Each
year, KFW awards $200,000 in grants; $100,000 is given for each program.
ARTIST ENRICHMENT 2008 GRANTEES
Sylvia Ahrens Edmonton
, KY
$4,000
to travel to England to research Dorothy Wordsworth at the Wordsworth museum in order to create a manuscript of poems that reflects Dorothy Wordsworth’s voice and that will inspire the creative voices of Kentucky women.
Nancy Kelly Allen Hazard, KY
$1,000
to research and complete a children's novel about a young girl who follows a nontraditional path to become a beekeeper, which will provide a positive role model for young women to imagine the possibility of pursuing alternative careers.
Appalshop Whitesburg, KY
$4,835
to support emerging filmmaker Natasha Watts to begin directing and producing a 26 minute video documentary, “DIRT”, about how people in a small Appalachian community interact with the soil on a daily basis.
Crystal Marie Bonnean-Kaya Bowling Green, KY
$1,000
to attend a conference and two Tango workshops to improve her dance technique and learn new ways of incorporating dance into creating positive social change for women in her dance classes, such as increased self-esteem, improved body image, and overall empowerment.
Mary Carothers
Louisville, KY
$4,600
to produce text/photo postcards incorporating women's words and to create a photographic quilt from imagery collected during her journey along the Pony Express route, which will reexamine the history and mythology of this historic and contemporary national landscape and serve as a conduit to reveal what it can mean to be a woman traveling upon the American landscape.
Janis Carter
Louisville, KY
$3,600
to produce an interactive performance of a musical called “Girlfriends,” as a tribute to female jazz vocalists since the beginning of jazz.
Judy Rae Cavagnero Lexington, KY
$2,000
to create a chapbook of poems developing a complex female character which can stimulate dialogue and create change.
Sherry Chandler Paris, KY
$2,000
to work with a mentor to improve her writing craft, and to create a collection of poems that highlight the roles women have played in Kentucky agrarian history and culture.
Stacey R. Chinn Lexington, KY
$3,000
to create and exhibit a series of “breast sculptures” as a single installation, which will contribute to her development as an artist, reflect her personal experience as a female sculptor and challenge the field of sculpture.
Nadia DeLeon
Bowling Green, KY
$1,500
to attend trainings in yoga and belly dance to improve her skill in these areas so that she can share them as therapeutic and eduational tools for women and children.
Minna Dubin Lexington, KY
$1,000
to develop as a writer by completing a book of autobiographical essays on topics surrounding identity politics, which will stimulate discussion and promote social change.
Amanda Matthews Fields
Pewee Valley, KY
$4,800
to create an interpretive bronze sculpture of Lilith, who, according to folklore and mythology was Adam’s first wife and recognized herself as his equal, which will stimulate discussion and re-evaluation of traditional gender roles in relationships and society.
Robin Rainbow Gate Lexington, KY
$6,500
to continue a documentary exploring the Hispanic and pre-Hispanic roots of the Mexican ceremony “Qince Años” (“15 years”) which, when completed, will invite Latina girls in Kentucky to realize and reflect on the cultural, universal, and personal significance of this and other rites of passage.
Krystal L. Gober and
Kendis L. Dave
Louisville, KY
$1,000
to expand their mother’s legacy by publishing a second edition of her children’s book focused on helping children to write poetry.
Nellie Carson Gooden
Glasgow, KY
$1,000
to develop her playwriting skills by attending workshops and rewriting a play about Abraham Lincoln, his wife and two fictional friends exploring nineteenth century social issues and showing how individual women have the potential to affect social change.
Rae Goodwin Pikeville, KY
$3,000
to create a series of performance artworks in which she will use ironic humor by following 130 pieces of advice she received about hiking alone in the woods, which will raise awareness about safety, fear, and knowledge of women’s issues in her rural community.
Donna Ison Lexington, KY
$1,000
to research and learn about interactive/immersion theatre and to write plays and host workshops using this new feminist form that will encourage nontraditional audiences to explore and discuss issues facing women today.
Carolyn Kimball and
Ellyn Lichvar
Louisville, KY
$3,655
to create and produce an edition of hand-bound books of poetry and multi-plate etchings celebrating the untold stories of everyday women across several generations of American and Kentucky history.
Lori Larusso Lexington, KY
$6,800
to create a new body of two-dimensional works that explores issues of domesticity, consumption and body image, and will challenge the belief systems of mainstream culture.
London Writers Group London, KY
$2,345
to conduct a writing workshop for its participants with two qualified workshop leaders to help women writers in Laurel County improve their skills and to help them think of themselves as writers.
