Oaxaca , Mexico , which enables the artist to work with a Zapotec Indian pottery family.
Alecia Whitaker( Cynthiana): $1,000 with Ellen Hagan, to tour Kentucky high schools with their two-woman show, Becoming Woman, and to publish an anthology of young women’s writing generated in the workshops that accompany the show.
Crystal Wilkinson ( Lexington): $3,250 to complete and revise her third novel, which chronicles the lives of two small-town African-American women.
Diane Williams( Louisville): $2,000 to produce a full-length, broadcast-quality digital video documentary exploring the experiences of brides from various economic, social, racial, and geographic areas of Kentucky.
Marjory Riley Wilson( Emlyn): $2,500 to complete her book, which recounts how the artist and her family were joined by a young lesbian couple in working to restore Refuge Ridge, a mountain ravaged by years of unrestricted logging and hunting.
Sarah Yates ( Louisville): $1,000 to write a multimedia script for an Underground Railroad exhibit being created for the Carnegie Center for Art and Culture.
Art! Art! Barking Dog Dance Company ( Crestwood): $1,000 to choreograph Messages, a 20 to 30 minute modern dance piece depicting the stereotypical sexual images that objectify women and the trauma of sexual abuse.
Squallis Puppeteers( Louisville): $5,300 to work with Tanya Palmer, a playwright and dramaturg, to improve the scriptwriting and dramatic direction of their puppetry.
Artist Enrichment Grantees for 2002
Dobree Adams( Frankfort): $3,500 to support the design and production of a high-quality, professional brochure that will illustrate the full range of skill the artist has gained over the years as a weaver who raises the sheep, spins and dyes the wool and weaves it into a finished product. Her goal is to change some of the perceptions people have of aging women by demonstrating the vitality of an older feminist through the sharing of her life’s work of weaving.
Rosemary Gillum Bailey( Springfield): $1,000 to complete a collection of autobiographical poetry that focuses on social issues that relate specifically to women.
Nickole Brown( Louisville): $4,830 to complete a collection of short stories written in dialect and inspired by the direct oral interpretations of stories handed down to her by her grandmother and other women from the Appalachian region.
Bobbi Buchanan ( Louisville): $1,000 towards the completion of a series of essays for a book manuscript with photographs of women who have overcome extraordinary circumstances such as: the death of a child, alcoholism, and persecution for their political and/or personal beliefs.
Renee Campbell-Mapp ( Louisville): $1,500 to research and document the mistreatment and abuse experienced by her grandmother, Ada Doss Campbell, a Rural Kentucky, mentally ill, African-American woman. The abuse took place during the mid and late 1930’s in a state-run mental institution.
Candace N. Chaney( Lexington): $1,935 to write a collection of personal essays and poetry tentatively entitled The Divorce Papers: An Appalachian Daughter’s Journey. This mosaic of creative non-fiction and poetry chronicles the effects of divorce on the family.
Stacey R. Chinn( Lexington): $2,500 to create a new body of sculptural work that challenges the traditional notions of fiber work by elevating it to the realm of contemporary sculpture as well as to reclaim the history of women’s productivity.
Nell F. Cox( Frankfort): $3,500 to fund the completion of a video that features women activists, women policy makers, women leaders, and women directly affected by bills being introduced before the legislature.
Kim Edwards ( Lexington): $2,040 to complete a series of writing projects that explore female characters whose journeys are both inward and outward, women who make discoveries and take risks and seek transformation. Part of her ongoing research will be presented at the Kentucky Women Writers’ Conference.
Molly Elkind( Louisville): $1,000 to support the research and the purchase of equipment necessary to create a series of artist’s books inspired by the significant contributions of women in the field of book arts.
Erin K. Fitzgerald( Louisville): $1,000 to help fund the production of two CD’s of original and traditional folk music about women and their roles in society and their families.
Beverly Fykes ( Bowling Green): $1,000 to support the work leading to the completion of a novel entitled Knowledge in the Blood and a presentation of musical pieces, slides and photographs that explores the deep, inner core of knowledge that lies within each woman.
