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Design: FY2004 Grants

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

Challenge America | Creativity | Heritage & Preservation | Services to Arts Organizations and Artists | Panelists

Challenge America: Access to the Arts

Alaska Design Forum, Inc.
Anchorage, AK
$21,000
To support a lecture series on the built environment with internationally recognized architects and designers. Lectures will be presented in Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Juneau, and current and past lectures will be made available through a mobile design library.

Architecture for Humanity
New York, NY
$15,000
To support a workshop and international competition for the design and planning of emergency shelter sites. The project will bring together relief professionals, architects, and designers to envision innovative, sustainable shelter alternatives.

Center for Craft, Creativity and Design
Hendersonville, NC
$10,000
To support development and production of a tool kit, exhibition, and publication on context-sensitive transportation design. Solutions for roadway improvements, bridges, mass transit, street design, and landscape design will be presented.

Confluences
Vancouver, WA
$34,000
To support community engagement and educational programming related to the commissioning of landscape design installations. The project will engage diverse and multigenerational groups to become involved with, and develop a deeper appreciation for, the landscape designs.

Cultural Landscape Foundation
Washington, DC
$22,000
To support an interactive, Web-based teaching tool on modern landscape architecture. Preeminent, private postwar gardens will be made accessible through filmed interviews with the designers, historic and contemporary photographs, and archival material.

Harlem Textile Works, Ltd.
New York, NY
$21,000
To support Design as Enterprise. Young designers and artists will be introduced to design practices and marketable job skills in the creation of fabric designs.

Newport Performing Arts Center
Newport, RI
$33,000
To support the design and planning for the adaptive reuse of a historic 1868 opera house. A theater design consultant and restoration architects will work together to develop plans for the interior of the building.

SeeSaw Studio, Inc.
Durham, NC
$14,000
To support the Youth Design Vending Machine project. Based on the Art*o*mat model, local designers working with community youth will produce design objects for sale in a vending machine.

Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (consortium)
Winston-Salem, NC
$25,000
To support the HOME House Project, a multi-year consortium initiative on affordable housing. A traveling exhibition, publication, design fees, and educational programming will be supported during this phase of the initiative.

Creativity

Artists Space, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Architecture and Design Project Series. The exhibitions provide a venue for emerging and recognized architects and will introduce current architectural debates to a design, visual art, and general audience.

Los Angeles Forum for Architecture
Los Angeles, CA
$22,500
To support a traveling exhibition and catalogue on community and civic design projects by area architecture schools. More than 50 design/build projects have been identified and include day care facilities, educational training centers, battered women shelters, community centers, and urban gardens.

Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago, IL
$50,000
To support the exhibition, educational programming, and temporary installation of prototype kiosks. Artist and designer Dan Peterman will create community service kiosks to be placed in the museum's plaza and then relocated to city parks.

Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the design and production of a site-specific architectural installation at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. The project will create a public venue and provide critical exposure to emerging architects/designers.

Nashville Cultural Arts Project
Nashville, TN
$10,800
To support a lecture series. Nationally recognized designers will make public presentations on cross disciplinary projects in the arts, architecture, and urban development.

National Building Museum
Washington, DC
$44,700
To support an architectural exhibit, symposium, and lectures on a collection of architectural drawings. Envisioning Architecture: Drawings form the Museum of Modern Art has toured in Europe and will appear in no other U.S. venue.

Ohio State University Research Foundation
Columbus, OH
$20,000
To support a symposium and workshop on the use of contemporary digital technologies by women architects and artists. The architects will present their work to a professional and general audience with special outreach to local high school students.

openhousenewyork inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support a site map, interpretive handouts, and Web site guide for a New York architectural tour. The weekend event tours all five boroughs and provides access to buildings and facilities not typically open to the public.

Philadelphia Art Alliance
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
To support an exhibition and catalogue on the Olin Partnership. The exhibition will be the first retrospective of the landscape architecture firm whose work includes the Cactus Garden Promitory at the J. Paul Getty Center and restoration of Bryant Park in New York.

Praxis, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$60,000
To support Praxis, an architectural journal. Thematic volumes will be produced to inform the architectural writer, builder, academic, and professional by exploring the balance between theory and practice.

Williams College
Williamstown, MA
$30,000
To support the traveling exhibition Screening Architecture, with accompanying educational programming and catalogue. The exhibition will focus on recent work by international artists exploring architectural issues in video and digital animation.

Heritage & Preservation

Bardavon 1869 Opera House, Inc.
Poughkeepsie, NY
$20,000
To support a study for the restoration of the auditorium and lobbies of a historic theater, the Bardavon. The project will determine the focus of restoration work and include planning for the documentation and conservation of the original architectural dome.

Center for the Study of Classical Architecture Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the educational program Classical Architecture for Design and Building Professionals. Curricular tools will be developed to make the program more accessible to building design and construction professionals nationwide.

Cornerstones Community Partnerships
Santa Fe, NM
$30,000
To support educational workshops on the preservation of historic adobe structures. The project will train rural community residents in the traditional building methods of their ancestors.

Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
Scottsdale, AZ
$20,000
To support the restoration of Frank Lloyd Wright's living quarters at Taliesin West. Based on historic photographs and documents, the restored living quarters will include books, artifacts, art, lighting, and furnishings.

Municipal Art Society of New York (consortium)
New York, NY
$45,000
To support Marking Places that Matter. The consortium project will implement innovative place markers that interpret the historical and cultural landscape of New York City.

National Preservation Institute
Alexandria, VA
$20,000
To support stewardship training for historic sites and properties. The project will provide professional development to directors of historic sites as well as to concerned community members, board members, and property managers who are responsible for historic and cultural resources.

Projects in the Design Arts Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support the publication Swoop: A History of the Suspension Bridge . The book will profile landmark American suspension bridges from 1800 to the present.

Services to Arts Organizations and Artists

Design Corps
Raleigh, NC
$35,000
To support conferences and a publication focused on providing quality design services to those not traditionally served by architects. Community design centers, nonprofit organizations, and design/build programs will be promoted and discussed.

Municipal Art Society of New York
New York, NY
$30,000
To support a Geographic Information System (GIS) workshop program. The Community Information Technology Initiative will consist of training workshops for GIS digital mapmaking technology.


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