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May 2007 Conservation Project Support Grant Announcement

Click on a state or state name to jump to grants awarded in your state:

Arizona

Museum of Northern Arizona - Flagstaff, AZ
Award Amount: $8,924; Matching Amount:$10,465
Grant Category: Provision of optimum environment

Contact: Ms. Elaine Hughes
Collections Manager
9287745211 x228; ehughes@mna.mus.az.us
3101 North Fort Valley Road
Flagstaff, AZ 86001-8348

Project Title: "Storage and Mounting Assessment of Southwestern Textile and Hopi Katsina Doll Collections"
The Museum of Northern Arizona will use its grant to conduct a detailed condition survey of 100 textiles and 90 to 135 Hopi katsina dolls. The grant will allow the museum to better assess the effectiveness and appropriateness of its current storage practices and to develop storage and mounting plans to prevent deterioration.

Heard Museum - Phoenix, AZ
Award Amount: $68,937; Matching Amount:$68,937
Grant Category: Provision of optimum environment

Contact: Ms. Diana Pardue
Curator of Collections
(602)251-0240; dpardue@heard.org
2301 North Central Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85004-1323

Project Title: "Heard Museum Collections Relocation Project"
The Heard Museum, the mission of which is to educate the public about the heritage and living cultures and arts of Native peoples, will use its grant to purchase and install new storage cabinets in which to properly rehouse the museum’s collection of basketry, leather, and wood artifacts.

California

Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College - Claremont, CA
Award Amount: $108,676; Matching Amount:$108,676
Grant Category: Treatment of collections

Contact: Dr. Mary MacNaughton
Director
(909)607-3517; mary.macnaughton@scrippscol.edu
1030 Columbia Avenue
Claremont, CA 91711-3905

Project Title: "Conserving Ten Chinese Paintings"
Scripps College will use its grant to treat ten important Chinese paintings in its permanent collection. A small portion of the grant will support the development of an exhibition focusing on these paintings that will examine the traditional methods of conserving Asian art as practiced in Japan. The exhibition, which will attract scholars and curators of Asian art, also will introduce the general public to a specialized area of Asian art conservation that is seldom seen.

University of California, Davis, Arboretum - Davis, CA
Award Amount: $233,120; Matching Amount:$423,525
Grant Category: Impact

Contact: Dr. Steven Greco
Assistant Professor
(530)752-4880; segreco@ucdavis.edu
1 Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616-8526

Project Title: "GIS Data Model for Plant Collections at Botanical Gardens and Zoos"
The Davis Arboretum will use its grant to convene a consortium of museum professionals and GIS (geographic information system) experts to design, build, test, and distribute a GIS data model and related training programs. This will make it possible for garden and zoo horticulturists to more efficiently and effectively map their plant collections, manage collections care, and participate in national and international scientific conservation activities.

Oakland Museum of California - Oakland, CA
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount:$204,152
Grant Category: Provision of optimum environment

Contact: Mr. John Burke
Chief Conservator
(510)238-3806; jb@museumca.org
1000 Oak Street
Oakland, CA 94607

Project Title: "New Storage for Native American Basket Collection"
The Oakland Museum of California will use its grant to purchase and install new storage cabinets and conservation supplies. This will allow the museum to properly rehouse its collection of more than 2,500 Native American baskets.

San Diego Museum of Art - San Diego, CA
Award Amount: $89,760; Matching Amount:$92,872
Grant Category: Treatment of collections

Contact: Derrick Cartwright
The Maruja Baldwin Director
(619)696-1902; dcartwright@sdmart.org
P.O. Box 122107
San Diego, CA 92112

Project Title: "Conservation of Night Presence II by Louise Nevelson"
The San Diego Museum of Art will use its grant to treat the 1976 outdoor sculpture, Night Presence II, by Louise Nevelson. The 13-foot-high welded steel sculpture is an anchor to the museum’s outdoor sculpture area.

de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University - Santa Clara, CA
Award Amount: $44,045; Matching Amount:$80,201
Grant Category: Survey of collections

Contact: Miss Rebecca Schapp
Director
(408)554-2702; rschapp@scu.edu
500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA 95053-0250

Project Title: "Detailed Conservation Survey of Works on Paper"
Santa Clara University’s de Saisset Museum will use its grant to conduct a detailed conservation survey of more than 5,000 works of art on paper in the museum’s permanent collection. These works range from Renaissance and Baroque prints to contemporary prints and photographs.

Colorado

Muriel L. MacGregor Trust - Estes Park, CO
Award Amount: $9,428; Matching Amount:$10,115
Grant Category: Provision of optimum environment

Contact: Ms. Jane Lopez
Education Coordinator
(970)586-3749; jane@macgregorranch.org
P.O. Box 4675
MacGregor Road
Estes Park, CO 80517-4675

Project Title: "Disaster Preparedness and Response Risk Assessment, Training, and Drills Resulting in DPRPlan"
The Muriel L. MacGregor Charitable Trust will use its grant to conduct a risk assessment of natural and man-made threats such as floods, forest fires, and accidents. The grant will also support disaster preparedness training and resources.

Connecticut

Antiquarian and Landmarks Society - Hartford, CT
Award Amount: $115,862; Matching Amount:$115,862
Grant Category: Provision of optimum environment

Contact: Ms. Beverly Lucas
Curator
(860)247-8996x14; beverly_lucas@hartnet.org
255 Main St
4th Floor
Hartford, CT 06106

Project Title: "Moisture Management Plans and Light Control Project"
The Antiquarian and Landmarks Society will use its grant to conduct an environmental survey focusing on moisture management and light control issues in the society’s nine historic structures. One of the homes, the 1678 Joshua Hempsted House, is one of New England’s oldest and best documented dwellings and features 17th and 18th century furniture, ceramics, pewter, fireplace equipment, and an extensive collection of textile making equipment.

Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University - New Haven, CT
Award Amount: $100,353; Matching Amount:$117,009
Grant Category: Provision of optimum environment

Contact: Ms. Catherine Sease
Senior Conservator
(203)432-3965; catherine.sease@yale.edu
155 Whitney Avenue - Rm 214
P.O. Box 208337
New Haven, CT 06520-8337

Project Title: ""
The Peabody Museum of Natural History will use its grant to purchase and install 40 museum-quality storage cabinets. The cabinets will allow the museum to properly rehouse the large and significant collections of microscope slides in its Invertebrate Zoology, Vertebrate Zoology, Paleobotany, and Mineralogy Divisions.

Mattatuck Historical Society - Waterbury, CT
Award Amount: $22,165; Matching Amount:$28,631
Grant Category: Treatment of collections

Contact: Ms. Ann Smith
Curator for Special Projects
(203)753-0381x12; aysmith@mac.com
144 West Main Street
Waterbury, CT 06702-1216

Project Title: "Textile Conservation: Needlework in Northwest Connecticut"
The Mattatuck Historical Society will use its grant to treat 14 samplers created by young girls in northwest Connecticut between 1787 and 1844. The samplers reflect changing attitudes about the education of young women as well as changing economic and social conditions in America after the Revolution. The grant will also support a workshop to share information about the history of samplers in the region and the methods for their long-term preservation.

Delaware

Historic Odessa Foundation - Odessa, DE
Award Amount: $8,553; Matching Amount:$10,698
Grant Category: Treatment of collections

Contact: Ms. Betty Fiske
Paper Conservator
(302)888-4831; bfiske@winterthur.org
201 Main Street
Odessa, DE 19730-0697

Project Title: "Conservation Treatment of Chinese Wallpaper"
The Historic Odessa Foundation will use its grant to treat a rare example of hand-painted Chinese wallpaper from the dining room of the Corbit-Sharp House (1774). The wallpaper is a good example of the kind of unique export product made in the 18th century that helped to establish the popularity of wallpaper in England and America.

District of Columbia

Woodrow Wilson House, National Trust for Historic Preservation - Washington, DC
Award Amount: $76,022; Matching Amount:$77,760
Grant Category: Survey of collections

Contact: Mr. Frank Aucella
(202)387-4062x011; faucella@woodrowwilsonhouse.org
1785 Massachusetts Avenue, NW.
Washington, DC 20036-2117

Project Title: "Woodrow Wilson House Comprehensive Conservation Planning"
The National Trust will use its grant to conduct an environmental survey of the Woodrow Wilson House’s building and existing mechanical systems to develop priorities for collections improvements and a strategy for mechanical upgrades. The Woodrow Wilson House is a national historic landmark and house museum that focuses on President Woodrow Wilson’s Washington Years (1912-1924).

Florida

Henry B. Plant Museum - Tampa, FL
Award Amount: $43,494; Matching Amount:$48,844
Grant Category: Survey of collections

Contact: Mrs. Susan Carter
Curator / Registrar
(813)258-7303; scarter@ut.edu
401 West Kennedy Boulevard
Tampa, FL 33606-1450

Project Title: "Detailed Survey"
The Henry B. Plant Museum will use its grant to conduct a detailed condition survey of nearly 2,000 pieces in its permanent collections, including archives, furniture, and decorative arts. The museum is housed in a former late Victorian-era railroad resort hotel, the Tampa Bay Hotel, and interprets the lifestyle of the hotel and the beginnings of Florida’s tourist industry.

Georgia

Center for Puppetry Arts - Atlanta, GA
Award Amount: $17,250; Matching Amount:$17,827
Grant Category: Survey of collections

Contact: Mr. Alan Louis
Director of Museum and Education Programs
(404)881-5144; alanlouis@puppet.org
1404 Spring Street NW
Atlanta, GA 30309-2820

Project Title: "Detailed Condition Survey of the Center for Puppetry Arts' Asian Puppet Collection"
The Center for Puppetry Arts will use its grant to conduct a detailed condition survey of the Center’s Asian collection of 650 puppets and related performing objects of historical, cultural, religious, sociopolitical, and artistic significance. The puppets in this collection represent China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam, as well as the Asia Minor countries of Turkey and Israel.

Hawaii

Bishop Museum - Honolulu, HI
Award Amount: $28,447; Matching Amount:$28,537
Grant Category: Treatment of collections

Contact: Ms. Valerie Free
Museum Conservator
(808)847-8208; vfree@bishopmuseum.org
1525 Bernice Street
Honolulu, HI 96817-2704

"Conservation Treatment of Three Hawaiian Ahu'ula (Feather Cloaks)"
The Bishop Museum will use its grant to treat three important Hawaiian feather cloaks (‘ahu ‘ula). These cloaks were visual symbols of power and prestige of the Islands’ highest ali’i (individuals of chiefly rank) in pre-European contact Hawaii.

