Museums: FY2004 Grants
Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.
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Challenge America: Access to the Arts
Arkansas Arts Center Foundation
Little Rock, AR
$25,000
To support the Artmobile project. The Artmobile travels an art
exhibition drawn from the museum's permanent collection to more
than 100 rural communities throughout Arkansas and reaches more
than 90,000 people.
Arlington Museum of Art, Inc.
Arlington, TX
$15,000
To support Art Around the Corner for school children. The project
is a collaboration with the Arlington Independent School District
and will bring as many as 1,100 fifth graders into the museum for
innovative, hands-on art projects led by a local artist.
Art Education for the Blind
New York, NY
$30,000
To support Artworks: An ABSAW Collaborative Project. The Art
Beyond Sight Around the World Collaborative (ABSAW) recognizes that
art education and exposure to the arts are important for
advancements in the education and rehabilitation of people who are
blind or visually impaired.
Artrain, Inc.
Ann Arbor, MI
$35,000
To support a tour of the exhibition Native Views: Influences of
Modern Culture, with education and community outreach programs.
Artrain will bring the exhibition to approximately 50 underserved
communities in 25 states.
Cleveland Museum of Art (consortium)
Cleveland, OH
$50,000
To support a consortium project using interactive video technology
over the Internet to deliver cultural programming to a national
audience of senior citizens. In partnership with the Judson
Retirement Community, the project seeks to engage and re-engage in
the arts this frequently marginalized community.
DeCordova & Dana Museum & Park
Lincoln, MA
$20,000
To support the development of Sculpture on Site: Learning in 3-D,
an online educators' resource for sculpture and the DeCordova Park.
The project will provide educators with a site that presents
cross-curricular lesson plans for elementary school students.
Detroit Institute of Arts
Detroit, MI
$40,000
To support the planning phase of the reinstallation of the
African, Egyptian, Ancient Near Eastern, and Islamic galleries. The
reinstallation will illuminate direct links between modern cultures
and their ancient foundations.
Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Inc.
Nashville, TN
$10,000
To support the Multiple Visit and the Art Trunk programs. The
education outreach programs will make the visual arts more widely
available to community organizations.
Historical Society of Plainfield
Plainfield, NJ
$12,000
To support Focus: Plainfield. Professional documentary
photographers will lead community workshops for adult and young
amateur photographers to document life in present-day
Plainfield.
Isamu Noguchi Foundation Inc. (consortium)
Long Island City, NY
$18,000
To support a consortium project to conserve original theatrical
sets designed by Japanese American artist Isamu Noguchi (1904-88)
for American choreographer and dancer Martha Graham (1894-1991).
The project is a collaboration between the Noguchi Museum and the
Graham Company.
McAllen International Museum
McAllen, TX
$10,000
To support the creation and construction of an art outreach
station titled Art on the Move. It will provide a hands-on,
in-depth experience for young people in oil painting, weaving,
printmaking, and sculpture.
Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support a consortium project titled the Community Change
Handbook and a mosaic mural project. The project, which is intended
to reach young people and involve them in positive community
changes through the arts, will be carried out by the museum's
subsidiary, the Yollocalli Youth Museum, and Little Black Pearl
Workshop, a local African-American arts institution.
Miami Children's Museum
Miami, FL
$20,000
To support an Artist-in-Residence Program. The project will target
more than 7,000 children and their families from Miami's low-income
communities. The museum will work with two nationally known
artists, who will serve as residents for 18 months each.
Midland Center for the Arts, Inc.
Midland, MI
$20,000
To support the presentation of Egypt in the Age of the
Pharaohs and Treasures of Ancient Nubia, exhibitions
drawn from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. The
exhibitions will be enhanced by tours, lectures, and other
education programs.
Montclair Art Museum
Montclair, NJ
$15,000
To support Project Reach Out, an off-site education program
designed to serve special-needs audiences. The project will reach
more than 5,000 disabled adults with sustained visual arts lessons
and hands-on art activities.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Houston, TX
$50,000
To support Gateway to Art/De Puertas al Arte, presenting various
outreach programs to underserved audiences in the Houston
metropolitan area. The off-site programs will engage residents in
inner-city and suburban, low-income neighborhoods by bringing
original works of art and art-making activities into their
communities.
Museum of New Mexico Foundation (on behalf of
TREX Traveling Exhibitions)
Santa Fe, NM
$20,000
To support TREX, the traveling exhibition program of the Museum of
New Mexico. The program develops touring art exhibitions and
accompanying education programs that are adaptable to each venue on
the exhibitions' tour.
