Design: FY 2011 Grants

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

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Access to Artistic Excellence II
(August 12, 2010 deadline)

Alaska Design Forum, Inc.
Anchorage, AK
$40,000
To support a lecture series titled Changing Landscapes. Internationally acclaimed artists and designers will each speak about the impact of technology on the built environment.

Alpha Workshops, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support Decorative Arts Training. The project involves multiple 10-week beginner courses and a 26-week advanced course that are targeted to low-income, HIV-positive individuals.

American Architectural Foundation
Washington, DC
$20,000
To support the Architecture + Design Education Network (A+DEN) National Conference for design educators. The goal is to connect design educators across the country for networking and professional development training in areas such as volunteer management, curriculum creation, and successful use of new media.

American Institute of Graphic Arts (aka AIGA)
New York, NY
$65,000
To support the recognition phase of the Design Pro Bono campaign. Profiles and case studies of 45 exemplary pro bono design projects will be developed to promote the benefits of design to the public.

American Planning Association
Washington, DC
$20,000
To support the provision of technical assistance activities in association with the Energy Climate Partnership of the Americas. The project will take place in Brazil and Latin America and will focus on a set of sustainability issues such as transit oriented development, historic neighborhood revitalization, cultural and heritage preservation, affordable housing, sanitation, and community arts.

Architecture for Humanity
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
To support the expansion of the Open Architecture Network. Both the content and the accessibility of the website (openarchitecturenetwork.org) will be improved to provide design services, information, and resources to underserved populations.

Cascade Land Conservancy
Seattle, WA
$33,000
To support Building Great Communities through Design, Historic Preservation, and Economic Development. The conservancy will develop case studies, identify stakeholders, and facilitate a workshop bringing together small business owners, civic leaders, members of the design community, and interested citizens in several cities on the Olympic Peninsula.

Center for Architecture + Design (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$12,000
To support the Architecture and the City Festival: Film Series. Activities to be co-presented with the San Francisco Public Library include the Meet the Filmaker and Architect, and a new participatory component that encourages audience members to consider their relationship to place by creating short films or videos.

Chicago Architecture Foundation (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support Lunch Online, an online learning and interactive dialogue about architecture and design, infrastructure, planning, and landscape. Building upon the strengths of the Chicago Architecture Foundation's popular Wednesday Lunchtime Lecture series, the new media program will create a national community of citizens who are thinking about, critically reflecting upon, and discussing subjects such as historic preservation, community building, and design innovation.

City of Wilson, North Carolina
Wilson, NC
$60,000
To support the design of the Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park. The park will be an outdoor museum of the colorful, wind powered kinetic "whirligig" structures by the well-known folk artist Vollis Simpson.

Columbia University in the City of New York (on behalf of Temple Hoyne Buell Center of American Architecture)
New York, NY
$35,000
To support Public Housing in the Public Sphere: A Forum. A public discussion on public housing hosted by the Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture will be supported by a research field guide and follow-up publication as well as online access to a video of the event.

Cornerstones Community Partnerships
Santa Fe, NM
$35,000
To support the Summer Youth Training Program. Participants will have the opportunity to learn traditional building skills while helping to restore San Miguel Chapel, a National Historic Landmark which combines adobe and early Spanish colonial architecture.

Design Management Institute
Boston, MA
$24,000
To support the Forum on Design Management Research and Education. Project plans include broadening participation and diversity in the biennial conference of researchers, educators, students, and practitioners, by subsidizing entry fees.

DesignAlabama, Inc.
Montgomery, AL
$10,000
To support production, printing, and distribution of the DesignAlabama Annual Journal and DesignAlabama Online. Focusing on all of Alabama, the 28- to 32-page Annual Journal covers a wide range of topics including historic preservation, community design, and designer profiles and is published in the fall of each year; DesignAlabama Online premiered in April 2009, and has since been published to a growing subscription base.

General Society of Mechanics & Tradesmen
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the preparation of a Historic Structure Report, a planning document for the restoration and preservation of the General Society 1890 building. The goal is to preserve the historic characteristics of the building while complying with current building codes and the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum (aka The Noguchi Museum)
Long Island City, NY
$30,000
To support the site study and exhibition Studies in Space, Art, and Civic Action: A Vision for Long Island City, with accompanying publication and public programs. This proposal for a future vision for northwestern Queens will be based on the collaborative work of invited architects, artists, landscape architects, and urban thinkers; it is inspired by public works Isamu Noguchi conceived with artists and architects of his time.

