Museums: FY2002 Grants

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

Access | Challenge America Access | Creativity | Heritage/Preservation

Organizational Capacity | Panelists

Access

Artrain, Inc.
Ann Arbor, MI
$16,000
To support a tour of the exhibition Artistry of Space: The NASA Art Program, with accompanying educational and community outreach programs. Artrain will bring the exhibition to approximately 20 underserved communities in the western United States.

Center for Documentary Studies (consortium)
Durham, NC
$40,000
To support related programming for a retrospective exhibition of the work of photographer Wendy Ewald. The Center for Documentary Studies will provide access to Ewald's work through classroom visits, teacher workshops and student gallery and Web exhibitions.

Children's Museum of Manhattan/ G.A.M.E. Inc.
New York, NY
$16,000
To support Art Inside Out (AIO), a collaborative project between contemporary artists and school age audiences. AIO visitors will observe how artists develop their work, interact with artist-created exhibitions and create art themselves.

Emory University (on behalf of Michael C. Carlos Museum)
Atlanta, GA
$18,000
To support educational programs in conjunction with the reinstallation of the collection of art from the ancient Americas. The public programming and related educational materials will reflect the reinstallation's four themes: Shamanism, Nature and Culture, Science and Art and Artistry.

Henry Art Gallery Association $16,000
Seattle, WA
To support Short Stories, Volume II, a flexible series of small exhibition projects. The project includes the exhibition of works from the permanent collection, commissioning new work by contemporary artists and an artist residency.

J.B. Speed Art Museum
Louisville, KY
$13,000
To support the planning and evaluation of Touch Art, a series of arts learning resources for preschool children. In partnership with the Louisville Free Public Library, the museum will develop pilot computer programs and interactive resource materials that will result in an enhanced appreciation for and understanding of the permanent collection.

Knoxville Museum of Art
Knoxville, TN
$12,000
To support the museum's Traveling Trunks program. The trunks contain art education tools designed to bring art to life in the classroom.

Montana Art Gallery Directors Association
Great Falls, MT
$9,000
To support an art exhibition touring program. Funds will also support the association's annual professional training conference for museum personnel in the state.

Pacific Asia Museum
Pasadena, CA
$16,000
To support the Chinese Community Initiative. This is the museum's first concerted effort to increase the number of Chinese Americans who visit the museum and participate in its programs.

Portland Museum of Art
Portland, ME
$32,000
To support Portland's Golden Age: 1800-1860, with accompanying education programs. The project will highlight Portland's 19th century artistic and economic boom, which served as a catalyst for the formation of the city's cultural landscape.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
(on behalf of Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum)
$21,000
Piscataway, NJ
To support education programs for the exhibition Artist + Printers: Recent Trends in Collaborative Printmaking. The project will focus on the working relationship between the artist and the printer in the process of producing a successful print.

South Carolina State Museum Commission
Columbia, SC
$13,000
To support the South Carolina Art History project, with accompanying education programs. Working from its permanent collection, the museum will produce a comprehensive exhibition of South Carolina art examining new interpretations of works ranging from Native American vessels to contemporary installations.

University of California at Berkeley (consortium)
(on behalf of the University Art Museum)
$14,000
Berkeley, CA
To support Access to Alternative Art Forms. The project will utilize technology to increase viewing of and interaction with art collections via the Internet.

University of Southern California (on behalf of the Fisher Gallery)
Los Angeles, CA
$32,000
To support the touring exhibition Mixed Feelings, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will feature new work by contemporary artists dealing with issues about "the border," immigration, globalization and urbanization.

Walters Art Gallery
Baltimore, MD
$14,000
To support Family Fun Programs. The project will encompass activities such as festivals organized around special exhibitions, workshops for adults and children and development of interpretive materials designed to enhance the museum experience.

Challenge America Access

Asheville Art Museum Association, Inc.
Asheville, NC
$25,000
To support the Literacy Through Art (LTA) program. LTA delivers art programs to students in the Appalachian region of North Carolina including lessons led by visual and performing artists and visits to the Asheville Art Museum.

