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Visual Arts: FY2004 Grants
Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.
Challenge America | Creativity | Heritage & Preservation | Services to Arts
Organizations and Artists Panelists
Challenge America: Access to the Arts
apexart curatorial program
New York, NY
$15,000
To support an international artist residency program to promote
cultural exchange. Artists who reside outside of the United States
and have never visited New York City are recommended for the
program by curators, critics, and arts professionals from their
home countries.
Art Mobile of Montana
Dillon, MT
$12,000
To support Art Mobile, a traveling exhibition program featuring
the work of Montana artists. A specially equipped van will travel
throughout the state, providing access to original art works and
art instruction for schools, nursing care centers, correctional
facilities, Native-American reservations, and libraries.
Art Resources Transfer, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,900
To support the Distribution to Underserved Communities Program.
The project will offer books, museum catalogs, 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.
ArtPace, A Foundation for Contemporary Art
(consortium)
San Antonio, TX
$30,000
To support a consortium project of outreach activities designed to
engage children and youth in contemporary art. ArtPace and Gemini
Ink will collaborate to expand a variety of programs that serve the
needs of youths in organizations such as Say Si, an arts center for
children; San Anto, an arts center for west-side San Antonio
youths; and Fox Tech, the city's only technical high school.
ARTScorpsLA
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support the presentation of the Templo Verde Laboratory, a
community public art project by artists Mel Chin and Tricia Ward.
Working with the Temple-Beaudry community, participants will create
a soil remediation/environmental art project on land donated by the
Manley Oil Company, which still operates oil wells in the
neighborhood.
Center for Craft, Creativity and Design
(consortium)
Hendersonville, NC
$15,000
To support a consortium project for the production of a video
documentary on self-taught artists from the rural South. Using
digital video footage recorded for consortium partner Folk Arts
Foundation, director and videographer Patrick Long will create a
documentary suitable for distribution on public television.
Clemson University
Clemson, SC
$25,000
To support documentation of the creation of a nature-based
sculpture by the artist Nils-Udo at the South Carolina Botanical
Garden. The project will include a video for public television
broadcast, a Web site, and a CD-ROM.
Creative Growth, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$35,000
To support Margins and Mainstreams: Outsider and Disability Art
Today. The project will include a series of arts workshops for
adults with disabilities, a visiting artist program, an exhibition
series, an updated media campaign, and a public symposium
accompanied by a catalog.
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts,
Inc.
Wilmington, DE
$20,000
To support a series of community-based artist residencies and a
documentary catalog. The artists will collaborate with community
groups to create work based on ideas and issues relevant to the
participants' lives.
Fairmount Park Art Association
Philadelphia, PA
$35,000
To support Dwelling Place, a public art project by artists Lonnie
Graham, John Stone, and Lorene Cary. With community members and the
large homeless population served by Project H.O.M.E. (Housing,
Opportunities, Medical Care, Employment), the artists will work on
a project to be installed on the former site of a neighborhood
church.
Galeria/Studio 24
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support development and presentation of an online record of
Galeria de la Raza's exhibitions from its inception in 1970. The
project is a major component of Galeria's 35th anniversary,
celebrating its contributions to contemporary Latino art and
culture.
Montana State University
Bozeman, MT
$6,400
To support a visiting artist lecture series titled Contemporary
Approaches to Assemblage. Artists Liza Lou, Nancy Rubins, and
Robert Ebendorf will make presentations.
National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts
(consortium)
Erie, CO
$34,600
To support a consortium project for planning and implementation of
the annual conference of the nation's oldest and largest
professional service organization for the ceramic arts. Centering:
Community, Clay, and Culture will include a series of exhibitions,
critical lectures, panels, and workshop demonstrations in
coordination with Baltimore Clayworks.
Oregon Native American Business and Entrepreneurial
Network
Tigard, OR
$19,500
To support the Artist in Business program to provide technical
assistance and services to artists. The program is targeted to
Native American artists living on reservations in Oregon.
Point Community Development Corporation
Bronx, NY
$30,600
To support the expansion of a visual arts program targeted to
artists 13 years old and older. Building upon current programming
that combines artistic instruction, studio access, and
entrepreneurial opportunities, Point will hire professional artists
to lead the workshops.
