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The grants listed below were awarded between July 1, 2007, and March 31, 2008.


Special Initiatives

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Education and Professional Development

Scholars and Fellows at the Getty Center and Villa


Special Initiatives

On the Record: Art in L.A. 1945-1980

California International Arts Foundation, Los Angeles. For a survey of local archives related to African-American art. $48,000

Museum Associates (LACMA), Los Angeles, California. For research in preparation for the exhibition California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way. $230,000

Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, California. For research in preparation for the exhibition California Culture, 1969-1980. $238,900

Regents of the University of California, Oakland. For the arrangement and description of archival collections in the University of California, Santa Barbara's Architectural and Design Collection. $250,000


Mosaics Conservation Initiative

International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), Rome, Italy. For a planning meeting with participants from twelve countries designed to identify key challenges in mosaics conservation. €56,000


Fund for New Orleans

Cathedral of Saint Louis King of France, New Orleans, Louisiana. For the develeopment of a conservation plan for Saint Anthony's Garden. $130,000

Southern University at New Orleans, Louisiana. For conservation treatment of the collection in the Center for African and African American Studies. $100,000


Campus Heritage

Society for College and University Planning, Ann Arbor, Michigan. For a planning project on the dissemination of the results of the Getty Foundation's Campus Heritage initiative. $37,500


Research

Research Resources and Publications

American Folk Art Museum, New York. For the arrangement and description of the Henry Darger Archive. $85,000

Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc., Los Angeles, California. For a publication series on recent art and architecture. $100,000

Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich, Germany. For the publication, Johann Baptist Fickler: Das Inventar der Münchner herzoglichen Kunstkammer: Kommentar und Aufsätze. $47,000

The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, California. For the publication of the reference volume Asian American Art: Starting from Here. $51,000

The British Museum, London, England. For the publication series Artistic Traditions in World Cultures. £30,000

The British School at Rome, Italy. For the arrangement and description of the J. B. Ward-Perkins photographic collection. $218,000

Florida International University Foundation, Inc., Miami. For the arrangement and description of the John and Drew Eberson Architectural Archive. $50,000

Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, France. For the publication series Passages/Passagen. €110,000

Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris, France. For the arrangement and description of the photographic archives. €187,000

Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey. For library acquisitions at the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations. $150,000

Manchester City Council, England. For the arrangement and description of the nineteenth-century photographic portraits in the Gallery of Costume. $75,000

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. For Visualizing Cultures, an online resource designed to provide access to rare visual arts materials related to modern Asian culture and history, developed in collaboration with the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem. $200,000

Museum Associates, Los Angeles, California. For the preparation of a catalogue of the seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish paintings at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. $150,000

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. For the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts' reference database, The History of the Accademia di San Luca, 1589-1635: Documents from the Archivio di Stato, Rome. $200,000

President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts. For the arrangement and description of archival collections at the Harvard University Art Museums related to the development of American art history and art museums. $95,000

Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Illinois. For a five-volume publication series documenting contemporary exhibitions and site-specific works displayed at the society. $75,000

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. For the Smithsonian Photography Initiative, designed to provide online access to over thriteen million photographs from 700 collections across the Smithsonian. $300,000

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts. For a research exchange with African scholars on contemporary African art. $100,000

Swedish National Museum of Fine Arts, Stockholm. For the preparation of a catalogue of fifteenth- to eighteenth-century Netherlandish, Flemish, and Dutch drawings. $200,000

Trustees of Princeton University, New Jersey. For the preparation of a catalogue of the University Art Museum's Italian drawings collection. $90,000

University of Chicago, Illinois. For the Persepolis Fortification Archive Project at the Oriental Institute, designed to provide online access to images and analysis related to key archaeological materials from the Achaemenid Persian Empire. $200,000


Postdoctoral Fellowships

Bleichmar, Daniela. University of Southern California, Los Angeles. "Visible Empire: Colonial Botany and Visual Culture in the Eighteenth Century Spanish World." $40,000

Dombrowski, Andre. Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. "Early Cézanne: Extremism and the Rise of Impressionism." $40,000

Elet, Yvonne Harvey. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York. "Papal Pastoral in Early Modern Rome: Word and Image at Villa Madama." $40,000

Guidetti, Mattia. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. "Churches and Mosques in Medieval Syria." $40,000

Gutschow, Kai Konstanty. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. "Inventing Expressionism: Art, Criticism, and the Rise of Modern Architecture." $40,000

Kott, Christina. Institut d'histoire du temps présent, Paris, France. "Kriegseinsätze deutscher Kunsthistoriker, Denkmalpfleger und Archäologen im Zweiten Weltkrieg." $40,000

