2011 Grant Awards: Access to Artistic Excellence

[ March 11, 2010 deadline ]

Artists Communities | 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

Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (aka Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum)
Ridgefield, CT
$20,000
To support an exhibition of the work of the Brazilian artists' collective Chelpa Ferro, with accompanying educational programs. The collective, comprised of visual artists Barrão, Luiz Zerbini, and Serfio Mekler, will install experimental audio sculpture crafted of bricolage, consumer items, out-dated stereo systems, and motors.

American Association of Museums (aka AAM)
Washington, DC
$75,000
To support revision of the Accreditation Program. Designed to promote best practices, ethics, and standards of excellence in museum operations, the Accreditation Program will be streamlined to encourage greater participation in what is presently seen as a largely inaccessible system.

Amigos del Museo del Barrio (aka El Museo del Barrio) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$50,000

To support the exhibition Caribbean: Crossroads of the World, with accompanying educational programs. Organized in partnership with the Queens Museum of Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem, the exhibition will trace the importance of the indigenous past, the impact of Africa, and the various European cultures that contributed to early modern and contemporary Caribbean history, art, and culture. More than 600 objects from the early 19th century to the present will be exhibited simultaneously at all three venues.

Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$100,000
To support the exhibition France: 1500, with accompanying educational programs. The exhibition will include painting, sculpture, manuscript illumination, stained glass, tapestry, goldsmithwork, and printmaking from this historically overlooked era defined by the reigns of Charles VIII and Louis XII.

Association of Art Museum Directors Educational Foundation, Inc. (aka AAMD)
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the Mapping Project. Designed to improve community outreach for individual museums, the data collected documents partnerships among schools, universities, and youth organizations showing the various jurisdictions (city, state, county, and congressional districts) that each museum serves.

Boise Art Museum, Inc.
Boise, ID
$20,000
To support a site-specific installation by the artist Mike Rathbun (b. 1964), with accompanying educational programs. Working with wood native to the region such as pine, spruce, and fir, Rathbun will create an intricate and monumental work for the museum's 80-foot interior sculpture court.

Bowdoin College (on behalf of Bowdoin College Museum of Art)
Brunswick, ME
$20,000
To support FREEZE, an installation of monumental ice sculptures with accompanying public events at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Participating artists Andrea Zittel, Chris Burden, Mark Bradford, Olafur Eliasson, Josiah McElhney, Susan Philipsz, and Tobias Putrih will work with a team of engineers and master ice carvers.

Bronx Museum of the Arts
Bronx, NY
$20,000
To support an exhibition of the work of Mexican photographer Enrique Metinides (b. 1934), with accompanying catalogue and educational programs. The exhibition will feature more than 80 photographs taken between 1940-90 that uniquely capture the human experience in times of crisis such as accidents, natural disasters, and crime scenes.

Bruce Museum, Inc.
Greenwich, CT
$20,000
To support the exhibition Merry Company, with accompanying catalogue and educational programs. Organized in collaboration with the National Gallery, London, the exhibition will explore the Merry Company theme in 17th-century Dutch painting.

Charles and Emma Frye Free Public Art Museum (aka Frye Art Museum)
Seattle, WA
$50,000
To support the premiere of a projected art work by Stan Douglas (b. 1960), with an accompanying catalogue designed by the artist. Using historical reconstructions of buildings and locations from the period, the film will be projected on two screens, simultaneously depicting parallel moments in a single day in 1948.

China Institute in America, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support Along the Yangzi River: Regional Cultures for the Bronze Age, with accompanying catalogue and educational programs. Through the presentation of 50 bronzes, the exhibition will shed light on the development and characteristics of regional bronzes as well as their function and patronage.

Chinati Foundation (aka La Fundación Chinati)
Marfa, TX
$50,000
To support a permanent installation by the artist Robert Irwin (b. 1928). The artist will transform a dilapidated hospital on the grounds of a former army base using translucent scrims throughout the interior.

