Museums: FY2006 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 | Panelists
Access to Artistic Excellence
(March 14, 2005 deadline)
American Federation of Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support a touring mid-career survey exhibition of the work of contemporary African American artist Lorna Simpson, with an accompanying catalogue and educational materials. It will be the first nationally touring exhibition to consider the full range of her career.
Asia Society
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the traveling exhibition Treasures of the Liao (907-1125): China's Forgotten Nomad Dynasty, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will present more than 200 recently excavated objects from Inner Mongolia.
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support the presentation of the exhibition The Elegant Gathering: The Yeh Family Collection, with an accompanying catalogue. A range of educational activities and public programs will accompany the exhibition, including a symposium, brochure, docent-led tours, and calligraphy demonstrations and classes.
Birmingham Museum of Art
Birmingham, AL
$40,000
To support a touring exhibition of Alabama folk pottery, with accompany education programs and a symposium. The exhibition will document the development of Alabama pottery from the early 19th century to the mid-20th century.
Contemporary Arts Association of Houston (aka Contemporary Arts Museum Houston)
Houston, TX
$25,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of contemporary Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. It will be the first American survey of Rist's work, documenting her pioneering work in film and video over the past two decades.
Dallas Museum of Art (Consortium)
Dallas, TX
$60,000
A consortium project to support the touring exhibition, Matisse: the Painter as Sculptor, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. Co-organized with the Baltimore Museum of Art, the exhibition will present approximately 160 works including 24 of the artists's most significant sculptures.
Drawing Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support a touring exhibition of the drawings of American artist Robert Ryman (b. 1930), with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will feature approximately 25 works from the 1950s to the present.
Edmundson Art Foundation, Inc. (aka Des Moines Art Center)
Des Moines, IA
$50,000
To support the touring exhibition of work by contemporary New York-based British artist Cecily Brown (b. 1969), with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will provide an overview of Brown's mature work from 1998 to the present, emphasizing her varied approaches to painting the human figure.
Fabric Workshop, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$50,000
To support an artist-in-residence program. Each of five participating artists will create new work using innovative fabrics, materials, and construction techniques in exploratory ways.
Foundation for the Reading Public Museum
Reading, PA
$20,000
To support a traveling exhibition of the work of American artist Keith Haring (1958-1990), with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. Educational programs will focus on teaching children and youth about the basic materials, tools, techniques, and methods of visual art expression.
Frick Collection (Consortium)
New York, NY
$50,000
A consortium project to support the exhibition Domenico Tiepolo: A New Testament, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. This will be the first exhibition and publication devoted to Tiepolo's New Testament cycle, the longest by a single artist.
Harvard University (on behalf of Harvard University Art Museums)
Cambridge, MA
$35,000
To support the touring exhibition Frank Stella 1958, with an accompanying catalogue and symposium. The project will assemble for the first time the 30 paintings produced by Stella (b. 1936) in his first year as a practicing artist.
Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Inc. (aka Winterthur, An American Country Estate)
Winterthur, DE
$50,000
To support the touring exhibition Silversmiths to the Nation: Thomas Fletcher and Sidney Gardiner, 1808-1842, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition and publication will present and interpret an artistically and historically important body of silverware never before assembled, presented, or published.
Jewish Museum
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the exhibition Eva Hesse: Sculpture 1968, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. Hesse's (1936-1970) work in the late 1960s anticipated the innovations of the 1970s and 1980s, including installation art, conceptual art, process art, and performance art.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (on behalf of List Visual Arts Center)
Cambridge, MA
$50,000
To support the commissioning of a site-specific sculpture by American artist, Richard Serra (b. 1939). The new work will add to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's active public art program, which includes work by Alexander Calder, Pablo Picasso, and Louise Nevelson.
Mattress Factory, Ltd.
Pittsburgh, PA
$50,000
To support an artist-in-residence program. Up to nine artists will be invited to create new, site-specific installations at the museum, which has presented new work by more than 250 artists since 1982.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY
$100,000
To support the exhibition Moments of Vision: Venice and the Islamic World, ca. 1300 -1700, with accompanying education programs. Organized in collaboration with the Institute du Monde Arabe, the exhibit will feature more than 250 works of Ventian and Islamic art from institutions worldwide.
Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum
Chicago, IL
$70,000
To support The African Experience in Mexico, with accompanying catalogues and education programs. The project consists of two touring exhibitions: The African Experience in Mexico and Who Are We Now? Roots, Resistance, and Recognition.
