2020 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition
We're thrilled to reveal the winners of the 2020 Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition!
Note: this year, we're creating a virtual gallery for these winners within the world of Third Place (our digital destination for programming). You can access that gallery with an all-access Maker Registration.
Borders Between Us
Saidu Tejan-Thomas is a young poet. For a long time, he had a story he needed to tell: an homage and apology to his mother.
- 2021
- 37:24
- Saidu Tejan-Thomas Jr.
- Jay Allison
Infinities
Concerning mental illness, toxic workplace environments, Egyptian Rat Screw, and the nature of infinity.
- 2021
- 25:13
- Boen Wang
Dat Rona
Dat Rona, a Black colloquialism to describe the coronavirus, was produced in 3 days to disseminate ‘Rona’ knowledge after harmful media stories began to circulate that Black people were immune to the virus.
- 2021
- 01:05:34
- Janina Jeff
- Sam Riddell
- Chris Diggins
- Chad Milner
- Dr. Ashira Blazer
Diary of a HomeSchooler
Sarah Alli-Brown is sixteen-years-old. She’s a high school junior whose school has been shuttered for months because of the coronavirus.
- 2021
- 11:00
- Anayansi Diaz-Cortes
- Brett Myers
- Kevin Sullivan
Songs of Speculation (excerpt)
Songs of Speculation is a lecture that explodes into multi-form performance, calling on the body, time, and the power of music to reclaim histories forgotten or lost.
- 2021
- 39:37
- Jillian Walker
- Ben Williams
Centenarians in Lockdown
When the 1918 flu pandemic broke out, Joe Newman was 5 years old. Today, he's 107. He lives in a community for seniors in Sarasota, Fla., with his fiancée, Anita Sampson.
Somebody
When Shapearl Wells's son Courtney is found outside a Chicago police station with a fatal bullet wound, Shapearl immediately distrusts the official narrative.
- 2021
- 28:43
- Shapearl Wells
- Alison Flowers
- Bill Healy
- Sarah Geis
Crosses in the Desert
Alvaro Enciso is a retired man who lives in Tucson, Arizona. He puts crosses in the exact places where dead migrant bodies have been found in the Sonoran desert.
- 2021
- 24:36
- Catalina May
- Martín Cruz
- Dennis Maxwell
Not This Again
Angelina was a journalist living in Brooklyn when she was diagnosed with ALS.
How to Remember
How to Remember is sonically inspired by Axel's travels to Côte d'Ivoire.
- 2021
- 10:23
- Axel Kacoutié
- Eleanor McDowall
The Work Of Closing A Notorious Jail
Five years after Michael Brown’s death at the hands of a police officer galvanized criminal justice reform activists in St. Louis, they mounted a serious effort to shut down the notorious Workhouse jail.