2006 Grant Awards: Access to Artistic Excellence

[ August 15, 2005 deadline ]

Dance | Design | Folk & Traditional Arts | Literature | Local Arts Agencies
Media Arts | Museum | Music | Musical Theater | Presenting
Theater | Visual Arts

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

Visual Arts

Art 21, Inc. (aka Art21)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support outreach programs and curriculum materials for Art:21-Art in the Twenty-First Century. The public television series about contemporary visual art presents intimate profiles of America's diverse artists and the contexts in which they work.

Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of School of the Art Institute)
Chicago, IL
$34,000
To support the Teacher Institute in Contemporary Art. Experienced high school art teachers from around the United States are invited to Chicago to enrich their artistic creativity through studio access, sessions with contemporary artists, and lectures in the visual arts.

Art Mobile of Montana
Dillon, MT
$12,000
To support ArtMobile. A specially equipped van will travel throughout the state, providing access to original art works by Montana artists, art instruction, and access to contemporary artists for schools, nursing care centers, correctional facilities, Native American reservations, and libraries.

Art Resources Transfer, Inc. (aka A.R.T. Press)
New York, NY
$22,000
To support the Distribution to Underserved Communities Program. The project will offer books, museum catalogues, videos, and other material about contemporary art free-of-charge to libraries across the nation, with a special emphasis on rural and inner city libraries.

Artists Talk On Art (aka ATOA)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support an archival project to preserve and make available more than 30 years of artist presentations. The project will involve the transfer from analog to digital media of more than 850 slide lectures, panel discussions, and question-and-answer sessions.

Artpace, Inc. (aka Artpace San Antonio) (Consortium)
San Antonio, TX
$15,000
To support the consortium project, ArtElements. The series of youth outreach activities, undertaken in partnership with the San Antonio School District, is designed to critically engage youth with contemporary art.

ARTScorpsLA
Los Angeles, CA
$30,000
To support the Iron Pour Home Project, a public installation. Guided by lead artist Meredith Jack, members of the community, art students, and a collective of artists will create sand-scratch blocks that reflect the concept of home and install them at two reclaimed parks in Los Angeles.

Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$10,000
To support the Studio Program. Participating artists will be provided with access to studio space at subsidized rates.

Bi-State Development Agency (aka Metro) (on behalf of Arts in Transit)
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
To support development of a curriculum kit on public art to document the collection of the region's transit system. The curriculum, targeted to middle-school students, will be available in print and online and will feature works by artists such as Jody Pinto, Olafur Eliasson, and Ellen Driscoll.

Central City Hospitality House (aka CCHH)
San Francisco, CA
$12,000
To support visual art workshops and access to studio space for homeless and poor artists in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco. The program provides artists with scheduled or drop-in studio time in a variety of media, including painting, drawing, ceramics, and digital media.

Clemson University
Clemson, SC
$12,000
To support documentation of the creation of nature-based sculptures by artists Hiroko Inoue and Yvette Dede at the South Carolina Botanical Garden. The project will include a video for public television broadcast, a Web site, and a CD-ROM.

College Art Association of America, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support professional development workshops for undergraduate and graduate art students. The workshops, to be held in Denver and Atlanta, will use a holistic approach regarding the career of an artist.

College Art Association of America, Inc. (on behalf of Art Spaces Archive Project)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support an assessment of collections and archival needs of organizations in the alternative arts movement. A steering committee of professionals in the field will select 10 organizations from a list of more than 1,500 organizations to receive the first assessments.

Contemporary Art for San Antonio (aka Blue Star Art Space)
San Antonio, TX
$15,000
To support WAX III (Writers and Artists Exchange). The program to improve writing and criticism in contemporary art pairs university students from a variety of area schools with art critics, editors, and curators for a two-semester mentorship.

Craft Emergency Relief Fund, Inc. (aka CERF)
Montpelier, VT
$10,000
To support development of an emergency relief response plan for artists in the United States. CERF will work in partnership with the New York Foundation on the Arts, Artist Trust, the North Carolina Arts Council, and the Texas Commission on the Arts to organize a 10-member task force to develop a master plan.

Creative Growth, Inc. (aka Creative Growth Art Center)
Oakland, CA
$15,000
To support the Art Citizen Lab. The project aims to involve artists with disabilities as a vital part of the larger arts landscape and will include a series of studio arts workshops for adults with disabilities, a visiting artists program, an exhibition series, and an updated publicity campaign.

Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Inc. (aka dcca)
Wilmington, DE
$12,000
To support community-based artist residencies and a documentary catalogue. Participating artists will collaborate with community groups to create work based on ideas and issues relevant to each community's lives.

Dieu Donné Papermill, Inc. (aka dieu Donne)
New York, NY
$12,000
To support the third phase of an archival project. The project includes hiring professional archival and curatorial consultants to continue organizing the archive and begin the consolidation of the archive and slide registry into an in-house resource center.

DiverseWorks, Inc. (aka DiverseWorks Art Space) (Consortium)
Houston, TX
$12,000
To support a consortium project to host professional development workshops for Houston area artists. The program, held in partnership with the Cultural Arts Council of Houston and Harris County, was developed by Creative Capital and uses a corporate strategic planning model adapted for the creative sector.

Eldergivers
San Francisco, CA
$12,000
To support an art instruction program for residents of Bay Area nursing homes. Building upon nearly 15 years of experience, Eldergivers will hire professional artists with teaching experience to conduct workshops for institutionalized seniors.

FORECAST Public Artworks
Saint Paul, MN
$10,000
To support the publication of Public Art Review. The next issue of the journal will explore the role of photography in the documentation and realization of public art works.

