NEA: FY 2005 Museums Grants


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Museums: FY2005 Grants

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

Access to Artistic Excellence | Access to Artistic Excellence II
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Access to Artistic Excellence

ACCESS (Arab Community Center for Economic & Social Services)
Dearborn, MI
$45,000
To support the exhibition Investigating Freedom: Voices of the Arab American Diaspora, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will explore themes of freedom, exile and personal identity withing Arab-American artistic forms.

Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo Fine Arts Academy) (consortium)
Buffalo, NY
$50,000
To support a consortium-based exhibition titled The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Organized in collaboration with the University at Buffalo Art Galleries, this is the largest exhibition of contemporary Chinese art outside of China.

Albuquerque Museum Foundation (on behalf of Albuquerque Museum of Art)
Albuquerque, NM
$30,000
To support the production of a bilingual catalogue to accompany the exhibition The Rebirth of Spanish Art: Cosmopolitan Painting from Fortuny to Picasso. The project will be carried out in conjunction with the Meadows Museum at Sourthern Methodist University in Dallas.

American Folk Art Museum
New York, NY
$30,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of Mexican artist Martin Ramirez (1895-1963), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will explore the biographical, historical, and cultural influences in the artists's work, and his contributions to the field of self-taught art.

Asia Society
New York, NY
$30,000
To support a touring exhibition of recent art from India with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will be historically important for its scope and size and will place the art of internationally recognized contemporary artists alongside those of India's most innovative younger artists.

Buffalo Bill Historical Center (Buffalo Bill Memorial Association)
Cody, WY
$45,000
To support a touring retrospective exhibition of the work of William Ranney (1813-1857), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Ranney's paintings depicted the American West in its expansionist period.

College of the Holy Cross (consortium)
Worcester, MA
$25,000
To support a consortium project, the exhibition Hope and Healing: Painting in a Time of Plague, 1500-1800, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Organized in collaboration with the Worcester Art Museum and Clark University, in Worcester, MA, the exhibition will illuminate art that expressed the major aesthetic and social concerns in Renaissance and Baroque Italy.

Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
Colorado Springs, CO
$15,000
To support an exhibition of the work of contemporary African American artist Floyd Tunson with accompanying catalogue and education programs. A native of Denver, Tunson's eclectic body of work includes photography, printmaking, drawing, painting, and scuplture.

Dahesh Museum of Art (consortium)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support a consortium project, the exhibition Gods and Mortals: Homeric Subjects in the Collections of the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The project is in collaboration with the Princeton University Art Museum.

Dartmouth College (on behalf of Hood Museum of Art)
Hanover, NH
$20,000
To support the planning of an exhibition of the work of late 19th-century French and British artists often described as "Academic" and "Victorian." The exhibition is titled The Currency of Sculpture from Jean-Leon Gerome to Lawrence Alma-Tadema.

Detroit Institute of Arts
Detroit, MI
$30,000
To support the touring exhibition Power and Parody: The European Through African Eyes, 1500-Present, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will examine and document 500 years of cultural and political interaction between Africans and Europeans.

Drawing Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the touring exhibition Eva Hesse: Studies and Drawings, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will focus on Hesse's (1936-1970) crossover between drawing, painting, and sculpture during her short but very influential career.

Explorit Science Center
Davis, CA
$20,000
To support the commissioning of a work of art by American artist Chris Daubert at the entry way to the Center's new building. The entrance will be designed, in collaboration with the architects, to engage children in the interaction between art, design, and science.

Fabric Workshop, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
To support an artist-in-residence program. Each artist will create new work using innovative fabrics, materials, and construction techniques in experimental ways.

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums)
San Francisco, CA
$100,000
To support the touring exhibtion Daughter of Re: Hatshepsut, King of Egypt, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition, organized in collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will highlight the art created during the reign of the female pharaoh Hatshepsut, who ruled circa 1479-1468 B.C.

