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The National Endowment for the Arts awarded grants to several design-related
organizations for 2004. The NEA funds projects that have national, regional,
or field-wise significance; that tour in several states; or that provide
an unusual or especially valuable contribution because of geographic location.
This includes local projects that can have significant effects within
communities or that are likely to serve as models for a field. The size
or type of applicant organization is not a determining factor.
This year, the organization awarded grants in 15 different categories,
including design, folk and traditional arts, local arts agencies, multidisciplinary,
museums, and visual arts. Architecture-related awards include:
- Artists Space, Inc., New York
City, to support the Architecture and Design Project Series. The exhibitions
provide a venue for emerging and recognized architects and will introduce
current architectural debates to a design, visual-arts, and general
audience.
- Los Angeles Forum for Architecture,
Los Angeles, to support a traveling exhibition and catalogue on community
and civic design projects by area architecture schools. The more than
50 design-build projects include day-care facilities, educational training
centers, battered-women shelters, community centers, and urban gardens.
- Museum of Modern Art, New York
City, to support the design and production of a site-specific architectural
installation at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. The project will create
a public venue and provide critical exposure to emerging architects/designers.
- Nashville Cultural Arts Project,
Nashville, to support a lecture series. Nationally recognized designers
will make public presentations on cross-disciplinary projects in the
arts, architecture, and urban development.
- National Building Museum, Washington,
D.C., to support an architectural exhibit, symposium, and lectures on
a collection of architectural drawings. Envisioning
Architecture: Drawings From the Museum of Modern Art has toured
in Europe and will appear in no other U.S. venue.
- Ohio State University Research Foundation,
Columbus, to support a symposium and workshop on the use of contemporary
digital technologies by women architects and artists. The architects
will present their work to a professional and general audience with
special outreach to local high school students.
- openhousenewyork inc., New York
City, to support a site map, interpretive handouts, and Web site guide
for a New York architecture tour. The weekend event tours all five boroughs
and provides access to buildings and facilities not typically open to
the public.
- Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia,
to support an exhibition and catalogue on the Olin Partnership. The
exhibition will be the first retrospective of the landscape architecture
firm whose work includes the Cactus Garden Promontory at the J. Paul
Getty Center and restoration of New York City’s Bryant Park.
- Praxis Inc., Cambridge, Mass.,
to support Praxis, an architectural
journal. Thematic volumes will be produced to inform the architectural
writer, builder, academic, and professional by exploring the balance
between theory and practice.
- Williams College, Williamstown,
Mass., to support the traveling exhibition Screening
Architecture, with accompanying educational programming and catalogue.
The exhibition will focus on recent work by international artists exploring
architectural issues in video and digital animation
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