Museums: FY2003 Grants

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

Access | Creativity | Heritage/Preservation | Organizational Capacity

Panelists

Access

Birmingham Museum of Art
Birmingham, AL
$25,000
To support the exhibition Kamisaka Sekka: Rimpa Master--Pioneer of Modern Design, with accompanying catalog and education programs. As the leading early 20th century proponent of the Rimpa decorative tradition, Sekka (1866-1942) is considered the father of modern Japanese design.

Lynden Heritage Foundation
Lynden, WA
$8,000
To support a commission and residency for contemporary American artist Patrick Dougherty (b. 1945), with an accompanying brochure. Dougherty will create a public, site-specific installation in downtown Lynden's Centennial Park.

Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science, Inc.
Tallahassee, FL
$45,000
To support a touring exhibition of work by Southeastern self-taught artists drawn from the museum's permanent collection, with accompanying catalog and education programs and materials. Self-taught art--sometimes referred to as folk art, outsider art, vernacular or primitive art--has been a major subject of scholarly investigation in the latter half of the 20th century.

Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum (consortium)
Chicago, IL
$100,000
To support Museums in the Park (MIP), in collaboration with the Chicago Park District. MIP's Park Voyagers--kids for creative exploration--is designed to bring new families into museums and bring museums into new communities.

National Center for Disability Services
Albertson, NY
$20,000
To support a cooperative venture with the Nassau County Museum of Art, Long Island, N.Y., to make the museum's outdoor sculpture garden more accessible to people with disabilities. The project is part of NCDS's initiative to promote access to the arts for disabled children.

Newark Museum Association
Newark, NJ
$100,000
To support the development of the Tibet Information Zone (TIZ). The project is a multifaceted education/public access initiative that will increase and deepen understanding of Tibetan art and culture for youth and family audiences.

Pacific Asia Museum
Pasadena, CA
$45,000
To support the Chinese Community Initiative (CCI). The project will expand the museum's efforts to involve the Chinese-American community in its programming and to make use of its resources.

Phillips Collection
Washington, DC
$100,000
To support the creation of a digital archive of the American art collection. The project will greatly increase access to the Phillip's renowned American collection, most of which cannot be exhibited at any given time due to space limitations.

Queens Museum of Art (consortium)
Flushing, NY
$75,000
To support the exhibition Down the Garden Path: Artists' Gardens Since 1960, with accompanying catalog and education programs. The project is a collaboration with the Queens Botanical Garden and the New York City Parks Department.

Salt Lake Art Center
Salt Lake City, UT
$24,000
To support the ArtWORKS program. The program offers at-risk high school students an opportunity to express themselves through the creation, discussion and exploration of art.

Texas Fine Arts Association
Austin, TX
$45,000
To support Art on Tour, a statewide traveling exhibition program with accompanying catalogs and lectures. The program circulates exhibitions of contemporary art by emerging and mid-career American artists to small museums and university and community galleries throughout Texas, many in rural, culturally underserved communities.

Turning the Page
Washington, DC
$28,000
To support an art and literacy program for the parents and caregivers of public school children. The project will be carried out in collaboration with the Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler Galleries.

University of Alaska at Fairbanks
Fairbanks, AK
$75,000
To support a residency program for Alaskan artists. The project will expand upon the new Rose Berry Alaskan Art Gallery at the University by bringing in contemporary artists to respond to, and interact with, the permanent collection.

University of Arizona (on behalf of Arizona State Museum)
Tucson, AZ
$10,000
To support artists' fees for a ceramic artists-in-residence program. The residencies will be held in conjunction with the exhibition The Pottery Detectives: Decoding the Secrets of Southwestern Pottery.

University of Montana (on behalf of Montana Museum of Art and Culture)
Missoula, MT
$20,000
To support the exhibition Native American Artists--After Lewis and Clark, with accompanying catalog. The exhibition will present the viewpoints of contemporary Native-American artists as their work addresses the Lewis and Clark expedition's bicentennial in 2005-06.

University of Rochester (on behalf of Memorial Art Gallery)
Rochester, NY
$30,000
To support the exhibiton Coffins of Pa-Debehu-Aset, with accompanying educational materials. The project focuses on the gallery's newly acquired pair of Egyptian coffins.