Pratt Fine Arts Center
Seattle, WA
$18,000
To support the Master Artist Program and the Northwest Artist
Program, a community education series. Locally and nationally
renowned artists will be featured in workshops for Pratt students,
and free lectures, exhibitions, and receptions will be offered to
the public.
Print Center (on behalf of Philadelphia
Print Collaborative)
Philadelphia, PA
$35,000
To support Printing Philadelphia, a project designed to promote
the art of printmaking to a broad cross section of the public. A
partnership between the academic printmaking community,
neighborhood organizations, schools, and artists, the project will
focus on the art of frottage (or rubbings) and will include
residencies, university coursework, field trips, artist workshops,
exhibitions, and a culminating art-making event.
Richmond Art Center (on behalf of Quilt
of Many Colors)
Richmond, CA
$12,000
To support the Quilt of Many Colors Project, a series of curated
exhibitions installed in the waiting room of Richmond's main public
health facility. The project will promote the value of the arts in
the healing process and provide access to art for approximately
15,000 users of the facility per year.
Sarasota Season of Sculpture, Inc.
Sarasota, FL
$35,000
To support an outdoor sculpture exhibition featuring large-scale
works by international artists. The exhibition, to be held in a
bay-front park, will be curated by a selection committee comprised
of artists Bruce White, Terrence Karpowicz, and Dwight Rose; and
architects Charles Kuykendall and Jill Kaplan.
School of Service - Access Arts
Columbia, MO
$25,000
To support continued development of Access Arts, a program
committed to artistic instruction for people of all ages,
backgrounds, and economic levels. Access Arts activities reach
beyond a 30-mile radius surrounding the Columbia, Mo. area.
Southwestern Illinois College
Belleville, IL
$15,000
To support a consortium project to expand arts programming for
Kids Club, which provides day care services for children of the
students, faculty, and staff of the college. In partnership with
Southwestern Illinois College Foundation, the project will include
artist-led workshops, field trips, exhibitions, and art
projects.
Tenants and Owners Development Corporation (on
behalf of Sixth Street Photography Workshop)
San Francisco, CA
$23,000
To support production, installation, touring, and a catalog for
Stories of the City. The photography exhibit will feature
the work of artists who are homeless.
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
$35,000
To support a traveling exhibition and catalog featuring work by
artist-soldiers from both sides of the Vietnam War. Project
curators Sherry Buchanan and Nam Nguyen, working with Ned
Broderick, Director of the National Vietnam Veteran's Art Museum in
Chicago and Nguyen Toan Thi, Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Fine
Arts Museum, will make selections for the exhibition.
Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts
Newcastle, ME
$18,000
To support expansion of the services of MudMobile, a statewide
traveling ceramics program in a van. The project will include the
development and tour of a collection of ceramic works by Maine
artists.
Wave Hill, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$10,000
To support the Family Art Project. The series of free, weekend
workshops will provide families the opportunity to create
nature-based art projects inspired by craft traditions from around
the world.
Whitworth College
Spokane, WA
$15,000
To support the development of a visiting artist program in
printmaking with a focus on multicultural artists. The college,
through its newly established press, will host artists for print
production, lectures, demonstrations, and public school
presentations.
Young Aspirations/Young Artists, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
$15,000
To support Inner City Threads: Storytelling Quilt, an arts
apprenticeship program for high school youths. Guided by a guest
fiber artist and a YA/YA alumni artist, the youth apprentices will
work throughout the summer to create a mural reflecting the jazz
traditions of New Orleans' historic Treme neighborhood.
Creativity
Archie Bray Foundation
Helena, MT
$10,000
To support a visiting artist residency program. A free public
exhibition will feature representative work by participating
artists; public programs and demonstrations will complement the
residencies.
Art Papers, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$23,000
To support reviews of contemporary artists' work in the bi-monthly
journal Art Papers. The reviews section includes an average
of 32 articles by writers, many of whom will be publishing for the
first time.
Art Re Grup, Inc. (THE LAB)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support professional artists fees for Inside of Inside, a
collaborative exhibition of over 100 works by women artists
exploring the concept of home. Curated by Big Ballyhoo, a
collective of feminist artists, the project will be presented
during the LAB's 20th anniversary season.