Northwestern Michigan College Foundation (on
behalf of Dennos Museum Center)
Traverse City, MI
$20,000
To support the presentation of American 18th- to 20th-century
paintings from the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts
(DIA). The project is made possible due to major ongoing
renovations at the DIA, which will close its American galleries
until the fall of 2005.
Orlando Museum of Art
Orlando, FL
$20,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of pictorial
photographer Anne Brigman (1869-1950), with accompanying catalog
and education programs. Brigman sought to explore the artistic
potential of photography, creating images that captured the
artist's imaginative vision rather than a literal record of the
natural world.
Phoenix Art Museum
Phoenix, AZ
$30,000
To support a multimedia advertising campaign designed to reach
Phoenix's Latino community through consistent television, radio,
and print advertising in Hispanic media. The project will target
the city's Hispanic population, estimated at 825,000 people, the
ninth largest Hispanic market in the United States.
Pierpont Morgan Library
New York, NY
$25,000
To support an outreach program for children in grades three to
seven, with a focus on disadvantaged populations in Manhattan and
the outlying boroughs. The program will be based on the library's
superb collection of illuminated manuscripts and the
anthropological exhibits at the American Museum of Natural
History.
Plains Art Museum
Fargo, ND
$30,000
To support the Rolling Plains Art Gallery. Located in a 48-foot
semi-trailer, the gallery has provided art education and
exhibitions of original art to underserved rural school children
and communities since 1993. The museum will organize a two-year
exhibition of contemporary art in various media titled Identity
and Vision in Minnesota and North Dakota.
South Texas Institute for the Arts
Corpus Christi, TX
$20,000
To support of an exhibition of the work of Brazilian photographer
Sebastiao Salgado (b. 1944), with accompanying education programs.
The exhibition is organized and toured by Aperture, Inc.
Studio Museum in Harlem, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support Expanding the Walls: Making Connections between
Photography, History, and Community. The program is designed to
develop relationships with three underserved populations: youth,
families, and senior citizens.
University of Missouri at Kansas City (on
behalf of Center for Creative Studies)
Kansas City, MO
$15,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American artists
Jesse Howard (1885-1983) and Roger Brown (1941-97), with
accompanying catalog and symposium. Signs, Wonders, and
Reflections will explore the inspiration behind their work and
the connections between their ideas.
Creativity
American Folk Art Museum
New York, NY
$60,000
To support the touring exhibition The Synagogue and the Carousel:
Jewish Woodcarving Traditions, with accompanying catalogue and
educational programs. The exhibition will examine the
transformation of Eastern European Jewish traditions found in
religious carvings, tombstones, and papercuts into parallel
American traditions that occured from the 1880s to early 1920s.
Americas Society, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the planning for the exhibition The Phoenix and the
Hummingbird: Asia in the Arts of Latin America,
1520-1820. The exhibition will examine the cross-cultural
hybridization and exchange between Asia and Latin America during
the colonial era.
Arcadia University (on behalf of Art Gallery)
Glenside, PA
$25,000
To support the commission of a site-specific installation by
Danish-born, Berlin-based artist Olafur Eliasson (b. 1967), with
accompanying catalogue and educational programs. The installation
will consist of two circular chambers that will allow viewers to
explore their perceptions of pure color and its afterimages.
Asia Society
New York, NY
$100,000
To support the touring exhibition Asian Games: The Art of
Contest, with accompanying catalogue and educational programs.
The exhibition will explore the role of games in traditional Asian
cultures from the earliest recorded time to the beginning of the
modern era.
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
$45,000
To support the touring exhibition The Kingdom of Siam: Art and
Culture of Central Thailand 1350 1800, with accompanying
catalogue and educational programs. The exhibition will highlight
the little known arts of the Thai kingdom of Ayutthaya, and will
provide American audiences with their first opportunity in 25 years
to see classical art from Thailand.
Boise Art Museum
Boise, ID
$10,000
To support an exhibition of work by contemporary American glass
artist William Morris. The exhibition, titled William Morris:
Myth, Object, and the Animal, will include individual
sculptures, room-size installations, and a new commissioned
installation.
Brooklyn Institute of Arts
Brooklyn, NY
$40,000
To support the reinstallation of a collection of indigenous art
from the Pacific Northwest. The new, permanent installation
implemented in collaboration with Native communities will replace
one that dates from the 1960s.
