Art Meets Activism Grantees for 2007
Americana Community Center, Inc. ( Louisville): $ 7500 to provide instruction and development of fiber arts skills for a group of female Somali Bantu refugees, and to expand their personal identity, build social support networks, and develop leadership and literacy skills while expressing their cultural heritage.
Renée Ananda and AimMe Smiley ( Louisville): $ 3000 to present workshops on healing and empowerment through artistic expression for women who are survivors of abuse, and to create a multimedia performance celebrating women’s strength and survival.
Appalachian Heritage Alliance ( Campton): $ 5000 to provide a variety of workshops and classes incorporating the arts, information, and physical activity that will enable women to improve their health.
ArtsReach, an education program of the Kentucky Center, partnering with Louisville Central Community Center and Flamenco artist Diana Dinicola ( Louisville): $ 2500 to present summer workshops in flamenco dance for girls ages 12-15, to teach a healthy connection to their bodies, and to develop their self-confidence as they learn to express and appreciate themselves.
Cowan Community Action Group ( Whitesburg): $ 5000 to engage mid-life women from eastern Kentucky in a series of story-sharing, visual art, poetry and media workshops designed to unleash creativity, build self-worth and public confidence, and serve as a catalyst for increased public engagement.
Creative Diversity Art Center ( Louisville): $ 4000 to provide a series of eight workshops for women artists with bipolar and/or schizophrenic disorder to explore a wide range of successful female artists and their techniques, and to encourage artistic growth, improve self-esteem, and develop their relationships with each other.
Alecia Fields ( Lexington): $ 1000 to provide a variety of workshops and open space sessions during the Until the Violence Stops Festival that will empower girls and young women to make a difference on feminist issues in Kentucky by confronting violence, gender norms, and damaging social standards, using the arts as an outlet for exploration and self-expression.
Aubrey Elizabeth Franchell ( Lexington): $ 4000 to create a website that will feature feminist artists and their artwork, and will create an online forum promoting feminism and art.
Frank Duveneck Arts and Cultural Center ( Covington): $ 2000 to provide a series of creative writing workshops for women addressing social issues such as sexual health, abuse and addiction, culminating in two performances, which will be filmed and distributed to raise awareness about women's choices and personal power to affect positive social change in their community.
Melissa Fry ( Covington): $ 1400 to develop and implement a new Appalachian Art and Literature class that will focus on how Appalachian women used art to support their families.
Girl Scouts of Kentuckiana ( Louisville): $ 3500 to provide theatre-based workshops for three Girl Scout troops from diverse neighborhoods to learn about the art of storytelling and active listening, and to work collaboratively to turn their stories and those of their elders into live theatre.
Yolantha Harrison-Pace ( Danville): $ 2000 to distribute booklets and to prepare and publish a “town hall meeting” style community performance script to educate women and provide preventative strategies against domestic violence.
Home of the Innocents ( Louisville): $ 6000 to support its third annual summer art program for children and youth, focusing on helping the children to identify, improve, and express their feelings about women.
Juneteenth Legacy Theatre ( Louisville): $ 3500 to support staged readings, performances, and art development workshops for the Juneteenth Festival, the signature cultural program of the Juneteenth Legacy Theatre.
Kentucky Domestic Violence Association (Lexington): $3500 to support two theater productions which will be a part of the Until the Violence Stops: KY 2007 Festival and will focus on creating awareness about the impact of men’s violence against women and girls, thereby creating dialogue directed at creating solutions toward ending violence.
Kentucky Women Writers Conference ( Lexington): $ 4000 to bring a Palestinian-American poet to the conference for a workshop, panel discussion, and a reading, to foster tolerance and awareness of social problems and create important opportunities for rectifying injustice.
Doreen McElroy ( Monterey): $ 1000 to produce, tour and conduct informal discussion groups of her original one-woman performance piece, which encourages individuals and communities to take responsibility for the state of our society.
Mercer County Senior High School (Harrodsburg): $2000 to support the Community Poetry Project, a weekend writers’ conference, workshop, and symposium, featuring several published writers; and to produce an anthology of works from community members, students, and adults who show a vested interest in the welfare and progress of women.
Kelly and Joe Moffett ( Owensboro): $ 3000 to support a retreat for Kentucky women writers, offering workshops in poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and publishing; and to make the retreat accessible for women in all socio-economic positions.
PeaceCraft with Laura Poulette ( Berea): $ 2600 for a series of three workshops for women artists to create visual artwork illustrating fair trade principles and telling the stories of women artists and producers, and to host an exhibition of this artwork to promote fair trade.
Project Women, Inc. ( Louisville): $ 1000 to present a series of feminist writing workshops for single mothers who have experienced homelessness, to explore their lives through writing, build community, and gain confidence in using and projecting their own unique voices.
Janice Sevré-Duszynska ( Nicholasville): $ 3000 to compile and rewrite a prison journal of her three month incarceration for the nonviolent misdemeanor of “crossing the line” at Ft. Benning, GA to close the School of the Americas, which will address the connections between sexism and violence related to the military-industrial complex, and in human relationships.