Illinois

Chicago Zoological Society - Brookfield, IL
Award Amount: $249,922; Matching Amount:$320,174
Grant Category: Research in conservation

Contact: Ms. Ann Petric
Mammal Curator
(708)485-0263x446; anpetric@brookfieldzoo.org
3300 South Golf Road
Brookfield, IL 60513-1095

Project Title: "An Assessment of Gender-driven Managment Needs in Okapi"
The Chicago Zoological Society will use its grant to conduct research to learn more about basic behavioral and physiological patterns of male and female okapi, a forest-dwelling hoofed mammal. The goal of this project is to develop management recommendations to improve the well-being of the captive okapi population.

Field Museum of Natural History - Chicago, IL
Award Amount: $131,794; Matching Amount:$154,373
Grant Category: Treatment of collections

Contact: Dr. Ruth Norton
Head of Conservation
(312)665-7880; rnorton@fieldmuseum.org
1400 South Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL 60605-2496

Project Title: "Conservation treatment of 159 Chinese Rubbings"
The Field Museum of Natural History will use its grant to treat 159 important Chinese rubbings from highly significant sites and works of renowned calligraphers. These rubbings are from a collection of about 4,500 rubbings made between the 15th and 20th centuries of original images dating back to the late Zhou Dynasty (ca. 500 BCE). Chinese ink rubbings are impressions on paper from low-relief or intaglio inscriptions and designs on stone, metal, and other hard materials.

National Museum of Mexican Art - Chicago, IL
Award Amount: $83,595; Matching Amount:$90,000
Grant Category: Provision of optimum environment

Contact: Ms. Rebecca Meyers
Permanent Collection Director
(312)738-1503x119; rmeyers@mfacmchicago.org
1852 West 19th Street
Chicago, IL 60608-2706

Project Title: "Bringing Home the Folk Art Collection"
The National Museum of Mexican Art will use its grant to purchase and install new storage furniture in which to properly rehouse the museum’s folk art collection. Represented in this collection of more than 700 objects are items indigenous to Mexico such as amate (hand-made bark paper), papier-mâché or cartoneria (an ephemeral form of papier-mâché used for festivals and holiday celebrations), and extremely brittle ceramics.

Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago - Chicago, IL
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount:$150,855
Grant Category: Provision of optimum environment

Contact: Dr. Gil Stein
Director
(773)702-4098; gstein@uchicago.edu
5801 South Ellis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637

Project Title: "Rehousing of Archaeolgical Objects in the Oriental Institute Collections"
The University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute Museum will use its grant to purchase and install new storage cabinets in which to properly rehouse the museum’s collection of archaeological objects. These objects include Nubian organic materials of leather, wood, and textiles; ceramic vessels from Serra (Nubia); remains from the sites of Megiddo, Alishar, and Nippur; and large stone sculptural fragments from Khorsabad.

Indiana

Eiteljorg Museum - Indianapolis, IN
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount:$283,364
Grant Category: Survey of collections

Contact: Ms. Amy McKune
Collections Manager
(317)275-1358; amckune@eiteljorg.com
500 West Washington Street
Indianapolis, IN 46204

Project Title: "Detailed Condition Survey of Eiteljorg Museum Collection"
The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art will use its grant to complete a detailed condition survey of nearly 5,000 works of art and artifacts, most affiliated with Native peoples of North America, including clothing, tools, equipment, vessels, weapons, and other objects that document the history and cultures of Native peoples from North America and as far north as the Arctic. Also included are paintings, works on paper, photographs, photogravures, sculptures, and contemporary material including paintings by Warhol, Scholder and Pletka.

Iowa

University of Iowa Museum of Art - Iowa City, IA
Award Amount: $184,740; Matching Amount:$220,938
Grant Category: Research in conservation

Contact: Mr. Timothy Barrett
Research Scientist; Adjunct Professor
(319)621-2493; timothy-barrett@uiowa.edu
2 Gilmore Hall
Iowa City, IA 52242

Project Title: "Analysis of 15th through 19th Century Papers Using Non-Destructive Techniques"
The University of Iowa’s Museum of Art will use its grant to conduct research on important components in 15th - 19th-century western paper, the results of which will allow conservators and other preservation specialists to make better-informed treatment and collections care decisions. The project will augment the William Barrow Laboratory’s pioneering 1974 analysis of 1,500 historical papers, but include certain analytical techniques not used or unavailable 30 years ago.

Kansas

Kansas Museum of History - Topeka, KS
Award Amount: $25,837; Matching Amount:$25,913
Grant Category: Treatment of collections

Contact: Ms. Rebecca Martin
Assistant Museum Director
(785)272-8681x426; rmartin@kshs.org
6425 SW 6th Avenue
Topeka, KS 66615-1099

Project Title: "Preservation of Kansas Civil War Flags"
The Kansas State Historical Society will use its grant to treat two Kansas Civil War battle flags carried by Kansas regiments at Prairie Grove, Arkansas. The flags are painted and depict numerous battle honors. One of the flags is from the 1st Kansas Battery, commanded by James Lane, one of the first U.S. Senators from Kansas and a fervent antislavery soldier. His unit attacked and looted Osceola, Missouri, an event that incited Confederate guerilla William Quantrill to later attack the town of Lawrence, Kansas, where Lane lived, killing 150 men and boys.

Louisiana

Louisiana Museum Foundation - New Orleans, LA
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount:$1,087,186
Grant Category: Provision of optimum environment

Contact: Mr. Greg Lambousy
Director of Collections
(504)599-1946; glambousy@crt.state.la.us
828 Royal Street
New Orleans, LA 70116-3199

Project Title: "Safe Return of Louisiana State Museum Collections to Enhance Storage in Post-Katrina New Orleans"
The Louisiana Museum Foundation will use its grant to purchase compact shelving, conservation materials, and supplies to rehouse the museum’s collections. These collections will be returned to the museum from temporary storage where they were stored due to damage caused by Hurricane Katrina.