Frick Collection
New York, NY
$50,000
To support an exhibition of portraits by Flemish artist Hans Memling, with accompanying catalogue and public lectures. This will be the first exhibition devoted exclusively to Memling's portraits, organized in conjunction with the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid and the Groeningemuseum in Bruges.

Friends of the Davenport Museum of Art (consortium)
Davenport, IA
$70,000
To support a consortium project, the exhibition titled The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915-1935, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The Davenport Museum is collaborating with the Tacoma, WA, Museum to present the work of early modernist American artists whose work is rarely seen in the host cities.

HUC Skirball Cultural Center
Los Angeles, CA
$45,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of German artist Max Liebermann, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Liebermann was celebrated as the leader of German Impressionism and the acknowledged head of the Berlin art community from the 1890s to 1932.

International Center of Photography
New York, NY
$75,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American photographer Robert Capa with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Hungarian born Capa is widely considered to be the most important war photographer of the past century.

Iowa State University (on behalf of Brunnier Museum of Art)
Ames, IA
$15,000
To support the exhibition titled When Tillage Begins, Other Arts Follow: The Dawn of a Campus Mural Tradition, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The project is based on the work by renowned American artist Grant Wood, whose work is prominently displayed on the University campus.

Japan Society, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support a consortium project, an exhibition and public art event titled Cool Japan: Contemporary Japanese Popular Culture, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition, organized in collaboration with New York's Public Art Fund, explores Otaku, a youthful culture attracted to animation and video in the media.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Museum Associates)
Los Angeles, CA
$75,000
To support the touring exhibition Lords of Creation: The Origins of Sacred Maya Kingship, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition is the first to investigate the emergence of divine kingship among the ancient Maya and examine the central role that kings played in Mayan society and art.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (on behalf of List Visual Arts Center)
Cambridge, MA
$25,000
To support a touring exhibition titled TeknoSensorium, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition of work by contemporary artists will explore the impact of new technologies on human senses.

Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY
$100,000
To support the exhibition Prague, The Crown of Bohemia, 1347-1437, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. This will be the first international exhibition to trace the emergence of Prague as one of the premier artistic capitals of Europe, organized in collaboration with the Prague Castle Administration.

Milwaukee Art Museum, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$25,000
To support a touring exhibition titled Sleight of Hand: Virtuosity and Transformation in Art Today, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition explores the role of craftsmanship in contemporary art.

MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles)
Los Angeles, CA
$70,000
To support the touring exhibition Visual Music: 1905-2005, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will trace the influence of music on the visual arts from early abstraction through experimental film to contemporary installation art.

Museum of Arts and Design (American Craft Museum)
New York, NY
$70,000
To support the research and planning for a touring exhibition and catalogue titled The Studio Craft Movement 1945-1965: A Community Emerges. This will be the fourth in a seven-part series, The Centenary Project, the first comprehensive history of 20th-century American craft.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Houston, TX
$70,000
To support the touring exhibition The Modern West: American Landscapes, 1890-1950, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will explore the role of the American West in the development of American modernist art.

Museum Trustee Association
Washington, DC
$25,000
To support MTA's national conference Assembly 2005. To be held in Philadelphia, the conference will enable participants to continue their ongoing work in furthering best practices in American and international museum governance.

National Hispanic Cultural Center of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM
$20,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of Los Angeles-based, contemporary American artist Charles "Chaz" Bojorquez, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will be the first major presentation of the artist's graffiti-influenced paintings.

New York State Historical Association
Cooperstown, NY
$25,000
To support the touring exhibition Grandmother to the Nation: Grandma Moses and the American Century, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will offer new critical perspectives on Moses, placing her work in the context of America's transformation through the Depression and World War II to the national prosperity of the '50s.

Northeast Document Conservation Center (consortium)
Andover, MA
$30,000
To support a consortium project to provide training in disaster planning for museums in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. The project will be carried out in conjunction with the Vermont Museum and Gallery Alliance.