Kathy Skaggs ( Campbellsville): $ 4000 to support a writing workshop for working class rural women in central Kentucky, continue the distribution of a poetry newsletter to rural Kentucky women without internet access, and to publish the writings of working class rural women.
Norma Spencer ( Lexington): $ 3000 to work with women in English as a Second Language (ESL) and Adult Literacy classes to create personal portraits, incorporating word and visual graphics, to encourage them to share their ideas and address their concerns.
Squallis Puppeteers and Angela Ramsey Robinson ( Louisville): $ 4500 to develop and facilitate an intensive workshop series combining puppetry, expressive therapy, and activism, culminating in Breast Fest, a festival to empower women, support breastfeeding mothers, provide community education about breastfeeding, and stimulate social change.
Marilyn Rose Swan ( Lexington): $ 2000 to present fiber arts workshops incorporating coloring and felting merino wool at a residential treatment center for teenage women, to enhance their confidence and self-respect.
Ilona Tackett ( Lexington): $ 2000 to develop and implement a teaching module curriculum for fourth through eighth grade students and art educators to participate in an in-depth study of women artists and visual culture, including contemporary feminist artists who use their art to foster social change.
Doris C. Thurber ( Frankfort): $ 4000 to work with teenage female artists to create a mural at a soup kitchen portraying women and foods from around the world, which will provide a welcoming and thought-provoking environment for the patrons and the community.
Lauren Titus ( Louisville): $ 1000 to present workshops that combine art, writing and relaxation exercises, to raise the self-esteem of individual women, and to enhance the feminist community in Kentucky.
Cynthia Torp ( Prospect): $ 4000 to design an educational Kentucky women's history website that will engage and evoke women and girls to action by presenting stories of the past and present in a powerful, interactive format; and that will act as an empowerment and advocacy tool for feminist action.
WKU Women's Studies Program ( Bowling Green): $ 2000 to present artistic workshops, classes and team-building activities for low-income women who have not attended college and their children, to improve their self-esteem, economic skills, and understanding of the opportunities for higher learning.
Yanya Yang ( Owingsville): $ 3000 to form a non-profit organization that will provide creative designs for websites and printed materials to non-profit groups focusing on women and children’s social and health issues in Kentucky.
Art Meets Activism Grantees for 2006
Alliance for Girls, Inc. ( Prospect): $3,140 to create Brave Girls, which uses digital storytelling to tell the little known story of the underground girl movement during World War II.
Arcadia Community Center and Americana Community Center ( Louisville): $3,681 for a collaborative project in which women from the Somali Bantu community in Louisville will come together to learn and practice various fiber art techniques.
Trish Ayers ( Berea): $3,500to present a year-long seminar for Kentucky women playwrights, during which participants will learn playwriting techniques while dramatizing issues that impact their lives.
Birth Care Network of Kentuckiana ( Louisville): $3,500 to express to a wider audience the organization's message, that childbirth is more than a routine medical procedure, by producing Birth, the Play .
Bluegrass Printmakers’ Cooperative (BPC) ( Lexington): $1,445 to provide education in printmaking by offering workshops for community service groups and by facilitating an invitational exhibit.
Robin D. Bowen ( Muldraugh): $6,837to provide a series of workshops in Native American arts and culture for women who have never received their rite of womanhood ceremony.
Cora Brown ( Louisville): $1,000 to facilitate conversations through video between at-risk African American high school girls and African American elder women.
California Block Club Federation, Inc . ( Louisville): $7,385for Glass is Not Trash, a program in which neighbors in this west-end Louisville community will come together to create powdered glass beads out of collected or saved glass bottles.
The Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning ( Lexington): $2,900 for the Young Women Writers Project, in which young women will mentor high school girls as they examine issues that concern them through writing and performance techniques.
Katie Fraser Carpenter ( Murray): $1,000to develop a scholarly article and a play script based on a little-known book that describes the lives of Western Kentucky women in 1888.
The David School ( David): $3,715 for a digital media artist to work with 12 girls at this alternative high school, encouraging them to express their own stories and their view of Appalachian culture through media art.
Nadia DeLeon ( Bowling Green): $1,500to provide a belly dance course for survivors of sexual assault, in an effort to allow the women to regain contact with their bodies and improve self-esteem.
Dominican Earth Center ( St. Catharine): $2,000 for a nature writing retreat in which culturally diverse women will explore sustainable living and earth literacy.
Cass Irvin ( Louisville): $2,900to produce In Time, a play about independence issues that affect aging women and women with disabilities, and to conduct a series of community chats around those issues.
Juneteenth Legacy Theatre ( Louisville): $2,900 to establish a core company of performing and teaching artists, which will create a greater sense of community for the annual Juneteenth Jamboree.
Regina Lang ( Louisville): $2,400 to conduct a four-engagement tour of The Bathroom Cleaner, a one-woman performance piece, for the purpose of starting a cross-cultural conversation about race, class, and discrimination.
Shayla Lawson ( Lexington): $2,650for an internship at an innovative research company in London, England, that will enable her to start a similar, non-profit organization in Kentucky.
