2008 Grant Awards: Access to Artistic Excellence
[ March 12, 2007 deadline ]
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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 the touring exhibition Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Drawing on the American Folk Art Museum's collection of more than 4,000 artworks that span nearly three centuries, Masterworks will explore the aesthetic relationships that emerged to adapt to and reflect upon critical moments in American history.
Anchorage Museum Association
Anchorage, AK
$15,000
To support the planning of the exhibition True North: Contemporary Art in the Circumpolar North. The exhibition will bring to Anchorage for the first time a comprehensive (including indigenous and non-indigenous peoples) selection of contemporary art by artists working and living in Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia, and Russia.
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$70,000
To support the touring exhibition Edvard Munch and European Modernism, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition aims to challenge and overturn myths surrounding the life and work of Munch (1863-1944) by presenting the artist's paintings, prints, and drawings in relation to his European contemporaries.
Asia Society
New York, NY
$55,000
To support the exhibition Mirror of the Floating World: New Reflections on Japanese Paintings, Prints, and Illustrated Books 1680-1860, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition consists of nearly 200 masterworks of Japanese ukiyo-e (floating world pictures) from North American private and public collections, many on view for the first time.
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
$75,000
To support the touring exhibition Court Arts of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will be the first major exhibition in the United States to focus on China's Ming court arts.
Association of Art Museum Directors Educational Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support museum director management training in partnership with the Getty Leadership Institute during the AAMD midwinter meeting in Austin, Texas. Faculty from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California will present two topics: How to Move the Organization Forward with a Reinvested Staff and Key Variables in a CEO's Long-term Sustainability.
Bowdoin College (on behalf of Museum of Art)
Brunswick, ME
$40,000
To support the touring exhibition Paula Modersohn-Becker: Figurative Paintings, with accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will focus on approximately 40 of Modersohn-Becker's (German, 1876-1907) figure paintings - portraits, self-portraits, and nudes.
Bruce Museum, Inc.
Greenwich, CT
$40,000
To support an exhibition of Dutch and Italian Old Master paintings drawn from the collection of Jacques Goudstikker (1897-1940), with accompanying catalogue. The goal of the exhibition is to reveal the quality of the collection, to tell the story of its confiscation and restitution, and to present it to a broad American public.
Carnegie Institute (on behalf of Carnegie Museum of Art)
Pittsburgh, PA
$20,000
To support the 2008 Carnegie International exhibition, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Widely known as one of the preeminent international surveys of contemporary art in the world, the Carnegie International was founded in 1896 at the behest of museum founder Andrew Carnegie.
China Institute in America, Incorporated
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the touring exhibition The Emperors' Collection: Painting and Calligraphy from the Liaoning Provincial Museum, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will present for the first time to the American public paintings and calligraphy of China's Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) Dynasties' imperial collections.
Cincinnati Museum Association (aka Cincinnati Art Museum)
Cincinnati, OH
$20,000
To support the touring exhibition Bessie Potter Vonnoh: Sculptor of Women, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Bessie Potter Vonnoh (1872-1955) was an artist who achieved considerable acclaim in turn-of-the-century America for her distinctive contribution to American sculpture.
Columbia University in the City of New York (on behalf of Wallach Art Gallery)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the touring exhibition Sightlines: Nancy Holt, with accompanying catalogue. Sightlines is a retrospective of the work of Nancy Holt (American, b. 1938), who situates landscape at the center of her artistic practice.
Columbus Museum of Art (Consortium)
Columbus, OH
$40,000
To support the touring exhibition George Tooker: A Retrospective, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition, undertaken in partnership with the National Academy of Design in New York, will present a comprehensive survey and critical reassessment of George Tooker's (American, b. 1920) work and his place in American art, which has long been overlooked.
Contemporary Jewish Museum
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the exhibition In the Beginning, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. In the Beginning is the inaugural exhibition of newly commissioned site-specific work for the museum's new downtown facility.
Crocker Art Museum Association
Sacramento, CA
$20,000
To support the touring exhibition The Language of the Nude: Four Centuries of Drawing the Human Body, with accompanying catalogue. This exhibition of rarely seen drawings from the museum's permanent collection examines the nude, its place in each artist's oeuvre, and the ideals and desires it expressed in European art from the 16th through the 19th centuries.
