Visual Arts: FY2003 Grants

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

Access | Creativity | Heritage/Preservation | Panelists

Access

3-D Chicago
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support the sixth annual Pier Walk, The Chicago International Sculpture Exhibition. To be juried by critic and writer David Pagel, Pier Walk is the biggest exhibition of large-scale outdoor sculpture in the world, featuring work by approximately 40 sculptors.

Art Resources Transfer, Inc. (aka A.R.T. Press)
New York, NY
$48,000
To support the Distribution to Underserved Communities Program. The project will offer books, museum catalogs, videos and other material about contemporary art, free-of-charge, to libraries across the nation with a special emphasis on rural and inner-city libraries.

Asian American Arts Centre, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support Stories of Chinatown, an intergenerational public art project. Organized in collaboration with Elders Share the Arts, the program will bring Chinatown seniors together with high school youth to create artwork that presents the untold stories of the aging immigrant population.

Bastrop Association for the Arts
Bastrop, TX
$5,000
To support a collaborative public art project in a Texas hill country high school. Lead by the artist Raul Valdez, high school teachers will engage the students in a semester-long interior mural project.

Clay Studio (consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$18,000
To support a traveling exhibition of work by contemporary Chinese ceramic artists. The project is a collaboration with the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art.

Constitution Project (consortium)
Portland, OR
$10,000
To support If Walls Could Talk, a project designed to commemorate the contributions of African Americans to New Orleans' history. Working in collaboration with the Ashe Cultural Arts Center, local artists will receive training in digital software applications to be used in the production of a series of large community murals.

Covington Community Center, Inc.
Covington, KY
$10,000
To support The Gateway Project, featuring mosaic tilework as a means of identifying different neighborhoods in the city of Covington. Artists Jackie Slone and Rosemary Topie will direct this intergenerational project, which will engage the participants in discussions about the city's history and their individual heritage.

Creative Center for Women with Cancer
New York, NY
$15,000
To support an artists' residency program to bring artists to different hospitals to work with terminally ill patients. Patients receive instruction and an introduction to various techniques in watercolor, clay, drawing, sculpture and collage.

Eldergivers
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support an art instruction program for Bay Area nursing homes. Building upon 10 years of experience, Eldergivers will hire professional artists with teaching experience to conduct workshops for institutionalized seniors.

Escuela de Artes Plasticas de Puerto Rico
San Juan, PR
$40,000
To support the Artist-in-Residence program bringing contemporary artists to Puerto Rico for residencies. Artists such as Ursula Von Rydingsvard, Julio Valdez, Helga Griffiths and William C. Quan will lead workshops and give lectures to the school's student population, as well as conduct lectures open to the general public.

Maine Fiberarts
Brunswick, ME
$25,000
To support The State of Fiber: 2004. A statewide series of activities and events will include exhibitions, workshops, demonstrations and lectures targeted to the general public, as well as services and resources that are field specific.

Montana State University (on behalf of School of Art)
Bozeman, MT
$8,000
To support a visiting artist lecture series and an exhibition of work by South-African printmakers. The lecture series will examine the degree of social activism reflected in the work of contemporary artists.

National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts
Erie, CO
$40,000
To support the annual conference of the nation's oldest and largest professional service organization for the ceramic arts. To be held in Indianapolis in 2004, Fields of Clay will include a series of exhibitions, critical lectures, panels and workshop demonstrations.

Pyramid Atlantic, Inc.
Riverdale, MD
$54,000
To support Discoveries through Reading as Process, Art as Content--an artist residency project designed to improve visual literacy. The program will bring artist and educator Tim Rollins and his team, Kids of Survival (K.O.S.), to work with students and teachers to explore print and papermaking, digital media and the book arts.

Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation
Honolulu, HI
$15,000
To support studio arts instruction for patients at the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific. Instruction is provided by professional guest artists who tailor their approach to the particular needs of adults and children with physical or cognitive disabilities.

Richmond Arts Center (on behalf of Quilt of Many Colors Project)
Richmond, CA
$10,000
To support the Quilt of Many Colors Project, a series of curated exhibitions installed in the waiting room of Richmond's main public health facility. The project will promote the value of the arts in the healing process and provide access to art for approximately 30,000 users of the facility.