California Center for the Arts, Escondido Foundation
Escondido, CA
$15,000
To support an exhibition of work by French artist Niki de Saint
Phalle (1930-2002), with accompanying catalogue and education
programs. The exhibition will complement the unveiling of the
artist's monumental, sculptural environment Queen Califia's
Magical Circle in Escondido.
California State University, Long Beach (on behalf of
University Art Museum) (consortium)
Long Beach, CA
$75,000
To support a touring exhibition of work by contemporary German
photographer Candida Hofer (b. 1944). The exhibition will be
organized in collaboration with the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm
Beach, FL.
Carnegie Institute (on behalf of Carnegie Museum of Art)
Pittsburgh, PA
$50,000
To support the 2004 Carnegie International exhibition, with
accompanying catalogue and education programs. Founded in 1896 and
now in its 54th installment, the International might be considered
the pre-eminent international survey of contemporary art in North
America.
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
$30,000
To support an exhibition of new work by contemporary Chinese artist
Michael Lin (b. 1964), with accompanying artist's book/catalogue
and education programs. Lin will transform a 3,000 square foot
gallery into an all-encompassing visual, floral cornucopia.
Contemporary Arts Association of Houston
Houston, TX
$40,000
To support a touring exhibition of work by contemporary American
artist Andrea Zittel (b. 1965), with accompanying catalogue and
education programs. Critical Space 1991-2003, will be the
first U.S. examination of her sculptural investigations of domestic
and urban environments and the ways in which people adjust to
contemporary life.
Contemporary Arts Center
New Orleans, LA
$30,000
To support a touring exhibition of work by African American artist
Willie Birch (b. 1943), with accompanying catalogue and education
programs. The exhibition will consist of approximately 40 recent
large-scale works on paper.
Eastman Memorial Foundation (Lauren Rogers Museum of Art)
Laurel, MS
$22,000
To support an exhibition of work by African American artist Sam
Gilliam (b. 1933), with accompanying catalogue and education
programs. The exhibition is being organized in collaboration with
the Baton Rouge Arts and Science Center.
Edmundson Art Foundation, Inc.
Des Moines, IA
$40,000
To support the touring exhibition Contested Fields: Identity in
Sports and Spectacle, with accompanying catalogue, education
programs, and artist residencies. The exhibition will present
contemporary artwork that examines the role of sports culture in
shaping human identities.
Fabric Workshop, Inc.
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 exploratory ways.
Grand Rapids Art Museum
Grand Rapids, MI
$20,000
To support a touring exhibition of American artist Ellsworth
Kelly's (b. 1923) plant lithographs. Although known for his large
scale two- and three-dimensional canvases of colors and minimal
shapes, the exhibition will present a closer view of his more
intimate and minimal renderings of plant life.
International Center of Photography (consortium)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the touring exhibition Gustav Klutsis and Valentina
Kulagina: Between the Public and the Private, with accompanying
catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will provide a new
understanding of the Russian avant-garde artists while examining
the development of the photomontage art form in the Soviet Union in
the 1920s and 1930s.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Inc.
Boston, MA
$20,000
To support an artist residency and exhibition program. The program
is designed to allow contemporary artists an opportunity to draw
upon the museum's world renowned historical collection for
inspiration and to participate in the museum's School and Community
Partnership outreach programs.
Jersey City Museum, Inc.
Jersey City, NJ
$40,000
To support a touring exhibition of work by African American artist
Chakaia Booker (b. 1953), with accompanying catalogue and education
programs. Jersey Ride will be a mid-career presentation of
the artist's work.
Jewish Museum
New York, NY
$25,000
To support artists' commissions and the exhibition of photography
and video works as part of Common Ground, with accompanying
catalogue and education programs. Contemporary artists will explore
diversity in the context of how Jewish identity and community are
represented in America's multicultural society.
Katonah Museum of Art, Inc.
Katonah, NY
$40,000
To support the touring exhibition The Eternal Presence, with
accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will
examine the visual manifestations and devotional contexts of
handprints and footprints in Buddhist art and culture, primarily
Tibetan.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (on behalf of List
Visual Arts Center)
Cambridge, MA
$25,000
To support a touring retrospective exhibition of the work of
contemporary American artists Mel Ziegler (b. 1956) and Kate
Ericson (1955-1995), with accompanying catalogue and education
programs. The project is a collaboration with the Tang Teaching
Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College.