Duke University (on behalf of Nasher Museum of Art)
Durham, NC
$15,000
To support the exhibition Birth of the Cool: The Paintings of Barkley L. Hendricks, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition is the first career retrospective of Hendricks's (American b. 1945) work.
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
$20,000
To support SHARE (See and Hear Artists in Residence at the Eiteljorg) with accompanying education programs. SHARE will feature monthly week-long residencies by Native American and Western visual and performing artists throughout 2008.
Exploratorium
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
To support a series of artist residencies with accompanying education programs. The residencies will place an emphasis on the interplay of handcraft and technology in contemporary art and public engagement with the work.
Frick Collection
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the exhibition Masterpieces in Bronze: Riccio, Sculptor of the Paduan Renaissance, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Masterpieces in Bronze will be the first monographic exhibition ever dedicated to Andrea Briosco (1470-1532), known as Riccio, and considered one of the great bronze masters of the Renaissance.
Hillwood Museum and Gardens Foundation
Washington, DC
$15,000
To support the touring exhibition Sevres Then and Now: Tradition and Innovation in Porcelain, 1750-2000, with accompanying catalogue and interpretive materials. The exhibition will explore the dramatic history and remarkable accomplishments of Sevres' ceramists and designers.
Honolulu Academy of Arts
Honolulu, HI
$40,000
To support the touring exhibition The Dragon's Gift: The Sacred Arts of Bhutan, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will explore the Buddhist arts of Bhutan by presenting works of art borrowed from Bhutanese monasteries, on view outside of Asia for the first time.
International Foundation for Art Research, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the IFAR Journal, a quarterly publication on authenticity, ownership, theft, looting, and other scholarly and ethical issues concerning art objects. The Journal's focus is increasingly on the hold that legal issues have on the art and museum fields, and the rapidly evolving standards regarding the ownership of works of art.
Jersey City Museum, Inc.
Jersey City, NJ
$20,000
To support the exhibition All About the Spirit, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition is a retrospective of the work of influential African American painter, sculptor, printmaker, and educator Ben Jones (b. 1942).
Jewish Museum
New York, NY
$60,000
To support the touring exhibition Action/Abstraction: Abstract Expressionism and Postwar America, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Action/Abstraction is the first major exhibition in 20 years to re-evaluate Abstract Expressionism and the movements that followed.
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
Kalamazoo, MI
$15,000
To support the touring exhibition The Figure Revealed: Contemporary American Realist Paintings and Drawings, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Featuring work created from the 1970s to 2005, the exhibition will examine the contemporary American realism movement.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY
$70,000
To support the exhibition Beyond Babylon: Art and International Exchange in the Second Millennium B.C., with accompanying education programs. The exhibition will bring together some 350 objects from royal palaces, temples, and tombs that reflect the extensive network of artistic exchange and international connections throughout the period.
Museum Associates (aka Los Angeles County Museum of Art) (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
To support the touring exhibition Contemporary Art from Korea at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The project is a collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and will be the first major museum exhibition in the United States to focus on a generation of artists working within a distinctly Korean context at the cutting edge of international art trends.
Museum Associates (aka Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
Los Angeles, CA
$75,000
To support the touring exhibition German Art during the Cold War, 1945-89 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. This will be the first major exhibition in the United States to examine the complexity of art developed under the historical framework of the Cold War.
Museum for African Art
Long Island City, NY
$70,000
To support the touring exhibition Splendors of Ancient Ife: Dynasty and Divinity in Yoruba Art, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition is organized in collaboration with the Nigerian National Commission for Museums and Monuments.
Museum of Biblical Art
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the planning of the exhibition Jews and Christians in the Altarpieces of the Kingdom of Aragon, 1320-1402, with accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will explore the cooperation that took place between Christians and Jews in the creation of art during the period preceding the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492.
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
La Jolla, CA
$40,000
To support the exhibition Phenomenal: California Light and Space, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will focus on the art of Light and Space, a movement that began in Southern California in the late 1960s and continues to foment many of the most vanguard practices engaging young artists today.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (aka MFA)
Boston, MA
$75,000
To support the exhibition The Future of Tradition: Chinese Ink Painting Today, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The project involves contemporary Chinese ink painters responding to classical artworks from China's past.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (aka MFAH)
Houston, TX
$70,000
To support the touring exhibition In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet, with accompanying education programs. This is the first major exhibition in the United States to explore the significance of the Forest of Fontainebleau as the veritable crucible of 19th-century French landscape painting and photography.
