Anonymous Was A Woman (AWAW) and The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) have announced the recipients of the Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grants (AWAW EAG) program, which provides one-time grants of up to $20,000 to support environmental art projects led by women-identifying artists nationwide. The program awarded a total of $250,000 in funding to artists from states and territories including California, Kansas, Louisiana, New York, Puerto Rico (Borikén), and Texas. Selected projects use a range of media to address soil, air, and water pollution; colonialism and its environmental and human impact; and climate change issues including coastal erosion—many which directly involve and engage affected communities.
The AWAW EAG program supports environmental art projects that inspire thought, action, and ethical engagement. The intended impact of the project was an important factor in the selection process. The applications were reviewed by an esteemed panel comprising Patricia Watts, founder/curator of ecoartspace; Angie Tillges, Great River Passage Fellow, City of Saint Paul, MN; and Alicia Grullón, conceptual multimedia artist, educator, and organizer. Each of the selected projects will have a public engagement component which will be completed by June 2023. See below for more on each of the selected projects:
Tierrafiltra
Amara Abdal Figueroa
SUBSURFACE
Erika Bolstad
Bellow Forth
Kaitlyn Bryson
modjeskamodjeskamodjeska
paris cyan cian in collaboration with Cameron Mitchell Ware and jeremy de’jon
Prospering backyards
Maru Garcia, Self Help Graphics, and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
WE ARE HERE/ESTAMOS AQUI
Michelle Glass
The Magic Valley y Nuestra Delta Mágica: settler imaginaries and community resistance
Nansi Guevara and Monica Sosa
Into the Unknown Together
Autumn Leiker
Winter Species
Shanjana Mahmud and Luke Eddins
Flint Hills Counterpoint
Cyan Meeks and Susan Mayo
The Fairy Rings
Jan Mun
Env-IRON-ment
Júlia Pontés
The Squatters
Mary Swander
Borders Like Water
ChristinaMaria Xochitlzihuatl