NEA: 2007 GRANT AWARDS: Access to Artistic Excellence


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2007 Grant Awards: Access to Artistic Excellence

[ March 13, 2006 deadline ]

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

Museum

Allentown Art Museum
Allentown, PA
$15,000
To support the exhibition Knights in Shining Armor: Myth and Reality, 1450-1650, with accompanying education programs. The exhibition will contribute to and expand upon prior scholarship exploring arms and armor in the context of the culture of the Renaissance and Baroque periods.

Amon Carter Museum of Western Art
Fort Worth, TX
$40,000
To support the touring exhibition Chimneys and Towers: Charles Demuth's Late Paintings of Landscape, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will examine Demuth's (1883-1935) late career and his work in the larger cultural context of the American avant-garde.

Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$60,000
To support the touring exhibition Jasper Johns: Gray, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will explore gray as a color and motif in Johns's (b. 1930) work from 1955 to the present.

Asheville Art Museum Association, Inc. (Consortium)
Asheville, NC
$15,000
To support the exhibition Time is of the Essence: Contemporary Landscape, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The project is a collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Asheville.

Asia Society
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the touring exhibition The Arts of Kashmir, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will explore the artistic, cultural, and religious contributions of the people of the Kashmir Valley from 400 CE to 1900 CE.

Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
$45,000
To support the exhibition The Arts of Mewar, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. This will be the first exhibition outside of India to focus on the former princely state of Mewar.

Baltimore Museum of Art, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$45,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of French Impressionist Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), with accompanying education programs. The exhibition will chronicle the artist's evolution from a member of the Barbizon school to a leader of the emerging modern movement.

Boise Art Museum
Boise, ID
$25,000
To support an exhibition of the work of American artist Kendall Buster (b. 1954), with accompanying brochure and education programs. The installation will be specifically designed for the museum's sculpture court.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Corporation
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
To support an exhibition examining 90 years of American women's botanical art, with accompanying catalogue and lectures. The exhibition will compare the work of Maud Purdy (1873-1965) with approximately 18 other leading 20th-century women botanical artists.

Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Sciences (aka Brooklyn Museum of Art)
Brooklyn, NY
$35,000
To support a touring exhibition titled Caribbean Encounters, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The Brooklyn Museum of Art's exhibition will present recent works by approximately 30 Caribbean artists who live and work both in the islands and around the world.

Carnegie Institute (aka Carnegie Museum of Art)
Pittsburgh, PA
$40,000
To support the touring exhibition Translations and Transformations: Glass in Venice and America, 1950-2006, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The Carnegie Museum's exhibition will delineate the development of glass in both regions and demonstrate how artistic techniques and ideas evolve across cultures, traditions, and time.

Carolina Art Association (aka Gibbes Art Museum)
Charleston, SC
$25,000
To support the touring exhibition The Plantation in American Art. The Gibbes Art Museum's exhibition will offer a comprehensive look at plantation-related imagery, from the 18th century to the present, by artists of differing backgrounds and experiences.

China Institute in America, Incorporated (aka China Institute)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the exhibition Reinventing Books in Contemporary Chinese Art, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will show how today's contemporary Chinese artists reference the book to create new forms and meanings.

Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums (aka Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
To support the touring exhibition Shifting Currents of Asian American Art: 1900-70, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition seeks to advance scholarship and provide greater awareness of this under-represented and under-appreciated subgroup within American art history.

Fabric Workshop, Inc. (aka Fabric Workshop and Museum)
Philadelphia, PA
$35,000
To support an artist-in-residence program. Each participating artist will create new work using innovative fabrics, materials, and construction techniques in experimental ways.

Frick Collection
New York, NY
$45,000
To support an exhibition of the work of 18th-century French artist Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (1724-80), with accompanying catalogue. The exhibition is being co-organized with the Louvre.

Henry Gallery Association, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$35,000
To support the national tour of an exhibition of the work of Chinese American artist Maya Lin (b. 1959), with accompanying education materials. Organized by the Henry, the tour will expand the exhibition's reach beyond the Pacific Northwest and expose diverse audiences to Lin's most recent work.