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Houston, TX
$20,000
To support the touring exhibition Donald Moffett: Twenty Years, with accompanying catalogue and educational programs. The first comprehensive survey of Moffett's (b. 1955) work, the exhibition will examine how his paintings were shaped by the political and social environments of the past 20 years and explore Moffett's own critique of being gay in America, as well as larger universal issues of loss, alienation, life, and death.

Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums (aka Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
San Francisco, CA
$75,000
To support the exhibition Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, with accompanying educational programs. The exhibition will present a wealth of recent discoveries ranging from portable objects to monumental sculpture.

Detroit Institute of Arts
Detroit, MI
$75,000
To support the exhibition Frederic Church: To the Holy Land and Beyond (1826-1900), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will explore, through Church's eyes, public attitudes regarding the Middle East during a pivotal period in American history just after the Civil War.

Drawing Center, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support The Big Draw. Undertaken in partnership with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The Big Draw is a free multi-venue public art event featuring a series of artist-led drawing activities for people of all ages.

Drawing Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support a touring exhibition of metal printing plates engraved by Italian masters from the 16th century to the present, with accompanying catalogue and educational programs. Co-organized with the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica in Rome, the exhibition will include 60 metal plates of copper, zinc, lead, steel, and brass.

Edmundson Art Foundation, Inc. (aka Des Moines Art Center)
Des Moines, IA
$30,000
To support an exhibition of the work of contemporary artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), with accompanying catalogue and educational programs. The exhibition will feature 18 two- and three-dimensional works using materials such as vinyl records, dinosaur fossils, volcanic ash, human tears, and lockets of hair to create poetic statements about our faith in materials, objects, and circumstances that shape our lives.

Exploratorium
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
To support an artist-in-residence program. Participating artists will create new work exploring issues related to audience engagement and interaction via social media and electronic hand-held devices.

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

Florida International University (on behalf of Wolfsonian Museum)
Miami, FL
$40,000
To support Art of Illumination: Illuminating the Arts. Working with the lighting design firm L'Observatoire International, the Wolfsonian will design a system using digital technology and lighting to illuminate the building's façade, converting the museum's exterior walls into free public exhibition space.

Frick Collection (aka the Frick)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the exhibition Reinventing Tradition: Picasso's Drawings 1890-1921, with accompanying educational programs. The exhibition will include approximately 60 major works that demonstrate Picasso's (1881-1973) stylistic experiments and techniques during the first three decades of his career, a period that began and ended in a classical mode and also brought about his most radical innovations.

Frist Center for the Visual Arts (aka The Frist Center)
Nashville, TN
$20,000
To support the exhibition Vishnu: Hinduism's Blue-Skinned Savior, with accompanying educational programs. The exhibition will present one of Hinduism's primary deities to a general audience through works of art made in India from the second to the 19th century.

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Inc. (aka Winterthur Museum & Country Estate)
Winterthur, DE
$35,000
To support the exhibition Paint, Pattern, and People: Furniture of Southeastern Pennsylvania, 1725-1850 at Winterthur Museum & Country Estate, with accompanying catalogue and symposium. The exhibition will include new scholarship on the distinctive furniture forms and ornament produced by its diverse inhabitants, primarily of British (including English, Welsh, and Scots-Irish) and Germanic heritage (including German, Swiss, Silesian, Moravian, and Austrian).

International Arts & Artists, Inc.
Washington, DC
$25,000
To support the touring exhibition Gather Up the Fragments: The Andrews Shaker Collection. The exhibition will feature more than 200 objects including furniture, textiles, manuscripts, crafts, works on paper, and household wares.

International Foundation for Art Research, Inc. (aka IFAR)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support publication of the IFAR Journal. The quarterly publication provides current information on issues of authenticity, ownership, theft, looting, and other scholarly, legal, and ethical issues concerning art objects.

Japan Society, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the exhibition Contemporary Japanese Fiber Art, with accompanying catalogue and educational programs. The exhibition will feature installations by approximately 20 textile artists selected by a jury of Japanese curators, scholars, and critics.

Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
To support the exhibition Drawing the Line: Japanese American Art, Design, and Activism in Post-War Los Angeles, with accompanying DVD catalogue and educational programs. The exhibition will explore the considerable, yet often overlooked, contributions of Japanese American artists to the landscape of 20th-century art, and to what extent ethnic and racial identity issues influenced their artistic choice and directions.

Jewish Museum (Consortium)
New York, NY
$50,000
To support The Poetics of Ordinary Life: The Photo League 1936-1951, with accompanying educational programs. Organized in partnership with the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio, the exhibition of more than 150 works will survey the Photo League's history, its significance to the development of photography, the artistry that emerged from it, and the cultural, social, and political milieu which created it and caused its demise.

Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (aka MMoCA)
Madison, WI
$20,000
To support Chicago Imagism: Paintings, Sculptures, and Works on Paper, with accompanying catalogue and educational programs. More than 120 works will be drawn entirely from the museum's permanent collection by artists such as Roger Brown, Jim Nutt, Ed Paschke, Suellen Rocca, and others brought to the fore in group exhibitions at the Hyde Park Art Center in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (aka MIT) (on behalf of List Visual Art Center)
Cambridge, MA
$20,000
To support a touring exhibition Stan Vanderbeek-- The Cultural Intercom at List Visual Art Center, with accompanying catalogue and educational programs. A new media pioneer from the 1960s and 1970s, Stan Vanderbeek's (1927-84) use of film and emerging technologies and their social possibilities has relevance to today's artists.

Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc. (aka MASS MoCA)
North Adams, MA
$35,000
To support a residency and exhibition of new work by artist Nari Ward (b. 1963), with accompanying catalogue and educational programs. The exhibition will consist of several installations using discarded objects and materials gathered from three locations: North Adams, Massachusetts (city of the museum), Harlem (the artist's home), and Jamaica (the artist's country of origin).

Menil Foundation, Inc. (aka The Menil Collection)
Houston, TX
$50,000
To support the touring exhibition Richard Serra: Drawing in Retrospect, with accompanying educational programs. The exhibition will be the first retrospective of Serra's drawings (b. 1939), as he is best known for his monumental steel sculptures.

Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY
$75,000
To support the exhibition Heroic Africans: Enshrining the Individual through Art, with accompanying catalogue and educational programs. The exhibition will present sub-Saharan sculptural traditions that portray eminent individuals, and will feature 130 art works from four distinct West African and four Central African artistic centers created between the 13th and early 20th centuries.

Mexic-Arte (aka Mexic-Arte Museum)
Austin, TX
$20,000
To support the exhibition Young Latino Artists. The exhibition will feature current work by emerging Texas artists selected by guest curator Alex Freeman from Artpace in San Antonio.

Museum Associates (aka Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000
To support a touring exhibition Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World, with accompanying educational programs. The exhibition will compare the two viceroyalties of Spanish America -- Mexico and Peru -- through a selection of approximately 220 works in an exploration of the pre-Columbian antecedents of both regions and their continuities in colonial times.

Museum Associates (aka Los Angeles County Museum of Art) (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
To support the touring exhibition Asco: Elite of the Obscure, with accompanying educational programs. Organized in partnership with Williams College Museum of Art, the exhibition will include approximately 100 works including sculpture, painting, photographs, video, collage, correspondence art, and performance ephemera and documentation by Asco, the Chicano performance and conceptual art group active in the 1970s and 1980s.

Museum for African Art
Long Island City, NY
$30,000
To support the touring exhibition Humanimals featuring the work of South African sculptor Jane Alexander (b. 1959), with accompanying catalogue and educational programs. Humanimals will feature Alexander's hybrid-mutant figures depicted in approximately 100 sculptures, installations, and photographs.

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
La Jolla, CA
$30,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of Mexican American artist John Valadez (b. 1951), with accompanying catalogue and educational programs. Spanning a 35-year period, the 45 featured art works in the exhibition will explore the development of Valadez's studio work from his early use of documentary and street photography to the influence of Baroque and Rococo in his paintings, and his more recent surrealist work using photo-based imagery.

Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver (aka MCA Denver)
Denver, CO
$20,000
To support the exhibition The Countercultural Object: Consciousness and Encounters at the Edge of Art, 1965-77, with accompanying catalogue and educational programs. The exhibition will feature West Coast, Rocky Mountain West, and Southwest artists such as Yolanda López (b. 1942), Emory Douglas (b. 1943), Anna Halprin (b. 1920), Paolo Soleri (b. 1919), and the collectives Ant Farm and Optic Nerve, engaged in creating art that had the potential for political or social action.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (on behalf of Glassell School of Art)
Houston, TX
$50,000
To support the Glassell School of Art's Core Residency Program. The program provides one- or two-year long residencies for artists and art scholars and comprises three components: the resources, support, and environment necessary for fellows to continue to develop their practices; an exhibition program designed to stimulate dialogue and experimentation; and a series of visits from distinguished arts professionals who consult with fellows on their work and give public lectures.

Museum of New Mexico Foundation (on behalf of Museum of Indian Arts & Culture)
Santa Fe, NM
$20,000
To support the touring exhibition From Function to Fine Art: Native American Baskets, with accompanying catalogue and educational programs. The exhibition will be drawn from the museum's collection of 1,200 "New Art" baskets made between 1870 and 1930.

National Museum of Mexican Art
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support Three Artists, Three Voices: Judithe Hernandez, Benito Huerta, and Juan Angel Chavez, with accompanying public programs. Solo exhibitions of these three Mexican American contemporary artists from three different cities -- Los Angeles, California, Chicago, Illinois, and Arlington, Texas -- will be presented at the museum in Pilsen, a south side Chicago neighborhood.

Nelson Gallery Foundation
Kansas City, MO
$25,000
To support the development of the touring exhibition Representing France: Paintings and Photographs 1837-75, including preparing the catalogue.

Nevada Museum of Art, Inc.
Reno, NV
$20,000
To support Landscape Futures: Instruments, Devices, and Architectural Inventions, with accompanying catalogue and educational programs. Through the commissioning of 7 to 10 contemporary art works, the exhibition will explore how landscapes and our perceptions of them can be transformed by technology and design.

New Museum of Contemporary Art
New York, NY
$20,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of Lynda Benglis (b. 1941), with accompanying catalogue and educational programs. Best known for her pioneering art works that questioned the rigors of minimalism and modernism by merging content and form with the visceral, the artificial, the abstract, and the narrative, Benglis will work with the curator to tailor the exhibition to reflect her more than 40-year relationship with New York's Bowery.

New Orleans Museum of Art (aka NOMA)
New Orleans, LA
$20,000
To support a catalog that will document the five-acre Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden which features 60 sculptures by 20th- and 21st-century artists.

New York Historical Society
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the touring exhibition Swing Time: Reginald Marsh and Thirties New York, with accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will include approximately 30 works by Marsh (1898-1954), and 30 by his contemporaries that depict 1930's New York lower and middle classes, namely bowery bums, burlesque queens, Coney Island musclemen, and subway riders.

New York University (on behalf of Grey Art Gallery)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the exhibition John Storrs: Machine-Age Modernist at Grey Art Gallery, with accompanying catalogue and educational programs. The exhibition will include approximately 30 sculptures, and a small selection of paintings, drawings, and related archival material from 1917-29 that grew out of Storrs' (1885-1956) passion for modernism and his encounter with the New York avant-garde.

Newark Museum Association
Newark, NJ
$30,000
To support Angels and Tomboys: Girlhood in 19th-Century American Art, with accompanying catalogue and educational programs. The exhibition will explore the hopes, fears, expectations, and changing roles for girls during the period as reflected in works by Mary Cassat, Winslow Homer, Cecilia Beaux, William Merritt Chase, Thomas Eakins, and John Singer Sargent.