St. Augustine-Baracoa Friendship Association
St. Augustine, FL
$10,000
To support Shared Vision, a traveling exhibition and catalog documenting two of the oldest continuously inhabited Spanish settlements in the U.S. and Cuba. St. Augustine, in Florida, and Baracoa, in Cuba, will be recorded by two American and two Cuban photographers.

Visual Studies Workshop, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$15,000
To support a residency program in photography, bookmaking, digital imaging, digital video, and small format film and video that will provide artists with access to high-quality equipment and materials. Participating artists will receive a stipend, travel costs, use of the facilities, training and housing for one-month residencies.

Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts
Newcastle, ME
$12,000
To support expansion of the services of MudMobile, a statewide traveling ceramics program in a van. The MudMobile will inaugurate a Community Clay public arts program in two Maine towns.

Wave Hill, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$10,000
To support the Family Art Project. A series of free weekend workshops will provide families the opportunity to create nature-based art projects inspired by craft traditions from around the world.

Creativity

Abington Art Center
Jenkintown, PA
$17,000
To support a comprehensive planning process for the Art Center's sculpture garden. Guided by public art and curatorial consultant Jennifer McGregor, the project is designed to build on past successes of the site.

Advaita Society (Kala Institute)
Berkeley, CA
$13,000
To support the Artist-in-Residence Fellowship Program. Artists will be provided with a stipend and 24 hour access for a six-month period to this 8,500 square-foot facility.

Alternative Museum (TAM)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Emerging Web Curators Initiative which will assist and promote individuals interested in curating online. The Alternative Museum will provide honoraria for artists and guest curators, technical and/or professional support and online exhibitions.

Arlington County Cultural Affairs Division
Arlington, VA
$20,000
To support a public art project documenting the daily lives of citizens in Arlington County. Using small video cameras mounted on the participants, video will be projected at seven public outdoor sites and streamed live on the web.

Art in General, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
To support artist residencies and exhibitions as well as accompanying publications, educational outreach and public programs. The proposed artists will be in residence for periods of two months, with two New York-based artists participating in an international exchange, working in Krakow and Warsaw, Poland.

Art Papers, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$22,000
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 publishing for the first time.

ArtLies
Houston, TX
$13,000
To support the reviews section of ArtLies, a quarterly publication that covers the visual arts in Texas. First published in 1993, ArtLies seeks to expand its news coverage and critical dialogue of the visual arts.

Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
Omaha, NE
$40,000
To support residencies for artists to create new work. Participating artists will be provided with housing, workspace, technical assistance and a monthly stipend for three- to six-month periods.

Bronx Council on the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Longwood Arts Gallery)
Bronx, NY
$31,000
To support cyberspace residencies that enable artists to work with advanced computer technology. An exhibition of completed works will be hosted on Longwood's online cyber gallery; public programs and demonstrations will complement the residencies.

California College of Arts and Crafts
Oakland, CA
$35,000
To support artists residencies and other activities on the 20th anniversary of Capp Street Project. Artists such as Ann Veronica Janssens, Mike Kelley and Roni Horn will create new work while in residence; an accompanying catalog, symposium and public programs are planned.

CEPA Gallery (Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art)
Buffalo, NY
$13,000
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.

CITYArts, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the creation of a mural celebrating the history of Latino music in East Harlem. The project, which will be installed on an exterior wall of P.S. 72, is part of the Community Identity neighborhood revitalization program that addresses social issues through the creation of art.

ConjunctionArts (Collaborative Urban Sculpture)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support residencies for artists in collaboration with progressive organizations and businesses existing outside of traditional art contexts. The program will link artists with non-arts organizations to establish creative works that respond to the missions of their partnering organizations.

Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis/ Forum for Contemporary Art
St. Louis, MO
$26,000
To support an exhibition and catalog for Trick of the Eye, featuring the work of the artist Yun Fe Ji. A Chinese-born artist Ji uses traditional materials such as inks, muted pigments, Chinese brushes and handmade mulberry paper to illuminate historic and contemporary concerns.

CPW (Center for Photography at Woodstock, Inc.)
Woodstock, NY
$12,000
To support a residency program for photographers. Artists will be provided with an honorarium, studio and darkroom access, equipment, lodging and meals for a one-month residency.

