GRANTS
Humanities New York, Post Incarceration Humanities Projects grant, New York, NY 2022, 2023, 2024
GlobalGiving Red Backpack Fund grant from Spanx and the Sara Blakely Foundation, 2020
New York State Council on the Arts, Individual Artist grant, NYC 2003, 2001, 1999, 2018
National Endowment for the Humanities, Digital Projects for the Public, Discovery Grant, 2017
Humanities New York (formerly New York Council for the Humanities), Public Programs project grant, New York, NY 2012, 2015, 2016
Brooklyn Arts Council, Individual Artist grant, Brooklyn, NY 2009
New York Foundation for the Arts, Individual Artist grant, NYC 2007
Leadership for a Changing World Award, finalist Ford Foundation, NYC 2004
National Endowment for the Arts, Multidisciplinary Creativity grant 2002
Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Production Grant 2002
Open Society Institute, Center for Crime Communities & Culture grant, NYC 2002
Creative Capital, Individual Artist Grant, NYC 2001, 2000
Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Public Radio Public Service Grant 2000
New York Council for the Humanities, 2000
New York Community Trust, 2000
Michael Noll Fellowship, New York University, New York, NY, 1994, 1995.
AWARDS & SCREENINGS
THE HALFWAY BETWEEN ALL THIS
The short film was co-directed and co-produced by Heather Greer and Black Tartan Studios.
CIFF – Calgary International Film Festival, 2024
AN AMERICAN SYNAGOGUE, FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, RABBI MORTIMER J. COHEN AND THE MAKING OF BETH SHOLOM
Telly Award Bronze Telly for cultural documentary film, 2010
IN OUR OWN WORDS: PORTRAITS OF BROOKLYN’S VIETNAM VETERANS
Greater Hudson Heritage Network Award for Excellence “in recognition of an exhibition unique in its centralized use of oral history, and its design to connect the viewer with the narrator.”
SONIC MEMORIAL
Peabody Award 62nd Annual George Foster Peabody Awards, New York, NY, 2003
Online News Association Award, Creative Use of the Medium, Berkeley, CA, 2003
SXSW Web Award, in Audio/Radio, Austin, TX, 2003
Gracie Allen Award, from Women in Television and Radio, New York, NY, 2003
360DEGREES — PERSPECTIVES ON THE US JUSTICE SYSTEM
Online News Association Award, Creative Use of the Medium, Berkeley, CA 2003
Online News Association Award, Creative Use of the Medium, Berkeley, CA, 2002
Silver Gavel Award, American Bar Association 2002
National Press Club, Online Journalism Award, Washington D.C. 2002
Pew Center for Civic Journalism, Batten Award for Innovation, Chapel Hill, NC 2002.
People’s Choice Award, Macromedia, New York, NY 2001
Ars Electronica Honorable Mention, Linz, Austria, 2001
THE TENEMENT MUSEUM’S VIRTUAL TOUR
Yahoo’s Cool Site of the Day
The History Cooperative’s Site of the Day “The Virtual Tour’s use of multimedia is evocative… instructive and truly interactive”
American Library Associations “Great Sites for Kids”
Family Tree Magazine’s Site of the Day
akaKURDISTAN
Parsons New Media Award, Parson’s School of Design, New York, NY, 1997
Ars Electronica Honorable Mention, Linz, Austria, 1998