Round 1 Grantees
Kinetic Grantee
And Light Meant God
Silas Rubeck
Displaying the innate beauty and artistic value of light in a natural or slightly altered state through a gallery exhibition and series of videos.
Kinetic Grantee
Gold Leaf Glass Sign Art - Workshop & Public Exhibition
James "Yames" Moffitt
The Generator Fund will support the creation of works using gold leaf that are similar and different from more traditional uses in hand-painted signs. To engage the public and artists of Western New York, a workshop and public demonstration of gilding will coincide with an exhibition of new non-traditional work.
Kinetic Grantee
Lost Woods
Quincey Miracle
Lost Woods is an interactive public art exhibition using blanket forts, treehouses, and other makeshift childhood structures to explore the formation of queer identity in adolescence. Funds from the Generator Grant will be used to secure materials and exhibit space in order to bring the project to Buffalo.
Kinetic Grantee
The Heliotechnics/ Heliotechniques Institute for the Study of Solar Practices
Elia Vargas
Kinetic Grantee
Dumpster
Matt Kenyon
Potential Grantee
Agatha Falls
Kyla Kegler
Kinetic Grantee
Vague Questions
Nick Mass and Silas Rubeck
Vague Questions is an interview series that documents the reactive mind. The concept is to take questions that may appear in everyday life, take them out of context, and allow the interviewee to assign their own topic to them. The questions are essentially Rorschach tests in language form.
Kinetic Grantee
A Thousand Words
Melissa “Chango4” Rivera
Kinetic Grantee
TRANSVERSALS [Dead Futures]
D. Sloan & Connor Grogan
TRANSVERSALS is a hybridized experiment in producing and publishing essays, visual arts, and mixed media on theory, theory-fiction, and other speculative genres. Artistic creation is a struggle when meritocratic ideals place trend before rigor, flash before nuance, major before minor. We believe the struggle is worth the effort.
Kinetic Grantee
Love Canal
Dana Murray Tyrrell
Potential Grantee
LIBBY Projects + Editions
Robert A. Rusch
Kinetic Grantee
IMKirkwood the Artist
Iris M. Kirkwood
The Generator Grant will fund an exhibit of my artwork in God City Senior Living Apartments Community Center. I tell stories of the little moments in life: joy, pathos, awe, jealousy, love. My work is figurative. When I create my visual narratives, I use elements such as character, setting, and point of view. There is more to the emotional life of Black people than anger and sorrow.
Kinetic Grantee
The Last Dance
Petethegod, Dj Carr, Christina Buscarino, Gabriella McKinley
Potential Grantee
Domo's Art House
Ineil Quaran (Savion Mingo) and Jason Cathcart
Kinetic Grantee
Field Service
Groupwork
Groupwork provides “Field Service”: redefining reality in Buffalo's open spaces through a curated sensory experience. Embedded within the trees, skies, and open fields, video art and soundscapes illuminate and augment our shared space, creating a momentary yet memorable dialogue between the natural world and its transient guests.
Kinetic Grantee
Beneath the Soil
Sussan Giallombardo and Stefana Paskoff
Sussan Giallombardo's project is an interdisciplinary collaboration with Stefana Paskoff. She will be creating an installation using Stefana’s vast collection of animal bones. Her intention is to design and produce separate environments using the innumerable bones that have been systematically cataloged for over forty years.
Kinetic Grantee
Better Hoods and Gardens
Joel Shackleford
Kinetic Grantee
Rites of Spring
John Santomieri
This multi-media project reworks an early Modernist example of the vegetal other as a media performance that seeks to project beyond the human and address both the rite and rights of Spring itself. This Generator Fund Kinetic Grant will target operational costs such as tech purchases and custom fabrication.