2024 Recipients
The Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grants program provides up to $20,000 for projects led by women-identifying artists in the United States and U.S. territories.
In the 2024 cycle, the third year of the program, a total of $308,000 in grant funding was awarded to 19 projects that will focus on environmental issues and advocacy in locations including Ghana, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Louisiana, New Mexico, Michigan, and Oklahoma. The 19 projects were selected from 907 applications from artists who reside in the United States and U.S. Territories.
Please click here for our full recipients announcement, which includes short descriptions on each project.
2024 RECIPIENTS
Katie Baldwin Basile and Emily Schiffer, Lessons from Newtok, AK
Shayla Blatchford; The Anti-Uranium Mapping Project; Santa Fe, NM
Dorchester Weather; The Lot Next Door; Boston, MA
Roni Jo Draper (Director), Co-Director Marissa Lila (Co-Director), Jenn Lee Smith (Producer), Nicole Docta (Producer); Good Fire; Weitchpec, Humboldt County, CA
Dara Friedman; Sky Woman Women Project; Seneca Nation of Indians, Cattaraugus Indian Territory, Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne, Buffalo and Great Valley, NY
Tia-Simone Gardner; Chronotopophobias; Fairfield, AL
Hekima Hapa; Sew Green Fashion Camp; Brooklyn, NY
Yari Helfeld and Nami Helfeld; The Parade of Time; Orocovis, PR
Emily Cohen Ibañez (Director/Producer); Orquídea; Colombia, South America
Amy Kennedy, Vanishing Points: Words for Disappearing, The Gulf Coast of Louisiana
Petra Kuppers/Turtle Disco; Crip Drifts: Michigan; 4 sites in MI
Leila Mattina/Trama Antillana; Decolonizing Blue; Barrio Llano, Aibonito, PR
Jenni Morello; Age of Loneliness; NY, NJ, CA, TX, Japan, Guyana, AK
Koyoltzintli; Tinkui, Seven Acts for the beginning, end and beginning of time; Hudson Valley, NY
Ana Bessie Ratner; The Other Almanac; Brooklyn, NY
brooke smiley & SOZO; EARTH.SPEAKS 𐓷𐓘𐓻𐓘𐓻𐓟; OK and CA
Colleen Thurston; Drowned Land; OK
Victoria-Idongesit Udondian; ‘Okrika’ Reclaimed!; Accra, Ghana
Loren Waters and Rebecca Jim; ᏗᏂᏠᎯ ᎤᏪᏯ (Meet Me at the Creek) Project; Miami, OK
Image: Roni Jo Draper (AWAW EAG ’24), Elizabeth, Margo, and Robert Year, 2023, Screengrab from footage, 1920 × 1080, Image Credit: Marissa Lila