Maryhurst ( Louisville): $3,680 to provide workshops in the traditional mandala art form to girls in the residential treatment program, with the goal of building positive self-image and confidence.
Marie Mitchell and Rebecca Mitchell Turney ( Richmond, Park Hills): $1,000 to begin a series of books for girls that features young heroines in historical Kentucky settings.
Kelly Moffett ( Owensboro): $2,000 for Kentucky's Retreat for Women Writers, to be held in Owensboro, during which women will convene and create for three days.
Judith Myers and Fran Ellers ( Louisville): $1,500 to edit and revise a doctoral thesis on early years of the birth control movement in Kentucky, and to make the story accessible to a wider audience.
Kentucky River Community Care, Inc. ( Jackson): $4,500 to work with several experienced artists to provide workshops for clients of the Rape Crisis Center and Caney Creek Rehabilitation Center that allow them to explore various means of creative self expression.
Northern Kentucky University, Art Department ( Highland Heights): $3,000 for a series of workshops in which NKU faculty will encourage young girls in their area to examine their lives through digital photography.
Open Ground ( Harrodsburg): $7,000to facilitate a three-day residential program for women artists and community organizers to come together with Winona La Duke to explore the use of art in positive social action.
Project Women, Inc. ( Louisville): $1,025 for a personal empowerment program in which participants create affirmation dolls that reflect their aspirations and dreams.
Jennifer A. Reis ( Olive Hill): $1,000 to work as an artist-in-residence, exploring identity through fiber art techniques, with the 21st Century Community Learning Center program at Rowan County Middle School.
Pam Rockwell ( Murray): $4,442 to offer a series of educational art workshops, in bookmaking and other forms, for mothers and teachers of children with developmental differences.
Erica Rucker ( Louisville): $2,000 to provide workshops in various art forms around the central theme "Self and the Body" for young women who were teenage parents or grew up in foster care.
Southern Kentucky Book Fest ( Bowling Green): $3,000 for workshops led by African American Kentucky author Sheila Williams, with the goal of strengthening the writing skills and personal expression of African American girls and women in Kentucky.
Wellspring ( Louisville): $4,000 for a feminist textile artist to work with the agency's art the rapist and a group of women clients who have been marginalized by society due to their severe and persistent mental illness.
WKU Women’s Studies Program ( Bowling Green): $3,800 to provide a weeklong learning experience at the Women and Kids Learning Together Summer Camp for low-income women who have not attended college and their children, during which they will participate in workshops in many areas of the arts with experienced feminist artists and teachers.
Pamala G. Wiley ( Louisville): $1,600 to lead a series of workshops for young minority women, in which they will research and create ten-minute plays about important women in the civil rights movement who also have connections to Louisville.
Williamsburg Action Team ( Williamsburg): $2,000 to create a collection of monologues based on the stories of African American women who are residents of Williamsburg and Jellico.
Natasha Lynn Wolford ( Belcher): $2,000 for a program in which at-risk teenage girls will create and perform monologues abouttheir life experience and views.
Art Meets Activism Grantees for 2005
ACLU of Kentucky ( Louisville): $6,000 for writer Fran Ellers to produce a book-length history of the reproductive rights movement in Kentucky, with the goal of building awareness of the importance of abortion rights for generations of Kentucky women.
Ann Andaloro and Julie A. Gawne (Morehead): $1,750 to interview women and girls in eastern Kentucky and produce a video addressing perception and awareness of role models in the region. Appalachian Heritage Alliance (Campton): $5,000 for Coping with Change through Creativity , a series of workshops that will introduce underserved women in Wolfe County to various means of artistic expression.
Arcadia Community Center ( Louisville): $5,300 to provide workshops in sewing and textile art to newly immigrated Somali Bantu women so they can create clothing and wall hangings that reflect their personal and cultural history.
Artists Collaborative Theatre, Inc. ( Elkorn City): $5,000 for production of the Kentucky Women's Playwright Festival.
Teri Blanton ( Berea): $1,750 to create digital stories in which women of the coalfields are empowered to speak about their lives and communities.
Patt Jackson Blue ( Paducah): $1,750 for Young Motherhood, in which the artist will collaborate with Paducah-area young mothers to create a series of photographs and writing.
Brick House ( Louisville): $1,000 for the Kentucky Women’s Art Collective to provide life drawing classes and discussion opportunities for disen-franchised women .
Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning ( Lexington): $4,900 to provide a series of workshops for young women ages 13-18, in which they will learn writing and performance techniques to explore issues that concern them. The Center for Women and Families, Inc. ( Louisville): $5,000 for two theatre artists and an art therapist to offer workshops in artistic self-exploration for residents of the Center for Women and Families, and to create a public performance and exhibit of the work they create.
The Children of Ruth, Inc. (Olive Hill): $5,500 for Mother Mentors, a community-based art program designed to promote personal and community transformation by involving local artists in teaching other women and girls.
Vaughan Fielder ( Lexington): $1,750 to photograph and interview mothers of children with disabilities, and to create a website to increase awareness about disability caretakers.