Enerida P. Garcia( Louisville): $2,000 to produce a documentary about Latina women in Louisville concerning the problems they face such as discrimination and domestic violence.
Emily Gnadinger ( Louisville): $ 2,000 to complete two drafts of a full-length play exploring the relationship between mothers and daughters in today’s world.
Carla Gover( Berea): $1,000 to fund the construction of a small music studio in the woods near her home. The space will be used for music composition, journaling, solitude, recording and capturing musical ideas.
Gabrielle M. Gray ( Somerset): $2,500 to refine a musical entitled Women of the Earth in order to prepare for a statewide and national tour.
Sarah Gutwirth( New Concord): $2,300 to continue her body of work in oil painting which deals with motifs borrowed from decorative arts combined with forms from nature, all of which she considers to be products of her "femaleness."
Ellen Hagan and Alecia Whitaker ( Cynthiana): $3,500 to create a series of performance pieces that will be performed around Kentucky and will provide an arena for young girls to become empowered as issues of sex, violence, love and innocence are presented to them in a thought-provoking manner.
Vivian Hoskins( Salyersville): $1,000 to write songs and produce a demo that incorporates the vocals of male singers singing songs that focus on female issues in an effort to challenge the current paradigm of gender roles found in traditional country music.
Barbara Houghton ( Alexandria): $1,300 to research and prepare images for an exhibition that will examine the process of invention through information provided by Galileo’s daughter, Celeste.
Rebecca Howell( Lexington): $3,700 to complete a book-length manuscript of poetry entitled Find Me. The poems in this collection seek the mystic connection between human erotic love and divine love.
Cass F. Irvin ( Louisville): $1,500 to help with the compilation of previously published work that discusses the issue of women with disabilities.
Holly Goddard Jones ( Lexington): $2,000 to create a body of short, literary fiction that reflects on the issue of working class culture and its sociological effects on women.
Lisa Kaplan( Lexington): $3,500 to create a one-hour documentary about women who grew up in families who operated the ferries and tug boats along the Kentucky River nearly one hundred years ago.
Gwendolyn L. Kelly( Louisville): $1,000 to develop a website and online community called Multipurposewoman.org, a gathering place for women to share and discuss the joys and challenges of living their everyday lives while creating art.
M. J. Kinman( Louisville): $1,000 to purchase the tools and acquire the education that will strengthen her ability to make quilts that incorporate feminist symbols and icons into a traditional art-form.
Lorna Littleway ( Louisville): $3,000 to develop an original cabaret theatre work about the African-American women singers of the 1920’s and 30’s who helped to make the Cotton Club a renowned entertainment institution during the Harlem Renaissance.
Nada M. Loutfi( Brooklyn): $1,500 to prepare a recording of the complete Etudes by Frederick Chopin, rarely performed by a female pianist, to be compiled from three live performances in Louisville .
Sarah Lyon ( Louisville): $1,000 to travel across the Midwest on motorcycle and reveal through photography the individual journeys of a group of women connected by history and their geographical location.
Glynis Mary McManamon( Louisville): $1,350 to attend a workshop in iconography in order to learn the techniques used by icon artists so that she can develop a series of "medicine chests" featuring women spiritual leaders and religious icons such as Mary, the mother of Jesus.
Beth McNeill( Louisville): $3,000 to create and produce a multi-generational dance concert focusing on the politics of the female body from the standpoint of eight women, each in different stages of their lives and their relation to dance.
Ellen Birkett Morris ( Louisville): $2,000 to attend a two-week writing retreat and a seven-day workshop to develop and revise a novel that deals with many of the issues that middle-school girls face, such as self-esteem, body image and peer pressure.
Lori O’Connor( Winchester): $1,000 to fund a five-month project to record, master, and duplicate a full-length music CD. The CD will contribute to the empowerment of women by increasing female presence in the male-dominated music industry, providing more positive images of women in music and conveying the messages of social change.
Tara Jane O’Neil( Louisville): $1,000 to further develop her work as an independent composer/songwriter, musician and producer, and to establish an open recording studio in Kentucky where women can record music in an accessible, supportive environment.
Joyce Ogden ( Louisville): $2,500 to create a new body of work that will allow her to explore various ideas about water and its relationship to women.