ArtLies
Houston, TX
$15,000
To support the reviews section of ArtLies, a quarterly
publication that covers the visual arts in Texas. ArtLies
seeks to expand its news coverage and critical dialogue.
ArtPace, A Foundation for Contemporary Art
San Antonio, TX
$40,000
To support residencies for artists to create new work.
Participating artists will be provided with housing, workspace,
technical assistance, transportation costs, and a monthly stipend
for a two month residency.
Artspace, Inc.
New Haven, CT
$23,000
To support Factory Direct: New Haven, a residency program that
enables artists to work directly with manufacturers, industries,
and businesses. Artists will be in residence at the companies for
two- or three-weeks, and an exhibition and catalogue will be
produced to document their experiences.
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
Omaha, NE
$40,000
To support residencies for artists to create new work.
Participating artists will be provided with housing, workspace,
technical assistance, and a monthly stipend for a three-month
residency.
Berkeley Art Center Association
Berkeley, CA
$18,000
To support Sacred Spaces, an exhibition of installations and
sculpture examining the notion of sacred public spaces in an urban
setting. Terri Cohn, critic, writer, and art historian, will curate
the project.
Big Orbit Gallery, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$15,000
To support residencies resulting in site-specific installations for
artists from the Northeast and Mid Atlantic states. Artists will be
selected from an open call by a committee of artists and curators
from the western New York region.
Bronx Council on the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Longwood Arts
Project)
Bronx, NY
$30,000
To support cyberspace residencies that enable artists to work with
advanced computer technology. An exhibition of completed works will
be hosted on Longwood's online cyber gallery. Public programs and
demonstrations will complement the residencies.
CEC ArtsLink, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support an exhibition and catalogue featuring work by
participants in the ArtsLink Program. The public-private
partnership enables U.S. artists to undertake exchanges with other
artists in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe, and Eurasia.
Center for Women & Their Work
Austin, TX
$27,000
To support a series of solo exhibitions for young and emerging
women artists of Texas. The exhibitions will be accompanied by
catalogues, educational programs, and outreach activities.
Children's Hospital Foundation at Weschester Medical
Center
Valhalla, NY
$15,000
To support the commission of artist Ming Fay to create a garden for
a new pediatric hospital. Ming Fay's rooftop garden will serve as
the centerpiece for the new Maria Fareri Children's Hospital.
College Art Association of America, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the commission of offset print projects by contemporary
artists in Art Journal. Designed to complement the mission
of the journal, the project will integrate works of art with
intellectual critique to develop creative discourse.
Creative Time, Inc.
New York, NY
$29,000
To support the Coney Island Sign Painting Project featuring the
work of contemporary artists and traditional sign painters led by
project director and artist Stephen Powers. Artists will create
hand painted and sculpted signs for local rides, attractions, and
businesses.
Delta Axis, Inc.
Memphis, TN
$20,000
To support the presentation of a series of solo exhibitions in the
Power House, a circa 1914 renovated historic building. The
exhibitions, shown in the 4,700 square-foot brick and glass
structure, will feature the work of Kara Walker, Terri Jones, Brad
Kalhamer, and Frances Alys.
Dieu Donné Papermill, Inc.
New York, NY
$18,000
To support Dieu Donné Lab Grant, a residency program for mid-career
artists who have never worked in papermaking. The grant includes a
stipend, studio access for six months, materials, and 12 days of
instruction.
En Foco, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$23,000
To support production of several issues of Nueva Luz, a
bilingual photographic journal. Each issue will feature the work of
emerging photographers of color, an essay by a guest critic/editor,
and a comprehensive listing of career opportunities and other
resources for photographers.
Exit Art/The First World, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the exhibition In Medias Res. The exhibition will
examine how new models of production and distribution, derived from
mass media and new technologies, are changing the practice of
artmaking.
FORECAST Public Artworks
St. Paul, MN
$17,000
To support the publication Public Art Review. The journal
will detail trends and new projects in the public art field.
Fotofest, Inc.
Houston, TX
$48,000
To support FotoFest 2004, a biennial photographic festival that
includes exhibitions, new media art events, artist portfolio
review, and a catalogue. FotoFest works with more than 60
organizations to present the month-long event that attracts more
than 225,000 visitors worldwide.