University of Washington (on behalf of Burke Museum)
Seattle, WA
$30,000
To support the creation of a Web site on totem pole art. The project is part of a multiyear effort to create a comprehensive and widely accessible visual database of Northwest Coast Native-American art.

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Richmond, VA
$45,000
To support the Art on the Spot: In-School Field Trip Program. The project is designed to maintain continued access to the museum while it is closed for renovation and new construction over the next few years.

Creativity

American Folk Art Museum
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the touring exhibition Tools of Her Ministry: The Art of Sister Gertrude Morgan, with accompanying catalog.

Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$100,000
To support the touring exhibition Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand: Ancient Indian Art of the Woodlands, with accompanying catalog.

Asia Society
New York, NY
$45,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of Thai artist Montien Boonma, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
$75,000
To support the exhibition Arts of the Goryeo Dynasty, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Brandeis University (on behalf of Rose Art Museum)
Waltham, MA
$15,000
To support the exhibition Coexistence: Contemporary Cultural Production in South Africa, with accompanying education programs.

Bronx Museum of the Arts
Bronx, NY
$25,000
To support an exhibition of the work of contemporary Brazilian artist Valeska Soares, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Carnegie Mellon University (on behalf of Regina Gouger Gallery)
Pittsburgh, PA
$20,000
To support the touring exhibition Comic Release, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Chrysler Museum of Art
Norfolk, VA
$35,000
To support the touring exhibition Gustave Doré: Works from North American Collections, with accompanying catalog.

Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, OH
$70,000
To support the touring exhibition Gaudi to Dali: Barcelona and Modernity, 1868-1939, with accompanying catalog.

Contemporary Arts Center
Cincinnati, OH
$35,000
To support the Center's inaugural exhibition in its new space in spring 2003.

Contemporary Arts Museum
Houston, TX
$25,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of artist Matthew Ritchie, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Dallas Museum of Art
Dallas, TX
$25,000
To support the exhibition New Art in Texas, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Denver Art Museum
Denver, CO
$100,00O
To support the exhibition Gateway to the Sun: The Tiwanaku Civilization of Ancient South America, with accompanying catalog.

Des Moines Art Center (Edmundson Art Foundation, Inc.)
Des Moines, IA
$20,000
To support the exhibition Magic Markers: Objects of Transformation, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Fabric Workshop, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$50,000
To support the artist-in-residence program. Each artist will create new work using innovative fabrics, materials and construction techniques in exploratory ways.

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
$100,000
To support the traveling exhibition Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Henry Gallery Association, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$25,000
To support artists' residencies and commissions. The project will place art-making on view, with artists creating in "real time" with galleries.

Institute of Contemporary Art
Boston, MA
$20,000
To support the touring exhibition Made in Mexico, with accompanying catalog and education programs. The exhibition will explore the ways in which Mexico City has been a locus for creativity and experimentation for artists and intellectuals in the 20th century.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Inc.
Boston, MA
$60,000
To support the Gardner's artist-in-residence program, with accompanying exhibitions and publications.

J.B. Speed Art Museum
Louisville, KY
$30,000
To support Presence, a series of exhibitions of contemporary art, with accompanying publications and education programs.

Japan Society, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
To support the exhibition Early Buddhist Art from Korea and Japan, 6th - 9th Centuries, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, CA
$33,000
To support the planning of an exhibition of the work of Japanese-American photographer Toyo Miyatake (1895-1979).

Mattress Factory, Ltd.
Pittsburgh, PA
$40,000
To support an artist-in-residence program. Invited artists will live and work on site from one to eight weeks to create new site-specific installations.

Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Minneapolis, MN
$35,000
To support the touring exhibition Romantic Paintings in England and France, with accompanying education programs.

Museum Associates (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
Los Angeles, CA
$60,000
To support the touring exhibition Geometry of Innocence: Objects + Systems + Concepts, 1940s 1970s, with accompanying catalog.

Museum for African Art
Long Island City, NY
$40,000
To support the touring exhibition Material Differences in African Art, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
$55,000
To support the touring exhibition A Minimal Future: Art as Object 1958-1968, with accompanying catalog.

New Museum of Contemporary Art
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the exhibition Living Inside the Grid, with accompanying catalog.