Museum of Photographic Arts
San Diego, CA
$60,000
To support the exhibition A Literacy of Images: Nancy Newhall and the Art of Photography, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The retrospective exhibition of photographs and essays by Nancy Newhall (1908-1974) will also include a selection of works by photographers whom Newhall promoted through her essays and as a curator.
National Museum of Mexican Art
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support the exhibition Modern Masters North and South of the Border, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will examine the exchanges between masters of the Mexican School such as Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Jose Clemente Orozco and modern masters in the U.S. such as Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock.
Nelson Gallery Foundation (aka Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art)
Kansas City, MO
$70,000
To support the touring exhibition Iron, Steam and Speed: The Artist and the Railway at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The works in the exhibition celebrate those aspects of the railroad that made it such a potent symbol of modern life.
New York University (on behalf of Grey Art Gallery)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the touring exhibition New York Cool: Paintings and Sculptures from the New York University Art Collection, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition reexamines a transitional phase of the New York School - between Abstract Expressionism of the late 1940s and Pop and Minimalism of the mid-1960s.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, PA
$75,000
To support the exhibition Cezanne's Legacy, with accompanying education programs. The exhibition will delineate the tremendous impact of the art of Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) on successive generations of artists throughout the 20th century up to the present.
Phillips Collection (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$10,000
To support the touring exhibition Van Gogh Repetitions, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will present new insights into Vincent van Gogh's (1853-90) artistic process through a study of the artist's "repetitions" or works that feature nearly identical compositions.
Please Touch Museum
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
To support the commissioning of new works of art for the museum's new space at Memorial Hall in Fairmount Park. The museum will be commissioning pieces from up to seven artists and as many as 12 students from the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program's Youth Corps.
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of University Art Museum)
Berkeley, CA
$18,000
To support the planning of the exhibition State of Mind: Conceptual Art in Northern and Southern California by the University Art Museum. The goal of the project is to investigate and identify California's significant contributions to the genre of Conceptual art and the distinctions that marked the development of the genre in the northern and southern parts of the state.
Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Inc. (on behalf of High Museum of Art)
Atlanta, GA
$70,000
To support the touring exhibition Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-68 at the High Museum of Art, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Road to Freedom will be the most comprehensive exhibition ever devoted to the photographic images that chronicle and define the civil rights movement in the United States.
Saint Anselm College
Manchester, NH
$10,000
To support the exhibition, A Figural Presence, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will be composed of 20 to 30 contemporary American figurative artworks, including painting, drawing, and sculpture, tracing the enduring aesthetic values within the representational mode.
Seattle Art Museum
Seattle, WA
$100,000
To support the touring exhibition S'abadeb (The Gifts): Coast Salish Art and Artists, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition includes 150 works of art and artifacts, cultural treasures, and everyday objects from 550 BC to contemporary, representing the culture of the northwest coast native Salish peoples.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (aka Guggenheim Museum)
New York, NY
$70,000
To support the touring exhibition Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. This will be the first U.S. retrospective exhibition of the work of contemporary Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang (b. 1957).
Spertus College
Chicago, IL
$50,000
To support the touring exhibition African American Art and the Julius Rosenwald Fund, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The project includes an exhibition at the Spertus Museum presenting 50 major works by Rosenwald Fellows, archival material, and an original video documentary on the Rosenwald Fund and its legacy as a supporter of African American artists.
Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
$75,000
To support the touring exhibition Like Breath on Glass: Painting Softly from Whistler to Davies with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition, cutting across art-historical classifications, reveals a continuity among key American painters based upon their virtuosic handling of paint to achieve shimmering surfaces, images suggested rather than delineated.
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (on behalf of Museum of Art)
Ann Arbor, MI
$40,000
To support the touring exhibition Painting and Photography Along the Normandy Coast, 1850-74 at the Museum of Art, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will examine the unique convergence of European painting and photography at this particular time and place.
Wadsworth Atheneum
Hartford, CT
$40,000
To support the touring exhibition Impressionists by the Sea, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will explore the inception of Impressionism in the social and historical context of 19th-century coastal France.
Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, NY
$55,000
To support the touring exhibition William Eggleston (American, b. 1939), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. One of the most influential American photographers of the last half-century, William Eggleston has been widely characterized as "the father of color photography" by fellow artists, curators, critics, and collectors.
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