New Orleans Museum of Art - New Orleans, LA
Award Amount: $94,600; Matching Amount:$97,900
Grant Category: Provision of optimum environment

Contact: Ms. Lisa Rotondo-McCord
Curator of Asian Art
(504)658-4113; lrotondomccord@yahoo.com
P.O. Box 19123
New Orleans, LA 70179-0123

Project Title: "NOMA Post Katrina Art Storage Environmental Improvement Project"
The New Orleans Museum of Art will use its grant to purchase and install new storage cabinets to rehouse the museum’s diverse permanent collections of furniture, photography, framed works on paper, textiles, small-scale sculpture, ethnographic, and decorative art that were removed from storage areas due to damage caused by hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Maine

L. C. Bates Museum, Good-Will Home Association - Hinckley, ME
Award Amount: $29,399; Matching Amount:$35,483
Grant Category: Treatment of collections

Contact: Ms. Deborah Staber
Director
(207)238-4250; lcbates@gwh.org
P.O. Box 159
Hinckley, ME 04944

Project Title: "Charles D. Hubbard Large Mammal Diorama Treatment"
The L.C. Bates Museum will use its grant to treat the museum’s early 20th-century habitat diorama created by the American Impressionist Charles D. Hubbard (1876-1951). The diorama depicts Kennebec River Valley and indigenous mammals. Part of the grant will also be used for a workshop, “Dirt and Dust: What to Do and What Not to Do,” which will be taped and broadcast on local television.

Maryland

B & O Railroad Museum - Baltimore, MD
Award Amount: $26,979; Matching Amount:$27,493
Grant Category: Survey of collections

Contact: Mr. David Shackelford
Chief Curator
(410)752-2490; chiefcurator@borail.org
901 West Pratt Street
Baltimore, MD 21223-2644

Project Title: "Assesing the Small-Object Collections of the B&O Railroad Museum"
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Museum will use its grant to conduct a detailed condition survey of the museum’s vast historic paper-based and audiovisual collections, which include motion picture film, videos, sound recordings, photographic prints, slides, transparencies, and glass plate/film negatives related to early American railroading. The paper holdings include periodicals and trade publications, documents of early B&O Railroad presidents, corporate records from 1827, old payroll files, manuscripts, maps, engineering drawings, and lithographs.

Massachusetts

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Boston, MA
Award Amount: $131,537; Matching Amount:$230,003
Grant Category: Treatment of collections

Contact: Mr. Matthew Siegal
Chair, Conservation and Collections Management
(617)369-3386; msiegal@mfa.org
465 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115-5523

Project Title: "Bersha Conservation Project"
The Museum of Fine Arts will use its grant to treat wooden and polychromed wooden material excavated from an Egyptian tomb dated to about 2000 B.C. The tomb, filled with funerary equipment of a local governor and his wife, comprises one of the largest, most important reference collections for the study of ancient cultures along the Nile Valley.

New England Wild Flower Society - Framingham, MA
Award Amount: $3,945; Matching Amount:$3,945
Grant Category: Provision of optimum environment

Contact: Mr. William Brumback
(508)877-7630x3201; bbrumback@newfs.org
180 Hemingway Road
Framingham, MA 01701

Project Title: "Improvements to Seed Bank Collection Testing Equipment"
The New England Wild Flower Society will use its grant to purchase equipment to conduct scientific and repeatable seed viability tests on specimens held in the society’s seed bank collection. These seeds represent some of the rarest plant species in New England and the United States.

American Textile History Museum - Lowell, MA
Award Amount: $72,533; Matching Amount:$99,699
Grant Category: Provision of optimum environment

Contact: Ms. Karen Herbaugh
Curator
(978)441-0400x239; kherbaugh@athm.org
491 Dutton Street
Lowell, MA 01854

Project Title: "Moving and Increasing Compact Storage for the Clothing and Accessories Collection"
The American Textile History Museum will use its grant to purchase and install new storage cabinets to rehouse the museum’s collection of costumes and accessories, including garments, hats, hoops, bustles, and bum rolls. The textile collection contains more than 4,000 objects that span 250 years.

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute - Williamstown, MA
Award Amount: $56,270; Matching Amount:$65,030
Grant Category: Treatment of collections

Contact: Dr. Kathleen Morris
Project Director
(413)458-0468
225 South Street
Williamstown, MA 01267-2878

Project Title: "Conservation of Nine Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Clark"
The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute will use its grant to treat nine paintings from its 19th-century European collection, including works by Renoir, Courbet, Degas, Diaz de la Pena, Millet, and Pissarro.

Michigan

University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens - Ann Arbor, MI
Award Amount: $157,600; Matching Amount:$1,300,000
Grant Category: Provision of optimum environment

Contact: Dr. David Michener
Curatorial
(734)647-8711; michener@umich.edu
3003 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1390

Project Title: "Environmental Improvements to the Conservatory"
The Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum will use the grant to upgrade the environmental conditions in the garden’s conservatory with the purchase and installation of a fog mister, automated sidewall vents, and computerized electronic controls to automate venting and misting. Part of the grant will be used to develop a hands-on model for visitors to better understand conservation of the plant collections and the mechanically controlled environment.

