2009 Grant Awards: Access to Artistic Excellence

[ March 10, 2008 deadline ]

Dance | Design | Folk & Traditional Arts | Literature | Local Arts Agencies
Media Arts | Museums | Music | Musical Theater | Opera | Presenting
Theater | Visual Arts

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

Museum

Asheville Art Museum Association, Inc. (aka Asheville Art Museum)
Asheville, NC
$40,000
To support an exhibition of the work of American artist Ruth Asawa (b.1926), with accompanying education programs. Asawa is strongly associated with the Black Mountain College art colony in North Carolina and its influence on American avant-garde art from the 1930s through the 50s.

Asia Society (Consortium)
New York, NY
$75,000
To support an exhibition of the ancient arts of Vietnam, organized in conjunction with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Ancient Arts of Vietnam will be one of the first exhibitions of ancient and traditional Vietnamese art to be presented in the West.

Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco (aka Asian Art Museum of San Francisco)
San Francisco, CA
$75,000
To support the exhibition Samurai, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Most of the objects selected for the exhibition have never before been seen outside of Japan.

Atlanta Botanical Garden, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$20,000
To support the presentation in Atlanta of Henry Moore in America, with accompanying education programs. British artist Moore (1898-1986) is widely considered to be one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century.

Chrysler Museum of Art
Norfolk, VA
$40,000
To support the exhibition Art of Glass II, with accompanying education programs, including glass blowing demonstrations, seminars, and workshops. The project is a region-wide celebration of contemporary art glass.

Cincinnati Museum Association (aka Cincinnati Art Museum)
Cincinnati, OH
$30,000
To support the touring exhibition Decoded Messages: The Symbolic Language of Chinese Animal Painting, with accompanying catalogue. Images of animals are among the oldest motifs in Chinese art, yet their symbolic significance has been largely overlooked by art historians.

Contemporary Jewish Museum
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the production of a catalogue to accompany the exhibition You Shall Tell Your Children: Artists Interpret the Passover Seder Plate. The exhibition and catalogue will showcase new works by leading local, national, and international artists who have been invited to explore the meaning and form of the Seder plate.

Dallas Museum of Art
Dallas, TX
$35,000
To support the touring exhibition Gustav Stickley (1858-1942) and the American Arts Crafts Movement, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Driven by American societal changes, the American Arts and Crafts Movement defined a cultural world view that is still relevant today in its promotion of handcraft and the integration of art into everyday life.

Drawing Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the exhibition Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. This will be the first exhibition in North America devoted to this Greek-born modernist composer and artist (1922-2001).

Fabric Workshop and Museum, Inc. (aka The Fabric Workshop and Museum)
Philadelphia, PA
$50,000
To support an artist-in-residence program. Each participating artist will create new work using innovative fabrics, materials, and construction techniques in experimental ways.

Flint Institute of Arts (aka FIA)
Flint, MI
$15,000
To support the exhibition Contemporary Comic Book and Graphic Novel Art by African American Artists, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Viewers will experience the contributions African American artists are making to this genre and how their work addresses themes relevant to African American life.

Henry Gallery Association, Inc. (aka Henry Art Gallery)
Seattle, WA
$25,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American artist Kiki Smith (b. 1954), with an accompanying gallery guide and education programs. The first comprehensive survey of Smith's "captured images" will include six distinct strands of her work using photography as a medium.

Institute of Contemporary Art (aka ICA)
Boston, MA
$20,000
To support the commissioning of a new site-specific work by internationally renowned Polish-born artist Krzystof Wodiczko (b. 1943), with accompanying brochure and education programs. The artist's work has centered on a life-long investigation of the relationship between art, politics, trauma, and healing.

International Center of Photography (aka ICP)
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the touring exhibition Richard Avedon: Fashion Photography 1945-2000, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The most comprehensive show devoted to Avedon's  (1923-2004) work in fashion to date, this major retrospective will examine the photographer's entire career.

Japan Society, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support an exhibition of the work of Japanese textile artist Keisuke Serizawa (1895-1984), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Designated a Living National Treasure by the Japanese government, Serizawa drew inspiration from Japan, East Asia, and beyond to produce textiles that were both unmistakably modern and quintessentially Japanese.

Jewish Museum
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the exhibition Alias Man Ray, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will present a new look at the diverse work of the internationally renowned Philadelphia-born artist, including paintings, photographs, works on paper, sculpture, films, and books and ephemera.

Mattress Factory, Ltd.
Pittsburgh, PA
$25,000
To support Likeness, an exhibition of new site-specific installations by as many as six nationally and internationally known contemporary artists, with accompanying education programs. The exhibition will present work that explores identity and resemblance in a variety of media.

