2010 Grant Awards: Access to Artistic Excellence

[ March 12, 2009 deadline ]

Artists Communities | Dance | Design | Folk & Traditional Arts | Literature
Local Arts Agencies | Media Arts | Museums | Music | Musical Theater
Opera | Presenting | Theater | Visual Arts

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

Museum

Akron Art Museum
Akron, OH
$25,000
To support the exhibition Pattern ID, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will present work by contemporary artists who have adopted pattern and dress as visual connectors between themselves, their histories, and their audiences.

Art Education for the Blind, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
To support the Multi-site Museum Programmatic Accessibility Project. Focused on art museums and historic houses of all sizes, the project aims to support recent landmark accessibility legislation with case studies and practical tools.

Asia Society
New York, NY
$75,000
To support the touring exhibition Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will explore the impact of Buddhist pilgrimage practices and traditions on Asian artistic production.

Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco (aka Asian Art Museum of San Francisco)
San Francisco, CA
$60,000
To support the touring exhibition Shanghai: 1850 to Present, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. As Shanghai's sister city, San Francisco will present the exhibition to coincide with Shanghai's 2010 World Expo.

Birmingham Museum of Art
Birmingham, AL
$25,000
To support a touring exhibition of Vietnamese ceramics, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will consist of works drawn exclusively from the museum's world-class collection.

Boise Art Museum, Inc.
Boise, ID
$20,000
To support the 2010 Idaho Triennial exhibition with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The Triennial is a juried exhibition bringing together works of art created by a broad selection of artists living and working in Idaho.

Bronx Museum of the Arts (Consortium)
Bronx, NY
$40,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of Chilean-born, New York-based artist Juan Downey (1940-1993), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition is being co-organized with the List Visual Arts Center at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Sciences (aka Brooklyn Museum)
Brooklyn, NY
$75,000
To support the touring exhibition Before the Fall: Art of the American Twenties, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The Brooklyn Museum exhibition will aim to provide a holistic view of American art during the period, examining the era's dominant realist aesthetic.

Carnegie Institute (on behalf of Warhol Museum)
Pittsburgh, PA
$25,000
To support the exhibition Twisted Pair: Marcel Duchamp/Andy Warhol, with accompanying catalogue. The exhibition at the Warhol Museum will present the shared interests of two of the most important and influential artists of the 20th century, Duchamp (1887-1968) and Warhol (1928-1987).

Carnegie Institute (on behalf of Museum of Art) (Consortium)
Pittsburgh, PA
$50,000
To support the touring exhibition Displaying the World: Decorative Arts at World's Fairs 1851-1939, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The project is a collaboration between the Carnegie Museum of Art and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri.

Center for Documentary Arts
Salt Lake City, UT
$50,000
To support the touring exhibition This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition examines the works of men and women who joined the movement and documented it from within.

China Institute in America, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the exhibition, Confucius, with accompanying education programs. The exhibition is being organized in collaboration with the Shandong Provincial Museum and the Qufu Confucius Museum in China.

Cincinnati Museum Center
Cincinnati, OH
$20,000
To support the conservation of historic Art Deco murals in the Losantiville Dining Room in Cincinnati's Union Terminal. Home to the Cincinnati Museum Center, the terminal is scheduled for extensive, overall renovations.

College of the Holy Cross
Worcester, MA
$25,000
To support the touring exhibition Pilgrimage and Faith: Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam, with accompanying education programs. The Cantor Gallery exhibition will explore the commonalities of religious pilgrimage shared by these three global religions and the role the arts play in this shared tradition.

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Houston, TX
$50,000
To support the touring exhibition Benjamin Patterson: Born in the State of FLUX/us with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Patterson (b. 1934), was the only African American founding member of the 1960's art movement known as Fluxus.

Contemporary Museum
Honolulu, HI
$20,000
To support an artist-in-residence project with contemporary artist Ernesto Pujol (b. 1957). Pujol is a Cuban-born, New York-based conceptual artist with a multimedia/interdisciplinary art practice.

Crocker Art Museum Association
Sacramento, CA
$25,000
To support the touring exhibition A Pioneering Collection: Master Drawings from the Crocker Art Museum. The Crocker's collection includes works long known to scholars but that have not previously been available to American audiences.

Dia Center for the Arts (aka Dia Art Foundation)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support a touring retrospective exhibition of the work of German artist Blinky Palermo (1943-1977). The exhibition is organized with the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and will be presented jointly at both institutions.