The Henry Ford, Edison Institute - Dearborn, MI
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount:$154,915
Grant Category: Treatment of collections

Contact: Ms. Mary Fahey
Chief Conservator
(313)982-6072x00000; maryf@thehenryford.org
20900 Oakwood Blvd.
Dearborn, MI 48124-1088

Project Title: "Conserving the Landmark GGI Electric Locomotive"
The Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village will use this grant to treat the museum’s 1941 GGI electric locomotive designed by Raymond Loewy. It is one of only 16 survivors of the original 139 locomotives.

Detroit Institute of Arts - Detroit, MI
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount:$829,631
Grant Category: Provision of optimum environment

Contact: Barbara Heller
Chief Conservator
(313)833-7834; bheller@dia.org
5200 Woodward Avenue
Detroit, MI 48202-4008

Project Title: "Conservation Project Support"
The Detroit Institute of Arts will use its grant to purchase and install new storage cabinets to rehouse 45,000 art works in the museum’s permanent collection that represent all world cultures from prehistory to modern times.

Michigan State University Museum - East Lansing, MI
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount:$151,593
Grant Category: Provision of optimum environment

Contact: Ms. Lynne Swanson
Collections Manager for Cultural Collections
(517)355-3304; swansonl@msu.edu
301 Administration Building
East Lansing, MI 48824-1023

Project Title: "Michigan State University Museum Collections Rehousing Project"
The Michigan State University Museum will use its grant to purchase and install new storage cabinets to properly rehouse the museum’s collection of dolls, sewing and handwork, and oversized paper documents. Part of the grant will be used to produce an educational video about the project and exhibits made by elementary school children.

Missouri

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art - Kansas City, MO
Award Amount: $57,710; Matching Amount:$63,701
Grant Category: Treatment of collections

Contact: Ms. Kathleen Garland
Conservator, Objects
(816)751-1253; kgarland@nelson-atkins.org
4525 Oak Street
Kansas City, MO 64111-1818

Project Title: "Conservation of Two 19th Century Sofas"
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art will use its grant to treat an American neo-classical sofa, circa 1810, and a Renaissance Revival settee, circa 1855. Part of the grant will be used for in-depth lectures on the conservation and study of 19th century upholstered furniture.

Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, State Fair Community College - Sedalia, MO
Award Amount: $42,321; Matching Amount:$48,015
Grant Category: Provision of optimum environment

Contact: Mr. Douglass Freed
Director
(660)530-5888; dfreed@sfccmo.edu
3201 West 16th Street
Sedalia, MO 65301-2199

Project Title: "Mobile and Wall Rack Storage Systems for the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art"
The Daum Museum of Contemporary Art will use its grant to purchase and install new storage equipment to rehouse its collection of large-scale paintings and prints by such artists as Walter Darby Bannard, Friedel Dzubas, Richard Diebenkorn, Jack Tworkov, James Rosenquest, Ross Bleckner, and Andy Warhol.

Montana

Holter Museum of Art - Helena, MT
Award Amount: $39,000; Matching Amount:$44,804
Grant Category: Provision of optimum environment

Contact: Ms. Phoebe Toland
Collections Specialist
(406)442-6400; liz@holtermuseum.org
12 East Lawrence Street
Helena, MT 59601-4019

Project Title: "Environmental Improvement Project: Storage Furniture"
The Holter Museum of Art will use its grant to purchase and install new storage cabinets to rehouse its collections of paintings, framed works on paper, and mixed media works. These collections represent the cultural and artistic legacy of pre-modern, modern, and contemporary art in the Rocky Mountain West.

Nebraska

Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo - Omaha, NE
Award Amount: $95,767; Matching Amount:$95,767
Grant Category: Research in conservation

Contact: Mr. Douglas Armstrong
Associate Director
(402)733-2044; douga@omahazoo.com
3701 South 10th St.
Omaha, NE 68107

Project Title: "Cryopreserving Imperiled Plant Collection for Long Term Conservation"
Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo will use its grant to provide long-term protection of seeds from Madagascar orchids and to provide training for staff members responsible for conservation of these endangered plants..

New Jersey

Newark Museum Association - Newark, NJ
Award Amount: $33,000; Matching Amount:$69,635
Grant Category: Provision of optimum environment

Contact: Ms. Rebecca Buck
Chief Registrar
(973)596-6550; rbuck@newarkmuseum.org
49 Washington Street
PO Box 540
Newark, NJ 07101-3176

Project Title: "The Newark Museum Ceramics and Glass Collection Project"
The Newark Museum will use its grant to purchase and install new storage cabinets to rehouse the museum’s ceramics and glass collections, ranging from porcelain thimbles to large porcelain vases.

New Mexico

Indian Arts Research Center, School of American Research - Santa Fe, NM
Award Amount: $12,713; Matching Amount:$12,713
Grant Category: Survey of collections

Contact: Ms. Carolyn McArthur
Collections Manager
(505)954-7270; mcarthur@sarsf.org
PO Box 2188
Santa Fe, NM 87504-2188

Project Title: "Textiles Detailed Condition Survey"
The Indian Arts Research Center will use its grant to conduct a detailed condition survey of its Southwest American Indian textiles. The collection comprises Diné and Pueblo textiles. Pieces include ponchos, serapes, blankets, biils (woven dresses), mantas, kilts; and Hopi övas and pusalas.