Kristi Papailler( Louisville): $1,935 to support the development and publication of a collection of feminist, consciousness-raising poetry.
Abbie Potter ( Louisville): $1,500 to write a novel about the struggles of two very different women and the way their lives intersect and enrich each other, and to attend the 2003 Appalachian Writers’ Workshop.
Rosetta Lucas Quisenberry ( Lexington): $2,960 to help fund the continued publication of a series of books that contain postcards from 1898 to the 1930’s that are both sexist and racist in an effort to educate the public about the social mindset during this period in history. The books will focus on the black woman, the black child and the black family.
Margaret Ricketts( Berea): $1,400 to purchase voice activated computer software that will enable her to continue to write socially conscious, feminist poetry without being limited by the discomfort related to her disability.
Rebekka Seigel ( Owenton): $ 1,000 to produce a series of quilts that depict famous women in history.
Alice Gray Stites ( Louisville): $1,000 to curate a retrospective exhibition of the works of Louisville painter Mary Ann Currier and prepare an essay about her works and life that would be part of an exhibition catalogue.
Millicent Straub ( Covington): $ 2,300 to produce a body of work that focuses on the faceless paintings of little girls who represent the victims of child sexual abuse.
Erika Strecker ( Lexington): $2,850 to acquire the tools needed to be a more creative and productive blacksmith artist, a field that has few women.
Felicia Szorad( Richmond): $6,100 to complete a series of full scale, metal dresses to accompany metal hats, bags and jewelry. The garment series communicates the artist’s ideas of duality and juxtaposition within femininity.
Brenda Weber( Lexington): $2,500 to develop an anthology to be called Fidelities: Staying True through Twenty-five Years of the Kentucky Women Writers Conference. The anthology would feature original selections of both fiction and non-fiction contributed by 10-15 writers drawn from the roughly 200 women who have attended the conference since its creation in 1979.
Juanita L. White( Louisville): $2,500 to research and write a script about Edith Wilson, a well-known Blues singer.
Patricia L. Zimmerman ( Louisville): $1,000 to gather oral histories from the women in her family in order to illustrate the strength they possessed and show how these strengths mirror those of other women in families similar to hers.
Media Working Group( Covington): $3,500 to support the production of a documentary about the Black Madonna. The documentary will show how the suppression and ouster of women from their traditional sacred roles over a thousand years ago is having catastrophic effects on the lives of women and Western society today.
Artist Enrichment Grantees for 2001
Constance Alexander( Murray): $3,000 to assist in the creation of Otherwise, a reader’s theatre piece based on interviews concerning end-of-life issues for women.
Nancy Kelly Allen( Hazard): $1,500 to write seven short picture books and one children’s book with a female protagonist whose stories take place under the culturally rich backdrop of Appalachia.
Julie Brooks Barbour ( Lexington): $1,000 to develop a manuscript of poems whose recurring themes are female sexuality, female relationships and male domination.
Aminata C. Baruti( Lexington): $3,000 to travel to Surinam to study her personal heritage in dance and song and teach community workshops.
Susan Caldwell ( Versailles): $2,500 to complete a novel about a circle of women friends, one of whom is dying of ovarian cancer.
Mary Carothers and Lisa Simon ( Louisville): $3,400 towards the completion of a collaborative project called Made-On Voyage that involves the construction of an art boat and the documentation of their travels and community outreach. They envision their journey to be a feminine and esoteric exploration of the landscape, thus leaving their path up to fate rather than traveling along a predetermined line.
Debra Clem( Louisville): $3,000 to create a series of varied and non-idealized portraits of women that challenge typical notions of how women should be portrayed.
Arwen Donahue ( Carlisle): $4,000 towards the completion of a novel that is loosely based on experiences from her own life in New Mexico before coming to Kentucky .
Amanda Forsting( Louisville): $1,000 towards the completion of A Sister Story, a novel for young adult women that discusses the struggles of the female protagonist’s efforts to overcome the effects of living in a home and community that casts females in stereotypical, negative roles.
