Project Fund Awarded Projects

FY24, Cycle 2 Project Fund Grantees:

Abenda Sohn, fiscally sponsored by WaterFire. January 2024. $4,000
Sohn will present a photography exhibit at the WaterFire Arts Center focusing on a body of artworks that serves as a catalyst for discourse, igniting introspection among all Liberians and diasporic Liberians regarding migration, memory, loss, heritage, and the intricate nuances of Liberian and Liberian-American identity.

AS220, June 2024. $4,000
AS220 will support their winter and spring exhibits in the Aborn Gallery.

Bidon Community Print Design Studio, fiscally sponsored by AS220, February 2024. $3,000
Bidon will continue to provide a local space where learning and collaboration can bridge the gap between the arts, education, and all undervalued communities.

Cultural Society, May 2024. $2,000
Cultural Society will produce their annual AAPI Heritage Month Celebration with Historical Poster Art & Portraits.

Elizabeth Jweinat with New Urban Arts, May 2024. $2,000.00
Elizabeth Jweinat will create a “NUA Mural Group,” teaching young artists how to pursue large scale paintings and other public art projects.

Manton Avenue Project, Spring 2024. $2,000
Manton Avenue Project will produce their Spring Play-It-Again and Playmaking Playwriting Programs Play Festivals with students from D’Abate Elementary School.

Motion State Arts, February – March 2024, $3,000
Motion State Arts will produce the 2024 Motion State Dance Festival at The Wilbury Theater Group.

Outspoken, fiscally sponsored by Tell Your Truth, February 2024. $2,500
Outspoken will produce a Black History Month show called “A Verbal Revolution” at the Southside Cultural Center.

Partnership for Providence Parks, Winter/Spring 2024. $4,000
Partnership for Providence Parks will promote their ArtCart! at the Providence Rec Centers and use it to support community members creating their own proposals and projects that promote arts and healing.

Providence Children’s Film Festival, February 2024. $4,000
Providence Children’s Film Festival will produce their annual festival of movies for young people across Providence.

Providence Drum Troupe, June 2024. $3,000
Providence Drum Troupe will activate the Innovation Park area on Tuesday evenings from 6-8pm in May and June of 2024 with “Sunset Celebrations with Providence Drum Troupe.”

Providence Poetry Slam, fiscally sponsored by AS220, summer 2024. $4,000
Providence Poetry Slam will commemorate their 30th anniversary by building a team of five young writers between the ages of 14-18 to represent Providence at Brave New Voices in Washington, DC in the future.

Providence Student Union, June 30, 2024. $4,000
Providence Student Union will support the leaders of their Youth-led Art & Design Task Force with professional development.

ShePVD, fiscally sponsored by the Wilbury Theatre Group, March 8, 2024. $2,000
ShePVD will produce a showcase of woman-identifying performers in a variety of artistic disciplines at AS220 to coincide with Women’s History Month.

What Fray Was Here?: Social Justice Shakespeare, fiscally sponsored by Reverie Theatre Group, June 2024. $2,000.00
What Fray Was Here?: Social Justice Shakespeare will complete and perform “I’m At Your Window,” an original work that sets Shakespeare’s rhymes to the rhythms of Hip Hop, against the backdrop of America’s racial reckoning, ignited by George Floyd’s murder.