The organizations selected exemplify the Art and Social Justice initiative’s areas of interest – arts education, art in service and community centers, artistic activism, community-based museums, expanded access to art, public art, and under-recognized artistic practices.
2016 Grant Recipients
Artistic Activism
Abrons Arts Center I Henry Street Settlement
Art Beyond Sight
The Center for Artistic Activism
Center for Urban Pedagogy
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
Council On The Arts & Humanities For Staten Island (DBA Staten Island Arts)
Culture Push, Inc.
PARTICIPANT INC
Ping Chong + Company
Queens College/Queens Museum- Social Practice Queens (SPQ)
Vera List Center for Art and Politics, The New School
Visual AIDS
Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.)
The Working Theater, Inc.
Art in Community and Service Centers
Gina Gibney Dance, Inc.
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Community Center
PEPATIÁN
RxArt Inc.
Arts Education
Center for Architecture
Center for Book Arts
Children’s Museum of Art
Community-Word Project
Cool Culture
Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc.
Friends of Materials for the Arts
El Museo del Barrio
New Museum of Contemporary Art
ProjectArt
Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling
Community-Based Museums
Bronx Museum of Art
Brooklyn Museum
Queens Museum
Socrates Sculpture Park
The Studio Museum in Harlem
Weeksville Heritage Center
Public Art
CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities
Casita Maria, Inc.
Creative Time
FiveMyles
Freshkills Park Alliance
More Art
National Audubon Society
Times Square District Management Association (DBA Times Square Alliance)
Under-Recognized Artistic Practice
Foundation for Contemporary Arts
New York Foundation for the Arts
Triangle Arts Association
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