Mid-America Arts Alliance (on behalf of ExhibitsUSA)
Kansas City, MO
$30,000
To support the tour of the exhibition Whispers from the Walls: The Art of Whitfield Lovell. ExhibitsUSA will develop educational and programming materials to accompany the exhibition as well as provide lecture and shipping subsidies to assist underserved communities.

Museum of Photographic Arts
San Diego, CA
$30,000
To support the Regeneration Project, a 16-week collaborative creative process involving senior citizens and local artists. Working with professional photographers, actors, composers, designers and arts educators, the seniors participating in the project will experiment with a variety of artistic processes to write, direct and present a multimedia performance piece.

Northwestern Michigan College (consortium)
(on behalf of Dennos Museum Center)
$25,000
Traverse City, MI
To support a touring exhibition of European Old Master paintings from the Detroit Institute of Arts, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will feature 35 outstanding examples of Dutch, Flemish, French, Italian and British paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries.

Texas Fine Arts Association
Austin, TX
$25,000
To support Art on Tour, a statewide traveling exhibition program with accompanying catalogues and lectures. The program circulates exhibitions of contemporary art by emerging and mid career American artists to small museums and university and community galleries throughout Texas, many in rural, culturally underserved communities.

University of Oregon (on behalf of Museum of Art) (consortium)
Eugene, OR
$30,000
To support the Art Access Program in partnership with the Lane Arts Council. The project is to disseminate art and cultural instruction to students who have limited exposure to the arts due to geographic and financial constraints.

Creativity

Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo Fine Arts Academy)
Buffalo, NY
$30,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of Italian artist Amadeo Modigliani (1840-1920), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. This will be the first major Modigliani exhibition in the United States in more than 40 years.

Art Institute of Chicago for the Video Data Bank
Chicago, IL
$90,000
To support the touring exhibition Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. This will be the first major exhibition to feature works of art from the entire Himalayan region, including India, Nepal, Tibet and Bhutan.

Asia Society
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the exhibition The New Way of Tea, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Organized with the Japan Society in New York, the exhibition will examine the teahouses and utensils associated with the tea ceremony juxtaposed with new works by contemporary artists who have been inspired by the tea ceremony.

Asia Society (consortium)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the exhibition Hunt for Paradise: Court Arts of Safavid Iran, 1501-76, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. This will be the first comprehensive international exhibition of the art of 16th-century Iran and will include some rarely seen objects from public and private collections from around the world.

Bellevue Art Museum
Bellevue, WA
$15,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of contemporary Chicano painter Alfredo Arreguin, with accompanying bilingual catalogue, education programs and a residency. This will be the first retrospective of the Arreguin's work, covering the last 30 years.

Bowdoin College (on behalf of the Museum of Art)
Brunswick, ME
$20,000
To support a touring exhibition examining how late 19th and late 20th century representations of the ghost in visual art functioned metaphorically for both anxiety and optimism at the time of radical technological innovation. The exhibition will include the work of 19th-century photographers and contemporary artists working in a variety of media.

Cleveland Museum of Art (consortium)
Cleveland, OH
$65,000
To support the exhibition Magna Grecia: Greek Art from South Italy and Sicily, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Organized with the Tampa Museum of Art in Florida, the exhibition features masterworks that have never before been seen in America.

Columbia University in the City of New York
(on behalf of Wallach Art Gallery)
$10,000
New York, NY
To support an exhibition of the work of Mexican artist Fernando Leal (1896-1964) with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Leal was an influential member of the Mexican avant-garde throughout the 1920s and 1930s.

Contemporary Arts Center
New Orleans, LA
$20,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of Louisiana artist Douglas Bourgeois (b. 1951), with accompanying catalogue. This will be the first mid-career survey of Bourgeois' paintings.

Cornell University
(on behalf of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art)
Ithaca, NY
$25,000
To support the touring exhibition Byrdcliffe: An American Arts and Crafts Colony. The exhibition and accompanying catalogue will celebrate the centennial of Byrdcliffe, a colony founded as a center for artists and craftsmen in Woodstock, NY in 1902.

Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support an exhibition of the work of Dutch artist Michael Sweerts (1618-1664), with accompanying education programs. The exhibition is being organized in collaboration with the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, CT, and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

Denver Art Museum
Denver, CO
$45,000
To support the touring exhibition Painting a New World: Mexican Colonial Art 1521-1821, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will explore the complex society of colonial Mexico through the presentation and interpretation of paintings that depict the diverse cultural forces at work during this period.

