2009 Grant Awards: Access to Artistic Excellence
[ August 11, 2008 deadline ]
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Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior
Endowment approval.
Visual Arts
509 Cultural Center (aka Luggage Store Gallery)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support Short Cuts. Targeted to emerging artists and art students, the mentorship program at Luggage Store Gallery is designed to advance curatorial and exhibition organizing skills.
American Craft Council
New York, NY
$15,000
To support Building Craft's Future. Designed to serve emerging craft artists, the project will provide professional development programming through exhibition opportunities and symposia.
Apex Art Curatorial Program, Inc. (aka apexart)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Resident Lecture Series. The series will present the work and views of participants in apexart's international residency program, a month-long opportunity for artists and curators from around the world.
Armory Center for the Arts
Pasadena, CA
$30,000
To support Installations Inside/Out. The project, commemorating the center's 20th anniversary in its current Pasadena facility, involves the commissioning of works by artists with historic and current ties to the organization.
Art 21, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
To support development of educational activities and online resources for Art:21 Art in the Twenty-First Century. The public television series about contemporary visual art creates intimate profiles of America's diverse artists and the contexts in which they work.
Art Council, Inc. (aka Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support residencies for visual artists by Artadia. Participating artists will be provided with studio space, a monthly housing stipend, a monthly subsistence stipend, and a materials budget for a three-month residency in partnership with the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York City.
Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of School of the Art Institute)
Chicago, IL
$40,000
To support the Teacher Institute in Contemporary Art at the School of the Art Institute. Experienced high school art teachers from around the country are invited to Chicago to enrich their artistic creativity through studio access, sessions with contemporary artists, and lectures in the visual arts.
Art Resources Transfer, Inc. (aka A.R.T. Press)
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the Distribution to Underserved Communities Program. A.R.T. Press 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 cities.
Bard College
Annandale-Hudson, NY
$15,000
To support the Art Space Archives Project. Led by a steering committee of professionals in the field, the initiative will provide an assessment of collections and archival needs of organizations in the alternative arts movement.
Center for Book Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the second phase of the Collections Initiative, an archival effort to document the organization's programming in the book arts. The project involves the development of an online archive of 190 exhibitions and cataloging an art collection of more than 1,000 objects for on-site and online access.
Chicago Public Art Group (aka CPAG)
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support restoration of murals on the south side of Chicago. Plans include the restoration of six highly endangered murals, selected by CPAG because of their close proximity to an important early mural that was lost in a building fire-The Wall of Respect, painted in 1967 by William Walker.
College Art Association of America, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support ARTspace, a programming component during the annual conference of the College Art Association. Designed to engage the artist members, ARTspace sessions are offered free-of-charge and include activities such as live interviews with prominent artists; film, video, and multimedia screenings; performances; and presentations.
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
New York, NY
$15,000
To support Free as Air and Water. The series of symposia, commemorating the 150th anniversary of Cooper Union's commitment to tuition-free education, will focus on themes related to the broad question, "What is free?"
Craft in America, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
To support outreach and educational materials for Craft in America, a public television series that explores the origins, artists, and techniques of American craft.
Creative Growth, Inc. (aka Creative Growth Art Center)
Oakland, CA
$20,000
To support The Artists of Our Era. In order to involve artists with disabilities as a vital part of the larger arts community, the project will include a series of studio arts workshops for adults with disabilities, a visiting artists program, an exhibition series, a publicity campaign, and a publication.
Curators of University of Missouri at St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
$20,000
To support the Public Policy Research Center's Photography Project. The project will provide community members with training in photography and opportunities for exhibiting the resulting work.
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Inc.
Wilmington, DE
$30,000
To support a series of community-based artist residencies and a documentary catalogue. The artists will collaborate with community groups to create work that explores the theme "In Reality" and how it is represented and understood by contemporary society.
Fondo Del Sol (aka Fondo del Sol Visual Arts Center / MOCHA)
Washington, DC
$15,000
To support community outreach activities related to the exhibition Issues of Freedom. Outreach activities will be bilingual and include documentation, artist talks, and residencies.
FORECAST Public Artworks (Consortium)
St. Paul, MN
$20,000
To support the first phase of the development of an online digital image archive of public art. Undertaken in partnership with the University of Minnesota, the project will focus on 30 years of regional commissions documented by Forecast, and 20 years of historical images published in Forecast's quarterly magazine, Public Art Review.
French Studio of Performing Arts (aka Solo Foundation)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support production and expanded distribution of the Solo Foundation's Daylight magazine. The magazine is a forum for documentary photojournalism; its issues of Daylight highlight specific themes.
Galeria/Studio 24 (aka Galeria de la Raza)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support continued development of an online exhibition archive to include materials from Galeria's programming from 2001 to the present. The project involves uploading more than 1,000 images, documents, newspaper articles, and critical reviews.
Glass Art Society, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$20,000
To support the 39th annual conference. To be held in Corning, New York, the conference will include a series of exhibitions, lectures, panels, and workshop demonstrations.