Genesis Arts / KY Inc., Dolores M. White ( Louisville): $2,000 for the second year of a program that provides dance classes to women and their daughters living in transitional safe housing.
Leigh Johnson ( Bowling Green): $1,140 to conduct poetry workshops for girls at an alternative high school in Simpson County and to produce a book of their poetry.
Marilyn Jones ( Louisville): $3,000 to obtain additional copies of her recently published children's book about AIDS in Africa, so that she can donate the books to schools and aid organizations.
Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression ( Louisville): $5,000 to fund a summer institute that will introduce 16 young women of color who are visual artists to advocacy, activism, and research in women's issues.
Annie Langan ( Louisville): $3,150 for Arts Electronic to organize and present a month-long exhibit, including artist lectures and panel discussions, of the Evolutionary Girl's Club's multi-media works.
D. Cameron Lawrence ( Louisville): $1,750 for the planning phase of a radio project titled The Citizen Conversations, a series of interviews with progressive thinkers, writers, and artists on the topic of citizenship. Louisville Arts Council, Inc. ( Louisville $1,500 for "This is what a Feminist Looks Like . . .", a series of performances, exhibits, workshops, and roundtables designed to convene local feminist artists and increase community consciousness about feminism.
Kimberly O’Donnell ( Paducah): $1,500 to teach a digital art workshop to children at the Oscar Cross Boys and Girls Club in Paducah. Susan Owens ( Lexington): $6,260 to prepare a series of essays and photographs based on interviews with diverse women residents of a low-income senior citizens housing complex.
Mimi Pickering, Appalshop (Whitesburg): $3,000 for production of a video documentary about the current life and history of Anne Braden, a nationally known civil rights activist from Kentucky.
The Pleiades Theatre Company ( Louisville): $5,000 to support the company's Internship and Outreach programs, which empower girls and women by giving them a voice through the theatre.
Portland Museum ( Louisville): $4,000 for a group of women called Community Curators to create an exhibit about Portland women's history and art.
Erica E. Rucker ( Louisville): $5,000 for teen mothers and pregnant teens at the Home of the Innocents to experience a series of workshops in various art forms.
Kathy Skaggs (Campbellsville): $1,000 for public readings from the artist's e-zine, with the goal of reaching out to rural working class Kentucky women. Brenda Wirth and Chris Doerflinger ( Louisville): $5,500 to create a collaborative landscape installation and performance piece in conjunction with women artists and community members.
Shannon Leigh Woolley ( Louisville): $2,500 for research and creation of a one-woman performance piece based on the oral histories of women in the military serving in Iraq.
Terry Wunderlich ( Louisville): $3,000 for a project in which women who are survivors of domestic violence or sexual abuse design and construct costumes expressing their fears and hopes.
Art Meets Activism Grantees for 2004
Teri Blanton ( Berea): $5,500 to create five digital stories focusing on the lives of women in coal-mining communities of Appalachian Kentucky.
Joan Brannon ( Lexington): $3,000 to produce a thirty-minute video in collaboration with students at the Kentucky School for the Deaf and staff of the Bluegrass Rape Crisis Center, to address issues of rape and sexual assault in the deaf community.
Fannie Mulder Brown ( Midway): $1,000 to hire a typist, so she can produce and publish her manuscript. She is writing her life story, which involves a childhood rape, and plans to use it to help other rape victims in their healing process.
Brenda Dick ( Monticello): $2,040 to construct a building on part of her property to use as an art studio as she further develops her work in gourd art and painting.
Amelia Kirby ( Whitesburg): $3,500 to support the ongoing Appalachian Women's Radio Project, which she directs and which is designed to bring young rural women's voices to the public through radio and internet.
Lorna Littleway ( Louisville): $4,000 to produce the annual Juneteenth Jamboree, which provides a community-wide forum for emerging and established artists (mostly women) to participate in a celebration-through-the-arts of African-American independence.
Lucinda Marshall ( Louisville): $2,000 to publish at least three essays and to conduct workshops on: the global pandemic of violence against women, the effects of militarism on women, and changing the patriarchal structures that foster this violence.
Monalisa Miller ( Verona): $4,735 to provide weekly instruction in the ceramic arts to six "at-risk" teenage girls from the Gallatin County school district, culminating in two public exhibitions of the girls' work.
Paula Quinn ( Bowling Green): $1,000 to create a performance piece called The Suicide Monologues, giving healing voice to the stories of women whose lives have been touched by suicide.
Sharon Scott ( Louisville): $4,200 to connect indigenous female doll-makers in Chiapas , Mexico with local Hispanic women immigrants, through teaching the local women doll-making using ancient techniques and materials from Chiapas .
Judy Sizemore and Jamie Johnson ( McKee): $4,800 to develop and distribute the first two issues of Lavinia, a magazine that will celebrate the accomplishments of Appalachian women in traditional and nontraditional roles and offer a forum for intergenerational discussion.
Norma Spencer ( Lexington): $4,500 to help Hispanic and Latino women who are ESL students at "Bluegrass Literacy" create and perform scripts that reflect their social, economic, and political concerns.