Oberlin College (on behalf of Allen Memorial Art Museum)
Oberlin, OH
$45,000
To support the exhibition The Splendor of Ruins in French Landscape Painting, 1630-1800, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will explore various interpretations of classical architectural ruins as envisaged by French painters of the 17th and 18th centuries.

Orange County Museum of Art
Newport Beach, CA
$35,000
To support a touring retrospective exhibition of work by American artist Mary Heilman, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Heilman has been a pioneer in American visual arts, infusing abstract painting with influences from popular culture and craft traditions.

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Inc. (consortium)
Long Island City, NY
$35,000
To support a consortium prject, the exhibition Greater New York II, with accompanying catalogue. The exhibition, organized in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art, will showcase over 140 emerging New York-based artists working in a wide range of media.

Parrish Art Museum, Inc.
Southampton, NY
$25,000
To support an exhibition of the work of artist/architect Norman Jaffe, with accompanying catalogue. During a 30-year career, Jaffe built 600 projects and received four Architectural Records awards and was exhibited nationally by the Museum of Modern Art and the Smithsonian.

Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, PA
$60,000
To support the presentation of an exhibition of work by Spanish Surrealist artist Salvador Dali, with accompanying education programs. This will be the first retrospective of the artist's work since 1979, and has been designated the official exhibition of the centenary celebration of the artist's birth.

Philbrook Museum of Art, Inc.
Tulsa, OK
$30,000
To support the touring exhibition In the Studios of Paris: William Bouguereau and his American Students, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. This is the first assessment of Adolphe-William Bouguereau, who taught at prestigious French art academies, as a teacher of American artists.

Phillips Collection
Washington, DC
$50,000
To support the presentation of the exhibition The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America, with accompanying brochure and education programs. The exhibition, organized by the Yale University Art Gallery, will bring together exceptional works of art from the Societe Anonyme Collection at Yale and the Phillips to illustrate the emergence of modern art in America.

Plains Art Museum
Fargo, ND
$25,000
To support the commissioning of a work by American artist and native North Dakotan James Rosenquist, a well-known American Pop artist. The large-scale work will be mounted on a 40' by 40' wall in the museum's atrium, a well-used gathering place for the Fargo commuity.

Queens Museum of Art (consortium)
Flushing, NY
$50,000
To support a consortium project, an exhibition documenting American artist Gordon Matta-Clark's 1973 Reality Properties: Fake Estates project in Queens, a conceptual art project about the urban built envorinment. The consortium partners are Cabinet Magazine and White Columns.

Regents of the University of California at Los Angeles (on behalf of Hammer Museum)
Los Angeles, CA
$70,000
To support a touring exhibition titled Show and Tell: Masters of 20th-century American Comics, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition is being organized in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support an exhibition of the work of Chinese-born Luxembourg-based artist Su-Mei Tse with accompanying brochure and education programs. Winner of the Golden Lion at the 50th Venice Biennial, the artist has produced an eclectic body of performance-based work that combines sculpture, video, video installations, and photography.

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Inc. (on behalf of High Museum of Art)
Atlanta, GA
$40,000
To support the touring exhibition Andrew Wyeth: Memory and Magic, with accompanying catalogue and education programs, organized in collaboration with the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Wyeth, an American icon, will turn 87 this year and continues to make art.

San Diego Museum of Art
San Diego, CA
$25,000
To support the exhibition Domains of Wonder: Paintings from India at the San Diego Museum of Art (SDMA), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Drawn from SDMA's collection of South Asian art, the exhibition will present paintings from various Indian court artists, illustrating nearly 800 years of the best of Indian art from the 14th through the 19th centuries.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco, CA
$75,000
To support a touring retrospective of the work of American artist Richard Tuttle with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Tuttle is celebrated as one of the most significant artists associated with Postminimalism.

Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, Inc.
Santa Barbara, CA
$20,000
To support a residency for American artist Patrick Dougherty, with accompanying brochure and education programs. Dougherty will be commissioned to create a large-scale sculpture on the Garden's grounds using his signature material, twisted and interwoven tree saplings.

Santa Monica Museum of Art
Santa Monica, CA
$25,000
To support the touring exhibition Semina Culture: Wallace Berman and his Circle, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. In 1955 Berman published the first volumes of Semina, a free-form art and poetry journal recording the Beat art of the period.

SITE Santa Fe
Santa Fe, NM
$20,000
To support the touring exhibition Real Estate, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will examine the influence of architecture and design on contemporary visual artists.

Smith College (on behalf of Museum of Art)
Northampton, MA
$20,000
To support the exhibition The French Portrait: Revolution to Restoration, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will explore the broad scope of French portraiture during the Neoclassical period, including paintings, drawings, sculpture, and miniatures.

Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art
Washington, DC
$50,000
To support a touring retrospective exhibition of the work of contemporary African American artist Sam Gilliam, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Gilliam's draped canvases and sculptures invoke a dialogue between the predominace of 1960s Abstract Expressionist artists and what was meant, at the time, by painting.

University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc. (on behalf of Spencer Museum of Art)
Lawrence, KS
$40,000
To support the touring exhibition Aaron Douglas and the Harlem Renaissance, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Douglas is considered to be one of the foremost visual artists to emerge during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s.

University of Wisconsin at Madison (on behalf of Elvehjem Museum of Art)
Madison, WI
$25,000
To support the touring exhibition Conjunction and Collaboration in Edo Print Culture, 1770-1870: Utugawa School Prints from the Van Vleck Collection, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will focus on the Elvehjem's collection of works from the Utagawa school of printmakers and trace the development of the school from its beginnings.

Walker Art Center, Inc. (consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$40,000
To support a consortium project, the touring exhibition Chuck Close: Self Portraits 1968-2005, with accompanying catalogue. Organized in collaboration with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, this will be the first exhibition to examine this body of work by Close, considered to be one of the most influential American painters of our time.

Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian
Santa Fe, NM
$20,000
To support the exhibition About Face: Self-Portraits by Native American and First Nations Artists, with an accompanying catalogue. The exhibition and publication will examine the work of artists for whom self-portraiture is a primary means of expression, whose work illustrates the ways in which native representations of personal identity have changed in recent years.

Access to Artistic Excellence II

Akron Art Museum
Akron, OH
$35,000
To support the reinstallation of the permanent collection in renovated and new gallery space. The project will give visitors, for the first time, permanent access to the museum's major paintings and sculptures.

Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support the publication of a catalogue of the collection of French, German, Netherlandish, and Spanish paintings. The book will document the Institute's collection of works created before 1600.

Artrain, Inc.
Ann Arbor, MI
$35,000
To support a tour of the exhibition Native Views: Influences of Modern Culture, with education and community outreach programs. Artrain will bring the exhibition to approximately 35 underserved communities in 25 states.

Asheville Art Museum Association, Inc. (consortium)
Asheville, NC
$40,000
To support a series of exhibitions documenting the history of artistic innovation and experimentation at Black Mountain College (1933-1956), with accompanying publications and education programs. The project will document and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the College's closing.

Boise Art Museum
Boise, ID
$15,000
To support the purchase, installation, and data entry of a collections management system. Each entry will have an attached identification.

Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Sciences
Brooklyn, NY
$7,0000
To support Ceremonies and Social Traditions (CST), a reinstallation of the museum's collection of indigenous art of the Americas. The project is part of seven long-term installations that constitute Living Legacies: The Art of the Americas.

Carnegie Institute (on behalf of Carnegie Museum of Art)
Pittsburgh, PA
$27,000
To support a post-graduate painting conservation fellowship. The fellow will work primarily with modern and contemporary art.

Connecticut Historical Society
Hartford, CT
$20,000
To support the preparation of a catalogue manuscript for the Society's collection of Kellogg lithographs. The catalogue will shed light on the evolution of American graphic arts, and the development of American artistic taste, during the 19th century.

Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
To support a post-graduate internship in paper conservation. The project will involve training in the treatment of works on paper such as drawings, prints, and watercolors as well as manuscripts, maps, photographs, parchment, and books.

Cornell University (on behalf of Johnson Museum)
Ithaca, NY
$8,000
To support a conservation survey of the drawings collection. The project will focus on the 200 drawings that have come into the collection since 1993.

Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art
Indianapolis, IN
$15,000
To support a scholarly symposium on the challenges facing Native American contemporary artists in their creative development. The symposium will focus on societal, personal, and cultural issues that surface in the work of Native American artists.

Florida International University (on behalf of Frost Art Museum)
Miami, FL
$10,000
To support a comprehensive inventory of the collection, leading to a collection management database. The project will include research, staff training, data entry, implementation, and dissemination.

George Washington's Fredericksburg Foundation
Fredericksburg, VA
$10,000
To support the conservation of a pair of Rococo-revival frames in the permanent collection. The frames are supports for recently conserved portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Lewis, who were George Washington's nephew and Martha Washington's granddaughter, respectively.

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Inc.
Winterthur, DE
$40,000
To support the computer cataloguing of the prints and paintings collections. Descriptive information and references will be verified and captured in preparation for Internet publication.

J.B. Speed Art Museum
Louisville, KY
$35,000
To support the publication of a collection handbook. The book will update information on the permanent collection, last published over 20 years ago.

Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
To support the conservation treatment of paintings by Benji Okubo (1905-1975). A noted painter of Japanese ancestry, active in Los Angeles from the 1920s through the 40s, Okubo continued painting during his World War II internment at Heart Mountain, Wyoming.

Menil Foundation, Inc.
Houston, TX
$55,000
To support the touring exhibition Klee and America, with accompanying education materials. The exhibition will explore the American response to Paul Klee's (German, 1879-1940) work, and the museum's efforts to introduce Klee and other early European modernists to American audiences.

Miami Children's Museum
Miami, FL
$15,000
To support the artist-in-residence program. The program is a component of the museum's after-school program for underserved children, in collaboration with the Phillis Wheatley Elementary School.

Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts
Minneapolis, MN
$60,000
To support the reinstallation of the Japanese galleries. The project will allow the museum to showcase more of its world-renowned Japanese collection in new gallery space.

Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Association
Montgomery, AL
$35,000
To support the publication of a catalogue of the American paintings collection. The catalogue will feature over 100 works and will be the latest and largest in the museum's ongoing publications program.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston, MA
$50,000
To support the publication of a series of guidebooks highlighting areas of the museum's encyclopedic permanent collection. Each volume will introduce audiences to important works of art in an approachable manner, providing broad access to the collections.

Museum of Latin American Art
Long Beach, CA
$25,000
To support implementation of a multicomponent community outreach plan and the Free Admission Fridays program. The goals of the project are to expand and diversify MoLAA's audience, and to increase museum attendance and membership.

Nelson Gallery Foundation (Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art)
Kansas City, MO
$60,000
To support the publication of a new handbook of the permanent collection. The book is slated for publication in 2007 to coincide with the opening of the museum's new building and reinstallation of large parts of the permanent collection.

Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockridge, Inc.
Stockbridge, MA
$25,000
To support the preservation of the collection of nitrate negatives. The project will preserve, through digital replication, the collection of negatives, which are central to the archives of one of America's most famous illustrators.

North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation, Inc.
Raleigh, NC
$20,000
To support the reinstallation of the Egyptian galleries. The project seeks to address not only public access to, and interpretation of, the collections but also environmental and conservation concerns.

North Dakota Museum of Art
Grand Forks, ND
$30,000
To support the publication of a book about the museum's history and collection. The proposed 160-page, fully illustrated book will document the history of the museum and make its collections more widely known throughout the region and the nation.

