National Endowment for the Arts FY 2017 Fall Grant Announcement

Museums
Number of Grants: 61 Total Dollar Amount: $2,070,000
American Federation of Arts, Inc. (aka AFA)
$25,000 New York, NY
To support development of a traveling exhibition and catalogue, "Transatlantic Encounters: Latin American
Artists in Paris between the Wars, 1918-39," and related programming. The exhibition will focus on the work of
more than 40 Latin American artists and their contributions to modernism during this time between the World
Wars. Approximately 100 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by renowned artists such as Roberto Matta,
Diego Rivera, and Joaquin Torres Garcia, and those by lesser known artists such as Amelia Pelaez, Emilio
Pettoruti, and Angel Zarraga will be presented. Related bilingual public programming will complement the
exhibition.
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Inc. (aka Hammer Museum)
$55,000 Los Angeles, CA
To support a retrospective exhibition featuring of the work of Jimmie Durham. The exhibition will present works
by Durham (b. 1940) from numerous collections in the United States, Mexico, and Europe. Durham has worked
across a variety of mediums and materials including natural and found materials such as animal skulls and
bones, stones, wood, car parts, clothing, and machinery. Public programming such as artist talks, films, and
performances will give visitors a deeper understanding of the issues that inform his work such as grassroots
activism, the American Indian Movement, and the pursuit of equality and justice. An illustrated catalogue will
accompany the exhibition containing essays, interviews, and writings by Durham.
Artreach, Inc. (aka Art-Reach)
$25,000 Philadelphia, PA
To support Access Admission. The program is designed to increase cultural accessibility for individuals with lowincome
and/or living with disabilities. Building on a successful pilot year that served approximately 40,000
people at more than 30 partner museums, Access Admission will provide affordable access for low-income
communities to engage in the arts on a regular basis in the Greater Philadelphia area. The project will include a
comprehensive outreach plan with the goal of doubling the participation rate.
Barnes Foundation
$40,000 Philadelphia, PA
To support the exhibition, "Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flanerie." Inspired by the flaneur (a
19th-century literary character-type) who takes to the streets with no fixed itinerary as an urban observer, the
exhibition will feature works by 40 international artists, including off-site installations in storefronts, billboards,
and other public spaces. Photographs and video submitted by the public will be curated to create a digital work
of art and projected in the Annenberg Court and on the website created for the exhibition, infusing the
exhibition experience with present day flaneurs and their represntations of city life. The Barnes is uniquely
resourced to bring together both historically significant paintings by artists such as Degas, Manet, Monet,
Renoir, and Seurat-showcased in the permanent collection-with a survey exhibition by distinguished 20th- and
21st-century artists. The exhibition will feature work by contemporary artists who have taken to the street to
play detective, make fantastic maps, scavenge and shop for new materials, launch guerilla campaigns, and make
provocative public spectacles of themselves to speak to a diversity of issues. Extensive public
Bronx Museum of the Arts (aka Bronx Museum)
$35,000 Bronx, NY
Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of
December 7, 2016.