Drawing Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the touring exhibition Leon Golub: Live + Die Like a Lion, with accompanying catalogue. This will be the first museum exhibition to focus on Golub's (1922-2004) late drawings from 2000 to 2004.

Exploratorium
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
To support the New Frontiers project. The project consists of artist research residencies at the Exploratorium's future home.

Fabric Workshop and Museum, 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 experimental ways.

Independent Curators International
New York, NY
$30,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American artist Martha Wilson (b. 1947), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Titled Staging the Self, the exhibition is being co-organized with Canada's Dalhousie Art Gallery at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

International Center of Photography (Consortium)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the touring exhibition Jasper, Texas, an exhibition of the work of African American photographer Alonzo Jordan (1903-1984), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The project is a collaboration between ICP and Documentary Arts, Inc. in Dallas, Texas.

International Foundation for Art Research, Inc. (aka IFAR)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support publication of the IFAR Journal. The quarterly publication provides current information on issues of authenticity, ownership, theft, looting, and other scholarly and ethical issues concerning art objects.

Japan Society, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the exhibition Bye, Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will present work by younger artists that departs from the prevailing semi-ironic, child-like narratives of the so called "Hello Kitty" aesthetic of recent years.

Jewish Museum
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the touring exhibition Conjuring Houdini, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Harry Houdini (1874-1926) was a world-renowned magician and escape artist who emerged from a Jewish Hungarian immigrant family in Appleton, Wisconsin, to create a stunningly influential career as an entertainer.

Long Beach Museum of Art Foundation (Consortium)
Long Beach, CA
$25,000
To support the exhibition Exchange and Evolution: World Wide Video/Long Beach, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition is a project with the University Art Museum at California State University, Long Beach.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (on behalf of List Visual Arts Center)
Cambridge, MA
$25,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of Bahamian-born, New York-based artist Tavares Strachan (b. 1979), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The List Visual Arts Center exhibition will include newly commissioned and existing works from the artist's current ongoing series titled The Orthostatic Tolerance, which deals with sea and space exploration.

Mattress Factory, Ltd.
Pittsburgh, PA
$50,000
To support a touring exhibition of contemporary Cuban art, with accompanying education programs. The project is a partnership between the Mattress Factory and the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Latin American Studies.

Menil Foundation, Inc. (aka The Menil Collection)
Houston, TX
$50,000
To support the touring exhibition Ancestors of the Lake: Art from Lake Sentani and Humboldt Bay, with accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will highlight a group of figurative sculptures collected in New Guinea in the early 20th century.

Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the exhibition From Xanadu to Dadu--The World of Khubilai Khan, with accompanying education programs. The exhibition centers on the most significant part of the Mongol empire, encompassing China and Mongolia from 1215 to the end of the Yuan dynasty in 1368.

Mexic-Arte (aka Mexic-Arte Museum)
Austin, TX
$25,000
To support the exhibition Young Latino Artists In Retrospect. The exhibition will feature current work by artists who have participated in this annual exhibition over the years.

Morgan State University (on behalf of James E. Lewis Museum of Art)
Baltimore, MD
$25,000
To support the exhibition William H. Johnson: An American Modern, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The James E. Lewis Museum of Art exhibition will trace Johnson's (1901-1970) career as an African American artist from his arrival in New York City in 1918 to his later work in the 1950s.

Museum Associates (aka Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
Los Angeles, CA
$75,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American artist David Smith (1906-65), with accompanying education programs. Cubes and Anarchy: Geometry in David Smith, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art exhibition will explore the role played by geometric shape in the artist's oeuvre.

Museum for African Art
Long Island City, NY
$50,000
To support the touring exhibition Dogon Now: Masks in Motion, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will present and interpret the evolution of Dogon (Mali) mask dancers and sculpture that have, over the years, assimilated modernity into traditional forms.

Museum for Contemporary Arts, Inc. (aka Contemporary Museum)
Baltimore, MD
$50,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of the American artists Bradley McCallum (b. 1966) and Jacquelin Tarry, (b. 1963), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The project includes a multi-venue exhibition and a Baltimore-based, community-engaged commission.

Museum of Biblical Art
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the exhibition An Uneasy Communion: Jews, Christians, and the Altarpieces of Medieval Aragon, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will explore the collaboration of Jewish and Christian artists who created art for both the Catholic church and the Jewish community.

Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$20,000
To support the Working Artists Project. The project provides established Georgia artists with a one-year residency including a stipend, a studio assistant, an exhibition, and a full-color catalogue.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (on behalf of Glassel School of Art)
Houston, TX
$40,000
To support the Core Residency Program. The program provides one- and two-year residencies for artists and art scholars who have completed their studies and are in the early stages of their professional careers.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Houston, TX
$75,000
To support an exhibition of the work of American artist Alice Neel (1900-1984), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will trace the evolution of Neel's style and examine the themes she revisited throughout her career.

National Museum of Mexican Art
Chicago, IL
$60,000
To support the touring exhibition Rastros y Crónicas: The Women of Juárez, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition is an artistic response to the violence afflicting women and girls in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez.

Nevada Museum of Art, Inc.
Reno, NV
$25,000
To support the touring exhibition The Altered Landscape: A Photographic Continuum, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will explore the human impact on the natural environment and landscape.

New Orleans Museum of Art
New Orleans, LA
$20,000
To support the exhibition Ancestors and Descendants: Ancient Southwestern America at the Dawn of the 20th Century, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will consist of selections from the Pepper Native American Archive at Tulane University's Middle America Research Institute.

Orange County Museum of Art
Newport Beach, CA
$75,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American artist Richard Diebenkorn (b. 1922), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will focus on the artist's Ocean Park Series.

Peabody Essex Museum, Inc.
Salem, MA
$75,000
To support the touring exhibition The Emperor's Private Paradise. The exhibition will consist of works drawn from the Chinese Emperor Qianlong's (1737-1796) retirement garden.

Queens Museum of Art
Queens, NY
$25,000
To support the Works Progress project. Works Progress is a group of commissions by artists who take inspiration for their work from their environment and their time.

Regents of the University of California at Los Angeles (on behalf of Hammer Museum)
Los Angeles, CA
$75,000
To support the touring exhibition Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Now Dig This! is the Hammer Museum's culmination of a two-year research project presenting a comprehensive survey of the work of African American artists during the period.

Research Foundation of State University of New York (on behalf of Neuberger Museum of Art)
Albany, NY
$25,000
To support the touring exhibition The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1990, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The Neuberger Museum of Art exhibition presents a reassessment of the art movement known as appropriation from a feminist perspective.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
To support the presentation of the touring exhibition Matisse, Picasso, and the Stein Family Collections, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will illuminate the Stein Family's role in the early 20th-century revolution in the visual arts through both their patronage and the intellectual and artistic stimulus of their salons.

SITE Santa Fe
Santa Fe, NM
$50,000
To support the 8th International Biennial: The Dissolve, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will examine the emergence of a new quality in video art: its integration of other media.

Smith College (on behalf of Museum of Art)
Northampton, MA
$25,000
To support the commissioning of a site-specific installation piece by Cuban-born, Boston-based artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons (b. 1959). Titled Sugar, the new work will explore the artist's family and ancestral ties to the sugar industry in Cuba.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (aka Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum)
New York, NY
$75,000
To support the exhibition Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918-1936, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition explores the interwar period when artists turned from pre-war experimentalism to a heroic embrace of the human figure, objective values, and rational organization.

Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
$75,000
To support the exhibition Picasso/Degas, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition is being organized in association with the Museu Picasso in Barcelona.

Studio Museum in Harlem, Inc.
New York, NY
$65,000
To support the Artist-in-Residence Program. Since its founding in 1968, the program has helped launch the careers of more than 100 artists of African descent.

University of Chicago (on behalf of Smart Museum of Art)
Chicago, IL
$50,000
To support the touring exhibition Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will be organized through a partnership between the Smart Museum and the Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler Galleries.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (on behalf of Ackland Art Museum)
Chapel Hill, NC
$20,000
To support the Ackland Art Museum exhibition Thornton Dial: Thoughts on Paper (1990-1991), with accompanying catalogue, education programs, and a symposium. An African American artist, Dial (b. 1928) has only recently turned to drawing as a mode of expression.

University of South Florida (on behalf of Contemporary Art Museum)
Tampa, FL
$25,000
To support a touring exhibition by the Contemporary Art Museum of the work of contemporary American artist Trenton Doyle Hancock (b. 1974), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Hancock is known for his ever-evolving, absurdist narratives created in a wide variety of media.

University of Utah (on behalf of Utah Museum of Natural History)
Salt Lake City, UT
$65,000
To support the commissioning of a site-specific, multimedia installation by Dutch artist Simon Heijdens (b. 1978). The work will be designed specifically for the Utah Museum of Natural History's new building which will open in early 2011.

National Endowment for the Arts · an independent federal agency
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