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NEA - American Masterpieces: Visual Arts Touring

Program Summary

American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius is a major initiative to acquaint Americans with the best of their cultural and artistic legacy. Through American Masterpieces, the National Endowment for the Arts will sponsor performances, exhibitions, tours, and educational programs across all art forms that will reach large and small communities in all 50 states.

This component of American Masterpieces will celebrate the extraordinary and rich evolution of the visual arts in the United States. Through the creation and touring of major exhibitions, art of the highest quality will be experienced by Americans in communities across the nation.
Exhibitions may focus on schools, movements, traditions, subject areas, and themes that include but are not limited to:

• The Hudson River School
• American Impressionism
• Native American Art
• American Masterworks from Unique Collections including private collections
• Aspects of American Art Post-1945 to the Present
• Art of the W.P.A.
• Latino Art
• The Portrait in America
• American Naïve Art
• African American Art
• American Photographers and Photography
• American Decorative Arts
• The Art of the American West
• Industrial Design
• Architecture
• Costume and Textiles
• Folk Arts

The tour of an existing exhibition is eligible.

Exhibitions must be:

• Scaled so they can be shown in small and mid-sized exhibiting institutions.
• Shown for a period of 8-12 weeks at 2-5 venues which may include the organizing institution. The number of venues should be appropriate to the nature of the works on view.
• Accompanied by related educational and interpretive components including brochures and catalogues. Educational material for children and youth must ensure the application of national or state arts education standards.

Substantial efforts should be made to reach underserved communities.

UIC is limited to one American Masterpieces: Visual Arts Touring application per year.  The Arts Endowment anticipates awarding fewer than 10 grants, generally ranging from $30,000 to $300,000. All grants require a nonfederal match of at least 1 to 1.

Additional Information 
http://www.arts.gov/grants/apply/AMVAT.html

Deadlines

Letter of Intent

• By submitting this form, applicant attests that s/he has read and meets the sponsor's eligibility criteria for this program.  The LOI can be emailed to RDS@uic.edu, Attn: Jennifer Czak
• OVCR may reserve submission slots for previously submitted but unfunded proposals that received highly competitive ratings from the external sponsor.    These will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis by the Vice Chancellor.  For consideration, scanned copies of your complete reviews (not just summary) must be included with LOI.

LOI form: http://tigger.uic.edu/depts/ovcr/research/funding/forms/0600.doc

Depending upon the number of LOIs submitted, OVCR might be required to facilitate an internal peer review process to select UIC’s submission(s) to this program.  White paper instructions will be issued to those submitting LOIs, if necessary.    

Please contact Jennifer Czak at jpaliga@uic.edu or 312.996.2590 with any questions.

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