Des Moines Art Center (Edmundson Art Foundation, Inc.)
Des Moines, IA
$45,000
To support a public art project and exhibition of the work of contemporary English artist Andy Goldsworthy. Titled Three Cairns, the project involves collaboration with two other East and West Coast American venues.

Dia Center for the Arts
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the next phase in the completion of American artist James Turrell's Roden Crater project. Turrell is in the process of transforming a crater into a monumental work of art that relates to changing experiences of the surrounding environment, sky and land.

Drawing Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the touring exhibition Ocean Flowers and Ferns: Botanical (Photogenic) Drawings, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will feature hand drawn natural history illustrations and experimental botanical photograms from the mid-19th century.

Exploratorium
San Francisco, CA
$60,000
To support artists residencies to create installations for the museum's collection of science exhibitions. The project will include a symposium of artists and scientists to discuss the implications of their artwork and its relation to the latest research in biology.

Fabric Workshop and Museum
Philadelphia, PA
$65,000
To support the Fabric Workshop Museum's artist-in-residence program. The program provides a workshop for experimentation by contemporary artists who may or may not have considered fabric as a part of their work.

Friends of the Schindler House
Los Angeles, CA
$17,000
To support the exhibition Houses and Artists. The exhibition will consist of up to 12 houses designed by contemporary artists in collaboration with the New York-based architecture firm Open Office.

Harvard University (on behalf of the Harvard University Art Museums)
Cambridge, MA
$25,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of Italian artist Medardo Rosso (1858-1928), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Rosso is a key figure in the development of modern sculpture.

Heckscher Museum
Huntington, NY
$20,000
To support the touring exhibition Out of the Shadows: Helen Torr: A Retrospective, with accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will place the work of this modernist painter, long overshadowed by her husband, artist Arthur Dove, in a brighter light.

Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
San Marino, CA
$20,000
To support the presentation of a retrospective of British artist George Romney (1734-1802), with accompanying education programs. Organized by the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, England, the exhibition will mark the bi-centenary of Romney's death.

Jewish Museum
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the touring exhibition New York: Capital of Photography, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will highlight the role that Jewish photographers played in the development of the genre known as "street photography" and the impact of their work on the perception of New York City.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Museum Associates)
Los Angeles, CA
$100,000
To support the exhibition Noh and Kyogen Theater in Japan, with accompanying catalogue and exhibition programs. The exhibition is being co-organized with the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan.

Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY
$100,000
To support the exhibition The Timeless Genius of Leonardo da Vinci, with accompanying education programs. The exhibition will reintroduce American audiences to this icon of artistic, humanistic, scientific and technological genius on a broader scale than ever before in this country.

Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support two exhibitions and a youth-based, mural-making training program. The exhibitions are Los Tres Grandes: Orozco, Rivera, Siquieros, and a group show of local artists' work.

Museum of American Folk Art
New York, NY
$15,000
To support a touring exhibition drawn from the Museum's permanent collection, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Works dating from the colonial period to the present will be included.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
$45,000
To support a touring exhibition of drawings by American artist Willem de Kooning, with accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will highlight de Kooning's most significant abstract renderings of the female form.

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
La Jolla, CA
$45,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American artist Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will focus on Kelly's figure/ground paintings of the late 1950s and mid-1960s.

Museum of Craft & Folk Art
San Francisco, CA
$7,500
To support the exhibition Fusing Traditions: Transformations in Glass by Native American Artists, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will bring together the work of the first generation of Native American studio glass artists for the first time.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Houston, TX
$110,000
To support a touring exhibition on the history of Japanese photography, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition is being co-organized with the Japan Foundation, Tokyo.

New Museum of Contemporary Art
New York, NY
$25,000
To support a series of new media presentations by contemporary artists in the Media Z Lounge. The Lounge programs investigate the impact of digital media on contemporary visual culture.

New York University (on behalf of Grey Art Gallery)
New York, NY
$27,000
To support a retrospective exhibition of the work of American artist Nancy Burson, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition is being organized in collaboration with the Blaffer Gallery at the University of Houston.