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
North Adams, MA
$28,000
To support Project ARTFAB, with accompanying catalogues and
education programs. A visual arts commissioning, residency, and
support-for-artists initiative, the project will commission up to
six artists to undertake major new works.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY
$100,000
To support the exhibition Byzantium: Faith and Power
(1261-1557), with accompanying education programs. The
exhibition will present works of art from collections around the
world that demonstrate the artistic and cultural importance of the
last centuries of the East Christian Byzantine world that called
itself the Empire of the Romans.
Museum Associates (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
Los Angeles, CA
$100,000
To support the traveling exhibition The Course of Invention: The
Arts and Crafts Movement in Europe and America,
1880-1920, with accompanying catalogue and education programs.
The exhibition will examine the international influence of the Arts
and Crafts ideals in Britain, Europe, and the United States.
Museum for African Art
Long Island, NY
$70,000
To support the touring exhibition Beauty of the Gods: Urhobo Art
in a Modern World, with accompanying catalogue. The exhibition
will present a comprehensive view of the traditional art and
culture of the Urhobo people of the Niger Delta.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
$75,000
To support the touring exhibition Art and the Feminist
Revolution, with accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will
examine the foundations and legacy of feminist art in the
1970s.
New York University (on behalf of Grey Art Gallery)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the exhibition Atsuko Tanaka and the Japanese
Avant-Garde, 1954-1965, with accompanying catalogue and
education programs. The exhibition will document Tanaka's (b.
Osaka, Japan 1932) innovative performances and will present a
number of her installations as well as a selection of her large
abstract paintings and intricate drawings.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, PA
$100,000
To support the touring exhibition Manet and the Sea, with
accompanying education programs. The exhibition will be the first
to highlight Edouard Manet's (1832-1883) marine paintings and those
of other artists whose seascapes were substantially influenced by
Manet, such as Gustave Courbet, Claude Monet, and Berthe
Morisot.
Phillips Collection
Washington, DC
$80,000
To support the exhibition Calder and Miro, with accompanying
catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will bring new
insights to the mobile sculptures of Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
and the poem paintings of Joan Miro (1893-1983) by interpreting
their friendship as an historical and stylistic exchange.
President & Fellows of Harvard (on behalf of Harvard
University Art Museums)
Cambridge, MA
$50,000
To support a touring exhibition of work by contemporary, South
African-born photographer Gary Schneider (b. 1954), with
accompanying catalogue and education programs. Over the past 25
years, Schneider has reinterpreted the parameters of the portrait
photograph in a diverse series of projects that traverse the
photographic medium.
Queens Museum of Art (consortium)
Flushing, NY
$40,000
To support the exhibition Subway Series, with accompanying
catalogue and education programs. The project is a collaboration
with the Bronx Museum of the Arts.
Rhode Island School of Design (on behalf of Museum of
Art)
Providence, RI
$45,000
To support an exhibition focusing on one of the museum's paintings
Six Friends at Dieppe by Edgar Degas (1885). The work
entered the museum's holding in 1931, but due to its medium (pastel
on paper) has been restricted from travel on loan to
exhibitions.
Seattle Art Museum
Seattle, WA
$75,000
To support the exhibition Spain in the Age of Exploration
1492-1792, with accompanying catalogue and education programs.
The exhibition of European art, organized in conjunction with the
Patrimonio Nacional, Madrid, will provide American audiences with
an opportunity to explore Spain's global role and impact on the
"new world".
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
New York, NY
$75,000
To support a retrospective exhibition of work by American artist
David Smith (1906-1965). The exhibition will bring together Smith's
seminal sculptures as well as important examples of his paintings
and drawings revealing his singular achievements in post-war
American abstraction.
St. Louis Art Museum
St. Louis, MO
$100,000
To support the touring exhibition Art from New Ireland, with
accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will
be the first major exhibition of art from the Melanesian island
civilization in the southwestern Pacific.
University of California (on behalf of Berkeley Art
Museum)
Berkeley, CA
$75,000
To support a touring exhibition of oil sketches by Flemish Old
Master Peter Paul Rubens (1577 1640), with accompanying catalogue
and education programs. The project is a collaboration with the
Cincinnati Art Museum and the Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT.
University of California (on behalf of Berkeley Art
Museum)
Berkeley, CA
$15,000
To support a touring exhibition of work by the architecture and
multimedia artists' collaborative ANTFARM (1968-1978), with
accompanying education programs. The exhibition will examine the
collaborative group during its heyday and reassess and document the
continuing influence of their groundbreaking innovations on a range
of art forms today.
