Many of the 18 winners in 2010, selected from more than 400 diverse projects, focused on innovative survival strategies to address issues of sustainability in the urban environment. Strong themes among the winning entries were: the engagement of community members in the creation of works of performing and plastic arts on the theme of sustainability, a play that has audience members conduct green retrofits on the theater during the performance, an online atlas that traces and projects the city's environmental transformation, and projects that integrate the issue of sustainability into such considerations as immigration, urbanization and cultural vitality.
Recipients:
The 2010 recipients also focused on artistic innovations such as the engagement of diverse communities in literature through public projections of poetry from different cultures, the display of micro-financed digital cinema, the shattering of long-standing paradigms in the creation of Afro-Caribbean music and collaborations with communities in the creation of works of art that reflect their concerns.
3-Legged Dog, to develop a cooperative financial support structure with a set of international secondary markets for multimedia performing arts
Bowery Arts & Science, in partnership with City Lore, to host a series of poetry readings and project the works of culturally diverse poets onto walls and buildings in city neighborhoods
CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities, in partnership with Artist as Citizen, for an online atlas that traces and anticipates the city’s environmental transformation
Creative Time, for Artists on the News, which uses major media partnerships to feature artists in dialogues on the most pressing socio-political issues of the day
Dance Theatre of Harlem, for an in-person and online program linking dancers and choreographers with non-dancers to expand audiences and collaborate on new works
Demos, for The Institute for Culture in the Service of Community Sustainability, to support cultural and civic activism and cultural policy formulation by conducting research on the roles of arts and culture in urban economies
EmcArts, to formalize a peer-to-peer learning community to help arts organizations practice innovation and develop new strategies for addressing current and future challenges
Exit Art, to develop New York’s first theater focused on micro-financed national and international digital cinema from under-represented countries and premieres of rare and youth-produced films
The Foundry Theatre, for a series of collaborations between artists and community-based social justice organizations that will create and perform six new theatrical works that re-imagine New York City
Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture, for a series in which young masters of Afro-Caribbean music blur national distinctions by combining elements of jazz, hip-hop, rock and reggaeton
International WOW Company, for a teaching/interactive drama in which the audience conducts green retrofits on the theater over the course of the play’s run
Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, in partnership with the Brooklyn Arts Council, to further develop a tourism initiative to brand Brooklyn as a destination for a unique and authentic African Diaspora experience
New York Foundation for the Arts, in partnership with Cambodian Living Arts, to stage the first multi-disciplinary festival of Cambodian arts in the United States
New York Hall of Science, for a project in which artists work with the Queens community to create art that explores the connections among immigration, urbanization, cultural vitality and sustainability
Park Avenue Armory, to inaugurate the drill hall as New York City’s first grand-scale, non-proscenium dance space to create bold new works without typical constraints
Pratt Center for Community Development, in partnership with Pratt Institute’s Initiative for Art, Community and Social Change, to develop visual and performance art to complement sustainable practices in urban communities
Queens Museum of Art, to launch Studio Corona, a residency embedding artists in the most ethnically diverse community in the United States and, in partnership with Queens College, CUNY, to develop a Masters of Fine Art in Social Practice
Randall’s Island Sports Foundation, in partnership with the Bronx Museum of the Arts and Made Event, to present public waterfront works of visual art and music focused on environmental themes