Menil Foundation, Inc. (aka The Menil Collection)
Houston, TX
$15,000
To support the touring exhibition Joaquin Torres-Garcia: Wood Constructions and Related Works, with accompanying gallery guides and brochures. This will be the first exhibition to explore in depth the wood constructions or maderas introduced by the Uruguayan avant-garde artist and theoretician.

Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY
$75,000
To support the presentation of the exhibition Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul, with accompanying education programs. The exhibition will celebrate the role of ancient Afghanistan as one of the most complex and original civilizations on the Asian continent.

Mexic-Arte (aka Mexic-Arte Museum)
Austin, TX
$25,000
To support the 14th Annual Young Latino Artists Exhibition. Each year the museum engages a young curator to bring together 10 to 15 emerging Texan artists in an exhibition that brings artists and communities together to experience new and experimental art forms.

Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts (aka Minneapolis Institute of Arts) (Consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$30,000
To support planning for the exhibition Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Idea Photographic.  A pioneer in the modern art movement, Moholy-Nagy (Hungarian, 1895-1946) spurred a range of advances in photography and mixed media.

Museum Associates (aka Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA))
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000
To support the exhibition When Worlds Collide: The Arts and Culture of Lucknow, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will focus exclusively on this northern Indian city, exploring the development of its artistic traditions.

Museum for African Art
Long Island City, NY
$100,000
To support a touring retrospective exhibition of the work of Ghanaian-born artist El Anatsui (b. 1944), with accompanying catalogue. The project includes the commissioning of a new work by El Anatsui to be permanently installed in the museum's new building.

Museum of Arts & Design (aka MAD)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the exhibition Out of the Wood: Carvers, Turners, and Sculptors, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition examines woodworking in the contemporary art world across a broad spectrum of practices and concepts.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (aka MOCA)
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
To support a touring retrospective exhibition of the work of American artist Dan Graham (b. 1942), with accompanying catalogue. An essential influence on the development of contemporary art since the laste 1960s, the  exhibit will examine Graham's entire body of work, such as the artist's photographs, architectural models, outdoor pavilions, and film and video work.

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
La Jolla, CA
$20,000
To support the touring exhibition Automatic Cities: The Architectural Imaginary in Contemporary Art, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will explore the social and aesthetic implications/influences of architecture as a subject for many contemporary artists.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (aka MFA)
Boston, MA
$50,000
To support the publication of an ongoing series of guidebooks highlighting areas of the museum's world-renowned encyclopedic permanent collection. This project will focus on the Native American collection and on the museum's conservation activities.

National Museum of Mexican Art
Chicago, IL
$50,000
To support the exhibition Living in Harmony: The Art of the Huichol, with accompanying education programs. The exhibit will present indigenous Huichol artforms, including chaquira bead paintings and yarn paintings as well as several new commissioned works by master Huichol artists.

National Museum of Women in the Arts, Inc.
Washington, DC
$50,000
To support the touring exhibition Royalists and Revolutionaries: Women Artists from the Great French Museums, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will present an opportunity to explore the contributions that women artists made in France between 1750 and 1848.

New Museum of Contemporary Art (aka New Museum)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support an exhibition of the work of Swiss artist Urs Fischer (b. 1973), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will feature new work created especially for the museum's galleries.

Newark Museum Association
Newark, NJ
$75,000
To support the touring exhibition Shaping Utopia: Geometric Abstraction in the Americas, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will examine the work of a group of artists who came of age in the 1930s and 40s advancing geometric abstraction as a vital form of modern expression.

Northwestern Michigan College Foundation (on behalf of Dennos Museum Center)
Traverse City, MI
$20,000
To support the presentation at the Dennos Museum Center of the exhibition River of Gold: Pre-Columbian Treasures from Sitio Conte, with accompanying education programs. The exhibition is drawn from the collection of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Oklahoma City Museum of Art
Oklahoma City, OK
$25,000
To support an exhibition exploring the development of African American art during the 1920s and 30s, a period loosely referred to as the Harlem Renaissance. The exhibition will examine the diverse influences on the period and the Harlem Renaissance as an artistic subject.

Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, PA
$100,000
To support a touring exhibition Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, with accompanying education programs. Gorky (b. Armenia c. 1907-48) was a seminal figure in the movement toward abstraction that ultimately transformed American art.

Racine Art Museum Association, Inc. (aka RAM)
Racine, WI
$20,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American artist Viola Frey (1933-2004), with accompanying education programs. The exhibition of monumental ceramic sculptures, paintings, and works on paper is being co-organized with the Gardiner Museum, Toronto.