Anna Stone ( Louisville): $4,000 to facilitate a dialogue among a group of eight women who have migrated from rural Appalachian Kentucky to Louisville, examining issues of cultural loss, displacement, and changes in identity.
Pat Sturtzel ( Louisville): $4,465 to conduct expressive art activities at Caritas Peace Center with a group of ten to twelve women suffering chronic mental illness, culminating in a two-week exhibit of the women's artwork.
Cynthia Torp ( Louisville): $3,000 to create media and display components for a traveling interactive exhibit on domestic violence in Kentucky, which will be placed in public locations such as shopping malls, hospital lobbies, and libraries.
Katherine Valentine ( Louisville): $4,160 to create Anonymous Women, a series of mixed-media portraits of women living under the protection and care of a local women's shelter.
Julia Youngblood ( Louisville): $3,000 to create an installation at the Seed Gallery to educate the public and challenge them about the widespread archaeological desecration of Native American sites in the Southeast.
Artists Collaborative Theatre, Inc. ( Elkhorn City): $3,000 to work with five women playwrights and produce the Kentucky Women's Playwriting Festival in Elkhorn City .
Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning ( Lexington): $4,700 to offer a series of fall writing workshops for high school girls ages 13-18, culminating in a performance.
Feminist League of Organized Resistance (FLOR) ( Louisville): $1,400 to produce two issues of an ongoing, feminist "zine" (little magazine) called Nonissue, one offering a feminist guide to Louisville and one focusing on radical politics.
Genesis Arts / KY: Dolores White ( Louisville): $3,000 to enhance an existing dance program for women and their daughters living in transitional safe housing at the Center for Women and Families (West Campus).
Genesis Arts / KY: LaVon Fisher ( Louisville): $3,000 to conduct a week-long workshop for teenage girls, focusing on traditional African cultural rituals and dance, to promote an increased sense of self-worth, virtue, and leadership among the participants.
Hispanic Latino Coalition, Inc. ( Louisville): $1,000 to hire artist Pamela Rojas to conduct a therapeutic visual arts workshop this summer for Hispanic and Latino women of diverse socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds.
Kentucky Shakespeare Festival ( Louisville): $3,000 to enable actor Liz Bussey Fentress to conduct the interactive performance workshop, Shakespeare's Women, in twelve high schools located in the state's most rural and low-income counties.
Murray State University , Dept. of Music ( Murray): $4,000 to present the fourth biennial Athena Festival and Competition in March 2005, a week-long celebration of music written by women.
Pleiades Theatre Company ( Louisville): $5,000 to expand its Internship Program, which teaches girls from grades 8-12 the technical skills needed to stage a theatre production, and to establish an Outreach Program for under served girls and women in Jefferson County.
Rainbow Community Music of Louisville, Inc. ( Louisville): $6,000 to pay artist fees for its 2002 Living Out Loud festival, highlighting singer/songwriters whose music is feminist, LGBT-friendly, and anti-racist, and who are under served by mainstream values.
The Kentucky Women Writers Conference ( Lexington): $6,000 to bring the U.S. Poet Laureate, Louise Gluck, and the apprentice of her choice, Dana Levin, to participate in the Hardwick/Jones Reading Series in 2005.
Williamsburg Action Team ( Williamsburg): $1,000 to bring artist Angelyn de Bord to Williamsburg, KY, to write a play with a group of Appalachian teenage girls about Cornblossom, a female Cherokee chief in the Whitley/McCreary County area in the 1880s.
Art Meets Activism Grantees for 2003
Suzanne Adams ( Louisville): $5,000 for the M.A.D.D. Gurlz program, in which girls will experience an arts-integrated program of “hands-on” activities in music, movement, drawing, sculpture, painting, writing, printing and drama.
Jeanie Adams-Smith ( Bowling Green): $3,870 to document through photography how children cope with divorce in order to help children of divorce and their caregivers. The completed book of photo essays will follow 30 children for three years.
Layla Al-Shami ( Louisville): $4,000 to implement a music and piano education program at the Wildflower Foster Care facility that will provide a therapeutic, encouraging, and esteem-building learning environment for the adolescent girls who reside there.
Nana Yaa Asantewaa ( Louisville): $2,115 to utilize theatre in the form of dialogue, personal narrative, and movement to create a rites of passage workbook with the girls participating in the Sankofa Girls Camp for Art Activism.
Bruce Burris ( Lexington): $2,880 to showcase the work of Della Mae Bullens, a sixty-nine year old physically and mentally challenged woman who creates doll clothes. The clothes will be showcased at The Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning in Lexington and at the Idea Festival in 2004.
Nell Cox ( Frankfort): $3,230 to distribute a video that featues women activists, women policymakers, women leaders, and women directly affected by bills introduced before the legislature. The filmmaker will organize screenings and discussions at high schools, colleges, civic groups and women’s groups.
Karen Edwards-Hunter ( Louisville): $4,000 to produce a play that focuses on African American lesbians or bisexuals who live marginalized lives because of the treatment they receive from family members, peers and associates.
