2007 Grant Awards: Access to Artistic Excellence

[ August 14, 2006 deadline ]

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Visual Arts

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

Visual Arts

509 Cultural Center (aka Luggage Store)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support production of an online archive documenting the 16-year exhibition history of the Luggage Store. The archive will include more than 1,000 visual images, biographical information, video footage, DVDs, newspaper articles, and critical writing.

Anaphiel Foundation Inc.
Miami Beach, FL
$20,000
To support publication of a book exploring the future of visual arts education. The book builds upon a series of symposia held in Miami, New York, and London, examining the state of arts education and the exploration of a new direction that responds to demands and issues of the 21st century.

Aperture Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support production and distribution of the Aperture magazine anthology on DVD. The two-volume DVD will document each of the 220 issues released since Aperture's inception in 1952.

Art 21, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support outreach programs and curriculum materials for Art:21 - Art in the Twenty-First Century. This public television series about contemporary visual art creates intimate profiles of America's diverse artists and the contexts in which they work.

Art Commission of the City of New York
New York, NY
$20,000
To support conservation treatment of portraits from the city's 18th- to 20th-century American portrait collection. The works are in a collection of 107 paintings depicting early American statesmen and military figures, including eight U.S. presidents, 10 senators, and 23 governors by renowned artists of their time.

Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of School of the Art Institute)
Chicago, IL
$30,000
To support the Teacher Institute in Contemporary Art. Experienced high school art teachers from around the country are invited to Chicago to enrich their artistic creativity through studio access, sessions with contemporary artists, and lectures in the visual arts.

Art Mobile of Montana
Dillon, MT
$10,000
To support ArtMobile. A specially equipped van will travel throughout the state, providing access to original art works by Montana artists and art instruction.

Art Resources Transfer, Inc. (aka A.R.T. Press)
New York, NY
$45,000
To support the Distribution to Underserved Communities Program. A.R.T. press will offer books, museum catalogues, videos, and other material about contemporary art free-of-charge to libraries across the nation, with a special emphasis on rural and inner-city libraries.

Artpace, Inc. (Consortium)
San Antonio, TX
$20,000
To support ArtElements. This series of youth outreach activities, undertaken in partnership with the San Antonio School District, is designed to engage youth with contemporary art in a substantive way.

ARTScorpsLA
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support We Will Always Remember You on Our Street, a public art installation. Guided by lead artist Meredith Jack, members of the community, art students, and a collective of artists will create medallion-shaped sand-scratch blocks that reflect the concept of family and install them at a reclaimed park in Los Angeles.

Asian American Arts Centre, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support expansion of an online, digital database of artists whose work is in the center's archive. The collection includes slide documentation, ephemera, reviews, and audio interviews of more than 1,500 artists documenting Asian American art during the last 60 years.

Associated Artists of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
To support exhibitions at the Carnegie Museum of Art. The Associated Artists of Pittsburgh's (AAP) annual juried show will open simultaneously with a historic survey of prominent artists who were once members.

Baltimore Clayworks, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$15,000
To support Red, an exhibition of work by contemporary ceramic artists. The part-curated, part-juried project will be guided by internationally known ceramic artist Richard Notkin.

Bread and Roses Cultural Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support Unseen America, a photography project. Designed to serve immigrant and low-wage workers, the project will provide different communities with training in photography and opportunities for exhibiting the resulting work.

Community Access to the Arts, Inc.
Great Barrington, MA
$10,000
To support expansion of activities related to art making techniques for people with physical disabilities. The technique "Artistic Realization Technology," developed by artist Tim Lefens, uses lasers attached to artists' heads and trained trackers - people acting as the hands of the artists.

Creative Growth, Inc. (aka Creative Growth Art Center)
Oakland, CA
$20,000
To support Contest/Converge: Art and Disability in a Contemporary Context. The project to involve artists with disabilities as a vital part of the larger arts community will include a series of studio arts workshops for adults with disabilities, a visiting artists program, an exhibition series, an updated publicity campaign, and a publication.

CUE Art Foundation
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Studio Residency Program. Artists will be given the opportunity to create work during an eight-week residency program.

Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Inc.
Wilmington, DE
$15,000
To support a series of community-based artist residencies and a documentary catalogue. The artists will collaborate with community groups to create work based on ideas and issues relevant to the participants' lives.

Dieu Donné Papermill, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the New York State Artist Workspace Project. A partnership with Sculpture Space in Utica, the project builds upon work undertaken by 10 organizations that identified best practices for artist workspace facilities.

Evanston Art Center
Evanston, IL
$10,000
To support the installation of a temporary art and sound installation by artists Shawn Decker and Jan-Erik Andersson. The artists will create the work, Birds Nest, using high-grade wood beams and piano wire on the lake-front lawn of the 1920's mansion which now houses the art center.