North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation, Inc.
Raleigh, NC
$50,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of Dutch artist Jan Miense Molenaer (ca.1610 1668), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will be organized around the museum's own Molenaer painting, The Dentist from 1629.

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
Long Island City, NY
$30,000
To support the presentation of the exhibition The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994, with accompanying education programs. The exhibition explores the political, philosophical, cultural and social developments that led to the dismantling of colonialism in Africa through a program of artwork, film, photography, music, literature and performances by 57 artists.

Paris Gibson Square, Inc.
Great Falls, MT
$16,000
To support an exhibition of the work of American artist Patrick Zentz, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will examine the influence of Montana's vast landscape in Zentz's sculpture.

Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, PA
$75,000
To support an exhibition of the work of American artist Barnett Newman. The exhibition is being organized in association with the Tate Gallery, London.

Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$30,000
To support the creation of a new work by Beijing-based artist Feng Mengbo, with accompanying catalogue, education programs and conference titled Playing by the Rules: The Cultural Policy and Challenges of Video Games. The new work, entitled QU4, is a digital piece that uses the medium of the video game as a teaching tool, creative outlet and source of entertainment.

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Inc.
(on behalf of the High Museum of Art)
$50,000
Atlanta, GA
To support the touring exhibition After Whistler, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. This will be the first exhibition to show James McNeill Whistler's influence on American art, as well as the first major exhibition of his work in the Southeast.

Saint Louis Art Museum
St. Louis, MO
$30,000
To support planning for the exhibition A Walking Shadow: Ritual Art from New Ireland. The museum plans to present the most comprehensive exhibition to date to focus on the art of this Western Pacific island group.

Santa Monica Museum of Art
Santa Monica, CA
$12,000
To support the touring exhibition Unusual Behavior: The Art of Richard Jackson, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will survey the work of this Los Angeles-based artist's 40-year career, including his wall paintings, stacked canvas works and painting machines.

Seattle Art Museum
Seattle, WA
$45,000
To support the exhibition Long Steps Never Broke a Back: Art from Africa in America, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will draw primarily from the museum's permanent collection, while collaborations with advisors, African artists and community organizations will shape installations and interpretations of the artwork.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Center
New York, NY
$45,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American artist James Rosenquist, with accompanying education programs. This will be the first survey of this internationally recognized artist's work since 1972.

St. Bonaventure University (on behalf of Quick Art Center)
St. Bonaventure, NY
$10,000
To support the exhibition Projection Grand Piano, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. This exhibition will feature the work of American artist/musician Ken Butler, specifically an interactive audio-visual assemblage sculpture of reconfigured objects, machine parts and other audio-visual items made of wood, metal and plastic.

Toledo Museum of Art
Toledo, OH
$55,000
To support the touring exhibition Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617): Prints, Drawings, and Paintings, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. This exhibition will present for the first time a full survey of this Dutch artist's work.

University of California at Los Angeles, Regents of
(on behalf of the Fowler Museum of Cultural History)
Los Angeles, CA
$27,000
To support the touring exhibition Apartheid and After: The Art of Willie Bester, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. This exhibition will be the first retrospective to trace the work and career of this contemporary South African artist.

University of Colorado at Boulder
(on behalf of the Art Galleries)
Boulder, CO
$25,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American artist Leslie Dill, with accompanying catalogue, artist residency, community art project and choral performance. In collaboration with Naropa University and Ars Nova Singers, the University of Colorado will present another of Dill's community-oriented, interactive public art projects.

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
(on behalf of the Weisman Art Museum)
Minneapolis, MN
$55,000
To support the touring exhibition On the Edge of Your Seat: Popular Theatre and Film in Early 20th-Century American Art, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. This will be the first major exhibition and publication to explore the art inspired by the visual culture of American popular entertainment from 1890 to 1930.

University of North Texas (on behalf of the Art Gallery)
Denton, TX
$24,500
To support the Silkroad to Pophighway project which will involve the creation and installation of work by artist Wenda Gu, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. This project, jointly developed between the Art Gallery, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art and Kansas City Art Institute, will demonstrate Gu's interpretation of the relationship between China and the West, past and present.