Mid-America Arts Alliance (on behalf of ExhibitsUSA)
Kansas City, MO
$15,000
To support the touring exhibition The Inspired Line, with accompanying educational materials. The exhibition, which will tour to small museums nationwide, will comprise 40 prints by Old Masters Albrecht Durer and Rembrandt van Rijn.
Millicent Rogers Museum, Inc.
Taos, NM
$25,000
To support the reinstallation of the museum's permanent collection, with accompanying education materials, on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. The project will spotlight the museum's extraordinary collection of Southwestern art.
Museum Associates (aka Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support the touring exhibition Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will feature 60 paintings by Surrealist Belgian artist, Rene Magritte (1898-1967) and 60 works by major artists influenced by his work.
Museum for Contemporary Arts, Inc. (aka Contemporary Museum, Baltimore)
Baltimore, MD
$25,000
To support Headquarters: Interventions in Social Space, with an accompanying catalogue. The project will engage a group of internationally known artists and artists collaboratives whose art work is based on the conditions of the people in their neighborhoods and countries.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (aka MOCA)
Los Angeles, CA
$100,000
To support the touring exhibition Robert Rauschenberg: Combines, with an accompanying catalogue. The museum will present the first in-depth retrospective of Rauschenberg's 162 "Combine" works
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Consortium)
Boston, MA
$50,000
A consortium project to support the touring exhibition El Greco to Velazquez: Art of the Court of Philip III, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. The project is taking place with the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University and in association with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH)
Houston, TX
$25,000
To support the touring exhibition Singular Multiples: The Peter Blum Archive, 1980-1994, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will document the contribution made by Blum's workshop to the production of prints by major artists of the period.
Museum of Glass
Tacoma, WA
$35,000
To support the 2006 Visiting Artists Program. The museum will invite up to 18 local, national, and international artists for residencies in its hot shop to work on projects of their own choice.
North Carolina Central University (on behalf of University Art Museum)
Durham, NC
$20,000
To support an exhibition of the work of African American artist William H. Johnson, (1901-1970), with an accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will trace Johnson's career from his arrival in New York City in 1918 to his later work in the 1950s.
Oakland Museum of California Foundation
Oakland, CA
$25,000
To support the touring exhibition Arthur and Lucia Mathews: Artists of the California Decorative Style, with accompanying education programs. The exhibition will present 85 works created between 1880 and 1929, including paintings, murals, graphic arts, and decorative objects the couple produced collaboratively.
Orange County Museum of Art
Newport Beach, CA
$35,000
To support the touring exhibition Birth of the Cool, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. The multidisciplinary exhibition will examine the full range of the arts in southern California from the mid-1940s to the mid-1960s.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, PA
$100,000
To support the touring exhibition The Arts in Latin America 1492-1820, with accompanying education programs. Accompanied by a scholarly catalogue and a full range of bilingual education programs and materials, the exhibition will feature some 350 masterworks from colonial Spanish and Portuguese America.
Philadelphia Museum of Art (Consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$50,000
A consortium project to support the touring exhibition A Revolution in the Graphic Arts: Mexico and Modern Printmaking 1920-1950. To be presented with the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, the exhibition will be accompanied by a scholarly catalogue and bilingual educational programs and materials.
Pierpont Morgan Library
New York, NY
$20,000
To support a touring retrospective exhibition of the work of American artist Saul Steinberg (1914-1999), with accompanying education programs. The exhibition emphasizes Steinberg's draftsmanship, his central means of expression throughout his long career.
Queens Museum of Art (Consortium)
Queens, NY
$50,000
A consortium project to support exhibitions based on the work of architect and city planner Robert Moses (1888-1981), with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. The three simultaneous exhibitions will be organized in partnership with the Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University in New York, and in association with the Museum of the City of New York.
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of Art Museum)
Berkeley, CA
$50,000
To support the touring exhibition A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman's Formative Years, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition is the first to present Nauman's (b.1941) early career in the San Francisco Bay area, 1964 - 1969.
Regents of the University of California at Los Angeles (on behalf of Fowler Museum)
Los Angeles, CA
$35,000
To support Fowler in Focus installations and the publication of companion publications. The Fowler in Focus program comprises a changing space featuring recent acquisitions, selected artistic genres, and important "sub-collections" within the museum's holdings.
San Diego Museum of Art
San Diego, CA
$35,000
To support the touring exhibition Transmission: The Art of Matta and Gordon Matta-Clark, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will compare the works of Chilean artist Roberto Matta (1911-2002) and his son, Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) for the first time.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (aka San Francisco MOMA)
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
To support the presentation in San Francisco of the exhibition Shomei Tomatsu: Skin of the Nation, with accompanying education programs. The exhibition of 268 works is the first comprehensive survey of more than 50 years of work by Japanese photographer Shomei Tomatsu (b. 1930).