North Dakota Museum of Art
Grand Forks, ND
$20,000
To support the commissioning of a new work by artist Tom Schouten for INTO THE INTERIOR:  THE SPIRIT LAKE RESERVATION project, and including related costs. The artist will be invited to create a work that documents and reflects upon the late 19th-century resettlement that placed Indian people on reservations.

Oakland Museum of California Foundation
Oakland, CA
$20,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of modernist jeweler Margaret De Patta (1930-64), with accompanying catalogue and educational programs. The exhibition will include 50 jewelry pieces as well as ceramics, flatware, photographs, maquettes, and archival material.

Phillips Collection
Washington, DC
$40,000
To support the touring exhibition From Drawing to Painting: Kandinsky's White Border Painting, with accompanying catalogue and educational programs. The exhibition will reunite Kandinsky's (1866-1944)  masterpiece, Painting with White Border, alongside studies of the painting from international collections, revealing the gradual and deliberative way the artist used his preparatory studies to test ideas and arrive at pictorial solutions.

Pierpont Morgan Library (aka The Morgan Library & Museum)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the exhibition David, Delacroix, and Revolutionary France: Drawings from the Louvre at the Morgan Library & Museum, with accompanying catalogue and educational programs. The exhibition will explore key developments in the art of drawing between 1789 and 1848, a period of tremendous political, social, and cultural upheaval.

Portland Art Museum
Portland, OR
$30,000
To support the exhibition The Artist's Touch, The Craftsman's Hand: Three Hundred Years of Japanese Prints, with accompanying catalogue and educational programs. The exhibition, drawn entirely from the museum's own collection, will feature 200 prints dating from the late 17th century to the present.

Portland Museum of Art
Portland, ME
$25,000
To support the touring exhibition John Marin: Late Work, with accompanying catalogue and educational programs. The exhibition will explore the interrelationship between Marin's (1870-1953) watercolors, sketchbooks, and oil painting during the last two decades of his life.

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of Berkeley Art Museum) (Consortium)
Berkeley, CA
$50,000
To support the exhibition State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970, with accompanying educational programs. Originating at the Berkeley Art Museum and organized in partnership with the Orange County Museum of Art, the exhibition will include approximately 130 works by artists such as Eleanor Antin, John Baldessari, Vija Celmins, Chris Burden, David Hammons, Martha Rosler, and others in this investigation of California's contributions to conceptual art of that period.

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of Berkeley Art Museum)
Berkeley, CA
$30,000
To support a touring exhibition featuring work by Barry McGee (b. 1966), originating at the Berkeley Art Museum with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will include 50 works, including photographs, drawings, assemblages, zines, videos, paintings, sculptures, and a new site-specific installation demonstrating the artist's vocabulary drawn from comics, hobo art, sign painting, and graffiti.

Regents of the University of California at Los Angeles (on behalf of Fowler Museum)
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000
To support the exhibition Transcultural Pilgrim: Three Decades of Work by Jose Bedia at the Fowler Museum, with accompanying catalogue and educational programs. The exhibition will include approximately 35 works on paper and the commission of a new work to be completed during a residency period.

Rhode Island School of Design (aka RISD) (on behalf of Museum of Art)
Providence, RI
$20,000
To support the exhibition Ahead of the Curve: Richard Brown and Contemporary British Art, with accompanying catalogue and educational programs. The exhibition will feature more than 100 paintings, sculptures, and drawings by late 20th-century British artists such as David Hockney, Anthony Caro, Bridget Riley, Fionna Banner, Yinka Shonibare, Anish Kapoor, and Damian Hirst.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (aka SFMOMA)
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
To support research and planning for the catalog and touring exhibition Garry Winogrand's America.

San Jose Museum of Art Association (aka San Jose Museum of Art)
San Jose, CA
$20,000
To support an exhibition of the work of artist Joan Brown (1939-90), with accompanying catalogue and educational programs. The exhibition will feature approximately 50 paintings in the context of the burgeoning women's movement which paralleled her career.

