"We have previously used our platform at AWAW to address the persistent inequity in funding for women artists," AWAW's founder, Susan Unterberg, tells The Art Newspaper. "Now, for the third year, we are expanding our impact to also fund work that addresses the climate crisis-and crucially inspires further action."
"The enormous response is proof that artists are eager to confront the practical and existential crises of our current moment," Unterberg says. "It has been shown that engaging with climate issues through art activates agency among audiences."
Several winning projects explore Indigenous themes, including Dara Friedman's Sky Woman Women Project (2024). This is a film that aims to inspire living in balance with the natural world, with 16 women aged between eight and 80 telling versions of the Haudenosaunee creation story of the Sky Woman-a figure who falls from the sky and makes the whole world using only a handful of dirt.
Other projects focus on the entanglement of resource extraction and environmental destruction, like Loren Waters and Rebecca Jim's ᏗᏂᏠᎯ ᎤᏪᏯ (Meet Me at the Creek). The 2024 short film follows Jim.
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