Artist Enrichment 2024 | (Berea) $4,557 to develop their practice and palette as a wild-craft pigment maker focused on using colors harvested from the KY area. They will utilize variety of different practices for producing pigments and explore techniques for exterior grade fresco painting. These pigments will be used to illustrate a graphic novel that explores a mythological fable of our time designed to create social change.

Radical, Timely, Urgent 2024 | (Berea) $10,000 to support a pilot project called “Molecular Ecosystems,” a femme, queer, solar punk network of artists who will work together to form cross-sector collaborations and civic engagement. KFW funds will be used to train facilitators to nurture and develop local “eco-art pods,” that will be formed throughout Kentucky. These artist-groups will then engage in collaborative efforts to generate unique, localized solutions to public, municipal, business, non-profit and/or grassroots issues.

Artist Enrichment 2020 | (Berea) $7,000 to develop an arts and ecology program at The Pinnacles, which is a nature preserve in Berea, using multi-layered interventions (including research/experimentation, education, and creation). This will provide both formal and informal educational opportunities, create spaces for play and wonder, and build bridges across exclusionary divides by inviting femme and femme-queer artists of color to lead aspects of the programming as this process unfolds.

Art Meets Activism 2020 | (Berea) $3,500 to gather stories and folklore about American Ginseng, create a puppet show, and offer Ginseng Sound Labs, a multi-sensory immersive experience of Ginseng’s medicine. This project will intentionally reconnect people from marginalized groups with the natural world in a way that may have been denied them throughout history.