FY 2008 Grant Awards: American Masterpieces:
Visual Arts Touring

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

Amon Carter Museum of Western Art
Fort Worth, TX
$105,000
To support the touring exhibition Sentimental Journey: The Art of Alfred Jacob Miller, with accompanying catalogue. Although Miller (1810-74) spent only six months in the American West, he painted western scenes for more than 35 years.

Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts (aka CEPA Gallery)
Buffalo,, NY
$40,000
To support the touring exhibition Ken Heyman: Being Human, with accompanying educational materials. This retrospective of photographer Ken Heyman (b. 1930) will include 130 images including early journalistic and anthropological work, iconic portraits, Pop Art works, and contemporary experimental images.

East Central University (aka ECU)
Ada, OK
$15,000
To support a touring exhibition featuring the work of American artist Leon Polk Smith (1906-96), with accompanying catalogue. The exhibition, drawn entirely from the university's extensive collection, will shed light on Smith's contribution to different schools of 20th- century American art.

Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
Madison, WI
$80,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American artist George Segal, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Street Scenes is the first exhibition to explore the artist's interest in urban themes and the first tour of Segal's work to include venues beyond the East Coast for more than 25 years.

Milwaukee Art Museum, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$80,000
To support the touring exhibition Street Scene: The Psychological Gesture in Photography, with accompanying catalogue, audio guide, and educational materials. Mid-20th-century street photographers such as Lisette Model, Ted Croner, William Klein, Robert Frank, Louis Faurer, and Saul Leiter created images of the spontaneous, the subjective, and the psychological from the gestures of everyday street life.

Montclair Art Museum
Montclair, NJ
$150,000
To support the touring exhibition Cezanne and American Modernism, with accompanying catalogue and education program. The exhibition is being organized in collaboration with the Baltimore Museum of Art.

Museum of Arts & Design
New York, NY
$150,000
To support the touring exhibition Change the World! Radicals and Revolutionaries in American Craft, 1945-1970, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will examine the history from which the American Studio Craft Movement emerged.

New-York Historical Society
New York, NY
$80,000
To support the touring exhibition John Rogers: American Stories, with accompanying catalogue and educational activities. American artist Rogers (1829-1904), who became known as the "people's sculptor," worked prolifically in the 19th century, creating narrative works that depicted themes of Victorian domesticity, American history, and literature.

Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, PA
$100,000
To support a touring retrospective exhibition of work by American artist James Castle (1899-1977), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. This will be the first comprehensive museum exhibition exploring the full range of this Idaho-born, self-taught artist.

Regents of the University of California at Los Angeles (on behalf of Hammer Museum)
Los Angeles, CA
$150,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American modernist architect John Lautner (1911-94), organized by the Hammer Museum, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. In a career that spanned six decades, Lautner built more than 150 innovative homes and commercial spaces that shaped the American West.

San Antonio Public Library Foundation
San Antonio, TX
$50,000
To support the touring exhibition The Winds and Words of War, with accompanying catalogue and educational activities. The exhibition will feature historic World War I era lithographs produced to promote the war effort.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (aka Guggenheim Museum)
New York, NY
$100,000
To support the touring exhibition American Art and the East, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will examine the impact of Asian art on modern American art.

University of North Carolina at Greensboro (on behalf of Weatherspoon Art Museum)
Greensboro, NC
$100,000
To support the touring exhibition First Light: Impressionist Sources in American Modernism, organized by the Weatherspoon Art Museum, with accompanying catalogue and related programming. The project will juxtapose early and later works by artists now known as Modernists to demonstrate the influence of Impressionism.

Number of Grants: 13          Total Amount: $1,200,000

National Endowment for the Arts · an independent federal agency
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