Looking for Lilith
Theatre Company
Louisville, KY
$1,000
to produce their first Shakespeare piece, which will provide three company members with their first classical Shakespeare training, and to perform the piece to KY high schools, exposing students to the study of Shakespeare through the perspectives of women.
Debra Lott
Louisville, KY
$3,500
to attempt new and varied compositions by creating and displaying a series of large scale oil portraits of young girls from various backgrounds, focusing on revealing their inner beauty and spirit, which will advance the status of young girls in Kentucky.
The Louisville Youth
Choir, Inc.
Louisville. KY
$3,000
to provide scholarships for young female singers to participate in the youth ensemble, which will teach them choral music skills, cooperation, discipline and leadership skills that will help them actively engage in the community.
C.C. Maupin
Bowling Green, KY
$1,000
to attend the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators conference to develop her skills as a writer and to make contacts for publishing her novel about a young girl who plays soccer and her efforts to bring feminism and change to sports.
Erica A. Meuser
Lexington, KY
$3,000
to publish a book of her artwork of black and white monotypes about America’s history of war and its effects on women and children, which will help her extend her feminist voice to a larger audience, will bring awareness to ending the war in Iraq and will help to change society’s patterns of resolving conflict.
Judith C. Owens-Lalude
Louisville, KY
$2,000
to expand her performance piece, “The Long Walk: From Slavery to Freedom,” into teaching tools to reach audiences across Kentucky, involving a historical DVD based on her family’s history, a fictional storytelling piece about a woman and her child who escape enslavement in search of the Underground Railroad, and a novel and teacher’s guide on the same theme, all of which show the strength and endurance of women and their impact on their children, their communities, and society.
Betty Lynn Parker and
Susan Knoer
Louisville, KY
$3,000
to research and and write biographies of Kentucky women artists and to make her research available in a number of multimedia formats in order to offer these biographies as inspiration for other women artists, teachers, and students in our state.
Lori Perkins Columbia, KY
$1,000
to attend a workshop to strengthen her writing skills and to rewrite a novel about a woman who works as a “madam” at a place of prostitution in the 1880s, the ways she can and cannot engage in the feminist movement of that time, and how she uses her strengths to overcome adversity.
Yvonne Petkus Bowling Green, KY
$5,454
to visit museums and galleries in New York that will inform her work and her teaching, and to conduct studio research through a series of paintings depicting the effects on women of the contemporary societal issues of anxiety, the residues of violence from war, oppression, and abuse.
Laura M. Poulette
Irvine, KY
$3,000
to build a small, environmentally friendly studio, guided by eco-feminist principles, in which she can have a work space incorporating a permanent dye kitchen so she can more efficiently create fiber works inspired by her life as a mother, individual, and a woman.
Linda Pugh Lexington, KY
$5,000
to work with a mentor on her writing craft and to research and write a book proposal focusing on the process that individuals go through when they begin to listen to their inner call for meaningful service in the world and become powerful agents of social change.
Sharon Mauldin Reynolds
Lexington, KY
$1,600
to participate in a writers’ conference to complete a collection of short fiction exploring the struggles of Southern women to overcome the narrow role imposed on them by society, which will inspire women readers to re-discover and re-value each other.
Kelly Saderholm Summer Shade, KY
$1,000
to attend workshops to develop her writing, and to begin research on a collection of personal essays and stories dealing with perceptions of Appalachian women throughout U.S. history, and how these perceptions shape the way Appalachian women view themselves today.
Melanie Sunbeam Smith
Midway, KY
$1,046
to create and prepare for exhibition a new body of mixed media and collage work focused on correlating the work with selections of jazz and classical music and showing her determination to achieve her artistic goals despite adversity.
Joyce Pipkin Thomas Louisville, KY
$2,000
to complete a book about her life and family history in Gamaliel, Kentucky, and to display historic documents and ensure guided tours of the “Old Log Church” built by her grandfathers in the 1800s for free slaves to attend and worship.
Doris C. Thurber Frankfort, KY
$1,000
to further her technique and style in batik fiberwork by creating and documenting a new body of work, focusing on her connections with feminine spirituality and with the environment.
Carla D. Winn Lexington, KY
$3,765
to photograph the realities of women migrants and the lives they have built in Kentucky to help change the issue of immigration from a political voice to a humanitarian voice by showing the migrants as people rather than as statistics or intruders.