University of Rochester (on behalf of the Memorial Art Gallery)
Rochester, NY
$20,000
To support the touring exhibition George Bellows at Woodstock (1920-24), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will examine this short period in Bellows' career during which his work was influenced by the extremities of realism and abstraction, as well as the landscapes and communities of Woodstock.

University of South Florida (on behalf of the Contemporary Art Museum)
Tampa, FL
$15,000
To support the touring exhibition Contemporary Art and the African Lens, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. In collaboration with the University of Witwatersrand/
Gertrude Posel Gallery in Johannesburg, USF will create an exhibition that will explore the multifaceted concept of diaspora and African identity through contemporary photography and lens-based media.

University of Texas at Arlington (on behalf of The Gallery)
Arlington, TX
$16,000
To support the touring exhibition Stories Your Mother Never Told You: A Survey of Photography and Text by Celia Alvarez Munoz, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will present a 20 year-survey of Munoz's work and will focus on the intersection of the artist's personal memories with her Chicana perspective.

University of Wisconsin at Madison
(on behalf of the Elvehjem Museum of Art)
$16,000
Madison, WI
To support the touring exhibition Contemporary Studio Cabinetry: The Inside Story, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The presentation of the exhibition will coincide with the National Furniture Society's annual conference in Madison and will include case furniture by 38 international artists.

Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, NY
$45,000
To support the touring exhibition The Paintings of Joan Mitchell, with accompanying catalogue. This is a major retrospective that will cover the artist's entire career, from the early works of 1949 until her death in 1992.

Worcester Art Museum
Worcester, MA
$20,000
To support the planning stage for the touring exhibition Roots and Legacies in African American Art, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will trace the development of African American painting, sculpture, collage and printmaking through the 20th century and will focus on African American artists' responses to African art and Cubism.

Heritage/Preservation

African American Museum in Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
To support the exhibition Biennial 2002: Crafts, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. This will be the first exhibition of African American crafts organized by the museum and will feature work by 15 African American artists from various regions of the United States.

Barnes Foundation
Merion Station, PA
$25,000
To support research, cataloguing and photographic documentation of the Early American ceramics collection. The project is the first step toward a future publication of the collection.

Brooklyn Historical Society
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
To support the exhibition The Art of Work and related programming. A series of public programs and video segments will be created to accompany the society's new permanent exhibition, Brooklyn Works: 350 Years of Making a Living in Brooklyn.

Burchfield-Penney Art Center
Buffalo, NY
$12,000
To support a retrospective exhibition of the work of Milton Rogovin (b. 1909), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition, generated by a recent gift of Rogovin's work to the center, will feature works that represent all phases of the artist's career.

Carnegie Institute (on behalf of Museum of Art)
Pittsburgh, PA
$25,000
To support a post-graduate conservation fellowship position. The fellow will survey approximately 1,000 paintings in preparation for new construction projects, during which the paintings storage will be moved, and will participate in all staff discussions regarding conservation and collection management issues.

Chinese Historical Society of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
$5,000
To support the development of an archive storage facility to house both current collections and future donations. This phase of the project will include researching appropriate software, creating a centralized database of collection objects, hiring curatorial staff to oversee cataloguing and documentation, and acquisition of archival storage materials.

Cincinnati Museum Association
Cincinnati, OH
$50,000
To support the reinstallation from the permanent collection of objects in the newly renovated Cincinnati Wing, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The project will use the museum's comprehensive holdings of work produced by artists in Cincinnati during the 19th and 20th centuries to demonstrate the pivotal role the city played in the history of American art.

Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
To support a one-year postgraduate internship in paper conservation. The project will involve training in the treatment of works on paper such as drawings, prints and watercolors, as well as manuscripts, maps, photographs, parchment and books.

Eastman Memorial Foundation
(on behalf of Lauren Rogers Museum of Art)
$27,000
Laurel, MS
To support the production of a catalogue of the Native American basket collection. Collected at the turn of the 19th century by Laurel resident Catherine Marshall Gardiner, the collection is considered to be one of the most comprehensive in the world.

Evergreen House Foundation
Baltimore, MD
$30,000
To support the conservation of works by Russian artist Leon Bakst (1866-1924) in the permanent collection. The collection consists of theater sets, backdrops, drawings, curtains and stencils designed by the artist for Evergreen's theater.

