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FY 2005 Grant Awards: Access to Artistic Excellence

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

VISUAL ARTS

Abington Art Center
Jenkintown, PA
$20,000
To support a residency and site-specific installation by Pennsylvania artist J. Morgan Puett in an abandoned 19th-century Quaker Meetinghouse. The artist will work collaboratively to investigate the relationships between architecture, fashion, and fine art by turning the Meetinghouse into a "factory."

Aljira, Inc.
Newark, NJ
$18,000
To support Emerge, a professional development program for artists. The program seeks to provide advice and guidance from professional artists to the participants and to assist with networking opportunities.

Art House at the Jones Center
Austin, TX
$35,000
To support Art on Tour, a touring exhibition program in Texas. Three exhibitions with accompanying catalogues will be organized - two juried shows highlighting new American talent, and one featuring contemporary artists whose work addresses their relationship to religious practice, ideology, and iconography.

Art in General, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support artist residencies and exhibitions as well as accompanying publications, educational outreach, and public programs. Proposed artists will be in residence for periods of two months, and two New York-based artists will participate in an international exchange, working at art centers in Eastern Europe.

Art Papers, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$20,000
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 published for the first time.

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, Inc.
San Antonio, TX
$50,000
To support residencies for artists to create new work. Participating artists will be provided with housing, work space, technical assistance, transportation costs, and a stipend for a two-month residency.

Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts
Buffalo, NY
$25,000
To support artist residencies for Art Works!, a community-based program that brings artists to work directly with the community. The month-long residencies are project-based and targeted to specific community concerns and issues.

Center for Photography at Woodstock, Inc.
Woodstock, NY
$15,000
To support a residency program for photographers. Artists will be provided with an honorarium, studio and darkroom access, equipment, lodging, and meals for residencies of up to one month.

Chicago Public Art Group
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support a collaborative public art project by the artists Olivia Gude and Bernard Williams. Working with residents of the Hilliard Homes public housing complex, the artists will address the use of public space within the various buildings.

City of Santa Rosa, California
Santa Rosa, CA
$40,000
To support a public art project by artist Ned Kahn, who was selected by the city's Art in Public Places Committee through a process that included community input. The large-scale work will cover a section of a building in a heavily trafficked neighborhood, and will resemble a vertical sheet of rippling water.

Clay Studio
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
To support the Guest Artist Program, a residency opportunity for national and international ceramic artists to create new work. Participating artists will be provided with studio space, an honorarium, a stipend, transportation expenses, and a materials budget for a two-month residency.

Creative Time, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
To support a public art project, Truisms for New York City, by artist Jenny Holzer. Holzer will collaborate with poet Henri Cole to create texts about New York City that will be displayed on a blimp floating over the skyline and at a public exhibition using LED technology.

Dieu Donne Papermill, Inc.
New York, NY
$18,000
To support the Artist Apprentice Program to develop hand papermaking skills in the creation of contemporary art. One artist will be selected for an intensive 21-month apprenticeship with master papermaker Paul Wong.

Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts- Int. Studio & Cur. Program
New York, NY
$25,000
To support American artists' participation in the International Studio and Curatorial Program, a residency program in New York City. Artists will be provided with a private studio, room and board, and access to curators, critics, collectors, and other artists through studio visits, field trips, and exhibitions.

En Foco, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$25,000
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.

Escuela de Artes Plasticas de Puerto Rico
San Juan, PR
$44,000
To support expansion of the Artist-in-Residence Program to bring more contemporary artists to Puerto Rico. Visiting artists and lecturers from every continent will spend two weeks in Puerto Rico, leading workshops and giving lectures in a program that will benefit approximately 16,000 people.

Exit Art/The First World, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
To support an exhibition and catalogue examining contemporary concerns regarding water and its conservation. The exhibition will feature work by at least 50 artists.

International Sculpture Center, Inc.
Hamilton, NJ
$18,000
To support a series of articles and reviews on emerging and under-recognized artists for Sculpture magazine. Solicited articles will focus on work of current artists, events, and public art projects.

Kala Institute
Berkeley, CA
$18,000
To support the Artist in Residence Program. Artists will be provided a stipend and 24 hour access to this 8,500 square-foot facility for a six-month period.

Light Work Visual Studies, Inc.
Syracuse, NY
$50,000
To support a residency program for artists in photography and electronic media, along with 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, a collection of more than 2,000 images, essays, and biographical information.

Lower East Side Printshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support a program for emerging artists from all disciplines to create new work in printmaking. The program is an intensive, hands-on, year-long experience working with the Printshop's master printer.

McColl Center for Visual Art
Charlotte, NC
$35,000
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.

New Langton Arts
San Francisco, CA
$18,000
To support a survey exhibition on San Francisco artist Tony Labat. The exhibition will include a new public artwork, a catalogue, a Web component, and screenings documenting his contributions to the emerging genres of video, installation, and performance art.

Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Inc.
Portland, OR
$18,000
To support a series of publications documenting the exhibition of individual photographers' work at Blue Sky Gallery, which has presented several first solo shows for major American artists such as Mark Klett and Birney Imes. The publications will include both catalogues and a full monograph.

Pilchuck Glass School
Seattle, WA
$35,000
To support a summer artist residency program. Artists will be provided with resources, facilities, and technical assistance to experiment with new work in glass.

Pittsburgh Glass Center Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$25,000
To support a summer residency program to bring glass artists and students from across the country to Pittsburgh for exploration in glass making. Artists will be provided with resources, facilities, and technical assistance.

Project X Foundation for Art and Criticism
Los Angeles, CA
$13,000
To support the reviews section of X-Tra, a quarterly visual arts publication. Published since 1997, X-Tra is distributed free-of-charge to galleries, museums, and art schools throughout the greater Los Angeles area, and to subscribers across the country.

Public Art Fund Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
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
$30,000
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.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick, NJ
$20,000
To support planning of anniversary activities to mark the 25-year history of the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper. The Center plans an exhibition, publication, CD-ROM, and Web site to document its work with more than 300 artists in handmade paper and printmaking.

Sculpture Center, Inc.
Long Island City, NY
$30,000
To support a survey exhibition of contemporary sculpture and installation by artists working in the New York City area. Co-curated by Mary Ceruti, artist and Director of Sculpture Center, the exhibition will include new site-specific work and work newly created in the studio by approximately 40 artists.

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Inc.
New York, NY
$18,000
To support a residency program for emerging visual 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. Artists responding to an open call will be selected by a panel of artists, curators, and critics for residency periods of one year, including 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-of-charge to the public, the exhibition attracts more than 40,000 local and international visitors per year who have the opportunity to observe the artists create new work.

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 stipend, transportation expenses, and a materials budget.

Visual Studies Workshop, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$18,000
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 costs, use of the facilities, training, and housing for one-month residencies.

Wave Hill, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$12,000
To support a consortium project to commission artist Bob Braine to create a work for the 2005 Generated@WaveHill program. Working on the grounds of the Bronx River Art Center, the artist will use the river edge as the subject of intense ecological and aesthetic study.

White Columns, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support an exhibition series featuring the work of emerging visual artists. Artists are selected by the curator of White Columns from an artists' registry that includes the work of approximately 1,000 artists who do not have New York gallery representation.


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