ART MEETS ACTIVISM 2008 GRANTEES
Appalshop, Inc. Whitesburg
, KY
$4,150
to develop a script and performance with girls and women in central Appalachia who have been affected by the criminal justice system, focusing on the experiences of incarcerated women in eastern Kentucky, which will raise awareness and create dialogue for change in the criminal justice system.
Trish Ayers Berea , KY
$1,000
to support the Kentucky Women's Playwright Seminar, a ten month seminar for seven Kentucky women writers to explore the techniques of playwriting and to dramatize issues that impact their lives and encourage positive social change.
Brick House Community Center Louisville , KY
$2,600
to provide a series of workshops that explore various art forms in a way that promotes independent learning, and will promote the feminist philosophy of women valuing their own thinking and choices.
Robin Burke
Mt. Washington, KY
$3,000
to expand and enhance her documentary video From the Garden, focusing on a community garden in an inner city neighborhood. She will incorporate additional footage about using the garden as an “edible classroom” to encourage more community gardens and educational programs that assist women to make food choices supporting the health of families, communities, and the environment.
Erma Bush
Louisville, KY
$2,000
to research, develop a script, and perform a first person historical interpretation of Hanna Coleman Toliver, an African-American who was imprisoned in 1864 for assisting enslaved Kentuckians to freedom in Indiana, which will speak to the importance of the role of African-American women in the anti-slavery movement.
Linda Caldwell
Paint Lick, KY
$3,000
to work with a group of women over 70 to encourage them to explore their feminist voices through writing about their experiences and sharing their work, as a way to create a better self-image for the women and change societal views about older women.
Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning
Lexington, KY
$3,300
to continue the Young Women Writers Project, which provides opportunities for diverse and talented writers age 13-18 to explore writing and literary performance techniques while examining issues of concern to them, serve as mentors to younger women writers, and to perform their work, helping them to discover their own voices with confidence and self-respect.
The Center for Women and Families
Louisville, KY
$5,209
to work with visual artist Joyce Ogden to provide ongoing workshops for the Center's clients to create ceramic tiles around the theme of hope, change, and home, which will be installed in the entranceway to communicate the message of hope and change to clients, staff, and volunteers, and will move the participants towards self-sufficiency and empowerment.
Hannah L. Drake
Louisville, KY
$1,000
to facilitate a workshop for middle and high school age girls, focused around a spoken word performance piece that she created, which will encourage the young women to love themselves, and develop into empowered women.
Dreams With Wings, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$5,000
to provide an ongoing opportunity for adults with mental retardation and developmental disabilities to work with artist Gwen Kelly to continue making glass beads out of recycled bottles, combining recycling and art. The participants, many of whom are cared for by women, will also string the recycled glass beads into bracelets, which can be marketed and sold, providing economic possibilities to the participants.
Eastern Kentucky University Environmental Research Institute for Tammy Horn
Lexington, KY
$3,000
to provide workshops for girls in Appalachia about beekeeping and writing, which will help them articulate their own voices for change in their region and state.
Freda Fairchild
Paducah, KY
$7,305
to profile Kentucky women beyond retirement age who are still actively involved in their communities, and create portraits using photographs, paintings, and printmaking accompanied by poetry and prose that will affirm women in older generations and will raise awareness about the potential contributions of older women.
Jessica Farquhar
Louisville, KY
$1,000
to provide writing retreats for birth doulas to create literary birth art, empowering them to use poetry writing as a way to help them process their feelings and experiences of assisting women giving birth and improve their capabilities for future support.
Aubrey Elizabeth Franchell
Lexington, KY
$1,200
to expand the Women's Action Network website, which promotes feminist artists who have been under-represented in local galleries by providing a free web gallery space that will expand their visibility, and to create a blog component of the website, which will provide a space for dialogue among Kentucky feminist artists and give them a greater sense of community.
Ethel Hazard
Louisville, KY
$4,000
to collaborate with filmmaker Nerenda Eid to create a film that explores the bussing/desegregation policy in Jefferson County Public Schools through the eyes of two sets of mothers and daughters, one African-American and one European American, who will discuss the impact of bussing on their personal lives and the significance of gender and racial equality in their public school education.
Rebecca Gayle Howell
Winchester, KY
$2,500
to complete a collection of oral histories and portraits of those living directly with mountaintop removal, by using a feminist artistic process and providing a direct forum for people of Appalachia to speak.
Donna Ison
Lexington, KY
$1,000
to provide a playwriting workshop for women, and to develop and produce a collaborative play of monologues inspired from the workshop that will explore a variety of issues important to women.
