2008 GRANT PROJECTS
• WRITING AND MENTORING PROGRAM
Drawing in Color: Empowering Girls • $10,000
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
An out-of-school hours writing and mentoring program for high school girls in which they will create their own super heroes, mentored by an Asian American woman comic book artist.
• PHOTOGRAPHY
Heart Health Project • $10,000
Center for the Study of Asian American Health at NYU Medical Center
An intergenerational project documenting Chinese American women’s needs and resources around cardiovascular health using photography.
• MENTORING AND WRITING PROGRAM
Girls Write Now Mentoring Program • $10,000
Girls Write Now
A mentoring and writing training project for Asian American high school girls, mentored by professional Asian American women writers.
• MUSEUM EXHIBIT
Digital Quilt • $10,000
Katie Quan and MOCA
A museum art exhibit that will “weave” together untold stories of Asian women labor activists from New York and China into a multi-media, traveling show.
• INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP
Arts and Empowerment Training • $10,000
Sakhi for South Asian Women
Working with the Indo-Caribbean Women’s Empowerment Group based in Richmond Hill, Queens, this 10-week interactive workshop explores the issues around domestic abuse through poetry, prose, and film.
• MULTIMEDIA PLAY
The Urban Tao • $10,000
Slanty Eyed Mama, Kate Rigg
The Urban Tao is a multimedia play with live music, poetry, & graffiti art design. Artist Kate Rigg continues her explorations through Americasiana, through her singular and gendered lens.
• DOCUMENTARY FILM
Tea & Justice • $10,000
Ermena Vinluan
A completed documentary film about three immigrant Asian women New York Police Department (NYPD) officers. The Giving Circle funded six community screenings (with Q&A) and a Cantonese transcription of the film.
• MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCE
Maria the Korean Bride • $2,000
Maria Yoon
Maria the Korean Bride is a poignant, funny, multi-media solo performance project (including Korean food) drawing on the personal experiences and pressures surrounding marriage—from the perspective of an unmarried Asian American women in her thirties.