San Jose Museum of Art Association
San Jose, CA
$30,000
To support the exhibition Suburban Escape: The Art of California Sprawl, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will survey the work of more than 40 artists who have focused their work on the examination of suburban culture.
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Santa Barbara, CA
$80,000
To support the touring exhibition Rufino Tamayo (1899-1991): A Modern Icon Reinterpreted, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. The retrospective will to feature Tamayo's best canvases and murals produced during a seven-decade career.
Scottsdale Cultural Council (on behalf of Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art)
Scottsdale, AZ
$25,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American artist Pae White (b. 1963), with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. The artist will create up to 10 new works for the show, as well as designing the catalogue.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
$40,000
To support the touring exhibition Claude Drawings from the British Museum, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. This is the first U.S. exhibition of the work of influential French artist Claude Lorrain (1600-82) since 1982.
Studio Museum in Harlem, Inc. (SMH)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the exhibition energy x experimentation: African American Artists and Abstraction, 1964 - 1980, with an accompanying catalogue and symposium. The exhibition will survey the work of a group of African American abstract painters and sculptors who have been largely overlooked, including Ed Clark, Sam Gilliam, and Howardena Pindell.
University of Arizona (on behalf of Center for Creative Photography)
Tucson, AZ
$25,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American photographer Harry Callahan (1912-98), with an accompanying catalogue and symposium. The exhibit will feature approximately 100 prints and an array of largely unpublished archival materials from this canonical figure in American photography.
University of Maryland Baltimore County Campus
Baltimore, MD
$15,000
To support the touring exhibition Color Pictures: Visual Representation and the Struggle for Civil Rights, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will examine how visual images -- fine art and journalistic photography, films, television and advertising -- helped shape the struggle for civil rights in America.
University of Wyoming (on behalf of Art Museum)
Laramie, WY
$20,000
To support a series of solo exhibitions by contemporary artists, with accompanying brochures and education programs. The selected artists are Hung Liu, Wanxin Zhang, Jennifer Steinkamp, and Fred Sandback.
Washington University (on behalf of Kemper Art Museum)
St. Louis, MO
$25,000
To support the touring exhibition Reality Bites: Making Avant-Garde Art in Post-Wall Germany, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition of approximately 70 works will explore the nature of art made in Germany since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, NY
$80,000
To support the touring exhibition Picasso and American Art, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will explore the ways in which Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) has affected art-making in the United States throughout the 20th century to the present day.
Yale University (on behalf of Art Gallery)
New Haven, CT
$60,000
To support the presentation of the exhibition The Societe Anonyme: Modernism for America. The exhibition will include 200 paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures from the Societe Anonyme Collection at Yale and the Phillips Collection in Washington.
Access to Artistic Excellence II
(August 15, 2005 deadline)
Amarillo Art Center Association (aka Amarillo Museum of Art)
Amarillo, TX
$15,000
To support the presentation in Amarillo of the national touring exhibition Material Terrain: A Sculpture Exploration of Landscape and Place, with accompanying brochure. The exhibition features large-scale mixed media sculptures by internationally known artists.
Art Museum of Missoula
Missoula, MT
$20,000
To support accessible, online educational programming about Montana artists. The project will focus on two significant elder and internationally known Montana artists well represented in the collection, Rudy Autio and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith.
Balboa Art Conservation Center
San Diego, CA
$15,000
To support a postgraduate internship in paintings conservation. The intern will be afforded a broad range of supervised and guided treatment experiences formulated to develop pratical knowledge and skill.
Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Sciences (aka Brooklyn Museum of Art)
Brooklyn, NY
$40,000
To support the First Saturdays educational program. The program provides educational programming to nearly 88,000 visitors of diverse ages, interests, and backgrounds each year.
Cartoon Art Museum
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support a collections management project. The goals of the project are to document and preserve the permanent collection and to secure the necessary systems and tools for ongoing documentation and preservation.
Children's Museum San Diego (aka Museo de los Ninos San Diego)
San Diego, CA
$20,000
To support the Muse/Art Installation Program. The museum will commission site-specific works, both permanent and temporary, for its new facility opening in fall 2006.
Chinati Foundation (aka La Fundacion Chinati)
Marfa, TX
$35,000
To support the conservation of Donald Judd's outdoor concrete sculptures. The works are in urgent need of treatment due to dangers caused by their exposure to the elements.
