2006 Grant Awards: Access to Artistic Excellence

[ March 14, 2005 deadline ]

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Theater | Visual Arts

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

Museum

American Federation of Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support a touring mid-career survey exhibition of the work of contemporary African American artist Lorna Simpson, with an accompanying catalogue and educational materials. It will be the first nationally touring exhibition to consider the full range of her career.

Asia Society
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the traveling exhibition Treasures of the Liao (907-1125): China's Forgotten Nomad Dynasty, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will present more than 200 recently excavated objects from Inner Mongolia.

Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support the presentation of the exhibition The Elegant Gathering: The Yeh Family Collection, with an accompanying catalogue. A range of educational activities and public programs will accompany the exhibition, including a symposium, brochure, docent-led tours, and calligraphy demonstrations and classes.

Birmingham Museum of Art
Birmingham, AL
$40,000
To support a touring exhibition of Alabama folk pottery, with accompany education programs and a symposium. The exhibition will document the development of Alabama pottery from the early 19th century to the mid-20th century.

Contemporary Arts Association of Houston (aka Contemporary Arts Museum Houston)
Houston, TX
$25,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of contemporary Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. It will be the first American survey of Rist's work, documenting her pioneering work in film and video over the past two decades.

Dallas Museum of Art (Consortium)
Dallas, TX
$60,000
A consortium project to support the touring exhibition, Matisse: the Painter as Sculptor, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. Co-organized with the Baltimore Museum of Art, the exhibition will present approximately 160 works including 24 of the artists's most significant sculptures.

Drawing Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support a touring exhibition of the drawings of American artist Robert Ryman (b. 1930), with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will feature approximately 25 works from the 1950s to the present.

Edmundson Art Foundation, Inc. (aka Des Moines Art Center)
Des Moines, IA
$50,000
To support the touring exhibition of work by contemporary New York-based British artist Cecily Brown (b. 1969), with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will provide an overview of Brown's mature work from 1998 to the present, emphasizing her varied approaches to painting the human figure.

Fabric Workshop, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$50,000
To support an artist-in-residence program. Each of five participating artists will create new work using innovative fabrics, materials, and construction techniques in exploratory ways.

Foundation for the Reading Public Museum
Reading, PA
$20,000
To support a traveling exhibition of the work of American artist Keith Haring (1958-1990), with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. Educational programs will focus on teaching children and youth about the basic materials, tools, techniques, and methods of visual art expression.

Frick Collection (Consortium)
New York, NY
$50,000
A consortium project to support the exhibition Domenico Tiepolo: A New Testament, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. This will be the first exhibition and publication devoted to Tiepolo's New Testament cycle, the longest by a single artist.

Harvard University (on behalf of Harvard University Art Museums)
Cambridge, MA
$35,000
To support the touring exhibition Frank Stella 1958, with an accompanying catalogue and symposium. The project will assemble for the first time the 30 paintings produced by Stella (b. 1936) in his first year as a practicing artist.

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Inc. (aka Winterthur, An American Country Estate)
Winterthur, DE
$50,000
To support the touring exhibition Silversmiths to the Nation: Thomas Fletcher and Sidney Gardiner, 1808-1842, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition and publication will present and interpret an artistically and historically important body of silverware never before assembled, presented, or published.

Jewish Museum
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the exhibition Eva Hesse: Sculpture 1968, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. Hesse's (1936-1970) work in the late 1960s anticipated the innovations of the 1970s and 1980s, including installation art, conceptual art, process art, and performance art.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (on behalf of List Visual Arts Center)
Cambridge, MA
$50,000
To support the commissioning of a site-specific sculpture by American artist, Richard Serra (b. 1939). The new work will add to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's active public art program, which includes work by Alexander Calder, Pablo Picasso, and Louise Nevelson.

Mattress Factory, Ltd.
Pittsburgh, PA
$50,000
To support an artist-in-residence program. Up to nine artists will be invited to create new, site-specific installations at the museum, which has presented new work by more than 250 artists since 1982.

Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY
$100,000
To support the exhibition Moments of Vision: Venice and the Islamic World, ca. 1300 -1700, with accompanying education programs. Organized in collaboration with the Institute du Monde Arabe, the exhibit will feature more than 250 works of Ventian and Islamic art from institutions worldwide.

Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum
Chicago, IL
$70,000
To support The African Experience in Mexico, with accompanying catalogues and education programs. The project consists of two touring exhibitions: The African Experience in Mexico and Who Are We Now? Roots, Resistance, and Recognition.

Mid-America Arts Alliance (on behalf of ExhibitsUSA)
Kansas City, MO
$15,000
To support the touring exhibition The Inspired Line, with accompanying educational materials. The exhibition, which will tour to small museums nationwide, will comprise 40 prints by Old Masters Albrecht Durer and Rembrandt van Rijn.

Millicent Rogers Museum, Inc.
Taos, NM
$25,000
To support the reinstallation of the museum's permanent collection, with accompanying education materials, on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. The project will spotlight the museum's extraordinary collection of Southwestern art.

Museum Associates (aka Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support the touring exhibition Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will feature 60 paintings by Surrealist Belgian artist, Rene Magritte (1898-1967) and 60 works by major artists influenced by his work.

Museum for Contemporary Arts, Inc. (aka Contemporary Museum, Baltimore)
Baltimore, MD
$25,000
To support Headquarters: Interventions in Social Space, with an accompanying catalogue. The project will engage a group of internationally known artists and artists collaboratives whose art work is based on the conditions of the people in their neighborhoods and countries.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (aka MOCA)
Los Angeles, CA
$100,000
To support the touring exhibition Robert Rauschenberg: Combines, with an accompanying catalogue. The museum will present the first in-depth retrospective of Rauschenberg's 162 "Combine" works

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Consortium)
Boston, MA
$50,000
A consortium project to support the touring exhibition El Greco to Velazquez: Art of the Court of Philip III, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. The project is taking place with the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University and in association with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH)
Houston, TX
$25,000
To support the touring exhibition Singular Multiples: The Peter Blum Archive, 1980-1994, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will document the contribution made by Blum's workshop to the production of prints by major artists of the period.

Museum of Glass
Tacoma, WA
$35,000
To support the 2006 Visiting Artists Program. The museum will invite up to 18 local, national, and international artists for residencies in its hot shop to work on projects of their own choice.

North Carolina Central University (on behalf of University Art Museum)
Durham, NC
$20,000
To support an exhibition of the work of African American artist William H. Johnson, (1901-1970), with an accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will trace Johnson's career from his arrival in New York City in 1918 to his later work in the 1950s.

Oakland Museum of California Foundation
Oakland, CA
$25,000
To support the touring exhibition Arthur and Lucia Mathews: Artists of the California Decorative Style, with accompanying education programs. The exhibition will present 85 works created between 1880 and 1929, including paintings, murals, graphic arts, and decorative objects the couple produced collaboratively.

Orange County Museum of Art
Newport Beach, CA
$35,000
To support the touring exhibition Birth of the Cool, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. The multidisciplinary exhibition will examine the full range of the arts in southern California from the mid-1940s to the mid-1960s.

Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, PA
$100,000
To support the touring exhibition The Arts in Latin America 1492-1820, with accompanying education programs. Accompanied by a scholarly catalogue and a full range of bilingual education programs and materials, the exhibition will feature some 350 masterworks from colonial Spanish and Portuguese America.

Philadelphia Museum of Art (Consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$50,000
A consortium project to support the touring exhibition A Revolution in the Graphic Arts: Mexico and Modern Printmaking 1920-1950. To be presented with the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, the exhibition will be accompanied by a scholarly catalogue and bilingual educational programs and materials.

Pierpont Morgan Library
New York, NY
$20,000
To support a touring retrospective exhibition of the work of American artist Saul Steinberg (1914-1999), with accompanying education programs. The exhibition emphasizes Steinberg's draftsmanship, his central means of expression throughout his long career.