Valerie Sullivan Fuchs ( Shelbyville): $3,400 to help fund the development of a video that documents the lives of unknown Kentuckiana women and a video installation that will demonstrate the ill-effects women experience from the constant barrage of violent, Hollywood films with women as the primary victims.
Roberta Guthrie( Lexington): $2,000 to play cello/piano music by women composers as a rebuttal to the statement, “All the great composers are white males.”
Ellen Hagan ( Bardstown): $2,000 towards the creation of America What?/I dream an America a solo performance piece based on interviews with young women (ages 15-18) in which issues specific to this age group are explored.
Barbara Hausman( Lexington): $2,400 to support residency and professional development conferences to finish a novel entitled Head and Master, based on her experiences as an attorney who argued before the Supreme Court an equal protection case that overturned a law that was unconstitutionally discriminatory towards women.
Kiya Heartwood and Miriam Davidson ( Stamping Ground): $3,900 to record and duplicate a new CD that brings diverse communities together and empowers women and other disenfranchised people to create change and social awareness through music.
Judy K. Jones ( Hazard): $3,400 to refine a series of essays about an Appalachian woman’s transition from living in rural coal-mining town to living in a urban part of Kentucky where she practices law.
Nailah Jumoke( Louisville): $1,000 for vocal coaching and the production of a CD that pays homage to female jazz singers.
Christine Kuhn ( Lexington): $3,000 to support an artist residency and to develop a series of encaustic paintings of female power symbols.
Addie B. Langford( Louisville): $3,400 to purchase new equipment and to support the creation of a body of work that shows resect for the female form and will result in an exhibit.
Barbara Levy( Louisville): $1,000 to participate in art classes for self-development and assist the funding of mural project/art classes for inner city youth and elderly participants.
Pamela J. McMichael( Prospect): $1,000 to write a series of children’s books focused on building cross-cultural understanding through the stories of girl children and women from locations all over the world.
Marquerite V. Murnau( Louisville): $3,400 to create and cast in bronze a series of 10 related sculptural figures exploring feminist themes as part of a solo exhibit.
Alice H. Noel( Bowling Green): $3,400 to develop the kitchen unit in a project called At Home in collaboration with Judy Chicago, a nationally known feminist, social change artist.
Tammy Rastoder( Rockfield): $1,000 to support the completion of a novel about a gospel family group in rural Kentucky . The female protagonist of the story begins to question the patriarchal religious teachings of her childhood and makes the necessary steps to face these beliefs head-on.
Davie M. Reneau( Glasgow, KY): $3,400 to build an anagram kiln in Glasgow and to support the Women in the Woods project.
Margaret Ricketts ( Berea): $1,000 to fund a stay at a writer’s colony and compile a manuscript of her first volume of poetry that will explore issues related to such topics as feminism and disability.
Jontyle Theresa Robinson( Louisville): $4,000 to research and tell the story of Eugenia Dunn (b. 1918), an African American teacher, visual artist and scientist from Henderson , KY.
Brooke Salisbury ( Lexington): $3,500 to help fund a writing workshop with the women of Chrysalis House. Participants will perform their work and the artist will make anthologies of their writings.
Sandy Miller Sasso( Almo): $3,000 to purchase art supplies and books; travel to Sienna, Italy, to conduct research, photograph, and sketch architectural structures; and the support Journey, a body of work that illustrates the different phases in women’s lives.
Kelly Scullin and Carrie Neumayer ( Louisville): $3,000 to produce, record, and distribute a full-length album for the Second Story Man band. The group is dedicated to increasing female presence in the music industry and contributing to the betterment of women’s images in music.
Cheryl L. Skinner( Louisville): $5,000 to help fund a residency in New York City and the continued development of music that will pay homage to the great contributions and influences of Kentucky’s African-American women.
Christina St. Clair ( Rush): $1,000 towards the completion of a four-book series of historical fiction for young adults focusing on strong women characters from diverse backgrounds.
Ruowei Strange( Louisville): $3,500 to travel and research her second novel, Under a Moonlit Sun, concerning post-cultural revolution China and its effects on the life of her female protagonist, Chen Shobi.