University of Houston (on behalf of Blaffer Gallery) (consortium)
Houston, TX
$20,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American artist
Jessica Stockholder (b. 1959), with accompanying catalogue and
education programs. The project is a collaboration with the
Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina,
Greensboro.
University of Iowa (on behalf of Museum of Art)
Iowa City, IA
$10,000
To support the planning of a touring exhibition African
Fashion/Global Style, an exploration of Africa's role in global
fashion markets. The exhibition will present dramatic garments by
African, European, and American designers that are based on, or
inspired by, distinctly African forms.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (on behalf of
Ackland Art Museum)
Chapel Hill, NC
$75,000
To support a touring exhibition of work by African American artists
Betye (b. 1926), Alison (b. 1956), and Lezley (b. 1956) Saar, with
accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will
showcase the artistic heritage shared by a mother and two daughters
and illustrate how two generations of women use art to express
changing ideas of gender, race, and ethnicity.
University of Pennsylvania (on behalf of Institute of
Contemporary Art)
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
To support an exhibition of work by Puerto Rico-born,
Philadelphia-based artist Pepon Osorio (b. 1955), with accompanying
catalogue and extensive education and community outreach programs.
The exhibition will culminate a five-year project by Osorio, based
on his artist residency at the Philadelphia Department of Human
Services.
Heritage & Preservation
Barnes Foundation
Merion Station, PA
$70,000
To support the research, writing, and publication of a catalog of
the museum's collection of American paintings and works on paper.
This will be the first publication documenting a unique collection
of more than 300 American works of art.
Belmont, the Gari Melchers Estate and Memorial
Gallery
Fredericksburg, VA
$10,000
To support Phase III of a preservation management plan for
original furnishings in Gari Melchers' historic house. Following a
conditions assessment (I) and a detailed treatment prioritization
(II), Phase III will carry out the conservation treatment of as
many as seven items in the museum's collection.
Brandywine Conservancy, Inc. (on behalf of
Brandywine River Museum)
Chadds Ford, PA
$10,000
To support the production of an educational film on the making of
the egg tempera medium and tempera paintings, with a brief history
of tempera. The film will provide an academic introduction to this
complex subject and will fill a significant gap in available
information about the technique.
Chinese Historical Society of Southern
California
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support the Archiving and Curating Project. The archive
documents the development of the Chinese community in Southern
California from the 1880s to the 1930s.
Conservation Center for Art and Historic
Artifacts
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
To support a post-graduate 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.
Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support conservation treatment of key furniture pieces and
important frames for paintings in the American art collection.
Dating from the 18th to the early 20th century, the works are
anchors of the museum's comprehensive survey of American art.
DeEtte Holden Cummer Museum Foundation
Jacksonville, FL
$10,000
To support the conservation treatment of paintings in the
permanent collection. The museum has a collection of nearly 4,000
objects from many ages and cultures.
Detroit Historical Society
Detroit, MI
$10,000
To support a condition assessment survey and a treatment and
maintenance recommendations report for the city's outdoor art
collection. Due to citywide budget cuts, the society has recently
inherited responsibility for the city's collection of public art
from the Department of Parks and Recreation.
di Rosa Preserve: Art and Nature
Napa, CA
$20,000
To support the Collection Care Program. The project will address
the long-term conservation needs of this major collection of
northern California art through a collaboration with the Department
of Art and Art History at Sonoma State University.
Eastman Memorial Foundation
Laurel, MS
$35,000
To support the conservation and exhibition of the museum's
Native-American basket collection. The exhibition will present as
many as 230 baskets made by weavers from 68 tribes, spanning the
last two centuries.
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (consortium)
Santa Fe, NM
$25,000
To support a consortium project to conduct a scientific
examination of the technical components of a number of Georgia
O'Keeffe's (1887-1986) works in various American museum
collections. The project, conducted with the Whitney Museum of
American Art, will be the first to investigate the artist's studio
practices.
Harvard University (on behalf of
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology)
Cambridge, MA
$25,000
To support the digitization and the creation of a Web site to
access the Peabody Museum's collection of North American
Historic-board prints. The collection includes the first
photographs of archaeological excavations and earliest efforts at
ethnographic photography in the United States.
Heard Museum
Phoenix, AZ
$45,000
To support the reinstallation of the permanent collection of
Southwest Native American art. The 10,000 square-foot exhibition
will present more than 2,700 objects. The reinstallation will
present a culturally sensitive interpretation of the art of
indigenous American people.
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
$20,000
To support expansion of the Maryland ArtSource Web site. The site
enables Maryland institutions to inform the public about the unique
collections held by regional museums, libraries, and arts
organizations.