Northeast Document Conservation Center
Andover, MA
$15,000
To support a one-year internship in paper conservation. The intern will also be trained to provide technical assistance in collections care to smaller museums in the region.

Oakland Museum of California Foundation
Oakland, CA
$25,000
To support the post-production of video interviews with contemporary California artists whose work is in the museum's permanent collection. The resulting videos will be used as a new educational tool in the new Gallery of California Art, planned for 2006-07.

Pacific Asia Museum
Pasadena, CA
$40,000
To support the reinstallation of the Japanese collection and accompanying education programs. Highlights of the Japanese collection will be installed in the first permanent gallery space devoted to Japanese art.

Salem Art Association (consortium)
Salem, OR
$15,000
To support Oregon's Artistic Heritage program. The project documents on a Web site the lives, work, and impact of two outstanding Oregon artists per year.

Seattle Art Museum
Seattle, WA
$65,000
To support the reinstallation of the African art collection. The accompanying multimedia programs will offer accessibility to a variety of educational experiences dealing with the arts of African culture.

Spanish Colonial Arts Society, Inc.
Santa Fe, NM
$25,000
To support the expansion of learning projects in traditional Hispanic art forms for underserved communities in New Mexico. The objective is to encourage the revival and continuation of endangered Hispano art forms and practices.

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
$65,000
To support the publication of a catalogue of the 19th-century European paintings in the permanent collection. The paintings are the last major collections in an American museum to be documented in a publication.

Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery
Baltimore, MD
$45,000
To support a series of education and public programs to celebrate the opening of the renovated Renaissance and Baroque galleries in the original 1904 building. The programs will be designed to provide context for, and access to, interpretations of the museum's collections for various audiences.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (on behalf of Ackland Art Museum)
Chapel Hill, NC
$30,000
To support the exhibition The Body of God: Encountering South Asian Sculpture in the Ackland's Permanent Collection, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The project will disseminate new scholarship about the museum's Asian art collection.

University of North Texas (on behalf of Texas Fashion Collection)
Denton, TX
$10,000
To support the Digital Preservation Project. The project involves selecting, photographing, and attaching multiple images to the Texas Fashion Collection (TFC) online catalogue, as well as creating a master file archive.

Vermont Museum & Gallery Alliance (consortium)
Woodstock, VT
$15,000
To support a consortium project, the Vermont Painted Curtains Project, with an accompanying symposium. In collaboration with the Southern Vermont Art Center, an exhibition drawn from Vermont's collection of more than 145 painted theater curtains will be presented.

Wadsworth Atheneum
Hartford, CT
$15,000
To support MATRIX 30. The project will celebrate the anniversary of a groundbreaking contemporary arts program in a museum dedicated to traditional art.

Westmoreland Museum of American Art
Greensburg, PA
$10,000
To support the publication of a catalogue of works in the museum's collection. This will be the first publication to bring together the collections of paintings, works on paper, and prints that depict the industrial heritage of the southwestern Pennsylvania region.

Yellowstone Art Museum
Billings, MT
$25,000
To support the exhibition Making Connections: Modernism and Contemporary Art on the High Plains, 1945 to the Present, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. This reinstallation of works in the permanent collection will highlight the evolution of modernism in the western United States.

American Masterpieces: Visual Arts Touring

Dallas Museum of Art
Dallas, TX
$125,000
To support the touring exhibition Modernism in American Silver: 20th Century Design, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition, organized for a national tour, will present the stylistic history of silver design in America between 1925 and 2000.

George Eastman House
Rochester, NY
$200,000
To support the touring exhibition Seeing Ourselves: Masterpieces of American Photography, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition, organized for a national tour to small and mid-sized communities, will present works by American photographers from the nation's oldest and most comprehensive photography collection.

