News and Updates
GRANTS AWARDED JUNE 2004
Survey Grants ($8,720 - $19,849)
| Institution | To identify objects, for inclusion in the MLN Directory, from its collection(s) of: |
| American Antiquarian Society Worcester, MA |
1,000 18th- and 19th-century American prints |
| Bennington Museum Bennington, VT |
3,500 American textiles dating from 1770 to 1960 |
| Cincinnati Museum Center Cincinnati, OH |
914 items from its Julius and Dorette Fleischmann Oceanic Collection |
| The Field Museum Chicago, IL |
1,675 Brazilian Ethnographic objects |
| Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles, CA |
500 Southeast Asian ceramics |
| Maryland Historical Society Baltimore, MD |
130 samplers |
| Museum of Anthropology University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI |
500 Native American baskets |
| Museum of Chinese in the Americas New York, NY |
1,507 objects relating to 20th-century Chinese life in America |
| Museum of Northern Arizona Flagstaff, AZ |
904 Navajo textile |
| National Academy of Design New York, NY |
500 post-1945 prints |
| Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Los Angeles, CA |
500-550 ancient Peruvian textiles |
| Northwest Puppet Center Seattle, WA |
1,000 international puppets |
| Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia, PA |
156 18th-century English enamels |
Implementation Grants ($21,162 - $45,000)
| Institution | For loan of: |
| Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive University of California, Berkeley, CA | Three Modernist paintings from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA, and Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, NE, for a period of one year and three months |
| Indianapolis Museum of Art Indianapolis, IN |
23 American paintings, Native American objects, and pre-Columbian works from the Indiana University Art Museum, IN; Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, IN; Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, IN; Children's Museum of Indianapolis, IN; National Academy of Design, NY; and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA for a period of one and a half years |
| Kanza Museum Kaw Nation of Oklahoma, Kaw City, OK |
80-120 Kaw objects from the Children's Museum of Indianapolis, IN, and Kansas State Historical Society, KS, for a period of two years |
| Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center Kansas University, Lawrence, KS |
Preserved Asian and African amphibians from the Field Museum, IL, for a period of one year and four months |
| The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME |
15 ethnographic objects from Northwest Greenland from the American Museum of Natural History, NY, for a period of two years |
Travel Grants ($5,203 - $6,750)
| Institution | For travel to: |
| African-American Museum St. Martinville, LA |
The Mariners' Museum, VA, and Peabody Essex Museum, MA, to explore the loan of American decorative arts, maritime art, and African art |
| Spelman College Museum of Fine Art Atlanta, GA |
The Kenkeleba Gallery, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; Rhode Island School of Design Museum, RI; Rhode Island College, RI; Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, DC; and Library of Congress, DC, to explore the loan of African American art |
| Toledo Museum of Art Toledo, OH |
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, CA; and The Art Institute of Chicago, IL, to explore the loan of historic glass objects |
| Western Heritage Center Billings, MT |
The National Museum of the American Indian (Cultural Resources Center) and National Museum of Natural History (National Anthropological Archives), Smithsonian Institution, DC, to explore the loan of Crow Indian and Cheyenne artifacts. |