Seattle Art Museum
Seattle, WA
$20,000
To support the exhibition Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth, with accompanying catalogue and educational programs. The core of the exhibition will be the Cave's (b. 1959) signature soundsuits, a form of wearable sculpture.

Shelley and Donald Rubin Cultural Trust
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the new presentation of the museum's Himalayan art collection, with accompanying educational programs. The design of the installation will allow visitors to better connect the geographic, religious, and cultural distinctions to the varying types of art and images indigenous to this part of the world.

Smith College (on behalf of Museum of Art)
Northampton, MA
$20,000
To support the exhibition The River Peoples: Cross Currents of Style in the Eastern Congo, with accompanying catalogue and educational programs. Inspired by three of the most important works in the museum's own collection -- a Luba cermonial axe and a pair of Songye prestige stools -- the exhibition will examine the similarities and differences of three neighboring peoples along the Lualaba River (Luba, Songye, and Hemba).

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (aka The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum)
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the exhibition Picasso Black and White, with accompanying catalogue and educational programs. The exhibition will include approximately 110 paintings and sculptures that explore the black-and-white motif running through Picasso's (1881-1973) work during the course of his entire career.

Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute (Consortium)
Williamstown, MA
$50,000
To support the touring exhibition Pissaro's People, with accompanying catalogue and educational programs. Presented in collaboration with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the exhibition will feature approximately75 paintings that explore Camille Pissarro's (1830-1903) lifelong interest in the human figure, a unique emphasis among his fellow Impressionist landscape painters.

Studio Museum in Harlem, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support an artist-in-residence program. The program, targeted to emerging artists of African descent, will offer three artists studio space in the museum, a stipend, an allotment for materials, professional mentoring by curators and art critics, and an exhibition of their work.

Trustees of Boston College (on behalf of McMullen Museum of Art)
Chestnut Hill, MA
$50,000
To support Dura-Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity at McMullen Museum of Art, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Through the presentation of 74 treasures excavated in Syria in the 1930s, the exhibition will reveal the many cultures and religions of the once vibrant, ancient city of Dura-Europos.

Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery (aka The Walters Art Museum)
Baltimore, MD
$50,000
To support the exhibition Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe, with accompanying educational programs. Organized in partnership with the Cleveland Museum of Art and the British Museum, the exhibition will present approximately 100 works including metalwork, paintings, sculpture, and illuminated manuscripts drawn from public collections and church treasures across the United States and Europe.

University of Chicago (on behalf of Smart Museum of Art)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the exhibition Feast: Radical Hospitality and Contemporary Art, with accompanying catalogue and educational programs. The exhibition will explore a new type of contemporary art practice -- the artist-orchestrated meal -- by bringing together some of the most influential examples from both present-day and the past century.

University of Georgia (on behalf of Georgia Musem of Art)
Athens, GA
$30,000
To support the touring exhibition Cercle et Carré at the Georgia Museum of Art, with accompanying catalogue and educational programs. The exhibition will feature approximately 75 art works by a group of artists centered in Paris in 1929-30 and devoted to the idea of abstraction as a source of truth, a universal language that transcended national boundaries.

University of Wyoming
Laramie, WY
$25,000
To support two artist residencies and creation of site-specific installations, with accompanying publications and educational programs. Seattle-based artist Etsuko Ichikawa will create art work inspired by her recent pilgrimage to the Nachi waterfall in Kumano, Japan, and New York-based artist Margaret Cogswell will create art work inspired by the natural beauty and economic importance of the Wyoming River.

Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, NY
$50,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of contemporary artist Glenn Ligon (b. 1960), with accompanying catalogue and educational programs. The exhibition will not only include paintings but prints, photography, drawings, video, and sculptural installations, and recent neon works.

Worcester Art Museum
Worcester, MA
$50,000
To support a touring exhibition featuring the work of Julien Hudson (1811-1844), with accompanying catalogue and educational programs. The exhibition will include not only the five surviving portraits by Hudson, a free artist of color working in the early 19th century, but also works by white and mixed-race contemporaries.

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