Huntington Museum of Art, Inc.
Huntington, WV
$15,000
To support the exhibition VIDEO: Beyond the Frame, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will introduce the West Virginia, Ohio, and Kentucky tri-state region to a locally under-recognized art form.

Independent Curators International (aka ICI)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American artist Jess (1923-2004), with accompanying catalogue. Jess: To and From the Printed Page will examine Jess's use of printed matter as the subject, object, and source for his collage-based art.

Indianapolis Museum of Art (aka IMA)
Indianapolis, IN
$40,000
To support an exhibition of the work of contemporary Afro-Cuban artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons (b.1959), with accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will feature paintings, room-size media installations, and large-format Polaroid photographs that the artist has produced during the last 20 years.

James A. Michener Art Museum (aka Michener Art Museum)
Doylestown, PA
$15,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American artist Elsie Driggs (1898-1992), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Since Driggs's death, there has been no exhibition or publication devoted to her work.

Japan Society, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the exhibition Awakenings: Zen Painting in Medieval Japan, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will explore the unique and understudied tradition of figure painting in Zen Buddhist communities.

Jewish Museum
New York, NY
$80,000
To support a touring retrospective exhibition of the work of American artist Louise Nevelson (1899-1988), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The show will examine the artist's contribution to contemporary sculpture, her place within modernism, and her pioneering innovations in wood and metal sculpture.

Marquette University (on behalf of Haggerty Museum)
Milwaukee, WI
$25,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of artist Wilfredo Lam (1902-82), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. As an artist of Spanish, African, and Asian descent, Lam painted works that were a fusion of Afro-Cuban images and European modernism.

Mattress Factory, Ltd. (aka Mattress Factory)
Pittsburgh, PA
$40,000
To support an artist-in-residence program, with accompanying brochures and education programs. New Installations by Artists from India will be presented in celebration of the Mattress Factory's 30th anniversary in 2007.

Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY
$95,000
To support the exhibition Threads of Splendor: Tapestry in the Baroque, with accompanying education programs. The exhibition examines the development of the leading European tapestry centers between the mid 1580s and about 1720.

Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum (aka MFACM)
Chicago, IL
$40,000
To support a Day of the Dead exhibition, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The museum's annual Dia de los Muertos exhibition is the largest in the United States and the museum's most popular event.

Museum for African Art
Long Island City, NY
$40,000
To support the touring exhibition Transcendent Traditions: Baskets of Two Continents, with accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will highlight the artistry and history of the coiled baskets made in Africa and the United States for as long as Africans have been on these shores.

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
La Jolla, CA
$35,000
To support the touring exhibition Jasper Johns: Light Bulb, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will focus on one of Johns's (b. 1930) earliest sculptures (from 1958) and examine how he and we perceive, label, and categorize objects.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston, MA
$50,000
To support the presentation of the exhibition Symbols of Power: Napoleon and the Art of the Empire Style, 1800-15, with accompanying education programs. The exhibition is organized with the Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, and the American Federation of Arts, New York City.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Houston, TX
$40,000
To support a touring exhibition of contemporary jewelry, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will be the first major show to comprehensively assess contemporary jewelry's impact as a global art form.

Museum of Glass
Tacoma, WA
$15,000
To support an exhibition of the work of internationally recognized artists whose installations often use glass as a medium, with accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will act as an indicator of the future direction of glass as it moves from the traditional to the conceptual.

National Museum of Women in the Arts, Inc.
Washington, DC
$15,000
To support the exhibition Italian Renaissance and Baroque Women Artists: Myth and History, with accompanying education programs. While paintings, sculptures, and prints by the artists to be included are scattered throughout Italian and other European museums, they have never been seen together.

North Carolina Central University (on behalf of Art Museum)
Durham, NC
$15,000
To support an exhibition of the work of African American artist Beverly McIver (b. 1962), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will bring the North Carolina native and NCCU graduate back to the Durham area where she began her career more than a decade ago.

Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, PA
$80,000
To support an exhibition of the 18th-century Japanese master of ink painting Ike Taiga and his wife, Tokuyama Gyokuran, with accompanying education programs. The exhibition will provide a comprehensive examination of the wide range of these influential artists, whose work simultaneously embraced innovation and tradition.

Phillips Collection
Washington, DC
$60,000
To support the touring exhibition Impressionists by the Sea, with accompanying education programs. The exhibition will examine the social history reflected in the sea coast in mid to late 19th-century France.

Pierpont Morgan Library
New York, NY
$45,000
To support the exhibition Painted with Words: Vincent van Gogh's Letters to Emile Bernard, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. This will be the first public exhibition of all 20 extant illustrated letters between van Gogh and his protégé Bernard.

Queens Museum of Art
Queens, NY
$65,000
To support the exhibition Generation 1.5, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will present the work of artists whose work explores the experience of moving to this country during their teenage years.

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of Berkeley Art Museum) (Consortium)
Berkeley, CA
$40,000
To support Rare Art, a collaborative project between the Berkeley Art Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, and an accompanying catalogue. In collaboration with RARE, a Virginia-based conservation organization, the project will send 10 artists to 10 World Heritage Sites to create work based on their experiences in those locations.

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Inc. (on behalf of High Museum of Art)
Atlanta, GA
$45,000
To support Louvre Atlanta, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The second part of the three-year collaborative project between the High Museum and the Louvre will present some of the Louvre's masterpieces in this country for the first time and will feature exhibitions that illustrate the era in the Louvre's history as it evolved from private palace to public museum.

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Inc. (on behalf of High Museum of Art) (Consortium)
Atlanta, GA
$115,000
To support the touring exhibition of Lorenzo Ghiberti's (1378-1455) Gates of Paradise, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. In collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the exhibition, titled The Triumph of Renaissance Art and Science, will bring three panels from this seminal work of art to America for the first time.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (aka SFMOMA)
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
To support the touring exhibition Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. This will be the first American retrospective exhibition of thisIcelandic-born (b. 1967) artist's career, surveying his sculpture, installation work, and photography.

Seattle Art Museum
Seattle, WA
$50,000
To support the exhibition Japan Envisioning the West: 16th-19th Century Japanese Art from the Kobe City Museum, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will present art works exploring how Japanese viewed Westerners, and vice-versa, from the late 16th to the early 19th centuries.

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
$40,000
To support the exhibition The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings, with accompanying education programs. The exhibition is being co-organized with the Royal Academy of Arts, London.

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (on behalf of Weisman Art Museum) (Consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$30,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of contemporary American photographer Paul Shambroom (b. 1956), with accompanying catalogue and education program. The project is a collaboration between the Weisman Art Museum and the California State University at Long Beach Art Museum.

University of Montana (on behalf of Montana Museum of Art and Culture)
Missoula, MT
$20,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of contemporary Native American artist George Longfish (b. 1942, Seneca, Tuscarora), with accompanying catalogue and artist-in-residence program. The project will present the artist's work from the last 35 years and will include the commissioning of a new work for the Montana Museum's collection.

University of North Texas (on behalf of Art Gallery) (Consortium)
Denton, TX
$15,000
To support two exhibitions, residencies, and an accompanying catalogue based on the work of Bulgarian-born, New York-based artist Daniel Bozhkov (b. 1968). The project is a collaboration with the Arthouse at Jones Center in Austin.

University of Texas at Austin (on behalf of Blanton Museum)
Austin, TX
$25,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of contemporary Argentinean artist Jorge Macchi (b. 1963), with accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will be the artist's first United States presentation, significantly broadening his exposure to new audiences.

Vero Beach Museum of Art
Vero Beach, FL
$15,000
To support the touring exhibition The Reality of Things: Trompe l'Oeil in America, with accompanying catalogue. The art of illusion and the depiction of illusory objects and architecture have occupied artists since antiquity.

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Richmond, VA
$30,000
To support the touring exhibition Darkroom, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will feature the work of as many as 16 contemporary South African photographers and video artists.

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