Lehman College Art Gallery, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$20,000
To support expansion of the website titled Bronx Architecture: An Online Guide. As many as 25 historical and new buildings (selected with the input of scholars, neighborhood residents, and staff research) will be added to an existing website which features Bronx architecture.

Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design (aka LA Forum)
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support a retrospective exhibition and related catalogue and symposium. The retrospective will include materials documenting the LA Forum's 25-year history. The symposium will feature academics and design professionals who will gather to discuss the efficacy of the forum's work and also to consider possible future trajectories for Los Angeles.

Louisiana's Old State Capitol Foundation, Inc.
Baton Rouge, LA
$30,000
To support a master landscape plan for the Old State Capitol grounds. The Old State Capitol grounds, designed and planted circa 1850 by Thomas Affleck -- noted American horticulturist, journalist, and scholar -- represent the largest green space in downtown Baton Rouge and serve as the connection for many of its cultural attractions.

Municipal Art Society of New York
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Landmark Retrofitting Demonstration Project. During this phase of the Municipal Art Society's Preservation and Climate Change initiative, an advisory board of preservation architects, government officials, and energy efficiency professionals will select a small historic building to undergo a mechanical systems assessment and energy audit and will undertake the appropriate retrofitting.

National Building Museum (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$60,000
To support Unbuilt Washington exhibitions. Unbuilt Washington, along with adjunct exhibitions in collaboration with the Washington Architectural Forum, American Institute of Architects, and Washington Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, will examine significant architectural projects that were proposed for the Washington, D.C. area, but for some reason were never executed, revealing dramatically alternate architectural histories for the city.

National Preservation Institute
Alexandria, VA
$25,000
To support Stewardship Training in Historic Preservation. Stipends for attendance at seminars will help organizations better manage cultural resources through training in holistic stewardship principles.

New Jersey Institute of Technology (Consortium)
Newark, NJ
$33,000
To support People Planning Newark: Designing New Jersey's Metropolis. The College of Architecture and Design, in partnership with the City of Newark, plan a video, exhibition, tours, and "walkshops" focusing on the role of community-based planning and design in the city's architecture and urban design.

Northern Michigan University
Marquette, MI
$25,000
To support the exhibition Marquette to Spring Green to Los Angeles: The Architecture of John Lautner at the DeVos Art Museum, with accompanying public programs. John Lautner was born in Marquette, Michigan, and despite becoming an architectural icon, he is relatively unknown in his hometown.

openhousenewyork, inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$40,000
To support architecture and design education initiatives for New York City youth and families. In partnership with DreamYard, openhousenewyork will co-organize and develop unique participatory, neighborhood-based architecture/design learning programs including a pilot in-school community design residency program with Bronx public middle school students; and related professional development workshops for classroom teachers.

Pamphlet Architecture, Ltd.
New York, NY
$14,000
To support the publication of Pamphlet Architecture and the affiliated design competition. A website is designed and maintained for the competition; a jury of experts reviews entries; and the winning design proposal is developed into a book in a series that is distributed internationally.

Pratt Institute
Brooklyn, NY
$50,000
To support Design Initiative for Community Empowerment (DICE). Through DICE, underserved Brooklyn students will be provided an introduction to design through guided studio work, public exhibitions, and visits from accomplished designers as well as counseling about college.

Public Design Studio (aka Public Architecture) (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$45,000
To support the migration of the Designers Accord, a global coalition of designers, educators, and business leaders to Public Architecture's 1% Program. The amalgam will expand the variety of pro bono design services available to not-for-profit organizations through the 1% Program.

Southern California Institute of Architecture (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$70,000
To support the creation of an online archive of historic videotaped lectures about architecture, urban design, and community development. Southern California Institute of Architecture in partnership with the MAK Center for Art and Architecture will preserve and steward more than 550 recorded lectures that date from the mid-1970s.

Storefront for Art and Architecture
New York, NY
$25,000
To support New York's Projective Archaeologies: Future Pasts, Future Futures. The project will focus on 101 unrealized proposals -- past and future -- for New York City and will be undertaken in five parts, research and design, exhibition, symposium and workshop, publication, and internet archive.

University of Arkansas Main Campus (Consortium)
Fayetteville, AR
$30,000
To support a revitalization plan for the Pettaway neighborhood. To be created in partnership with the Downtown Little Rock Community Development Company, the revitalization plan will use affordable housing and transportation principles to link existing and new neighborhoods to create liveable places within the turn-of-the-century Pettaway neighborhood.

Number of Grants: 31          Total Amount: $1,011,000

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