Kentucky Women
Writers Conference
Lexington, KY
$5,000
to bring four featured presenters who are committed to feminist social change Joyce Carol Oates, Samantha Thornhill, Natasha Trethewey and Lisa Williams) to the 29th annual conference to present writing workshops, readings, panel discussions and a spoken-word competition, all dedicated to cultivating the artistry of women and girls in Kentucky.
La Casita Center
Louisville, KY
$1,980
for a group of Latina women to create and exhibit their photography, drawings, and paintings, with a goal to break stereotypes, project a positive self-image, and develop a community of sisterhood and mutual support among Latina women through artistic activities.
Looking for Lilith Theatre Company
Louisville, KY
$6,150
to research, develop, and produce a multi-disciplinary play about a 1911 fire at a garment factory that ignited the women's labor movement, to bring light to important historical events from a women's perspective, and to open a dialogue about similar labor issues happening today.
Estella Conwill Majozo
Louisville, KY
$2,000
to produce a collaborative, inter-disciplinary performance art project about the complexities of war, involving a poet who wants to speak out against American militarism but whose son is in Iraq, to elicit an open, honest dialogue about the war.
Kelly Moffett, Joe Moffett and Molly Gibson
Owensboro, KY
$2,000
to continue to support Kentucky's Retreat for Women Writers, offering workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction; and to make the retreat accessible for women in all socio-economic positions.
Teri Moore
Paducah, KY
$3,000
to create a visual and performance art piece that addresses domestic violence and encourages community participation in seeking solutions.
Murray State University, Department of Music
Murray, KY
$4,250
to support the 2009 Athena Festival and Competition, which provides an opportunity for students and community members in western Kentucky to hear music composed by women, to meet and learn from women composers, and to highlight and celebrate women in music.
Mary Owens
Berea, KY
$1,000
to create a website and community forum for Kentucky women playwrights that will strengthen their voices, develop more support for women playwrights, and promote publishing and production opportunities for their plays.
Jardana Peacock
Louisville, KY
$3,000
for a group of multi-racial intergenerational female performing artists called Poets Responding to develop a performance poetry piece that examines the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the history of race relations in the United States, and to perform the piece in non traditional venues to create dialogue about current social issues.
Project Women, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$1,980
to provide workshops for single mothers who have experienced homelessness but are now pursuing their college degree, in which the women will paint pottery tiles of their dreams, goals, and aspirations for the future. The tiles will be displayed at the center, will create community awareness and education, and will help the women to live their goals for the future.
Patricia Ritter
Kettle, KY
$3,726
to provide workshops for women in abuse centers in south central Kentucky to journal about their lives and create personal mandala paintings, offering an opportunity for reflection and visual expression of their thoughts and feelings, which will build self-esteem and will encourage participants to see themselves in a new light and to imagine a new life.
Angela Ramsey Robinson
Louisville, KY
$7,500
to provide a workshop series exploring birth art and birth stories for women with infants living at residential treatment centers, which will empower the women, support mothers and babies, and foster better respect for women's bodies and the birthing process.
Gidget Tincher
Louisville, KY
$1,000
to create photographs that explore the role of Appalachian women in keeping traditions alive, and to exhibit the photographs in Louisville and her hometown of Owsley County, with the goal of raising awareness about women in Appalachian history and to encourage women to document their own journey and struggles.
University of Kentucky - Violence Intervention & Prevention Center Lexington, KY
$1,000
to facilitate a writing group and to produce a theater performance to encourage women to share their stories of power-based violence, to create a space for healing, and to raise awareness on campus about the impact of violence against women.
Wellspring
Louisville, KY
$1,000
to work with Squallis Puppeteers to develop workshops and art sessions that will inspire women who have severe mental illness to find a way to express their life experiences using story-telling and puppetry, to build their self-esteem, communication skills, and move toward recovery.
WKU Women’s
Studies Program
Bowling Green, KY
$2,000
to provide a summer camp for women and children in Warren County focused on artistic activities such as creative writing, drama, and painting, which will strengthen self-esteem, encourage self-reflection, and increase awareness about the community and promote civic engagement.
Women in Transition
Louisville, KY
$3,150
to facilitate Theatre of the Oppressed workshops for its members to engage the community and create dialogue about gender, racial/ethnic and social class inequalities, which will point to the necessity for social change.
To
Contact KFW: Kentucky Foundation for Women
1215 Heyburn Building
332 West Broadway
Louisville, KY 40202-2184 Phone: (502) 562-0045
Toll Free: (866) 654-7564
Fax: (502) 561-0420