Randi Ewing and Sara Anderson ( Lexington): $3,000 to organize community storytelling events showcasing the stories of Mexican women immigrants living in Kentucky and of their mothers at home in Mexico .
Freda Fairchild ( Paducah): $4,910 to conduct a series of expressive workshops which will lead women in a Western Kentucky women’s shelter toward a stronger sense of self through the creation of personal art biographies that express in words and images their struggles with abuse.
Jorena Faulkner ( Upton): $2,000 to produce, record and distribute a 12-song CD of original works fostering a reaffirmation of strength in women through empowering lyrics with feminist views incorporating female and male vocals.
Oyo Fummilayo ( Danville): $2,000 to record, publish and perform the oral stories that were given to women by their mothers. Intergenerational dialogues will focus on how women are taught or not taught social values regarding their roles as first teachers to their daughters, sisters and friends and will compare storytelling experiences of Kentucky women with those of African women.
Rachel Grimes and Denine LeBlanc ( Louisville): $2,000 to fund the Fall 2003 Piano Concert Series by Kentuckian Denine LeBlanc, which will feature a newly commissioned work by Rachel Grimes. This program, which will be performed in regional concert halls, will feature the musical work of both women and will demonstrate the empowerment of music commissioned by a woman.
Amelia Kirby ( Whitesburg): $3,000 to support the Appalachian Women Radio Project, a multi-media arts project designed to bring young rural women’s voices to the public through the airwaves and internet.
Christine Kuhn ( Lexington): $5,230 to establish a group of ten young female artists who will review feminist literature and art, critique one another’s work, and produce a performance/exhibit about feminist issues.
Sue Massek ( Willisburg): $2,000 to use arts-based activities to bring together women in Eastern Kentucky to reflect upon their own lives and experiences, to connect their struggles with those of other women in the region, and to begin to develop the skills, confidence, and political analysis necessary to challenge the prevailing patriarchy.
Eren McGinnis ( Lexington): $5,000 to produce a feature-length documentary on the lives of five people in a small Mexican town called Juchitan utilizing the talents of local women filmmakers.
Denise McKinney ( Berea): $6,000 to collect 50 poems and artists’ statements from women of various faith traditions in southeastern kentucky who write poetry as prayers of supplication, adoration, and healing, as well as addressing injustices and other related topics. The poems will be published, and the poets will be invited to participate in a retreat focusing on women’s writing as a spiritual journey.
Elizabeth Oakes and Jane Olmsted ( Bowling Green): $4,000 to edit and publish a volume of essays entitled I to I: Life Writing by Kentucky Feminists that will showcase both emerging and established Kentucky feminist writers.
Michele Pullen ( Louisville): $2,000 to host a play development workshop for a diverse group of middle-school age girls that will explore the theme of friendships between women within the historical context of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln and her personal maid and dressmaker, former slave, Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley.
Anna Sapozhnikov ( Louisville): $4,000 to create and produce an evening-length healing dance work entitled Last Lullabies to be performed in non-traditional dance spaces in and around Louisville . The dance will integrate women of different ages and backgrounds from the Louisville community who have experienced the impact of breast cancer in their lives.
Anne Shelby ( Oneida): $2,115 to research and write a one-woman show based on the life of Kentucky labor organizer and folksinger Aunt Molly Jackson and to take one free performance of this show to communities in Southeastern Kentucky where Aunt Molly Jackson lived and worked.
Synthia Shelby ( Louisville): $4,300 to aid young women who have been the victims of abuse in the healing and building of self-esteem through journaling workshops and the creation of an anthology.
Artswatch ( Louisville): $5,000 to support their 2003 feminist programs, including exhibitions and performances by KFW grant recipients and other women artists and performers who are making strong feminist statements with their work.
Dominican Earth Center ( St. Catharine): $1,500 to lead a group of 20 diverse women in a writing retreat at the Dominican Earth Center . The women will explore the connectedness between the earth and themselves.
Genesis Arts / KY Inc. ( Louisville): $2,000 to provide through dance a better understanding of four African cultures: Wodaabe, Hassania, Yoruba and Ghanaian. The participants in this project will be young women ages 10-18.
Juneteenth Legacy Theatre ( Louisville): $2,000 to support the Juneteenth Jamboree of New Plays hosted by Actors Theatre. The purpose of this project is to provide a venue for emerging and establishing artists from diverse disciplines to create a month-long, community-wide celebration of African-American Independence that emulates the original Juneteenth celebration in 1865.
Kentucky Theater Project ( Louisville): $1,230 to develop a series of films made by independent women directors that address the under representation and misrepresentation of women in the media.
Southeast Community College Appalachian Program ( Cumberland): $6,870 to support a collaboration between Rose Cohelia of Harlan and Joyce Ogden of Louisville as they work with students at Spalding University and a broad coalition of Harlan County residents to create a series of tile mosaic public art installations in Harlan County.
