The National Endowment for the Arts Awards $35,000 Grant to The Cultural Landscape Foundation
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Grant supports creation of Landslide 2020: Women Who Shaped the American Landscape photographic exhibition
Washington, D.C. (January 15, 2020) – The Cultural Landscape Foundation today announced that it has been awarded an Art Works grant, from the National Endowment for the Arts, totaling $35,000. The grant supports the creation of Landslide 2020: Women Who Shaped the American Landscape, a traveling and online photographic exhibition. Landslide 2020: Women Who Shaped the American Landscape, timed to the centennial of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which guaranteed women the right to vote, will focus on at-risk landscapes created by women landscape architects and/or associated with prominent women. Specifically, the grant supports the printing, framing, crating, and handling of large-format photographs, the design and printing of exhibition collateral, and a website to make this collection available to current and future generations of designers, preservationists, students, teachers, researchers, and the general public.
To develop informative, engaging collateral materials for the exhibition, TCLF is collaborating with Smithsonian Gardens, a unique repository of historical plans, photographs, and other archival artifacts. TCLF will also draw upon several extant resources, including TCLF’s What’s Out There database of landscapes and designers, and first-person video oral histories with women practitioners, namely oral histories of Carol Johnson, Harriet Pattison, and Cornelia Hahn Oberlander.
The exhibition will debut at the Boston Architectural College September 8 - November 30, 2020, and will then travel to venues around the nation. In addition to the exhibition and website, TCLF will also produce a fully illustrated, printed gallery guide of the exhibition. The online site will be maintained in perpetuity.
“We are honored to receive a prestigious NEA Art Works grant, and we are grateful to the NEA for its vital role in supporting the arts,” said Charles A. Birnbaum, TCLF’s president & CEO.
“The arts are at the heart of our communities, connecting people through shared experiences and artistic expression,” said Arts Endowment chairman Mary Anne Carter. “The National Endowment for the Arts is proud to support projects like the exhibition Landslide 2020: Women Who Shaped the American Landscape.”
About the National Endowment of the Arts Art Works program
The National Endowment for the Arts has approved 1,187 grants totaling $27.3 million in the first round of fiscal year 2020 funding to support arts projects in every state in the nation, as well as the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
The Art Works funding category supports projects that focus on public engagement with, and access to, various forms of excellent art across the nation; the creation of art that meets the highest standards of excellence; learning in the arts at all stages of life; and the integration of the arts into the fabric of community life. For more information on projects included in the Arts Endowment grant announcement, visit arts.gov/news.
About the National Endowment of the Arts
Established by Congress in 1965, the NEA is the independent federal agency whose funding and support gives Americans the opportunity to participate in the arts, exercise their imaginations, and develop their creative capacities. Through partnerships with state arts agencies, local leaders, other federal agencies, and the philanthropic sector, the NEA supports arts learning, affirms and celebrates America’s rich and diverse cultural heritage, and extends its work to promote equal access to the arts in every community across America. Visit arts.gov to learn more about NEA.
About The Cultural Landscape Foundation
The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit founded in 1998 to connect people to places. TCLF educates and engages the public to make our shared landscape heritage more visible, identify its value, and empower its stewards. Through its website, publishing, lectures, and other events, TCLF broadens support and understanding for cultural landscapes. TCLF is also home to the Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize.
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