New York

Walter Elwood Museum - Amsterdam, NY
Award Amount: $13,501; Matching Amount:$13,503
Grant Category: Training in conservation

Contact: Ms. Ann Thane
Director
(518)843-5151; athane@nycap.rr.com
300 Guy Park Avenue
Amsterdam, NY 12010

Project Title: "Conservation Assessment & Training"
The Walter Elwood Museum of the Mohawk Valley will use its grant to conduct an environmental survey of the museum’s buildings and facilities; to develop comprehensive housekeeping, integrated pest management and disaster plans; and to conduct hands-on workshops for staff, interns, and volunteers on collections care.

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University - Ithaca, NY
Award Amount: $24,500; Matching Amount:$24,584
Grant Category: Treatment of collections

Contact: Ms. Nancy Green
Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings, & Photographs
(607)254-4584; neg4@cornell.edu
120 Day hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-2801

Project Title: "Conservation of the Johnson Museum's European and American Drawings"
The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art will use its grant to treat 32 drawings by Alexander Calder, Jacob Lawrence, William DeKooning, and Andrew Wyeth.

American Folk Art Museum - New York, NY
Award Amount: $10,383; Matching Amount:$10,383
Grant Category: Survey of collections

Contact: Ms. Linda Dunne
Deputy Director and Chief Administrative Officer
(212)977-7170; ldunne@folkartmuseum.org
49 East 52nd Street
6th Floor
New York, NY 10022-5905

Project Title: "General Conservation Survey"
The American Folk Art Museum will use its grant to conduct a general conservation survey of 5,000 objects in its three facilities. The museum has been one of the nation’s foremost resources for the exhibition, study, preservation, and enjoyment of folk art, and maintains one of the world’s preeminent collections of folk art dating from the 17th century through the present.

South Street Seaport Museum - New York, NY
Award Amount: $27,832; Matching Amount:$27,832
Grant Category: Survey of collections

Contact: Mr. Jeffrey Remling
Director, Center for Historical Informatics
(646)831-0492; jremling@pace.edu
12 Fulton Street
New York, NY 10038-2102

Project Title: "Environmental Surveys of New Library Space"
The South Street Seaport Museum will use its grant to conduct an environmental survey and architectural/engineering assessment of a new proposed space for its Melville Library collections. The library contains a large collection of maritime-related books, periodicals, maps, nautical charts, blueprints of ships and ships components, as well as photographs, slides, negatives, and ephemera.

Staten Island Historical Society - Staten Island, NY
Award Amount: $23,308; Matching Amount:$23,551
Grant Category: Treatment of collections

Contact: Mrs. Maxine Friedman
Chief Curator
(718)351-1611x270; sihs-mfriedman@si.rr.com
441 Clarke Avenue
Staten Island, NY 10306

Project Title: "Alice Austen Photograph Collection Preservation Project"
The Staten Island Historical Society will use its grant to rehouse vintage prints in its E. Alice Austen (1866-1952) Photographic Collection. It includes images of Austen’s affluent social circle, as well as her interest in immigration, urbanization, and family life.

North Carolina

North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation, Inc. - Raleigh, NC
Award Amount: $17,047; Matching Amount:$18,636
Grant Category: Survey of collections

Contact: Mr. William Brown
Chief Conservator
(919)664-6812; wbrown@ncmamail.dcr.state.nc.us
4630 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699

Project Title: "NCMA Detailed Condition Survey - Objects and Textiles"
The North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation will use its grant to conduct a detailed condition survey of ancient art and ethnographic materials, decorative arts, contemporary sculpture, and African textiles.

North Dakota

Chahinkapa Zoo Association - Wahpeton, ND
Award Amount: $15,553; Matching Amount:$15,553
Grant Category: Provision of optimum environment

Contact: Ms. Kathy Diekman
Director
(701)642-8709; kathychnkpzoo@702com.net
P.O. Box 490
Wahpeton, ND 58074

Project Title: "Rodger Ehnstrom Nature Center Storage"
The Chahinkapa Zoo will use its grant to purchase and install new storage cabinets in which to properly rehouse natural materials and photographic collections in the zoo’s Rodger Ehnstrom Nature Center. The natural materials include coral, baleen, sharks teeth, shark eggs, North Dakota bird species’ eggs, insects, bird and mammal skulls, geological specimens, and mammal specimen mounts.

Ohio

Cincinnati Art Museum - Cincinnati, OH
Award Amount: $26,709; Matching Amount:$27,349
Grant Category: Survey of collections

Contact: Ms. Cecile Mear
Conservator of Works on Paper
(513)639-2906; cmear@cincyart.org
953 Eden Park Drive
Cincinnati, OH 45202-1596

Project Title: "Conservation Survey of Japanese and Chinese Paintings, Garments, and Textiles"
The Cincinnati Art Museum will use its grant to conduct a detailed condition survey of 430 Japanese and Chinese paintings, scrolls, screens, garments, and textiles in the museum’s permanent collection. The painting collection consists of 106 Japanese and 58 Chinese works dating from the 13th to the 20th centuries. The Chinese textile collection includes 142 costumes, 101 textiles, 11 pairs of shoes, and 26 fans. The Japanese collection includes 53 costumes, 36 textiles, and 5 accessories.

Denison Museum - Granville, OH
Award Amount: $66,379; Matching Amount:$91,447
Grant Category: Treatment of collections

Contact: Ms. Melinda McPeek
Collections Manager
(740)587-4004; mcpeekm@denison.edu
Burke Hall of Music and Art
240 West Broadway
Granville, OH 43023

Project Title: "Stabilization of the Print and Drawing Collection of the Denison Museum"
The Denison Museum will use a portion of its grant to treat more than 7,500 prints and drawings from the museum’s permanent collection. This collection consists primarily of 19th and 20th century American and European prints including works by Winslow Homer and Pablo Picasso. The grant will also be used to produce a DVD that documents the project activities and to present a lecture by the conservators about the project.