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Santa Fe, NM
$120,000
To support the touring exhibition Georgia O'Keeffe and the Women of the Stieglitz Circle, with accompanying education programs. The exhibition, organized for a national tour, will explore O'Keeffe's (1887-1986) work in relationship to other pioneering women artists who made important, although under-recognized, contributions to the American modern art movement.

Mid-America Arts Alliance (on behalf of Exhibits USA)
Kansas City, MO
$40,000
To support the touring exhibit Raymond Loewy: Designs for a Consumer Culture, with accompanying education programs. The exhibit will examine Loewy's (1893-1986) iconic contributions to industrial and graphic design that have come to define American visual identity of the 20th century.

Museum of Arts & Design
New York, NY
$113,000
To support the touring exhibition Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 2 (Contemporary Native North American Art from the West and Northwest), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition, organized for a national tour, is the second in a series of three exhibitions examining the work of Native American artists within the broader context of trends in the visual arts.

New York State Historical Association
Cooperstown, NY
$35,000
To support the touring exhibition A Deaf Artist in Early America: The Worlds of John Brewster, Jr., with accompanying brochure and education programs. The exhibition will examine the work and impact of deaf portrait artist Brewster (1766 - 1854) in the context of his life, and the formation of deaf culture in America in the 18th century.

Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockridge, Inc.
Stockridge, MA
$140,000
To support the touring exhibition American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell (1894 - 1978), with accompanying catalogue and education materials. This will be a moderately-sized exhibition, targeted toward underserved audiences, revealing Rockwell's artistic legacy as a reflection of 20th century American life and ideals.

Olana Partnership
Hudson, NY
$60,000
To support the touring exhibition Treasures from Olana: Landscapes by Frederick Edwin Church, with accompanying catalogue and educational materials. Church (1826 - 1900) was one of the most prominent members of the Hudson River School, whose painting celebrated the natural beauty of the Hudson River Valley.

Peabody Essex Museum, Inc.
Salem, MA
$150000
To support the touring exhibit Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibit will examine Cornell's (1903-1972) love of exploration and possibilities, realized through his rich and varied shadow box assemblages.

Phillips Collection
Washington, DC
$100000
To support the touring exhibition Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series, with accompanying education programs. The exhibition will examine the aesthetic, cultural, and historical dimensions of Lawrence's (1917-2000) epic The Migration of the Negro series, the seminal work of one of the most prominent African American artists of the 20th Century.

Williams College (on behalf of Museum of Art)
Williamstown, MA
$100,000
To support the touring exhibition Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film, 1880 - 1910, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will explore the relationship between American art and the new art of film at the turn of the 20th century.

Access to Artistic Excellence II

Boise Art Museum
Boise, ID
$15,000
To support the purchase, installation, and data entry of a collections management system. Each entry will have an attached identification.

J.B. Speed Art Museum
Louisville, KY
$35,000
To support the publication of a collection handbook. The book will update information on the permanent collection, last published over 20 years ago.

Wadsworth Atheneum
Hartford, CT
$15,000
To support MATRIX 30. The project will celebrate the anniversary of a groundbreaking contemporary arts program in a museum dedicated to traditional art.

American Masterpieces

Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockridge, Inc.
Stockbridge, MA
$140,000
To support the touring exhibition American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell (1894 - 1978), with accompanying catalogue and education materials. This will be a moderately-sized exhibition, targeted toward underserved audiences, revealing Rockwell's artistic legacy as a reflection of 20th century American life and ideals.

Peabody Essex Museum, Inc.
Salem, MA
$150,000
To support the touring exhibit Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibit will examine Cornell's (1903-1972) love of exploration and possibilities, realized through his rich and varied shadow box assemblages.

Phillips Collection
Washington, DC
$100,000
To support the touring exhibition Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series, with accompanying education programs. The exhibition will examine the aesthetic, cultural, and historical dimensions of Lawrence's (1917-2000) epic The Migration of the Negro series, the seminal work of one of the most prominent African American artists of the 20th Century.

National Endowment for the Arts · an independent federal agency
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20506