Josef Albers Foundation, Inc.
Bethany, CT
$20,000
To support the Archives Organization Project. The project is a
comprehensive effort to inventory, preserve, and make accessible
the foundation's voluminous archives, which contains
correspondence, photographs, and other materials from the late arts
educators Josef and Anni Albers.
Judd Foundation
Marfa, TX
$10,000
To support the first phase of research and cataloging of American
artist Donald Judd's (1928-94) archives. This initial stage will
lead to a catalogue raisonne of the artist's life's
work.
Lyme Historical Society
Old Lyme, CT
$15,000
To support an exhibition of the work of American artist Willard
Metcalf (1858-1925), with accompanying catalog and education
programs. The exhibition will explore Metcalf's contribution to
American Impressionist art in general and to the Old Lyme Art
Colony in particular.
Millicent Rogers Museum, Inc.
Taos, NM
$25,000
To support the publication of a catalog of the extensive
collection of work by Native American potter Maria Poveka Martinez
(1889-1980). The catalog will accompany the expansion and
reinstallation of the current Martinez exhibition, scheduled to
open in 2006.
Nelson Gallery Foundation
Kansas City, MO
$35,000
To support the publication of a catalog of German and
Netherlandish paintings circa 1450-1600 in the permanent
collection. The catalog will make a significant contribution to
scholarship by combining previously published information with new
research including extensive technical analysis.
Northeast Document Conservation Center
(consortium)
Andover, MA
$20,000
To support a consortium project providing a one-year internship in
paper conservation. In partnership with the New England Museum
Association, the intern will also be trained to provide technical
assistance in collections care to smaller museums in the
region.
Ohio University Main Campus (on behalf of
Kennedy Museum of Art)
Athens, OH
$20,000
To support the installation of the Kennedy Museum's Southwest
Native-American collection. The collection is comprised of more
than 700 weavings and 1,200 jewelry items representing all major
historical periods of Navajo textile and silverwork production.
Schwenkfelder Library
Pennsburg, PA
$17,000
To support conservation treatment of works by fraktur
artist Susanna Heebner (1750-1818) in the permanent collection.
With roots extending back to medieval illuminated manuscripts,
fraktur is a highly decorative style blending motifs and
religious or inspirational text on a single sheet of paper.
Spanish Colonial Arts Society, Inc.
Santa Fe, NM
$20,000
To support and increase the scope of education projects in the
traditional Hispanic arts. The program is targeted to underserved
urban and rural communities in New Mexico. Hispanic artists from
the community will be placed in local classrooms and workshops,
fostering life-long learning in the arts and the preservation of
Hispanic cultural traditions.
Textile Conservation Workshop, Inc.
South Salem, NY
$18,000
To support a master apprenticeship for in-depth training in
textile conservation. As part of a regional conservation
laboratory, the apprenticeship program fills a gap not covered by
formal conservation courses in graduate school programs.
University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc.
(on behalf of Spencer Museum of Art)
Lawrence, KS
$30,000
To support the digital documentation and cataloging of objects in
the Spencer Museum's permanent collection. The data will be input
into the Museum Plus database so the objects will be substantively
and visually accessible to staff, visitors, and users of the online
library.
University of Rochester (on behalf of
Memorial Art Gallery)
Rochester, NY
$25,000
To support the publication of a catalog and the creation of a Web
site of the Memorial Art Gallery's American art collection. The
project is the second in a three-phase initiative titled Seeing
America, which uses the American collection as an important
educational and community resource, thereby raising the
collection's visibility.
Vermont Museum & Gallery Alliance
Woodstock, VT
$20,000
To support fieldwork in the area of collections management and
exhibition. The project will provide technical assistance through a
series of multi-day "boot camp" workshops for museum staff and
volunteers.
Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian
Santa Fe, NM
$15,000
To support the development of appropriate conservation treatments
for the collection of Navajo folk art, toys, and pottery. The
project will treat as many as 150 high priority objects from the
collection.
Services to Arts Organizations and Artists
American Federation of Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Curators Forum and Directors Forum conferences. The
annual, three-day events are designed to provide senior museum
personnel with professional development and networking
opportunities.
Northeast Document Conservation Center
Andover, MA
$25,000
To support efforts to expand an online manual to help museums
preserve art collections in both digital and original form. The
center will join with the Museum Computer Network and the New
England Museum Association in this project.
National Endowment for the Arts · an independent federal agency
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20506 | 