New York University (on behalf of Grey Art Gallery)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the touring exhibition Park Avenue Cubists, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation, Inc.
Raleigh, NC
$15,000
To support the exhibition Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

North Dakota Museum of Art
Grand Forks, ND
$20,000
To support commissions for contemporary photographers Jim Dow and Robert Polidori and catalogs of their work.

Oakland Museum of California Foundation
Oakland, CA
$80,000
To support a touring retrospective exhibition of the work of contemporary American artist David Ireland, with accompanying catalog.

Parrish Art Museum, Inc.
Southampton, NY
$10,000
To support an exhibition of the work of Italian-born, American artist Constantino Nivola (1911-1988), with accompanying catalog.

Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, PA
$100,000
To support the exhibition The Art and Fashion of Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973).

Queens Museum of Art
Flushing, NY
$30,000
To support the touring exhibition Joan Jonas: Performance Installations, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of Berkeley Art Museum)
Berkeley, CA
$25,000
To support the touring exhibition Everything Matters: Paul Kos, A Retrospective, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Regents of the University of California at Los Angeles
(on behalf of UCLA Hammer Museum
$85,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American artist Lee Bontecou (b. 1931), with accompanying catalog.

Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$40,000
To support the presentation of Delhi-based artist Amar Kanwar's new film, Of Poets and Prophesies, with accompanying publications.

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (Scottsdale Cultural Council)
Scottsdale, AZ
$35,000
To support the touring exhibition Hair Stories, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Inc.
Staten Island, NY
$20,000
To support the coordination, promotion, interpretation, Web site and documentation of the Buddhism Project.

Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (on behalf of Institute of Contemporary Art)
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
To support an exhibition of the work of contemporary-American artist Barry Le Va (b. 1941), with accompanying catalog and symposium.

University of Chicago (on behalf of Smart Museum of Art)
Chicago, IL
$32,000
To support an artist-in-residence program featuring contemporary African-American photographer Dawoud Bey.

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (on behalf of Museum of Art)
Ann Arbor, MI
$55,000
To support the touring exhibition The Time in Between: Betye Saar and the Persistence of Photography.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (on behalf of Ackland Art Museum)
Chapel Hill, NC
$25,000
To support the exhibition series Seeking the Light: Spirituality and Contemporary Art, with accompanying catalog.

University of South Florida (on behalf of Contemporary Art Museum)
Tampa, FL
$15,000
To support an artist residency and exhibition of work by Brazilian-born, New York-based artist Vik Muniz, with accompanying catalog.

University of Wisconsin at Madison (on behalf of Elvehjem Museum of Art)
Madison, WI
$30,000
To support the touring exhibition With Friends: The Art and Lives of Six Magic Realists, 1940-1965.

University of Wyoming (on behalf of Art Museum)
Laramie, WY
$25,000
To support a series of one-person exhibitions and residencies by contemporary artists.

Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, NY
$25,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of artist Elie Nadelman (1882-1946) with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Williams College Museum of Art
Williamstown, MA
$40,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of African-American artist Kara Walker, with accompanying catalog.

Heritage/Preservation

Art Museum of Western Virginia
Roanoke, VA
$20,000
To support the conservation of paintings, preliminary studies and sculpture by American artist Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) and members of his artistic circle. Eakins, who spent most of his life working and teaching in Philadelphia, is considered to be one of the finest American portrait painters of the 19th century.

Baltimore Museum of Art, Inc. (consortium)
Baltimore, MD
$50,000
To support documentation of 19th century French drawings in the permanent collections of the Baltimore Museum and Walters Art Museum. Together, the works of art featured in the project constitute one of the nation's richest collections of French drawing as it developed from academic traditions to progressive modernism.

Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the training of two apprentice textile conservators. The apprentices will assist in the conservation treatment of a 17th century Barberini tapestries series depicting the life of Christ.

Chinati Foundation (aka La Fundacion Chinati)
Marfa, TX
$25,000
To support a study of the environmental conditions of the Chinati museum buildings. The project addresses the long-term care of the contemporary art collections.

Connecticut Historical Society
Hartford, CT
$25,000
To support the exhibition Truly American: Discovering the Connecticut Furniture of Eliphalet Chapin and his Contemporaries, with accompanying catalog and education programs. The exhibition will focus on Chapin's 18th century cabinetmaking and its place within central Connecticut and early American furniture making.

Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (aka CCAHA)
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
To support a postgraduate internship in paper conservation. The project will involve training in the treatment of works on paper such as drawings, prints and watercolors as well as manuscripts, maps, photographs, parchment and books.

Field Museum of Natural History (aka Field Museum)
Chicago, IL
$35,000
To support the preservation of the museum's collection of Chinese embroideries. The collection consists of over 2,800 items, some of which date from the 15th century.

Glessner House Museum
Chicago, IL
$12,000
To support the creation of a management database of the collection. The museum has an extensive collection of Arts and Crafts furniture and decor numbering approximately 5,000 objects.

Indiana University (on behalf of University Art Museum)
Bloomington, IN
$30,000
To support the conservation treatment of American artist Stuart Davis' Swing Landscape mural. The entire conservation process will be documented in writing and photography for future use by scholars and conservators.

Isamu Noguchi Foundation Inc.
Long Island City, NY
$5,000
To support the conservation treatment of large-scale stone sculptures by Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988). Several of the works were recently relocated to the museum from the artist's studio in Japan.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (on behalf of List Visual Arts Center)
Cambridge, MA
$20,000
To support the conservation treatment of Italian-American artist Harry Bertoia's (1915-1978) altarpiece in the MIT chapel. Created in 1955, the altarpiece is one of many notable early modernist works on the campus.

Millicent Rogers Museum, Inc.
Taos, NM
$12,000
To support the exhibition The Art of the Book in the Southwest, with accompanying education programs. The exhibition features work from 1600 to the present by Native-American, Hispanic and European-American artists.

Milwaukee Art Museum, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$30,000
To support the touring exhibition American Fancy: Imagination and Style in the 19th Century Home, with accompanying catalog and education programs. The project will examine a wide range of objects to identify and define "fancy" in the context of the history of American decorative arts.

Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute
Utica, NY
$15,000
To support the conservation treatment of works from the collection of European modernist works. The project leads toward a touring exhibition in 2005.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston, MA
$51,000
To support photographic documentation and rehousing of the museum's textile and fashion art collection. The collection of over 27,000 items includes tapestries, embroideries, costumes and accessories, as well as one of the finest Andean textiles collections in existence.

Museum of New Mexico Foundation
Santa Fe, NM
$25,000
To support Cultural Crossroads, a long-term reinstallation of the permanent collection, with accompanying catalog and public programs. Cultural Crossroads and related interpretive projects will present a cross-cultural, multidisciplinary view of New Mexico art from the arrival of the railroad in 1880 to the present.

Northeast Document Conservation Center
Andover, MA
$20,000
To support an internship for a beginning paper conservator. The internship is designed for an individual who has completed graduate training in a fine arts conservation program but who requires additional, hands-on experience.

Smith College
Northampton, MA
$12,000
To support a comprehensive survey of the museum's frame collection for paintings. The results of the survey will be used to guide conservation planning and frame replacement decisions and to update the museum's documentary files.

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
$50,000
To support a traveling exhibition of the work of French painter Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825), with accompanying education programs. David was the leader of the Neo-Classical style in France, a supporter of the French Revolution and painter to Napoleon.

Textile Conservation Workshop, Inc.
South Salem, NY
$15,000
To support a master-apprenticeship for in-depth training in textile conservation. As a regional conservation laboratory, the apprenticeship program fills a gap not covered by formal conservation courses in graduate school programs.

Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (aka Corcoran Gallery of Art)
Washington, DC
$50,000
To support the production of a scholarly catalog of the pre-1945 American painting and sculpture collection. The new, full-color publication will include in-depth entries on the most significant works.

University of Maryland Baltimore County Campus
(on behalf of Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery Special Collections)
Baltimore, MD
$18,000
To support the exhibition Intermedia: The Dick Higgins Collection, with accompanying catalog and symposium. The exhibition will consist of works drawn from the library's Dick Higgins archive representing more than 400 intermedia artists.

University of Washington (on behalf of Burke Museum) (consortium)
Seattle, WA
$25,000
To support the commissioning of two totem poles. The poles will interpret the Kaats grizzly bear legend of the Saanyakwan Tlingit and will replace the grizzly bear house posts recently repatriated by the museum.

Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian
Santa Fe, NM
$20,000
To support the conservation treatment of Navajo and Pueblo Indian textiles. The goals of the project are to remove potentially damaging soil and to stabilize areas of wear.

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