National Endowment for the Arts FY 2017 Fall Grant Announcement

affinities between the oeuvres of four divergent personalities. Object labels, text panels, an audio tour, and
gallery guide content will encourage visitors to expand their understanding of American modernism and
sculptural techniques. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue.
Queens Museum of Art (aka Queens Museum)
$20,000 Queens, NY
To support the exhibition, "Never Built: New York." The exhibition will feature projects from the 19th-century to
the present, including buildings, master plans, parks, transit schemes, amusements, airports, and bridges that
were never realized. Buildings such as Bertrand Goldberg's ABC Headquarters and Rem Koolhaas' Office of
Metropolitan Architecture will be highlighted, as well as the buildings within the idiosyncratic site of Flushing
Meadows Corona Park. The exhibition will complement the museum's iconic "Panorama of the City of New
York," the world's largest architectural model commissioned by the city planner Robert Moses.
Regents of the University of California at Los Angeles (On behalf of Fowler Museum at UCLA)
$50,000 Los Angeles, CA
To support the exhibition "Axe Bahia: The Power of Art in an Afro-Brazilian Metropolis," and accompanying
publication and programs at the Fowler Museum at UCLA. The exhibition will present the arts and culture of the
city of Salvador da Bahia, the first colonial capital of Brazil. Bahia, frequently referred to as the African Capital of
Brazil, has emerged as both an internationally renowned center of Afro-Brazilian culture and as perhaps the
most important hub of African inspired artistic practices in the Americas. The project will include an exhibition of
more than 150 objects representing popular and contemporary genres? an illustrated publication featuring
critical essays by leading scholars? and a robust schedule of educational outreach programs, including a Brazilian
film series, family programs, and teacher workshops. During the planning phase, the curators created a database
of artworks in collections worldwide and met with leading Bahian artists. The project is part of the Getty's Pacific
Standard Time: Los Angeles/Latin America (LA/LA) regional programming effort.
Research Foundation of State University of New York (On behalf of Neuberger Museum of Art - Purchase
College)
$45,000 Albany, NY
To support the exhibition, "Romare Bearden Abstractions" at the Neuberger Museum of Art and accompanying
catalogue. Although best known for representational collages produced between 1964 and his death in 1988, to
date there has been little substantive scholarly attention to Bearden's (1911-88) body of work that directly
preceded those, namely his non-representational, large-scale stain paintings and mixed media collages. The
exhibition will include large-scale stain paintings and mixed media collages created between 1955 and 1964 by
the African-American artist, musician, and author. One of the most important components of the production of
this exhibition will be the conservation and framing of objects that have rarely been exhibited. The Neuberger
Museum of Art plans extensive outreach. It is anticipated that the exhibition will travel to two additional U.S.
venues.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (aka SFMOMA)
$30,000 San Francisco, CA
To support the "Matisse/Diebenkorn" exhibition and related programming. Co-organized with the Baltimore
Museum of Art, the exhibition will feature approximately 60 drawings and paintings by Henri Matisse (1869-
1954) and approximately 60 works by Richard Diebenkorn (1922-93), creatively juxtaposing and pairing the
artists' works to articulate the influence of Matisse on Diebenkorn. Free school tours, educational outreach
activities, exhibition mobile guides, and other programs will enhance the experience for thousands of audience
members.
Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of
December 7, 2016.