Friends of the Schindler House
(on behalf of MAK Center for Art and Architecture Los Angeles)
$18,000
West Hollywood, CA
To support an exhibition and catalogue on the French conceptual
artist Yves Klein. Yves Klein: Air Architecture will
focus on his architectural designs, a lesser known aspect of the
artist's work.
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Inc.
Houston, TX
$20,000
To support a residency program for craft artists. Participating
artists who work in traditional craft media (wood, fiber, metal,
clay, and glass), or through processes traditionally thought of as
craft, are eligible to apply through an open call process.
Installation Gallery
San Diego, CA
$20,000
To support the commission of temporary outdoor works for the San
Diego/Tijuana region's inSITE exhibition. Participating artists
will be selected by a team of critics and curators that will
include Osvaldo Sanchez, Sally Yard, and Adriano Pedrosa.
International Print Center New York
New York, NY
$17,000
To support the New Prints Program, a series of exhibitions designed
to bring printmaking to a wider audience. A selection committee
will jury submissions solicited in an open call to small community
based workshops, university and regional presses, and artists who
are not affiliated with a gallery.
International Sculpture Center, Inc.
Hamilton, NJ
$22,000
To support a series of articles and reviews on emerging and
under-recognized artists for Sculpture magazine. Articles
solicited will focus on work of current artists, events, and public
art projects.
Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Inc.
Jamaica, NY
$10,000
To support the exhibition Live Pictures: the Digital World
Animates Contemporary Art and accompanying catalogue. Curated
by Heng-Gil Han, the exhibition will feature approximately 15 new
media artists.
Light Work Visual Studies, Inc.
Syracuse, NY
$37,000
To support a residency program for artists and the publication of
their work in Contact Sheet - The Light Work Annual.
Participating artists' work will also be made available on Light
Work's online database, an ever-expanding collection of images,
essays, and biographical information.
McColl Center for Visual Art
Charlotte, NC
$25,000
To support residencies for artists. Participating artists will be
provided with housing, workspace, technical assistance,
transportation costs, a materials budget, and a monthly stipend for
a three month residency.
Montalvo Association
Saratoga, CA
$12,000
To support the installation of indoor and outdoor works by the
artist Chris Drury. Using found, natural materials, the artist will
work with community volunteers during a three-week residency to
realize the works.
Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino
San Jose, CA
$12,000
To support the commission of a site-specific installation and
production of a catalogue by the artists collective Torolab
entitled Tijuana, San Jose, and other Bordertown Dilemmas.
Torolab is a group of artists, architects, designers, writers,
filmmakers, and musicians all living and working in Tijuana.
Oregon Center for the Photographic (Blue Sky Gallery)
Portland, OR
$15,000
To support a series of publications documenting the exhibition of
individual photographers' work at Blue Sky Gallery. The
publications will include both catalogues and full monographs on
selected artists.
Penland School of Crafts, Inc.
Penland, NC
$15,000
To support a working retreat for past instructors in conjunction
with the school's 75th anniversary celebration. Participating
artists will receive a materials stipend, an honorarium, 24-hour
access to the studios, housing, transportation assistance, meals,
and a technical assistant for the one-week residency period.
Pilchuck Glass School
Seattle, WA
$25,000
To support a summer artist residency program. Artists will be
provided with time, resources, facilities, and technical assistance
on Pilchuck's campus.
Project Row Houses
Houston, TX
$55,500
To support a residency program to commission installations in
several shotgun-style row houses. To commemorate Project Row
House's 10th anniversary, local and national artists will transform
the houses into community workshops for streetscape and
environmental enhancements.
Project X Foundation for Art and Criticism
Santa Monica, CA
$7,500
To support the reviews section of X-Tra, a quarterly publication
that covers the visual arts. Published since 1997, X-Tra is
distributed free to galleries, museums, and art schools throughout
the Los Angeles area and to subscribers across the country.
Public Art Fund Inc.
New York, NY
$28,000
To support In the Public Realm, an opportunity for emerging artists
to develop temporary art projects in an urban context. Projects
will be documented in a series of publications.