Oklahoma

Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, University of Oklahoma - Norman, OK
Award Amount: $42,131; Matching Amount:$44,289
Grant Category: Provision of optimum environment

Contact: Dr. Janet Braun
Curator
(405)325-0801; jkbraun@ou.edu
Office of Research Services
731 Elm Ave., Room 134
Norman, OK 73019

Project Title: "Re-housing and Re-curation of the SNOMNH Malacology Collection"
The Sam Noble Museum of Natural History will use its grant to purchase and install new storage cabinets and conservation materials and supplies to properly rehouse the museum’s malacology collection in the Department of Recent Invertebrates. The collection of mollusk shells is historically important and includes a significant number of specimens collected in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Pennsylvania

Mercer Museum - Doylestown, PA
Award Amount: $137,208; Matching Amount:$181,318
Grant Category: Provision of optimum environment

Contact: Mr. Cory Amsler
Curator
(215)345-0210x27; camsler@mercermuseum.org
84 South Pine Street
Doylestown, PA 18901

Project Title: "Museum Light Filtration and Enhancement"
The Mercer Museum will use its grant to purchase and install UV filtering media on all windows throughout the original museum building, significantly reducing the potential damage to the collections caused by these harmful rays. The grant will also be used to introduce new lighting fixtures with appropriate filtration into many of the museum’s gallery spaces.

Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania - Strasburg, PA
Award Amount: $42,912; Matching Amount:$42,923
Grant Category: Treatment of collections

Contact: Mr. Kurt Bell
Archivist 1
(717)687-8628x3010; kubell@state.pa.us
PO Box 15
Strasburg, PA 17579

Project Title: "Glass Plate Preservation: Phase 2"
The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania will use its grant to make duplicate negatives and images on film for 1,275 glass plate negatives from the H.L. Broadbelt Collection of Baldwin Locomotive Works negatives. The duplicate negatives will eliminate exposure to damage through use and over handling of the originals.

South Dakota

Days of '76 Museum, Inc. - Deadwood, SD
Award Amount: $40,512; Matching Amount:$44,639
Grant Category: Survey of collections

Contact: Ms. Deborah Gangloff
Curator
(605)722-3950; dgangloff@rushmore.com
17 Crescent Street
Deadwood, SD 57732-0391

Project Title: "Saving Highly At-Risk Pioneer and American Indian Collections"
The Days of ’76 Museum will use its grant to conduct a detailed condition survey of “old west” artifacts housed in a pole barn. These include an important collection of Native American objects amassed by the late Don Clowser, owner of the Deadwood Trading Post and an avid collector of art and artifacts of the American West. .

Texas

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston - Houston, TX
Award Amount: $120,386; Matching Amount:$136,943
Grant Category: Treatment of collections

Contact: Ms. Wynne Phelan
Conservator
(713)639-7736; wphelan@mfah.org
P. O. Box 6826
Houston, TX 77265-6826

Project Title: "Conservation Treatment of Photographs Project at the MFAH"
The Museum of Fine Arts will purchase a portable X-Ray Florescence (XRF) unit so 113 works of art in the museum’s photography collection can be properly treated.A small portion of the grant will be used to host a one-day symposium focused on XRF technology. Because it allows to the conservator to see damaged areas that are not visible to the naked eye, XRF has become an invaluable tool for collection care, treatment, and scholarship, especially with regard to photography collections.

Chinati Foundation - Marfa, TX
Award Amount: $115,000; Matching Amount:$290,300
Grant Category: Treatment of collections

Contact: Ms. Marianne Stockebrand
Director
(432)729-4362; mstockebrand@chinati.org
P.O. Box 1135
Marfa, TX 79843-4597

Project Title: "Conservation Treatment of Donald Judd's Outdoor Works in Concrete"
The Chinati Foundationwill use its grant to treat 15 groups of multipart works in concrete by the 20th century contemporary sculptor Donald Judd. Each of these groups has different dimensions and comprises between two and six individual units. These outdoor, unnamed concrete sculptures were created from 1980-1984 by two different fabricators.

Utah

Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah - Salt Lake City, UT
Award Amount: $59,664; Matching Amount:$59,664
Grant Category: Provision of optimum environment

Contact: Mr. David Carroll
Director of Collections
(801)585-9045; dcarroll@umfa.utah.edu
1471 E. Federal Way
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-8930

Project Title: "Preservation and Storage of Works on Paper"
The Utah Museum of Fine Arts will use its grant to purchase and install new storage equipment and supplies in which to properly rehouse the museum’s 1,370 collection of works on paper. These works are by American artists of the 19th and 20th centuries and include nearly 300 drawings, 1,000 prints, and 100 watercolors. Included in the collection is the late-19th-century etching entitled, Ophelia, by Anna Lea Merritt, whose work was represented in the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.

Vermont

Vermont Historical Society - Barre, VT
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount:$163,467
Grant Category: Provision of optimum environment

Contact: Ms. Jacqueline Calder
Curator
(802)479-8514; jackie.calder@state.vt.us
60 Washington Street
Barre, VT 05641-4209

Project Title: "Vermont Historical Society Storage Equipment Purchase"
The Vermont Historical Society will use its grant to purchase and install new storage equipment in which to properly rehouse its collections of 340 paintings and 68 Civil War flags. The paintings are primarily oil-on-canvas from the late 18th through the late 20th centuries and include works by unknown artists and obscure Vermont painters, and many by famous and nationally known artists including Aaron Dean Fletcher, Thomas Waterman Wood, and Norman Rockwell.