Creative Growth, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$15,000
To support a publication documenting the work of the artist Donald Mitchell. Mitchell has been producing work since 1976 at Creative Growth, an arts center dedicated to working with artists with physical, mental and developmental disabilities.

CW&TW (Center for Women & Their Work)
Austin, TX
$27,000
To support a series of solo exhibitions targeted to young and emerging women artists of Texas. The exhibitions will be accompanied by catalogs and educational and outreach activities.

En Foco, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$22,000
To support production of three 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, a comprehensive listing of career opportunities and other resources.

Enchanted Highway, Inc.
Regent, ND
$5,000
To support installation costs for a public art piece for The Enchanted Highway, located along a North Dakota highway. Artist Gary Greff will install a large-scale metal sculpture depicting a spider web to complement other works at the site including grasshoppers, pheasants and geese.

Exit Art/The First World, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support The L Factor. The exhibition will examine the culture emerging out of the fusion of Hispanic and Latino influences in contemporary American life.

FORECAST Public Artworks
St. Paul, MN
$18,000
To support the publication Public Art Review, a journal detailing trends and new projects in the public art field. One issue will focus on cross-disciplinary public art projects; another will examine the use of light in public art.

Houston Center for Photography
Houston, TX
$25,000
To support a traveling exhibition and catalog featuring work by artists who specialize in photograms. Artists Joy Gregory and the collaborative team of Francoise and Daniel Cartier will be commissioned to make new work.

International Print Center New York
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the New Prints Program, a series of exhibitions designed to bring printmaking to a wider audience. A selection committee will jury submissions with a particular emphasis on prints from small community based workshops, university and regional presses.

International Sculpture Center, Inc.
Hamilton, NJ
$20,000
To support a series of articles and reviews on emerging and under-recognized artists for Sculpture magazine. Articles solicited will focus on work of current artists, events and public art projects.

Light Work Visual Studies, Inc.
Syracuse, NY
$45,000
To support a residency program for artists and 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, an ever-expanding collection of over 1,900 images, essays, and biographical information.

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support the commission and exhibition of a site-specific public artwork by Maria Elena Gonzalez. Gonzalez will build and install Magic Carpet/Home during a residency by working with members of a public housing complex in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Mexic-Arte
Austin, TX
$17,000
To support a series of exhibitions featuring the work of contemporary Latino artists. The project will include two exhibitions by prominent artists and a series of shows for emerging artists.

Montalvo Association
Saratoga, CA
$12,000
To support the installation of a large outdoor sculpture by Patrick Dougherty. The artist will work with community volunteers during a three-week residency to realize the site-specific work of woven and twisted tree saplings.

Peace for the Streets by Kids from the Streets
Seattle, WA
$25,000
To support the public art project Transitions. Artists Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry will create a series of street installations addressing issues of homelessness and youth.

PEACH Club/Gallery 312, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support When the Bough Breaks, a large-scale mixed media project by Esther Parada. The project will incorporate digital photography and video to explore the loss of American tree species, issues of racial diversity, new definitions of family and the nature of communities.

Pilchuck Glass School
Seattle, WA
$25,000
To support planning and implementation of a summer artists residency program. Artists will be provided with time, resources, facilities and technical assistance on Pilchuck's campus.

Printed Matter, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support continued development of a web-based catalogue raisonne documenting the history of artists' books. While Printed Matter has been compiling a resource since its inception in 1976, new technologies have presented opportunities to expand the audience for the genre.

Project Row Houses
Houston, TX
$42,000
To support a residency program to commission artist installations in several shotgun-style row houses. Artists will be provided with a commissioning fee, a materials stipend, travel costs and per diem.

Public Art Fund, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support In the Public Realm, a commissioning opportunity for emerging artists to develop art projects in an urban context. The temporary projects will be documented in a series of publications.

Real Art Ways, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$30,000
To support an exhibition series Don't Trust Anyone Over 30, featuring the work of artists age 30 and under. An open call will be issued to artists of that age group living in New York and the New England region, and a jury will select the recipients of solo exhibitions.

