The Hauser & Wirth Institute, a nonprofit founded by the similarly named mega-gallery, announced on Monday that it would award $700,000 in grants and scholarships to archival projects and research initiatives. Most of the funding went to the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Pratt Institute. The Studio Museum received $360,000 for a project that will see the New York museum digitize its archives. ...
Photo Courtesy of MAMMontclair Art Museum and the African American Cultural Committee have announced a scholarship fund named for artist Ben F. Jones, above. MONTCLAIR, NJ — Montclair Art Museum and the African American Cultural Committee announced the Ben F. Jones Scholarship Fund on Feb. 16 in honor of AACC co-founder Ben F. Jones, an international artist and art professor. The vision of the ...
Don Fotine and wife Connie with his winning painting 'Snow Geese' at the Carson Valley Art Assocation Scholarship show. Carson Valley Art Association recently displayed the art of more than 40 local artists in their annual Scholarship Benefit Art Show in Minden.This year’s show was held Nov. 5-7 and 112 pieces were on display, mostly from Carson and Eagle valley artists, with a ...
A local philanthropist has given Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles a $10 million gift, part of which will go toward establishing an endowment for a four-year scholarship program in perpetuity named after artist Charles White, who taught at the school during the 1960s and ’70s. The donation comes from Mei-Lee Ney, who is the chair of Otis’s board of trustees, ...
LENOX — After the word went out from the Chamber of Commerce and the Wit Gallery seeking submissions for the town’s first Student Art Show, more than 120 local students from grade 6 to 12 responded to the theme, “Belonging: Seeing Yourself and Others.”The show was created as part of the recent ArtWeek Berkshires. The students’ work, representing “inclusion, visibility, what it means to ...
The Board of Directors of the Suffolk Art League recently announced the 2021-22 Sharon Picot and Chip Picot Memorial Student Scholarship and John R. Taylor Student Scholarship recipients. The Scholarship Selection Committee chose 10 students to receive a total of $5,125 to be used towards their artistic endeavors. Both the Picot and Taylor Memorial Scholarships are offered to students who will be in grades ...
Portrait of Shauna Collier, 2018. What changes have you seen during your time at the Smithsonian?I started in 2002 as the librarian for the Anacostia Museum—now the Anacostia Community Museum—and around that time it merged with the Center for African American History and Culture. They had to be combined when legislation for the NMAAHC didn’t pass ...
