National Endowment for the Arts FY 2017 Fall Grant Announcement

University of Southern California
$25,000 Los Angeles, CA
To support "NOWhere: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A." and accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will be
organized by an archival program within University of Southern California's (USC) library system in collaboration
with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and MOCA's Pacific Design Center as part of the Getty
Foundation's Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles/Latin America (LA/LA) initiative. Works by more than 30 artists,
including Laura Aguilar, Judy Baca, Roberto Gil de Montes, Jef Huereque, Mundo Meza, and Ray Navarro, will be
presented, created between the late 1960s and early 1990s, a period bookended by the Chicano Moratorium,
gay liberation, and feminist movements on one end, and the AIDS crisis on the other. The catalogue will contain
images of all objects in the exhibition in addition to other related archival materials, such as rarely seen texts
and documents by the artists, as well as scholarly essays by the exhibition's co-curators.
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (aka Wadsworth Atheneum)
$20,000 Hartford, CT
To support "MATRIX," an exhibition series for emerging and under-represented artists. Each MATRIX exhibition
features work by a contemporary artist and is accompanied by a free, 16-page color "artist sheet" with an essay
by the curator, images, exhibition checklist, and the artists' curriculum vitae. Artists are selected by the
museum's curator of contemporary art, who then presents them to the entire curatorial department.
Participating artists will include Sam Messer, Valeska Soares, and Mika Tajima. Public programs will focus on
artist participation, including artist lectures and gallery talks.
Yellowstone Art Museum
$25,000 Billings, MT
To support an exhibition of work by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith and accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will
feature paintings and prints spanning five decades of Quick-to-See Smith's (b. 1940) career, exploring how she
navigated Native and non-Native painterly expression as well as concerns related to coming of age as a female
during the height of the male-dominated era of Abstract Expressionism. Quick-to-See Smith created her own
visual language, one that is vivid, layered, symbolic, and unique in the canon of American art history. The
exhibition, the first in her home state in more than 20 years, will include extensive public programming. It is
anticipated that the exhibition will travel to several other venues.
Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of
December 7, 2016.