Sheila Carol Sullivan ( Louisville): $4,400 to create and exhibit a series of nine to twelve paintings of regional women who have been abused and who live in shelters or on the streets.
Kopana Terry( Lexington): $4,000 to improve darkroom facilities and the continued development of her current photographic series, Side Unseen, which is about the treatment of thoroughbred horses and the women who work on horse farms - to be exhibited in Lexington.
Kaylynn S. TwoTrees ( Covington): $4,000 to create a lunar book of days (13 lunar cycles) calendar demonstrating how women’s bodies are linked with lunar cycles.
Katy Yocom( Louisville): $1,000 towards the completion of Tales from a Dot.com Marriage, a novel that illustrates the life of an intelligent, educated woman who finds herself living in direct opposition to her feminist/egalitarian ideals.
Squallis Puppeteers ( Louisville): $2,500 towards the purchase of a public address system, lights, and a video projector that will be used to support on-going work with puppet performances on feminist themes.
Artist Enrichment Grantees for 2000
Samara Anjelae( Paris): $3,000 to complete her autobiography, and perform storytelling and presentations based on it.
Kokumoh Baderinwa ( Louisville): $1,000, an encouragement grant for poetry.
Linda Elisabeth Beattie( Louisville, KY) $3,000 to research and write a book with chapters particular to women’s issues.
Judy Rae Cavagnero ( Lexington): $3,000 to research and write about women’s stories in several genres.
Sandra Charles( Louisville): $1,000, an encouragement grant for fiber work.
Karin Ciholas ( Danville): $3,000 to continue work on a collection of short stories.
Kimberly C. Clay( Winchester): $3,000 to research and write biographical storybooks about African-American women in Kentucky for pre-teen girls.
Joan Dance ( Paducah): $1,000 to produce a newsletter dealing with positive values, especially in African-American community.
Laura Lee Duncan-O’Connell (Morehead):$6,500 to create oral herstory performance with slides, paintings, sculpture.
Janet Carey Eldred ( Lexington): $3,000 to complete her book, Composition: Essays--Academic, Personal & Public.
Nancy Gall-Clayton( Louisville): $3,000 to write several short plays about lesser known women in Kentucky ’s history.
Cass F. Irvin ( Louisville): $4,500 to complete a memoir chronicling growing up a disabled women without a culture or role models.
Nancy C. Jones( Lexington): $3,500 to develop a movement/theatre performance piece based on myth of Sumerian goddess Inanna.
Brenda Kiefer and Kimberly Lawless ( Louisville): $4,000 to create an experimental interactive book using story and collage.
Susan E. King( Mount Vernon): $3,500 to complete a book with original and historic photographs and narrative about her return to Kentucky .
Lorna Littleway( Louisville): $6,000 to produce an original play and publish a collection of gay-themed plays.
Karen J. Mann( Louisville): $1,000, an encouragement grant for writing.
Kristina McGrath( Louisville): $1,000, an encouragement for writing.
Sara O’Bryan ( Louisville): $1,000, an encouragement grant for writing.
Elizabeth Oakes and Jane Olmsted ( Bowling Green): $4,500 to publish a collection of short fiction by Kentucky feminists.
Letitia Quesenberry ( Louisville): $ 3,000 to create a body of oil paintings based on her family’s 8mm films.
Alberta Waddell Rutter( Louisville): $1,000 to talk to middle and high school students about older females of all races.
Nandini Shastry ( Worthington): $4,500 for a series of workshops for girls focusing on self-esteem, technology, and writing.
Anne Shelby( Oneida): $4,500 to develop a full-length print collection of Appalachian folk tales featuring girls or women as heroes.
Millicent Straub ( Covington): $7,500 to produce a series of new paintings.
Gloria Wachtel( Louisville): $5,000 to survey women throughout Kentucky and use the data to produce a traveling sculptural installation.
Beth Curlin Weber ( Berea): $4,000 to write a book focusing on Kentucky women and breast cancer.
Gayle Williamson ( Louisville): $4,000 to work with homeless women in creating a stitchery exhibit.
Media Working Group( Covington): $7,000 for pre-production of a documentary that explores the emergence of scholarly/esoteric feminist theological writing, research, and art.