Exit Art/The First World, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support production of a publication and DVD documenting Exit Art's 25-year exhibition history. Designed to contextualize the organization's programming within the framework of political and social concerns, Walking the Edge will be a hardcover volume of 360 pages, including 100 black-and-white illustrations and 50 color plates.

Galería/Studio 24 (aka Galería de la Raza)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support expansion of an online exhibition archive to include materials from Galería's earliest years of programming, 1970-85. The project involves uploading more than 1,500 images, documents, newspaper articles, and critical reviews.

Glass Art Society, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$15,000
To support production of the Glass Art Society Journal. The publication will document events, exhibitions, and proceedings of the organization's annual conference to be held in Pittsburgh in June 2007.

Grace Hill Settlement House
St. Louis, MO
$15,000
To support a quilting project to document the region's role in the underground railroad movement. Artist Edna Patterson-Petty will be commissioned to create a series of quilts working with four Mississippi River communities where many heroic crossings to freedom occurred.

Hippodrome/Colony Historical Theatre Association, Inc.
Marietta, OH
$30,000
To support professional conservation of a circa 1919 fire curtain mural. The mural, attributed to the artist John Z. Wood, was painted by the Twin City Scenic Company of Minneapolis.

Lamar University
Beaumont, TX
$9,000
To support a traveling exhibition featuring the work of deaf artists. The project, based on an open call to artists, will open at the Dishman Museum in Beaumont and be curated by Brenda Schertz, a nationally known curator and museum accessibility consultant.

Lawndale Art & Performance Center (aka Lawndale Art Center)
Houston, TX
$15,000
To support a program to provide artists with access to studio space, equipment, technical support, and an honorarium. Artists responding to an open call will be selected by a panel of artists, curators, and critics for residency periods of nine months.

Mexic-Arte
Austin, TX
$20,000
To support production of an online catalogue, a publication, and video documentation of the 12th annual Young Latino Artist Exhibition. The exhibition will be guest-curated and will feature the work of Latino artists from Texas and northern Mexico who are younger than 35 years of age.

Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana de San Jose, Inc. (aka MACLA)
San Jose, CA
$15,000
To support photography-based public art projects in the William/Reed Corridor of downtown San Jose. The projects will provide community members with training in photography and opportunities for exhibiting the resulting work.

National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (aka NCECA)
Erie, CO
$35,000
To support planning and implementation of the annual conference of the nation's oldest and largest professional service organization for the ceramic arts. The conference, to be held in New Orleans in March 2008, will include a series of exhibitions, lectures, panels, and workshop demonstrations.

New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, Inc. (aka New York Studio School)
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the Evening Lecture Series. The free program enables artists, scholars, critics, philosophers, and art historians to engage the public in a discussion of critical issues in the visual arts.

Paradigm Productions, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
$25,000
To support presentations of the documentary film OROZCO: Man of Fire in museums nationwide, and related educational materials. The hour-long documentary examines the life of the early 20th-century Mexican muralist Jose Clemente Orozco and his influence on American art.

Penland School of Crafts, Inc.
Penland, NC
$30,000
To support the Teaching Artist Initiative. The program's several components are designed to address inadequate arts instruction in rural western North Carolina.

PhotoAlliance
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support a visiting artist lecture series. The program enables artists at varying points in their careers to engage the public in a discussion of critical issues in photography.

Pi Beta Phi Settlement School (aka Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts)
Gatlinburg, TN
$10,000
To support the final phase of a comprehensive, online digital archive of Arrowmont School's permanent collection. The collection of more than 725 objects acquired during the past 90 years represents a variety of craft traditions, and has the potential to be a great resource and teaching tool.

Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy
Pittsburgh, PA
$20,000
To support conservation treatment of Victor David Brenner's A Song to Nature, a bronze and granite fountain. The fountain, located in front of the Frick Fine Arts Building at the University of Pittsburgh, was dedicated in 1918 to the philanthropy of Mary Schenley, who donated 456 acres for the city's flagship park.

Southwest School of Art & Craft
San Antonio, TX
$20,000
To support the Visiting Artist Program. Artists with specialized knowledge in an arcane technical area, or who have applied a traditional method toward innovative ends, will be invited to conduct workshops.

Vestry of St. John's Church (aka St. John's Church Lafayette Square)
Washington, DC
$20,000
To support restoration of 19th-century leaded stained glass windows. Restoration treatment will be undertaken by the architectural glass firm Willet Hauser, based on a condition report that prioritizes the windows in most urgent need of repair.

Women's Studio Workshop, Inc. (Consortium)
Rosendale, NY
$20,000
To support artist residencies. In partnership with the Kingston City School District, the residency program offers emerging artists paid professional opportunities to work for an extended period of time in a technically equipped studio space as well as training in teaching and mentoring.

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