FY 2005 Grant Awards: American Masterpieces: Visual Arts Touring

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

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.
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.

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
$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.

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.

Total grants: 11
Total dollars: $1,183,000

National Endowment for the Arts · an independent federal agency
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