GoggleWorks
Reading, PA
$25,000
To support the After School Arts Program (ASAP). Targeted to low-income youth in a neighborhood struggling with gang activity, ASAP offers art instruction by professional artists year-round to kindergarten through middle school aged children.
KIACA (aka KIACA Gallery)
Columbus, OH
$10,000
To support an exhibition series featuring the work of contemporary African American and African diaspora artists. Participating artists will be those who reside or have ties in the Ohio region.
La Guardia Community College
Long Island City, NY
$10,000
To support Seeing and Writing Queens. Organized around a site-specific temporary installation by the internationally prominent artist Thomas Hirschhorn, students will assist the artist in a project that comments on the writings of the early 20th-century political theorist Antonio Gramsci.
Lewis & Clark College
Portland, OR
$10,000
To support expansion of an online digital image archive of contemporary ceramic art. Undertaken in partnership with other ceramic organizations, the project will focus on the addition of work by master artists selected by a curatorial board of artists and visual resource professionals.
Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support Insights, an exhibition of work by contemporary artists who are blind or visually impaired. Featuring work by approximately 40 artists, the juried exhibition will be installed at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery in City Hall.
Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation
Pleasantville, NY
$70,000
To support the digitization and cataloguing of the Gordon Parks Collection. The collection of more than 26,000 items is currently housed in the Reader's Digest Building in Chappaqua, New York, after being stored haphazardly for years in Parks' home office.
National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (aka NCECA) (Consortium)
Erie, CO
$25,000
To support development of exhibitions to coincide with NCECA's annual conference. Planning and implementation of the exhibitions will be undertaken in partnership with the Clay Studio, NCECA's on-site liaison in Philadelphia.
New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the Evening Lecture Series. The free program enables artists, scholars, critics, philosophers, and art historians to engage the public in a discussion of critical issues in the visual arts.
Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, Inc.
Oklahoma City, OK
$20,000
To support the Art Writing and Curatorial Institute. Designed to encourage curatorial and art criticism scholarship in the region, the program will have 12 participants.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Philadelphia, PA
$35,000
To support the Academy Visit Program. The program serves K-12 Philadelphia school students, and is the foundation of the academy's educational outreach activities.
Peregrine Arts, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
To support production of a publication to document Hidden City. Hidden City is a series of site-based installations by 14 artists at lesser-known historic sites in Philadelphia.
Philagrafika
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support documentation of Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious. A joint project with the Moore College of Art and Design, Philagrafika 2010 will include the work of approximately 100 printmakers and a number of special commissions for other artists. Artist commissions will be documented using audio, visual, and still photography.
PhotoAlliance
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the Photography Lecture Series. The program enables established and emerging photographers to engage the public.
Pittsburgh Glass Center, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
To support an artist residency program. Artists will be provided with resources, facilities, and technical assistance for exploration in glass making.
Point Community Development Corporation (aka THE POINT)
Bronx, NY
$15,000
To support Mapping Our Environment Through Art II. The project will offer art-making opportunities led by guest artists to adults and young people of Hunts Point in the Bronx.
Port Authority of Allegheny County
Pittsburgh, PA
$77,000
To support the conservation and relocation of a monumental ceramic mural by American artist Romare Bearden (1911-88). Commissioned by the Port Authority in 1984, the mural Pittsburgh's Recollections was installed in the Gateway Center Station, now set for demolition due to a planned expansion of light rail service.
Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
To support an exhibition series featuring work by contemporary artists. Artists will be selected by an independent jury of artists and curators for the exhibitions, to be held in the Fleisher's Dene Louchheim Gallery in South Philadelphia.
Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Inc.
Santa Barbara, CA
$15,000
To support Forum Lounge. A year-long performance art series, Forum Lounge will present artists in the gallery and at specific sites around Santa Barbara.
Santa Fe Art Institute
Santa Fe, NM
$50,000
To support MEMORY: Shadow and Light. The multi-faceted project will bring artists of international prominence to Santa Fe for lectures, workshops, and exhibitions.
Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
To support the exhibition Edible Landscapes. The environmental art exhibition will feature site-specific works by artists selected by a curatorial committee from an open call.
Sequoia Community Initiatives, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
To support Open Arts Studio Program. Targeted to homeless women at St. Martin De Porre, a 200-bed shelter, the participants will have opportunities to create art using a variety of media, to participate in exhibitions, and to have images of their work included in publications distributed in the community.
Sheboygan Arts Foundation, Inc. (aka John Michael Kohler Arts Center) (Consortium)
Sheboygan, WI
$10,000
To support a community-based artist residency and creation of a public artwork. The Kohler Arts Center, in partnership with the Sheboygan Area School District, will host the artist team Wowhaus for a six-week artist residency.
University of Saint Francis
Fort Wayne, IN
$10,000
To support the Pre-College Summer Art Academy. Targeted to low-income high school students, the program is designed to prepare the participants to compete for scholarships and succeed in college.
Wave Hill, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$20,000
To support the Family Art Project. The series of weekend workshops provide families the opportunity to create nature-based art projects inspired by craft traditions from around the world.
Women's Studio Workshop, Inc. (on behalf of Grey Art Gallery) (Consortium)
Rosendale, NY
$30,000
To support 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.
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