The Kentucky Women Writers Conference ( Lexington): $4,750 to support bringing noted Palestinian-American writer Naomi Shihab Nye to the 25th annual KWWC, March 25-27, 2004 . The theme for the Conference is History in the Making: Choosing to Participate. Nye would participate in readings panel discussions, and small-group workshops
Art Meets Activism Grantees for 2002
Suzanne Adams ( Louisville): $7,500 to support the Girls Art program, an after-school arts program for 7th & 8th grade girls. It will be comprised of 25 two-hour sessions for 20 girls, aged 11-13, in a racially diverse low income middle school in the south end of Louisville . The girls will study, observe, and participate in art making.
Mary Brydon-Miller ( Louisville): $7,478 To help fund Community Building through Cloth, bringing together artists from the Louisville Area Fiber and Textile Artists (LAFTA) with refugee women under the auspices of Catholic Charities Migration and Refugee Serices Program to engage in dialogue about their shared interest in fiber arts. This project creates an opportunity for refugee women and LAFTA artists to interact by art making and reflecting about their own lives and heritage. The LAFTA members will also mentor the refugee women during the process of coming to understand U.S. culture.
Betty Carter ( Monticello): $1,500 to support her first person account of growing up in Eastern Kentucky and performing Women in History at state parks in Kentucky .
Christina Estrada ( Louisville): $4,000 t o write a book based on a program dealing with community, self-reflection, and self-actualization for adolescent females in a residential facility.
Rebecca Katz ( Morehead): $7,500 to facilitate publication of essays in the first bi-annual issue of the Women’s Studies Kentucky Appalachian Women and Social Change magazine.
Mary Ellen Klatte ( Lexington): $1,500 to conduct public education and outreach for a book on the life of Viebie Catron Cantrell, who lived from 1904-1998 and kept a chronicle of her life in 60 years of diaries, 3 books of unpublished poetry and an unpublished autobiography.
Ronni Lashbrook ( Berea): $1,000 to offer job-shadowing opportunities for 10-15 young women (ages 10-16) in Central Kentucky to learn the art of clowning. The girls will learn how clowning is a performance art fostering creativity and the ability to think quickly.
D. Cameron Lawrence ( Louisville): $5,200 to produce a 30-minute radio documentary called Sisters in Pain based on the book profiling the battered women who killed their abusers, were incarcerated, and then paroled by the Governor of Kentucky.
Judith Owens-Lalude ( Louisville): $2,000 to implement a children’s book writing workshop bringing together senior women in Louisville and special needs teenagers.
Lorena Parker ( Owensboro): $1,000 to pay performance fees for The Reel World String Band as part of the Celebrating Women’s Right to Vote: 1920-2002 event, a public forum celebrating the 19th Amendment.
Kathleen Parks ( Louisville): $1,500 to help fund What’s up with Willie Lynch?, workshops and discussions for young African American women to show how they have been impacted by the ideas associated with Willie Lynch, a slaveowner in 1712 who devised a plan for slaveholders to keep their slaves in bondage.
Evelyn Seals ( Middlesboro): $1,000 to write a book based on interviews with women care-givers for persons suffering from mental illness. It may also include some of the patients’ stories.
Judy Sizemore ( McKee): $4,000 to write a short book based on oral history interviews with seven American Indian women in Kentucky including an appendix of information on the traditional and contemporary Native American cultures to which these women belong.
Joyce Chaddic Wagner ( Louisville): $6,500 to implement a cultural arts program which includes dance, storytelling, music and visual art. This program is for homeless women who are single parents and their children.
Pamala Wiley ( Louisville): $1,000 to engage a group of 10 to 12 women in creative art making. The first session includes participation in music making and painting. The second session includes analysis and design.
Marjory Riley Wilson ( Emlyn): $2,975 to write an autobiography called Healing Hill, and establish a web site exposing the injustices to women and the environment in Eastern Kentucky .
Artswatch ( Louisville): $7,500 to fund feminist art components of their 2002-2003 presenting program. The season will include a solo exhibition by a KFW grant recipient, an installation by KFW-funded artist, Mary Carothers, group shows such as the Creepy Dolly Invitational and Technology Showcase (which include artists with strong feminist perspectives), The Louisville Film and Video Festival, six Monday Music Series performances by women composers and performers, and three performances that deal with feminist issues.
Council on Mental Retardation ( Louisville): $2,500 to help fund a two-part project, designed for women who are caregivers of children/persons with developmental disabilities. In Part One, 25 women caregivers will construct 3-D representations, illustrating the sources of energy that sustain them. Part Two is a written description of their visual projects and their meaning.
Juneteenth Legacy Theatre ( Louisville): $7,500 to assist in producation of twelve new plays exemplifying the five Juneteenth themes: 1)new images of women, 2) contemporary issues and the African-American youth, 3) the pre and Harlem Renaissance Era, 4) 19th Century African-American experience and 5) Caribbean/Native American influences on African-Americans.
Murray State University, Dept. of Music ( Murray): $5,000 to fund the Athena 2003 Festival and Competition devoted to the study and performance of music written by women. The 2003 festival will host an extended choral event for students of all ages and will also include a visiting music/feminist scholar and MSU faculty chamber recital in which a new song cycle written by a woman will be premiered. The Athena Festival reaches a broad cross section of women and men in western Kentucky and across the nation.
