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Recent Art Grants

2009-2010


Marketplace Empowerment for Artists

Organizations

 

Artist Trust
Seattle, Washington
$30,000
To support the continued development and delivery of career training and professional resources for artists including the EDGE Professional Development Program.

 

Arts Council of New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana
$60,000
To support the continued development and implementation of a series of business development workshops for visual artists.

 

Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
Atlanta, Georgia
$40,000
To continue the expansion of the core Artist Survival Skills program which provides useful and current information, feedback, training and networking opportunities for artists developing their creative lives and careers.  To listen to a selection of the Artist Survival Skills podcasts, please click here.

$40,000
To support the development and publication of Creative Lives and Careers.

 

Chicago Cultural Center Foundation
Chicago, Illinois
$45,000
To support the development of core partners to begin national syndication of the Chicago Artists Resource (CAR).


College Art Association
New York, New York
$100,000
To continue the CAA National Professional-Development Workshops in 8 underserved communities around the country.


Creative Capital
New York, New York
$50,000
To support the continued refinement of the Internet for Artists workshop as a part of their Professional Development Program.

 

New York Foundation for the Arts
New York, New York
$30,000
To support the continued development and delivery of MARK: A Statewide Initiative for New York Artists.

$45,000
To support the development and implementation of the MARK Alumni Program, a two part program that includes: (1) training select MARK Alumni to provide professional development consultations for artists in their respective regions and (2) developing a portfolio website for MARK Alumni to feature and promote their work.


Side Street Projects
Pasadena, California
$30,000
To support the creation and distribution of Best Professional Practices: A Podcast Series for Artists, a series for emerging visual artists and Critique Clusters, a model for moderated critique groups utilizing social networking tools and distance-learning to address artists’ studio practice, careers and professional practice for emerging visual artists.  To listen to the Fall 2008 Podcast Series: What Do Curators Want?: Best Professional Practices for Cultivating and Maintaining Relationships with Exhibition Venues, please click here.


2008


Marketplace Empowerment for Artists
Organizations

Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston
Boston, Massachusetts
$100,000
To support the development of the newly merged Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston and Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts of Massachusetts’ Artist's Professional Toolbox Fellows program.

Arts Council of New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana
$30,000
To support the professional practice training for visual artists programs which include the Artist as Entrepreneur program, the series of monthly professional workshops for artists and the creation of internet-based professional development Webinars which are then available by pod cast.

Creative Capital
New York, New York
$125,000
For the development of new modules for the Professional Development Program including Talking About your Art: Effective Verbal Communications, Fundraising from Individuals and Internet for Artists.

LegalArt
Miami, Florida
$170,000
To support the expansion of the staff for the organization as well as the growth of the SeminArt program which focuses on providing artists with professional business training and exposing artists to opportunities, ideas and strategies that are designed to strengthen and prolong their success.

Louisiana ArtWorks
New Orleans, Louisiana
$100,000
To support the 2008 and 2009 Annual Professional Career Workshop for Artists weekend which provides to the New Orleans artists community a hands-on learning experiences as well as lectures and panel discussions by artists, arts service organizations, galleries and government institutions.

New York Foundation for the Arts
New York, New York
$10,000
To support the development and maintenance of a Professional Development button on the NYFA Source landing page that will provide easy access to nationwide professional development program information.

Springboard for the Arts
Saint Paul, Minnesota
$100,000
To support the expansion of the Work of Art: Business Skills for Artists curriculum which serves artists with professional practice training in the 5-state upper Midwest region.

Universities

Columbia University School of the Arts
New York, New York
$55,000
To continue to support activities for the Masters in Fine Arts course Professional Practice: Building and Sustaining A Career, including guest speakers, fieldtrips and similar endeavors for the next five academic years.

School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
$55,000
To continue to support activities for the Masters in Fine Arts course The Constant Evolution of Being an Artist, including guest speakers, fieldtrips and similar endeavors for the next five academic years.

Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award


Susan Cross 
Material World: Painting and Sculpture as Environment
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA)
North Adams, Massachusetts
$135,000

Kimberli Meyer
Curatorial Team: Lisa Henry, Nizan Shaked and Gloria Sutton 
How Many Billboards? Art In Stead 
MAK Center for Art and Architecture
Los Angeles, California
$150,000

Stephanie Smith
Feast: Radical Hospitality and Contemporary Art
Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
$150,000
To read Stephanie Smith's curatorial research blog documenting her global travels, meals and research for Feast, please click here.

For information on the 2010 Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award , please click here.

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