Amira Karaoud
Media Artist
2022 Artist Enrichment Grant | (Louisville) $3,500 to acquire equipment needed to develop a new photo documentary that aims to preserve memories of the Martiki coal mine site in Appalachia. This project will help change the prevailing narrative and emphasize social, economic, and environmental issues while telling the stories of Appalachian women’s loss, belonging, and forced enclosure.
Previous Grants
2020 Art Meets Activism | (Louisville): $7,500 to put on a series of workshops for teen girls from the immigrant community in Louisville to teach them basic tools of journalism. The workshops will culminate in Girl Z report, a news platform run by teen girls that lifts barriers, uncovers the mystery about immigrants, promotes culture diversity, and celebrates our differences.
Chaney Williams
Visual Artist
2024 Artist Enrichment Grant | Elizabethtown, $5,000 to expand her skills and knowledge with textile arts to make “Remembering: A Homecoming into the Body” a series of altar cloths and garments that will visually represent the themes of ancestral grief/joy, spiritual ecology, and exploration of her ancestral lineage as a descendant of both enslaved people and colonizers. Through the fiber interpretations of her memoir this project will promote social change by raising awareness of racial justice, environmental justice, and intersectional feminism.