Pleiades Theatre Company ( Louisville): $5,000 to plan and implement a weekend long seminar to strengthen the quality of women theatre directors in Kentucky . Pleiades will identify four women theatre directors to lead the seminars and open the seminar to 10 participants from across the state.
R.O.P.E. Inc - RAHAB house ( Radcliff): $3,600 to develop a musical/dance program for women and young girls in this assistance program. During each of the four, 6-week sessions the women and girls will compose a dance or music to express their life experiences. At the end of each session, a community “Night of Expression” will be presented to encourage the performing arts.
Spalding University ( Louisville): $4,000 to begin a comprehensive collection of literary titles (poetry, fiction, nonfiction and plays, as well as critical texts) focusing on the works of Kentucky women. The collection will be archived at Spalding University ’s library and available to anyone who wishes to study and enjoy these texts.
U of L African American Theatre Program ( Louisville): $5,000 to support the Sixth Annual Juneteenth Festival of New Works: A Cultural Celebration of Emancipation! The Celebration includes theatre, performance, exhibits, film, lecture demonstrations, youth events, annual play writing contest and other interactive forums to educate and inform the public about social issues related to class, race, gender equity and human rights in our nation with a specific focus on the female voice in America.
Art Meets Activism Grantees for 2001
Nana Yaa Asantewaa ( Louisville): $1,000 to encourage her as presenter/artist at Ghana festival in developing cultural exchange between Ghanaian and KY women
Gabrielle Beasley, Judy Sizemore, Pat Banks, and Joann Guilfoil ( Hyden): $5,000 to develop team of feminist environmental arts activists and establish network of same with community leaders in eastern Kentucky .
Sharon Cecil ( Louisville): $5,000 to work with young women and assist them in creating a book
Tamara Fitzpatrick ( Louisville): $1,000 to continue photographing women involved in the Irish Peace Movement.
C.J. Fletcher ( Louisville): $6,000 to provide art instruction to at-risk African-American youth, primarily females, and exhibit their work and have an art auction.
Sarah Lynn Hall ( Richmond): $5,000 to coordinate women artists to teach Appalachian women about traditional arts.
Laura Hartford ( Louisville): $4,000 to create an experimental documentary exploring the history of murder ballad and the real issue of domestic murder.
Bani Hines-Hudson ( Louisville): $5,000 to empower African-American girls through the arts.
Leatha Kendrick ( East Point): $2,000 to create a book about the process of writing during or after illness and crisis.
Amelia Kirby ( Whitesburg): $4,500 to create a five-part radio series on effects of prison industry on lives of women in Eastern Kentucky .
Janie Render ( Louisville): $1,000 to create a book of poetry based on interviews with women infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.
Samiyra Shabazz ( Louisville): $2,500 to assist in developing a music video.
Synthia Shelby ( Louisville): $2,125 for writing workshops, panel discussions and open- mike poetry sessions.
Jandira Shelley ( Harrodsburg): $2,500 to offer free beginning pottery classes to women in Whitley County , Kentucky .
Pamala Wiley ( Louisville): $3,000 to showcase music at a June cultural festival, fund travel to Mali , and instruct others in drumming.
Laverne Zabielski ( Lexington): $2,500 to expand her art community to Wayne County, Kentucky, and complete a CD book project.
Appalachian Heritage Alliance, Inc. ( Campton): $4,000 to sponsor a series of Women’s Wellness Weekends for women to retreat, create and recharge.
Artswatch ( Louisville): $3,000 to support women’s art exhibitions, music series and theatrical performances.
Council on Mental Retardation ( Louisville): $5,475 to offer women caregivers the opportunity to express experiences of caring for those with disabilities.
Jefferson Community College ( Louisville): $1,000 for PALS, forum for girls to create.
Juneteenth Legacy Theatre ( Louisville): $7,500 to support a summer festival at Actors Theatre.
Pleiades Theatre Company ( Louisville): $4,500 for performance of six 10-minute plays about immigrant women.
PNEUMA ( Louisville): $1,000 for two performances by young inner city artists exploring culture heritage and overlap of African-American and Latino influences.
Project AIMM ( Nerinx): $1,000 to interview and record the stories of retired Catholic sisters.
The Kentucky Women Writers Conference ( Lexington): $5,900 for expenses of female Mexican-American writer at 2002 writers conference for outreach/writing classes.
UK Special Collections & Archives ( Lexington): $2,000 for restoration of film honoring 19th century Kentucky women.
Welcome House of Northern Kentucky, Inc. ( Covington): $3,000 for a collaborative project with women and children discovering commonalities in personal stories, developing an original theatre piece.
WKU Women’s Studies Program ( Bowling Green): $2,000 to support a project with feminist artist Judy Chicago, who will work with students in transforming a two-story house into an art installation.
Working Class Kitchen ( Lexington): $7,500 to identify and assist women interested in being community arts organizers.