Connecticut Historical Society (aka Connecticut Historial Society Museum)
Hartford, CT
$20,000
To support the preparation of a manuscript for a catalogue of the collection of American decorative needlework dating from 1740 to 1840. The collection includes pictures, samplers, household furnishings, costumes, and personal accessories.
Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
To support a postgraduate 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.
Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums (aka Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support conservation treatment of key French furniture pieces and important frames in the European art collection. Dating from the 18th century, the works are anchors of the museum's survey collection of European art.
Detroit Institute of Arts
Detroit, MI
$75,000
To support the reinstallation of the Native American art collection. The project is an integral part of an ongoing long-range plan to physically and conceptually transform the entire museum for the benefit of visitors.
Fashion Institute of Technology (aka Museum at FIT)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support online access to visual and informational documentation of costume and textile masterworks in the collection. Public access to these permanent collection objects will contribute knowledge and understanding in the growing field of fashion and textile studies.
Florida International University (on behalf of The Wolfsonian)
Miami, FL
$50,000
To support the archiving of materials in two of the Wolfsonian's architecture collections: the Schultze & Weaver firm and the John Eberson firm. The project will facilitate access and use by a broad range of people, including historians, preservationists, designers, and architects.
Grabhorn Institute
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support a series of public programs, including demonstrations, lectures, and exhibitions, titled Bookmaking, Writing, and Art. The project explores connections between traditional bookmaking crafts and the work of contemporary artists and writers.
International Foundation for Art Research
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the Art Law/Cultural Property Website Initiative. The project will result in a searchable, interactive tool to help museums and the general public navigate the development of laws and ethical practices concerning the acquisition, authenticity, and ownership of art objects.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Inc.
Boston, MA
$25,000
To support costs associated with making the museum's collection available over the Internet. The collection of 3,200 objects, spanning 30 centuries and many cultures, includes some of the nation's preeminent examples of Italian Renaissance and American 19th-century paintings.
Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum (aka Noguchi Museum)
Long Island City, NY
$20,000
To support the digitization of photographic objects in the archives. This will be the first step in the creation of an electronic finding aid for the museum's archives.
J.B. Speed Art Museum (aka Speed Art Museum)
Louisville, KY
$25,000
To support the Community Cultural Youth Apprenticeship Program. The project is a workforce development program serving a target population of youth, ages 15 to 18.
Josef Albers Foundation, Inc. (aka Josef and Anni Albers Foundation)
Bethany, CT
$40,000
To support the Art Collection Cataloguing and Preservation Project. The project will greatly broaden the foundation's art history and arts education services to the public and to artists, scholars, students, educators, and curators.
Judd Foundation
Marfa, TX
$25,000
To support an oral history project with important figures in the life of American minimalist artist Donald Judd (1928-94). The interviews will be filmed, transcribed, and edited for the creation of a long and short documentary work for broadcast on television and the Internet.
Katonah Museum of Art, Inc.
Katonah, NY
$20,000
To support a touring exhibition of early Cycladic art, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The Cyclades, an archipelago of more than 30 islands at the center of the Aegean Sea, gave rise in the third millennium B.C to a vibrant and enduring sculptural tradition.
Mark Twain House (aka Mark Twain House & Museum)
Hartford, CT
$15,000
To support conservation treatment of paintings and works on paper in the permanent collection. The works are important pieces in the museum's fine arts collection and have been determined by professional art conservators to be in immediate, urgent need of treatment.
Mint Museum of Art, Inc.
Charlotte, NC
$20,000
To support the publication of a catalogue of the European ceramics collection. The collection is recognized internationally as one of the most important collections of its kind in the United States.
Montclair Art Museum
Montclair, NJ
$25,000
To support the purchase of an upgraded collection management system with online modules, as well as data conversion, staff training, and data entry. The project is part of the museum's 100th Anniversary Permanent Collection Enhancement Project.
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Association
Montgomery, AL
$15,000
To support the conservation and housing of a collection of African American quilts recently acquired by the museum. Conservation and proper stabilization of the collection are important because the museum plans to exhibit the quilts in its new Education Wing and create an exhibition of the quilts to travel to other institutions.
Museum of the City of New York
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the conservation and reformatting of deteriorating negatives produced by the Lucas studios from 1936 to the 1950s. This nationally significant collection holds, in most cases, the only surviving images of shows as performed by their original casts during Broadway's golden age.
National Academy of Design (aka National Academy, Museum & School of Fine Art)
New York, NY
$40,000
To support a digitization project to catalogue and photograph the Museum's collection of American art and make it available to a worldwide audience through an online catalogue. The Academy proposes to digitize up to 1,000 highlights of the paintings and sculpture collections.