Real Art Ways, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$23,000
To support an exhibition series featuring the work of emerging
artists in New York state and New England. A jury of artists and
curators will select the recipients of the solo exhibitions.
Rhizome Communications, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support a commissioning project for new media artists. Artists
will be invited to submit proposals for the creation of
non-commerical new media art games - network-distributed art
projects that take the form of computer games.
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Piscataway, NJ
$15,000
To support printmaking opportunities for artists who have not
worked with the medium. The project includes an honorarium, studio
access for two weeks, materials, housing and transportation costs,
and access to the facility's master printer and support staff.
Santa Fe Art Institute
Santa Fe, NM
$25,000
To support residencies for artists to create new work or complete
major projects. Participating artists will be provided with
housing, workspace, and technical assistance for one-to three-month
residencies.
Santa Fe Community College
Santa Fe, NM
$18,000
To support a series of lectures to examine contemporary painting.
Guest artists will be invited to deliver slide lectures and take
questions about their work at partner institutions.
Sculpture Center, Inc.
Long Island City, NY
$15,000
To support In Practice, an exhibition series for under-recognized
sculptors to create new work. Selected from an open call by a
committee of artists and curators, participants will be provided
with an honorarium and fees for materials and production.
Sculpture Space, Inc.
Utica, NY
$15,000
To support an artist residency program for sculptors. Artists from
outside New York state will be given the opportunity to create new
work during two-month residencies at a former steam engine and
boilerworks plant.
Self-Help Graphics & Art, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
To support Reconfiguring the Future: Chicano Art in Postmodern
Aztlan. The project will provide an opportunity for artists to
create new work in a printmaking studio.
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Inc.
New York, NY
$14,000
To support a residency program for emerging artists. Artists will
be provided with a private studio, full room and board, and weekly
private and group critiques by a faculty of leading professional
artists.
Smack Mellon Studios, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
To support a program to provide artists with access to studio
space, equipment, and technical support in response to the current
housing/studio crisis in New York City. Six artists will be
selected by a panel of artists, curators, and critics for residency
periods of one year, that include an honorarium.
Socrates Sculpture Park, Inc.
Long Island City, NY
$40,000
To support a residency and exhibition opportunity for sculptors to
realize large-scale work. Free to the public, the exhibition
attracts more than 40,000 local and international visitors per year
who watch the artists at work and see how projects are
developed.
SPACES
Cleveland, OH
$35,000
To support the World Artists Program, a residency opportunity for
national and international artists to create new work.
Participating artists will be provided with studio space, an
honorarium, a living stipend, transportation expenses, and a
materials budget.
University Cultural Center Association (on behalf of Art on
the Move)
Detroit, MI
$21,000
To support temporary public art installations and related
programming. The project will invite established artists and
emerging, college-level artists to create installations in several
locations including the Detroit Institute of Arts.
University of New Mexico Main Campus
Albuquerque, NM
$30,000
To support a residency program, exhibition, and catalogue targeted
to Native American artists who have not had access to printmaking
facilities and methods. The project includes a stipend, studio
access for two weeks, materials, transportation funds, and
instruction from and collaboration with a master printer.
University of Puerto Rico
San Juan, PR
$30,000
To support a residency and commissioning opportunity for
international sculptors. To commemorate its 100th anniversary, the
university will sponsor the creation of sculptures for sites at the
different campuses of the public university system.
Visual Arts Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support touring of Vectors: Digital Art of Our Time. The
exhibition includes seminal and new works of digital art including
prints, Internet art, computer animation, interactive
installations, CD ROMs, digital audio, and music.
Visual Studies Workshop, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$17,000
To support a residency program in photography, bookmaking, digital
imaging, digital video, and small format film and video.
Participating artists will receive a stipend, travel funds, use of
the facilities, training, and housing for one-month
residencies.
Wheaton Village, Inc.
Millville, NJ
$15,000
To support residencies for glass artists to create new work at the
Creative Glass Center of America. The center will provide housing,
a monthly stipend, supplies, materials, and 24-hour access to the
Wheaton Glass Factory.
Women's Studio Workshop, Inc.
Rosendale, NY
$12,000
To support a residency opportunity for the artist Jill Parisi at a
print and papermaking facility. The artist will be provided with a
stipend, housing, materials allowance, and travel for a six-week
residency.