Revolving Museum, Inc.
Lowell, MA
$26,000
To support the public art series On Track & Off the Beaten Path. The project will unite artists, local organizations and city leaders in a collaborative effort to transform the underutilized train tracks and alleyways of Lowell's historic district.

Roswell Museum and Art Center Foundation
(on behalf of Roswell Artist in Residence Program)
$16,000
To support one-year residencies for visual artists. Participating artists will be provided with a professionally equipped studio, living accommodations, a monthly stipend and concentrated time to develop their work.

San Francisco Camerawork, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support Off the Grid, an exhibition and catalog featuring artists who reexamine or reject standard photographic techniques. An entire issue of Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts will document the exhibition.

Sculpture Center, Inc.
Long Island, NY
$12,000
To support In Practice, an exhibition series for under-recognized sculptors. Artists, selected from an open call by a committee of artists and curators, will be provide with an honorarium and fees for materials so that they can create new work.

Sculpture Space, Inc.
Utica, NY
$15,000
To support an artists' residency program for sculptors. Artists from outside New York state will be given the opportunity to create new work during two-month residencies at a former steam engine and boilerworks plant.

Self-Help Graphics & Art, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$35,000
To support The Life and Death Printmaking Project. The project provides an opportunity for artists to create new work in a collaborative atmosphere with a master printer and to experiment with different techniques in the silkscreen format.

Serie Project, Inc.
Austin, TX
$12,000
To support a serigraph printmaking residency program for artists at all stages in their careers. The apprentices will be trained in printing, marketing, promotion and arts administration.

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Inc.
New York, NY
$11,000
To support a residency program for emerging artists. Artists will be provided with a private studio, full room and board, and weekly private and group critiques by guest artists.

Smack Mellon Studios, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
To support a program to assist artists in response to New York City's current artist housing/studio crisis. Nine to twelve artists will be selected for residency periods of one year that will include access to studio space, technical assistance and an honorarium.

Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Inc.
Staten Island, NY
$33,000
To support Engaged Vision/Engaged Mind, an exhibition of contemporary artists who have a connection to Buddhism. The project, featuring work by artists such as John Cage, Ad Reinhardt and Kristin Jones, will include a catalog.

Society of North American Goldsmiths, Inc.
Missoula, MT
$10,000
To support the 35th annual conference focusing on jewelry, design and the metal arts. To be held in San Francisco, the conference will include demonstrations, presentations, technical workshops and exhibitions.

Socrates Sculpture Park, Inc.
Long Island City, NY
$40,000
To support a residency and exhibition opportunity for sculptors to realize large-scale work at a riverfront park in an industrial neighborhood. Artists are provided with access to space, facilities, materials, equipment, technical assistance and a stipend.

Visual Arts Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support Vectors: Digital Art of Our Time, a touring exhibition and catalog. The exhibition will include seminal and new works of digital art including prints, Internet art, computer animation, interactive installations, CD-ROMs, and digital audio and music.

Women's Studio Workshop, Inc.
Rosendale, NY
$15,000
To support residencies for two mid-career artists at a print- and paper-making facility. Artists will be provided with a stipend, housing, materials allowance and travel costs for a six-week residency.

Heritage/Preservation

Arizona State University (on behalf of Bilingual Review Press)
Tempe, AZ
$18,000
To support the third volume in a series of publications documenting work by Chicano artists and art organizations since the 1960s. Published by Bilingual Review Press, the book will document artistic production from various regions of the country.

Art Re Grup, Inc. (aka The LAB)
San Francisco, CA
$9,000
To support the organization and dissemination of archive material documenting The LAB's 20-year history of contemporary arts programming. The LAB, located in San Francisco's Mission District, has presented hundreds of artists over the years whose work crossed the disciplinary boundaries of visual, performing and literary art.

Baltimore Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$15,000
To support conservation and restoration of a 1914 mural by Vincent Maragliotti above the proscenium arch in Baltimore's historic Hippodrome Theater. The mural, 45 feet long and 26 feet tall, is painted on canvas and now in storage awaiting conservation.

Brevard Community College
(on behalf of Harry T. and Harriette Moore Multicultural Center)
Cocoa, FL
$10,000
To support an exhibition and education activities featuring the work of the "Highwaymen," a group of African-American artists who painted in Florida in the mid-20th century. These artists, denied gallery representation because of their race, used their cars as mobile galleries and sold their art along the highway, driving the triangle formed by the cities of Fort Pierce, Daytona and Orlando.

