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NEA Discipline Directors
Robert Frankel, Acting Deputy Chairman for Grants and Awards of the National Endowment for the Arts, is responsible for planning and management of all discipline-based grants and awards, and works with Chairman Dana Gioia in formulating Arts Endowment policies and programs. Frankel also is the Director of Museums and Visual Arts for the National Endowment for the Arts. In addition to managing NEA grants in this discipline, Frankel guides the visual arts component of the NEA National Initiative American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius. He also provides oversight on the Federal Art and Artifacts Indemnity Program, which minimizes the costs of insuring international exhibitions. A museum professional with more than 30 years experience working as an educator, curator and administrator, Mr. Frankel began his career in the Education Department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He served as assistant director of the Phoenix Art Museum and as director of the Delaware Art Museum, the Center for the Fine Arts in Miami, Fla., and the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, Va. before moving to Santa Barbara. During his tenure at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Frankel oversaw a steady growth in attendance and membership, the construction of an addition to the building, an extensive exhibition and education program, and an increase to the collection of approximately 4,000 objects. The varied exhibitions organized under Frankel's supervision include the work of Nam June Paik, Carrie Mae Weems, Robert Henri, Louise Nevelson, Beatrice Wood and Pablo Picasso, as well as the presentation of works from the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest and the Vatican Library.
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