Regents of the University of California at Los Angeles (on behalf of Fowler Museum)
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000
To support the touring exhibition Arts of the Benue River Valley, Nigeria, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition is being organized by the Fowler Museum in collaboration with the Musee du quai Branly in Paris.

Robert Abbe Museum of Stone Age Antiquities (aka Abbe Museum)
Bar Harbor, ME
$8,000
To support education programming and community outreach activities associated with the exhibition Twisted Path: Contemporary Native Artists Walking in Two Worlds. The series of programs addresses how artistic expressions by Native American artists reflect the challenges Native Americans face in contemporary American society.

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Inc. (on behalf of High Museum of Art) (Consortium)
Atlanta, GA
$50,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of African American self-taught artist Bill Traylor (c.1854-1949), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The project is being co-organized with the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in Alabama.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (aka SFMOMA)
San Francisco, CA
$100,000
To support a touring retrospective of the work of South African artist William Kentridge (b. 1955), with accompanying catalogue. The exhibition is being co-organized with the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Scottsdale Cultural Council (aka Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art)
Scottsdale, AZ
$25,000
To support an exhibition at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art of the work of American photographers Frederick Sommer (1905-1999), Harry Callahan (1912-1999), and Aaron Siskind (1903-1991), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Self-taught as photographers, the three artists  helped shape a national community of peers as well as the evolution of photography.

Seattle Art Museum
Seattle, WA
$25,000
To support the touring exhibition Target Practice: Critiques of Painting: 1949-1978, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will be international in scope examining radical approaches to painting during a particularly intensive period in art history.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (aka Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum)
New York, NY
$100,000
To support the exhibition Kandinsky, with accompanying education programs. The exhibition will be the most comprehensive presentation of Russian-born artist Vasily Kandinsky's (1866-1944) work in the United States since l985.

Spertus College
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the exhibition Ground Level Projects, with accompanying public programs. The museum will commission up to five local, national, and international artists to develop site-specific works for the museum's street-level, glass-enclosed vestibule space.

State University of New York at Buffalo (on behalf of Center for the Arts-Art Gallery)
Buffalo, NY
$30,000
To support the exhibition Artpark: The First 10 Years, 1974-84, with accompanying catalogue and education programs at the Center for the Arts-Art Gallery. The exhibition will chronicle the seminal years of this innovative summer residency program located in Lewiston, New York, close to Niagara Falls.

Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
$50,000
To support the touring exhibition Dove/O'Keeffe: Circles of Influence, with accompanying  education programs. The exhibition of works by Georgia O'Keeffe and Arthur Dove is being organized in association with the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and will be presented at both museums.

Studio Museum in Harlem, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support an artist-in-residence program. Up to three artists will receive studio space, a stipend, an allotment for materials, professional mentoring, and a culminating exhibition at the museum. Since its founding in 1968, the program has helped launch the careers of more than 100 artists of African descent.

Trustees of Boston College (on behalf of McMullen Museum of Art)
Chestnut Hill, MA
$25,000
To support the touring exhibition The Pamphilj and the Arts: Patronage and Consumption in Baroque Rome at the McMullen Museum of Art, with accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will examine artistic, musical, literary, and theatrical patronage in Baroque Rome through the story of one of the city's most powerful families.

Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (aka The Corcoran)
Washington, DC
$75,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of British/American artist Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition represents the first retrospective in 50 years to investigate and fully survey every aspect of the career of this pioneering photographer.

University of Houston (on behalf of Blaffer Gallery)
Houston, TX
$20,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of African American artist Leonardo Drew (b. 1961) at the Blaffer Gallery, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. While the exhibition will exclusively present new work created for the occasion, the publication will offer a full survey of Drew's career.

Washington State University (on behalf of Museum of Art)
Pullman, WA
$15,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American artist Chris Jordan (b. 1963) at the Museum of Art, with accompanying catalogue. Jordan's large-scale photographic work comments on modern society's inclination toward disposable commodities.

Washington University (on behalf of Kemper Art Museum)
St. Louis, MO
$25,000
To support the touring exhibition Chance Aesthetics at the Kemper Art Museum, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition examines chance as a major composition principle in modernism from the early 20th century through the 1960s.

William A. Farnsworth Library & Art Museum, Inc. (aka Farnsworth Art Museum)
Rockland, ME
$25,000
To support the touring exhibition Beyond Love: Robert Indiana and the Star of Hope Lodge, with accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will be drawn almost exclusively from the artist's collection at the lodge.

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

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