Central Baptist Church
Charleston, SC
$15,000
To support conservation and restoration of murals executed in 1915 by an artist from India, Amohamed Milai, in one of the first churches built solely by African Americans. The murals are extensive and depict the life of Christ, including the Crucifixion, Ascension and Resurrection.

Dieu Donne Papermill, Inc.
New York, NY
$16,000
To support assessment and upgrade of Dieu Donne's archive. The project will be managed by a professional conservator working with staff and prominent artists who have been associated with the papermill.

Friends of Fred Smith, Inc.
Phillips, WI
$10,000
To support a conservation project to treat art works in the Wisconsin Concrete Park, an installation created by self-taught artist Fred Smith. Specific works, more than 200 sculptures and tableaux, will receive treatment, including the potential replication of a set of original organic antlers.

Heritage Preservation, Inc.
Washington, DC
$9,000
To support the second phase of a project to conserve works commissioned during the National Endowment for the Arts' Art in Public Places Program. The second phase will attempt to raise public awareness of more than 300 sculptures and their conditions.

Lower East Side Printshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the Professional Apprenticeship Program in Printmaking. The program is an intensive, hands-on, yearlong experience working with the Printshop's master printer and contemporary artists who use the facility.

Orange Show Foundation
Houston, TX
$10,000
To support conservation and restoration of the Beer Can House, a work by self-taught artist John Milkovisch. The Houston landmark, consisting of a house and grounds decorated with methodically trimmed cans, will be used as an artist-in-residence project space.

Penland School of Crafts, Inc.
Penland, NC
$12,000
To support printing and distribution costs of a publication documenting Penland's 75th anniversary. Designed to complement a traveling exhibition and other programming organized by Penland and the Mint Museum of Craft and Design, the publication will function as a book about craft rather than simply an exhibition catalogue.

Pi Beta Phi Settlement School (aka Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts)
Gatlinburg, TN
$9,000
To support development of a comprehensive, on-line, digital archive of Arrowmont's permanent collection of more than 1,000 objects. The school's collection, acquired over the past 90 years, represents a variety of craft traditions and has the potential to be a great resource and teaching tool.

Precita Eyes Muralists Association, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$17,000
To support research and development of a book documenting the murals of San Franciso's Mission District. To be published and distributed by the University of California Press, the volume will present the murals in full-color photographs.

Rhizome Communications, Inc. (aka Rhizome.org)
New York, NY
$7,000
To support continued development of the Rhizome ArtBase, an on-line platform for new media art. The project will include adding new works to the database, preparing for potential preservation issues related to technological obsolescence and disseminating new media preservation information with peer institutions.

Smyrna School District
Smyrna, DE
$10,000
To support conservation and restoration of eight large WPA murals executed in the 1930s by Brandywine River School artists Walter Pyle, Jr., Stafford Good and Edward Grant. The murals are extensive and reflect life and culture in the Delaware region.

Southwest Texas State University (on behalf of Alkek Library)
San Marcos, TX
$10,000
To support conservation and restoration of a section of a 1951 Buck Winn mural, depicting the visual drama of an early cattle drive. Originally painted for the Pearl Brewery in San Antonio, it was removed, folded accordion-style, and placed in storage in the 1970s.

University of Wyoming
Laramie, WY
$10,000
To support conservation and restoration of a WPA mural executed in 1940 by Lynn Fausett. The mural depicts the mythological arrival of the new university President, Arthur Crane.

Waterworks Visual Arts Center, Inc.
Salisbury, NC
$28,000
To support a public art memorial to honor African-American history at the site of the Freedman's Cemetery. Deeded to serve as a burial ground for African Americans in 1770, over the last 100 years portions of the cemetery were violated, bodies disinterred and all markers removed.

Wauwatosa Historical Society, Inc. (consortium)
Wauwatosa, WI
$10,000
To support conservation and restoration of WPA murals, decorative plasterwork, and ornamental tile on the ceiling and entryway of Wauwatosa East High School. The murals, long concealed by drop ceiling panels, will be conserved by a professional conservator working with artists in collaboration with the school district and the city government.

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