Shelburne Museum - Shelburne, VT
Award Amount: $82,029; Matching Amount:$89,114
Grant Category: Training in conservation

Contact: Mr. Richard Kerschner
Director of Preservation and Conservation
(802)985-3348x3361; rkerschner@shelburnemuseum.org
P.O. Box 10
5555 Shelburne Road
Shelburne, VT 05482-7491

Project Title: "Mid-Career and Advanced Intern Conservation Training at Shelburne Museum"
The Shelburne Museum will provide mid-career on-the-job training for a staff conservator and an advanced internship for a recent conservation graduate in folk art conservation. The intern will assist in the conservation of 27 painted folk art panels from the museum’s rare intact 1902 carousel built by the Gustav A. Dentzel Carousel Company, and a 1920’s Artizan Factories carousel organ. This grant will also help to design, fabricate, and mount an exhibit on the conservation of the 900-piece hand-carved Arnold Circus Parade, the Dentzel carousel animals and rounding boards, and the Artizan Factories carousel organ. Preventive conservation actions taken throughout the museum’s 27 collections buildings will also be highlighted and explained.

Virginia

Chrysler Museum of Art - Norfolk, VA
Award Amount: $96,382; Matching Amount:$96,382
Grant Category: Provision of optimum environment

Contact: Mrs. Catherine Wass
Deputy Director of Operations
(757)965-2037; cjordan@chrysler.org
245 West Olney Road
Norfolk, VA 23510-1587

Project Title: "Collection Storage Rennovation"
The Chrysler Museum of Art will use its grant to purchase and install new storage equipment in which to properly rehouse the museum’s reserve collection of small and medium size paintings.

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation - Williamsburg, VA
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount:$253,173
Grant Category: Provision of optimum environment

Contact: Dr. Marley Brown
Director of Archaeological Research
(757)220-7331; mbrown2@cwf.org
P.O. Box 1776
Williamsburg, VA 23187-1776

Project Title: "Improving Environmental Storage for Archaeological Collections"
Colonial Williamsburg will use its grant to purchase and install new storage furniture and supplies with which to properly rehouse the museum’s archaeological and architectural collections. These collections represent an important resource for the study of colonial life and the early history of the United States.

Wisconsin

Outagamie County Historical Society - Appleton, WI
Award Amount: $29,329; Matching Amount:$38,315
Grant Category: Provision of optimum environment

Contact: Mr. Matthew Carpenter
Deputy Director/Curator of Collections
9207359370x113; matt@foxvalleyhistory.org
330 East College Avenue
Appleton, WI 54911-5717

Project Title: "Conservation Planning for Space Renovation and Artifact Move"
The Outagamie County Historical Society will use its grant to develop a plan to create optimal collections storage in an adjacent building and then move its artifacts into this newly upgraded space. This will allow the historical society to maximize its ability to preserve its collections, which include 25,000 objects and an extensive library and archives. The historical society houses the nationally significant collections of Harry Houdini, Senator Joseph McCarthy, and Edna Ferber.

Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin - Madison - Madison, WI
Award Amount: $21,055; Matching Amount:$21,251
Grant Category: Treatment of collections

Contact: Mr. Russell Panczenko
Director
(608)263-2842; rpanczenko@chazen.wisc.edu
550 N. Park Street
Madison, WI 53715-1218

Project Title: "Treatment of Four Paintings"
The Chazen Museum of Art will use its grant to treat four significant European paintings in the Museum’s permanent collection: Scottish Lovers (1863) by Daniel Maclise, The Colonnades of Versailles (ca. 1890-1900) by Giovanni Boldini, Metaphysical Interior with Biscuits (1916) by Giorgio de Chirico, and Personage with Parrot (1960) by Karel Appel.

Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum - Wausau, WI
Award Amount: $18,825; Matching Amount:$22,681
Grant Category: Survey of collections

Contact: Ms. Jane Weinke
Curator of Collections/Registrar
(715)845-7010; jweinke@lywam.org
700 North 12th Street
Wausau, WI 54403-5007

Project Title: "Detailed Condition Survey: Artworks on Paper"
The Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum will use its grant to conduct a detailed condition survey of more than 1,300 works of art on paper in the museum’s permanent collection. These works include watercolors, pastels, pencil and ink drawings, woodcuts, etchings, engravings, and lithographs and feature 18th and early 19th notable artist-naturalists John James Audubon, John and Elizabeth Gould, Mark Catesby, and Joseph Wolf.

Wyoming

Laramie Plains Museum - Laramie, WY
Award Amount: $22,136; Matching Amount:$22,138
Grant Category: Survey of collections

Contact: Connie Lindmier
Curator
(307)742-4448; lpmcurator@bresnan.net
603 East Ivinson Avenue
Laramie, WY 82070

Project Title: "Clothing & Textiles Conservation"
The Laramie Plains Museum will use a portion of its grant to conduct a detailed condition survey of 1,500 high-priority items from the museum’s textile collection. The museum will also conduct an onsite training program entitled for staff and volunteers. A smaller portion of the grant will purchase equipment and supplies to document the conservation project and provide a small stipend to 25 junior high and high school students who will create a public program for the museum’s web site.