Heritage & Preservation
American Society for Psychical Research,
Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support planning for the exhibition Phantom Images:
Photography and Psychical Research in America from 1860 until
Today. The project will examine early experimentation in the
darkroom which resulted in the manipulation of images by combining
two or more negatives.
American Tapestry Alliance
San Jose, CA
$5,000
To support the development and touring of a biennial exhibition
and catalog of contemporary tapestry. The exhibition will include
tapestry works from around the world and will travel to venues
within the United States.
Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
$16,000
To support an exhibition and catalog featuring the Cantonese art
form of Shiwan ceramics. Curated by So Kam Ng, Professor of Asian
Art History at San Francisco State University, the project is a
collaboration between Asian and U.S. scholars.
Exit Art/The First World, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$35,000
To support a consortium project with Franklin Furnace to conserve,
digitize, and make accessible online the archival material of Exit
Art. Founded in 1982, Exit Art has presented contemporary work by
as many as 1,600 artists in more than 200 exhibitions.
Fox Theater
Spokane, WA
$39,000
To support restoration and conservation of the original fire
curtain and lobby murals of the FoxTheater. Designed in 1931 and
saved by the Spokane community from demolition in 2000, the art
deco theater presents cultural programming for the region.
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support restoration and reinstallation of a WPA mural painted
in 1933 by Bernard Zakheim. Once restored, the mural will be
reinstalled at the Jewish Community Center's new
135,000-square-foot facility.
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$24,000
To support an archival project to preserve the holdings of Los
Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Inc. (LACE). The archival
holdings include thousands of slides, catalogs, correspondence,
invitations, posters, and a vast video collection.
Maryland Art Place, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$20,000
To support a curatorial fellowship for an archival project to
document the holdings and history of Maryland Art Place (MAP).
Founded in 1980, MAP's archival holdings include thousands of
slides, catalogs, correspondence, invitations, posters, and
videos.
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
San Francisco, CA
$17,000
To support exhibitions, catalogs, and related programming
featuring the work of contemporary Latino artists. Exhibitions will
be curated by director Patricia Rodriguez and guest curators.
New Town Pasadena Foundation (on behalf of
Village Green Owners Association)
Altadena, CA
$17,000
To support restoration of a mural painted in 1942 by Rico Lebrun.
The mural restoration is part of a larger rehabilitation project at
Village Green, a 68-acre National Historic Landmark.
Photography Institute
New York, NY
$17,000
To support the National Graduate Seminar (NGS) Archive Project. An
annual forum for photographers, scholars, historians, and critics,
the project will allow for the transfer of more than 800 video and
audio tapes and texts created since the Institute's inception in
1991.
Simpson College
Indianola, IA
$10,000
To support an archival project for the photography of Don Berry,
an American photographer who documented a rural Iowa county between
1920 and 1970. The collection was given to Simpson College in 1997
and is in serious disarray.
Total Heritage & Preservation grants: 197
Total Heritage & Preservation dollars: $4,238,000
Services to Arts Organizations and Artists
Aljira, Inc.
Newark, NJ
$30,000
To support Emerge, a professional development fellowship for
artists. The program seeks to provide advice from professional
artists to the participants and to assist with networking
opportunities.
Chicago Artists' Coalition
Chicago, IL
$30,000
To support a communications upgrade to improve the quality, impact,
and reach of artists services. As the only organization in the
Midwest providing comprehensive services to 2,200 artists and 125
arts organizations, the project will provide new electronic skills
and tools to communicate with members.
Dieu Donné Papermill, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support production and distribution of a report documenting the
findings of the New York State Workspace Consortium. The consortium
is a regional partnership of organizations that explored strategies
for building organizational capacity.
Glass Art Society, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$20,000
To support production of the Glass Art Society Journal,
documenting the events, exhibitions, and proceedings of the
organization's annual conference to be held in New Orleans. The
journal is edited by Suzanne Frantz, a Fulbright Scholar and former
curator of 20th century glass at the Corning Museum.
Printed Matter, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support continued development of a Web-based catalogue raisonne
documenting the history of artists books. While Printed Matter has
been compiling a resource since its inception in 1976, new
technologies have presented opportunities to expand the audience
for the genre.
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