Galería/Studio 24 (aka Galería de la Raza)
San Francisco, CA
$12,000
To support production of an online catalogue documenting exhibitions that commemorate Galería's 35th anniversary. The exhibitions, organized in 2005, featured the work of approximately 75 Latino artists from California.

Grass Roots Art and Community Effort (aka GRACE)
Hardwick, VT
$10,000
To support community art workshops and accompanying exhibitions for residents in rural and economically distressed areas of Vermont. The project is designed to reach a diverse spectrum of the community, including senior citizens, developmentally disabled adults, and children.

Heritage Preservation, Inc.
Washington, DC
$35,000
To support Rescue Public Murals! The project, designed to respond to the fragility of public art murals in the United States, will include an advisory committee's identification of 10 of the most endangered and highly significant murals and an assessment of each selected mural.

Island School Council (aka Island School Council for the Arts)
Hilton Head, SC
$10,000
To support the installation of a site-specific outdoor sculpture by Patrick Dougherty. The artist will work with community volunteers during a month-long residency to realize the work of woven and twisted tree saplings at Palmetto Bluff, a 20,000 -acre tract of land containing 150 historical sites.

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Inc. (aka LACE)
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support the second phase of an archival project to preserve the holdings of Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibtions Inc. (LACE). Founded in 1978, LACE presents contemporary work by artists in exhibitions, lectures, and performances.

Maryland Institute College of Art
Baltimore, MD
$10,000
To support Super Pride Studio. Working with East Baltimore communitiy organizations and Maryland Institute College of Art students, artists will create projects that help the organizations creatively achieve their social service goals.

New Franklin Cultural Center (aka Franklin Art Works)
Minneapolis, MN
$8,000
To support an exhibition of a new series of work by the Los Angeles-based photographer Uta Barth. Franklin Art Works, located in a renovated silent-era theater, is devoted to presenting new work in solo exhibitions by local, national, and international artists.

Philadelphia Print Collaborative (aka Philagrafika)
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support research and planning for (RE)PRINT: CONTEMPORARY ART PRACTICE AND THE PRINTED IMAGE. A citywide event to occur in fall 2007, the project will examine the ways in which printmaking has become a key tool for artists of every discipline and how this interaction has affected contemporary art and traditional notions of printmaking.

PhotoAlliance
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support a visiting artist lecture series. The free lecture series features prominent and emerging photographers from the United States and an international representative.

Pi Beta Phi Settlement School (aka Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts)
Gatlinburg, TN
$8,000
To support the second phase of a comprehensive, online, digital archive of Arrowmont's permanent collection. The school's collection of more than 1,000 objects acquired over the past 90 years represents a variety of craft traditions.

picART (aka partners in Compassion ART)
Carlsbad, CA
$10,000
To support Community Snapshot/Community Portrait. Through this photography project at Boys & Girls Clubs in San Diego, children receive mentoring by artists and are provided cameras with which to photograph and interview local business owners, firefighters, police officers, residents of senior homes, and their own families.

Public Art Fund Inc.
New York, NY
$17,000
To support In the Public Realm. The project provides emerging artists with the opportunity to develop temporary art projects in an urban context that will be documented in a series of publications.

Pyramid Atlantic, Inc. (aka Pyramid Atlantic Art Center)
Silver Spring, MD
$15,000
To support Page As Stage. Through the artist residency program in printmaking, artists will be invited to work for two weeks in the studio, interacting with teachers and youth.

Rhizome Communications, Inc. (aka Rhizome.org)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support enhancement of ArtBase, an online repository of new media art. Project activities will include improvements to the technical infrastructure, expansion of programming, and coordination of anniversary events.

Tenants and Owners Development Corporation (on behalf of Sixth Street Photography Workshop)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support expansion of photography programming for artists who are homeless. Managed by the Sixth Street Photography Workshop and targeted to residents of single-room occupancy hotels throughout San Francisco, the project will enable the organization to increase the number of introductory photography classes and expand darkroom training.

Textile Center of Minnesota (aka Textile Center)
Minneapolis, MN
$8,000
To support Never Static: Art Cloth Symposium, a national conference on fiber art. The series of workshops, seminars, and lectures will be held in Minneapolis and will serve fiber artists from across the country through an exploration of traditional and experimental surface design techniques.

University of Massachusetts at Amherst (on behalf of Fine Arts Center / University Gallery)
Amherst, MA
$15,000
To support restoration of George Trakas's Isle of View. The outdoor site-specific sculpture, commissioned by the University Gallery in 1981, is located on a pond in the center of campus.

University of Missouri at St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
To support the Public Policy Research Center's Photography Project. The project will provide members of three community groups with equipment, training in photography, and opportunities for exhibiting the resulting work.

Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts (aka Watershed)
Newcastle, ME
$10,000
To support a symposium series to expand the public's knowledge of contemporary ceramics. Activities will include a symposium by curators, a discussion with Native American potters, a collectors' event, a kiln-building lecture, and presentations by professional artists.

Wave Hill, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$8,000
To support the Family Art Project. The series of free weekend workshops provides families the opportunity to create nature-based art projects inspired by craft traditions from around the world.

Women's Studio Workshop, Inc. (Consortium)
Rosendale, NY
$17,000
To support a consortium project to host artist residencies. In partnership with the Kingston City School District, the residency program offers emerging artists paid professional opportunities to work for an extended period of time in a technically equipped studio space as well as training in teaching and mentoring.

National Endowment for the Arts · an independent federal agency
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Washington, DC 20506