NEA: FY 2005 GRANT AWARDS: Access to Artistic Excellence

FY 2005 Grant Awards: Access to Artistic Excellence

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

MUSEUMS

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.

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