Queens Museum of Art (Consortium)
Queens, NY
$50,000
A consortium project to support exhibitions based on the work of architect and city planner Robert Moses (1888-1981), with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. The three simultaneous exhibitions will be organized in partnership with the Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University in New York, and in association with the Museum of the City of New York.

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of Art Museum)
Berkeley, CA
$50,000
To support the touring exhibition A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman's Formative Years, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition is the first to present Nauman's (b.1941) early career in the San Francisco Bay area, 1964 - 1969.

Regents of the University of California at Los Angeles (on behalf of Fowler Museum)
Los Angeles, CA
$35,000
To support Fowler in Focus installations and the publication of companion publications. The Fowler in Focus program comprises a changing space featuring recent acquisitions, selected artistic genres, and important "sub-collections" within the museum's holdings.

San Diego Museum of Art
San Diego, CA
$35,000
To support the touring exhibition Transmission: The Art of Matta and Gordon Matta-Clark, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will compare the works of Chilean artist Roberto Matta (1911-2002) and his son, Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) for the first time.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (aka San Francisco MOMA)
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
To support the presentation in San Francisco of the exhibition Shomei Tomatsu: Skin of the Nation, with accompanying education programs. The exhibition of 268 works is the first comprehensive survey of more than 50 years of work by Japanese photographer Shomei Tomatsu (b. 1930).

San Jose Museum of Art Association
San Jose, CA
$30,000
To support the exhibition Suburban Escape: The Art of California Sprawl, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will survey the work of more than 40 artists who have focused their work on the examination of suburban culture.

Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Santa Barbara, CA
$80,000
To support the touring exhibition Rufino Tamayo (1899-1991): A Modern Icon Reinterpreted, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. The retrospective will to feature Tamayo's best canvases and murals produced during a seven-decade career.

Scottsdale Cultural Council (on behalf of Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art)
Scottsdale, AZ
$25,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American artist Pae White (b. 1963), with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. The artist will create up to 10 new works for the show, as well as designing the catalogue.

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
$40,000
To support the touring exhibition Claude Drawings from the British Museum, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. This is the first U.S. exhibition of the work of influential French artist Claude Lorrain (1600-82) since 1982.

Studio Museum in Harlem, Inc. (SMH)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the exhibition energy x experimentation: African American Artists and Abstraction, 1964 - 1980, with an accompanying catalogue and symposium. The exhibition will survey the work of a group of African American abstract painters and sculptors who have been largely overlooked, including Ed Clark, Sam Gilliam, and Howardena Pindell.

University of Arizona (on behalf of Center for Creative Photography)
Tucson, AZ
$25,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American photographer Harry Callahan (1912-98), with an accompanying catalogue and symposium. The exhibit will feature approximately 100 prints and an array of largely unpublished archival materials from this canonical figure in American photography.

University of Maryland Baltimore County Campus
Baltimore, MD
$15,000
To support the touring exhibition Color Pictures: Visual Representation and the Struggle for Civil Rights, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will examine how visual images -- fine art and journalistic photography, films, television and advertising -- helped shape the struggle for civil rights in America.

University of Wyoming (on behalf of Art Museum)
Laramie, WY
$20,000
To support a series of solo exhibitions by contemporary artists, with accompanying brochures and education programs. The selected artists are Hung Liu, Wanxin Zhang, Jennifer Steinkamp, and Fred Sandback.

Washington University (on behalf of Kemper Art Museum)
St. Louis, MO
$25,000
To support the touring exhibition Reality Bites: Making Avant-Garde Art in Post-Wall Germany, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition of approximately 70 works will explore the nature of art made in Germany since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, NY
$80,000
To support the touring exhibition Picasso and American Art, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will explore the ways in which Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) has affected art-making in the United States throughout the 20th century to the present day.

Yale University (on behalf of Art Gallery)
New Haven, CT
$60,000
To support the presentation of the exhibition The Societe Anonyme: Modernism for America. The exhibition will include 200 paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures from the Societe Anonyme Collection at Yale and the Phillips Collection in Washington.

National Endowment for the Arts · an independent federal agency
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Washington, DC 20506