National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature
Abilene, TX
$10,000
To support an exhibition of original book illustrations by Wendell Minor, with accompanying gallery guide and education programs. Minor is a nationally acclaimed, award-winning illustrator, having provided illustrations for more than 2,000 books.
Newark Museum Association
Newark, NJ
$30,000
To support community outreach activities in conjunction with the exhibition Masters of the 20th-century American Comics. The exhibition will be presented jointly with the Jewish Museum in Manhattan and programming will be shared by the two institutions.
Northeast Document Conservation Center
Andover, MA
$20,000
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.
Northern Illinois University (on behalf of University Art Museum)
DeKalb, IL
$10,000
To support the conservation of an artistically and historically significant collection of scenic models. The objects display in microcosm the development of scenic practices from the American operatic theater of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art
Biloxi, MS
$25,000
To support the interpretive portion of the George Ohr (1857-1918) exhibition, with accompanying education programs. Using cutting edge technology the museum will present Ohr's work in multiple languages and learning levels, a soundtrack in Ohr's virtual studio, and two seminars.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
To support the museum's efforts to improve its collections management system. The project involves acquiring software, hardware, and additional staff to make the collections more accessible.
Plains Art Museum
Fargo, ND
$25,000
To support Rolling Plains Art Gallery. The project is the museum's signature outreach program, providing exhibitions of original art and arts education to underserved rural communities since 1993.
Regents of the University of California at Davis (on behalf of Richard Nelson Gallery)
Davis, CA
$20,000
To support conservation treatment of Robert Arneson's Egghead sculptures. The large-scale, enameled bronze sculptures are permanently situated outdoors throughout the university campus.
Revolving Museum, Inc.
Lowell, MA
$25,000
To support puppet-making workshops, creation of public artworks, and other activities associated with festivals and a puppetry exhibit.
San Diego Museum of Art
San Diego, CA
$10,000
To support the publication of a series of monographs on significant works in the museum's permanent collection. The project will result in new scholarship on those works of art which have heretofore been undocumented.
Seattle Art Museum
Seattle, WA
$45,000
To support the installation of a Porcelain Room in the museum's new, expanded downtown facility. The gallery will engage visitors in the cross-cultural story of porcelain in the 17th and 18th centuries, illustrating why it was so highly valued.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (aka Guggenheim Museum)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support a research project titled Reversal versus Retirement: Study and Treatment of Black Painting, 1960-66 by Ad Reinhardt, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Reinhardt (1913 - 1967) was a key figure in the minimalist painting movement of the 1960s.
South Texas Institute for the Arts
Corpus Christi, TX
$10,000
To support exhibitions featuring new works in the permanent collection, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibitions will be part of a cycle of permanent collection activities during the opening year of the museum's new 30,000 square foot addition.
Spanish Colonial Arts Society, Inc.
Santa Fe, NM
$10,000
To support the expansion of learning projects in traditional Hispano art forms for underserved communities in New Mexico. The project's objective is to encourage the revival of, and continuation of, endangered Hispano art forms and practices.
Textile Conservation Workshop, Inc.
South Salem, NY
$15,000
To support a master apprenticeship for in-depth training in textile conservation. As part of a regional conservation laboratory, the apprenticeship program fills a gap not covered by formal conservation courses in graduate school programs.
Trustees of Boston College (on behalf of McMullen Museum of Art)
Chestnut Hill, MA
$45,000
To support the traveling exhibition Cosmophilia: Islamic Art from the David Collection, Copenhagen, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will also be presented at the Smart Museum at the University of Chicago.
University of Rochester (on behalf of Memorial Art Gallery)
Rochester, NY
$15,000
To support conservation treatment of a 16th-century Flemish tapestry in the museum's permanent collection. Musical Game Park: A Forest Scene with Peasants is an important Flemish tapestry dating to about 1575-1600.
University of South Florida (on behalf of Contemporary Art Museum)
Tampa, FL
$20,000
To support a series of symposia in conjunction with the 2006-07 exhibition program, with an accompanying brochure. The goal of the project is to introduce, educate, and encourage participation in the arts by the Tampa Bay community, and to contribute to the national discourse on contemporary art.
Vermont Museum & Gallery Alliance
Vergennes, VT
$50,000
To support the conservation and stabilization of historic painted theater curtains. Once conserved, most of the curtains will be reinstalled in their original locations for public use and appreciation.
Westmoreland Museum of American Art
Greensburg, PA
$15,000
To support the reinstallation of the Valley of Work: Scenes of Industry collection in the Barclay Gallery, which will be renovated in summer 2006. The art collection depicts Pittsburgh during the height of the Big Steel Era (1875-1980).
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