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The Extraordinary Ordinary Lives of Atheists (2014)
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
People are interviewed about their everyday lives, their routines, passions, family, and hobbies. These interviews are collaged with sound & music to make audio portraits of people from all walks of life (who happen to be atheists).
Five Flights Up
Schlesinger, Toni
Year Grant Awarded: 2012
A reporter sets out to write the greatest book in the world about how people live and survive, visiting them in their homes which consistently embody their character and longings and state of being. Her journey is a mirror of the complexity of the
The Anacostia Project
Schlyer, Krista
Year Grant Awarded: 2012
This is a multi-year documentary project about the Anacostia River in Washington DC. Photography of this river, its wildlife and people, will be used to raise public consciousness about degradation and restoration of this historic watershed.
The Green Room (2014)
Scoates, Vand • My mother and grandmother always said “it was written in the stars.” The fate of your life is written in the stars. Life lets you make decisions, but there is an innate vocation for the arts that cannot be learned. My father was a musician, and my mother had a wonderful voice and was a soloist at the Kielce Cathedral—all this during the difficult period of the war and the post-war period in Poland. Back then you had to survive, it was more important to get a piece of bread or potatoes than to dedicate yourself to your art. Poland was in ruins and so were we. My mother hid me from the communists and shortened my name to Elzbieta Jaroszewicz from the orginal Maria Elzbieta Jaroszewicz-Bartnowska, because it betrayed my noble origins. When I was four, my father taught me to read and write, taking me regularly to a teacher. I was not yet seven years ol
Artwork / Archives / 2021 / Ella Jaroszewicz (Luminous Lioness)
How did your artistic vocation come to be?