2024 Grantees
Creighton Gaynor, One World Project
In keeping with our mission to foster collaborations with an emphasis on marginalized perspectives and underrepresented styles, RC helped to sponsor Creighton Gaynor and Natural Talent Music’s multicultural live music series One World Project.
Gaynor's live concert series is a catalyst for social change, offering unconventional multicultural musical pairings that draw broad audiences together in celebration of diverse traditions.
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Mary Cohen, Juvenile Detention Center Summer Music Program
Our commitment to the work of underrepresented artists and engagement in music that inspires social change led us to support a collaboration inspired by Dr. Mary Cohen, a University of Iowa music education professor. Dr. Cohen directed a drumming and freestyle rapping/singing/songwriting workshop series at the Juvenile Detention Center of Linn County in collaboration with rapper Derek Thorn, singer Godwin Paintsi, percussionist Anabel (Ani) Perez-Brennan, and music educator Cecila Roudabush.
Dr. Cohen’s work is part of The International Music and Justice Inquiry Network: IMAJIN Caring Communities, a global group who meets monthly to network & share practices and research with music-making in prisons.