Friends, Foundation of the California African American Museum
Los Angeles, CA
$24,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of African American artist Grafton Tyler Brown (1816 1918), with accompanying catalogue. Brown was one of a small number of African American professional landscape painters in the United States in the 19th century and one of the earliest African American painters in the West.

George Eastman House (consortium)
Rochester, NY
$55,000
To support the touring exhibition Young America: The Daguerreotypes of Southworth and Hawes, and accompanying education programs. The exhibition is being co-organized with the International Center of Photography in New York City.

Hampton University (on behalf of University Museum)
Hampton, VA
$15,000
To support the publication of a special issue of the museum's journal, the International Review of African American Art. The issue will present recent research of art historians on the topic "Oh I wish I was in the land of cotton: Dixie Myths and Downhome Realities in Post-Migration African American Art."

Hyde Collection Trust
Glens Falls, NY
$22,000
To support conservation treatment of the collection of Italian Renaissance and 18th century French furniture, with accompanying interpretive and educational programs. The project is part of a major renovation, reinstallation and reinterpretation of historic Hyde House.

Lyme Historical Society (on behalf of Florence Griswold Museum)
Old Lyme, CT
$5,000
To support a planning project to develop a furnishings plan for the 1817 Florence Griswold House, now an art museum and National Historic Landmark. The plan will form the basis for a long-term exhibition portraying the house's former role as a boarding house for artists, circa 1905-1915, and the center of the Lyme Art Colony.

Mexican Museum
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support curatorial research and planning for an exhibition titled La Tercera Raiz (The Third Root): The African Presence in Mexico. Through visual, literary, media and performing arts, the exhibition will expand scholarship and introduce the American public to a relatively unknown Afro Mestizo component of Mexican cultural heritage.

Mint Museum of Art, Inc.
Charlotte, NC
$15,000
To support the preparation of a manuscript for a catalogue of the North Carolina pottery collection. The comprehensive collection, of approximately 2,700 pieces, spans three centuries and includes works from all the major pottery centers in the state.

Northeast Document Conservation Center
Andover, MA
$22,000
To support What's Wrong with this Picture?, a pilot workshop for museum professionals on preserving and digitizing photographs. The workshop will be developed and offered at Montana State University-Bozeman to serve archivists and curators at tribal colleges.

Peabody Essex Museum, Inc.
Salem, MA
$25,000
To support a permanent installation of Native American art in a newly renovated and expanded gallery space. Using a combination of traditional and multimedia interpretive tools, the museum will display its collections of Native American art representing the Plains, Northwest Coast, Arctic, Southwest and Central and South America regions.

Preservation Trust of Vermont
Burlington, VT
$30,000
To support the preservation and treatment of painted theater curtains in Vermont. This will be the first comprehensive survey of, and stabilization effort for, these highly decorated stage curtains.

Randolph-Macon Woman's College
(on behalf of Maier Museum of Art)
$18,000
Lynchburg, VA
To support the conservation treatment of paintings and works on paper by American artist Arthur B. Davies (1862-1928) in the permanent collection. It is anticipated that the conservation will form the basis for a traveling exhibition that was not possible in the past because of the condition of the works.

Textile Conservation Workshop, Inc.
South Salem, NY
$18,000
To support a master-apprenticeship for in-depth training in textile conservation. As a regional conservation laboratory, the program fills a gap not covered by formal conservation courses in graduate school programs.

Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian
Santa Fe, NM
$7,000
To support the completion of a detailed condition survey of the museum's Navajo folk art and pottery collections with accompanying conservation-related education programs. This project is part of a broad conservation plan that will include systematic surveying and treatment of the museum's permanent collection.

Organizational Capacity

Northeast Document Conservation Center (consortium)
Andover, MA
$17,500
To support Off the Wall, Online, a national conference on putting art collections on the Internet and using them in educational programming. The goal is to enhance the skills of museum professionals and enable museums to use technology to reach new audiences.

Vermont Museum & Gallery Alliance
Woodstock, VT
$7,500
To support the Collections Care Program which provides technical assistance to Vermont's historical societies, museums and galleries. Collection care workshops, general collection condition surveys, and on-site training will be offered to the staff and volunteers of the organization's 220 member institutions.

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