Lee, Sonya Sum-yin. University of Southern California, Los Angeles. "Surviving Nirvana: Death and Transfiguration of the Buddha in Chinese Art." $40,000

Marina, Areli. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "Sanctified in Water, Sealed in Stone: The Italian Baptistery from 1000 to 1500." $40,000

Nair, Stella Elise. University of California, Riverside "Retreats without Surrender: The Architecture of Sanctuary at Chinchero, from Thupa 'Inka to the Spanish Occupation." $40,000

Oryshkevich, Irina Taissa. Independent Scholar, New York, New York. "Necropolis to Metropolis: The Genesis of 'Roma sotterranea.'" $40,000

Schiller, Noel Grace. University of South Florida, Tampa. "Engaging Laughter: Representing Perception, Sensation, and the Passions in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art." $40,000

Sears, Tamara Ilana. New York University. "Worldly Gurus and Spiritual Kings: The Architecture of Asceticism in Early Medieval India." $40,000

Thompson, Krista Angelique. Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. "The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Practice." $40,000

Williams, Gregory Hamilton. Boston University, Massachusetts. "Laughter and Cultural Pessimism: Art in West Germany, 1974-1989." $40,000


Conservation

Museum Conservation

Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, Germany. For treatment and research related to the conservation of furniture decorated in the Boulle technique. $250,000

Cincinnati Museum Association, Ohio. For treatment and research related to the conservation of Mural for the Terrace Plaza Hotel by Joan Miró in the Cincinnati Art Museum. $82,000

Jacques Marchais Center of Tibetan Art, Staten Island, New York. For a conservation survey of the collection of Tibetan and Himalayan thangkas. $41,800

National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside, Liverpool, England. For treatment and research related to the conservation of Chinese ceramics in the collection of the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight Village. £73,000

Ville de Bry-Sur-Marne, France. For treatment and research related to the conservation of the Diorama by Louis Daguerre. $200,000

Ville de Paris (Musée Carnavalet), France. For research and conservation treatment of the Chinoiserie boiseries, rare surviving works from the former residence of the Duc de Richelieu. €170,500

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. For research and treatment related to the conservation of Calder's Circus (1926-1931) by Alexander Calder. $150,000


Architectural Conservation

Antarctic Heritage Trust, Christchurch, New Zealand. For the implementation of a conservation plan for Captain Robert Falcon Scott's hut, Cape Evans, Ross Island, Antarctica. NZ$200,000

California Missions Foundation, Riverside. For the preparation of a conservation plan for Mission San Miguel Arcángel. $75,000

Cornerstones Community Partnerships, Santa Fe, New Mexico. For the preparation of a conservation plan for San Miguel Chapel. $54,700

Corporación Cultural Identidad Patrimonial, Santiago, Chile. For the preparation of a conservation plan for the Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria de Carelmapu. $75,000

Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, England. For the preparation of a conservation plan for the Wren Library at St. Paul's Cathedral. £37,600

Dean and Chapter of Westminster, London, England. For the implementation of a conservation plan for the Cosmati pavement in Westminster Abbey. £128,400

Mehrangarh Museum Trust, Jodhpur, India. For training, treatment, and research related to the conservation of the wall paintings in Sheesh Mahal, Ahhichatragarh-Nagaur Fort. $200,000

Pearl S. Buck International, Inc., Perkasie, Pennsylvania. For the preparation of an architectural conservation plan for the Pearl S. Buck House. $64,000

Preservation Society of Newport County, Rhode Island. For the preparation of a conservation plan for the breakfast room lacquer panels of The Elms. $30,100

Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois. For the preparation of a conservation plan for Ganz Hall in the Auditorium Building. $75,000

St. Martin-in-the-Fields Parochial Church Council, London, England. For the implementation of a conservation plan for St. Martin-in-the-Fields. £75,000

Shelburne Farms, Vermont. For the implementation of a conservation plan for the Breeding Barn Complex. $250,000

The Strawberry Hill Trust, Twickenham, England. For the implementation of a conservation plan for Strawberry Hill. £131,500


Education and Professional Development

Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art, Paris, France. For delegates from Central and South America to attend the 2007 Congress in São Paulo, Brazil. €8,000

The Brooklyn Historical Society, New York. For new interpretive programs related to the fine arts collection. $196,000

California College of the Arts, Oakland. For the Curatorial Practice program. $200,000

Centre International de la Construction en Terre, Villefontaine, France. For participants from developing countries to attend the Tenth International Conference on the Study and Conservation of Earthen Architectural Heritage in Bamako, Mali. €57,100

The Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, Washington, D.C. For participants from Latin America and the Caribbean to attend the 2008 annual meeting in Denver, Colorado. $64,500

Fundación Televisa, A. C., Mexico City. For a one-year mid-career conservation residency at the Atelier de Restauration et de Conservation des Photographies de la Ville de Paris and the Centre de Recherche sur la Conservation des Collections, Paris, France. $36,000

The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Delaware. For a one-year mid-career training residency for a conservator from Iraq. $20,000

Inner-City Arts, Los Angeles, California. For visual arts programs. $10,400

International Council of African Museums, Nairobi, Kenya. For transition planning. $175,000

International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS),, Paris, France. For current and future conservaton leaders from developing countries and Central and Eastern Europe to attend ICOMOS' Sixteenth General Assembly and Scientific Symposium in Quebec, Canada. $75,000

International Council of Museums (ICOM), Paris, France. For a project designed to increase access to resources and international networking for conservation professionals. €40,000

International Council of Museums (ICOM), Paris, France. For participants from developing countries and Central and Eastern Europe to attend the Fifteenth Triennial Meeting of the Conservation Committee in New Delhi, India. €75,000

The International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, London, England. For participants from developing countries to attend the Twenty-Second International Congress in London, England. £29,000

Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey. To train staff and plan new interpretive programs for the permanent collection for the Contemporary Art Centre at Santralistanbul, in collaboration with MOMA, the Tate Modern, and the ZKM MOCA in Karlsruhe, Germany. $98,000

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, California. For new interpretive programs for the permanent collection. $220,000

National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, D.C. For the PreservationNation Web site, designed to provide online access to existing and new resouces related to historic preservation. $300,000

Pew Charitable Trusts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For the California Cultural Data Project. $225,000

Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. For a curriculum review project for the Historic Preservation Program. $40,000

United States National Committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites, Washington, D.C. For a training program to strengthen conservation of historic towns in Eastern Europe. $30,000

Wellesley College, Massachusetts. For the development of new interpretive materials for Phase II of the reinstallation of the Davis Museum and Cultural Center's permanent collection. $200,000


Multicultural Undergraduate Internships

A+D Architecture and Design Museum Los Angeles, California. For one internship. $4,000

American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California. For one internship. $4,000

Angels Gate Cultural Center, Inc., San Pedro, California. For one internship. $4,000

Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc., Los Angeles, California. For two internships. $8,000

Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California. For three internships. $12,000

Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California. For two internships. $8,000

Arts and Services for Disabled, Inc., Long Beach, California. For one internship. $4,000

Association for the Advancement of Filipino American Arts and Culture, Los Angeles, California. For one internship. $4,000

Autry National Center of the American West, Los Angeles, California. For four internships. $16,000

California Institute of the Arts, Valencia. For three internships in the Community Arts Partnership program. $12,000

California Science Center Foundation, Los Angeles. For two internships. $8,000

California State Parks, Sacramento. For one internship at Will Rogers State Historic Park, Pacific Palisades. $4,000

California State University Long Beach Foundation. For two internships at the University Art Museum. $8,000

Catalina Island Museum Society, Inc., Avalon, California. For one internship. $4,000

Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Los Angeles, California. For two internships. $8,000

City of Arcadia, California. For one internship at the Ruth and Charles Gilb Arcadia Historical Museum. $4,000

City of Culver City, California. For one internship. $4,000

City of Los Angeles, California. For one internship in the Art Program of the Community Redevelopment Agency. $4,000

City of Los Angeles, California. For one internship in the Department of Cultural Affairs. $4,000

City of Los Angeles, California. For one internship in the Department of City Planning, Office of Historic Resources. $4,000

City of Pasadena, California. For one internship in the Cultural Affairs Division. $4,000

City of Torrance, California. For one internship at the Torrance Art Museum. $4,000

Claremont Museum of Art, California. For one internship. $4,000

Eagle Rock Community Cultural Association, Los Angeles, California. For one internship at the Center for the Arts. $4,000

18th Street Arts Complex, Santa Monica, California. For three internships. $12,000

El Pueblo Park Association, Los Angeles, California. For one internship. $4,000

Friends of Banning Park Corporation, Wilmington, California. For one internship. $4,000

Friends of Robinson Gardens, Inc., Beverly Hills, California. For one internship. $4,000

Friends of the Chinese American Museum, Los Angeles, California. For two internships. $8,000

Friends of the Los Angeles River, California. For one internship. $4,000

HeArt Project, Los Angeles, California. For one internship. $4,000

Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, California. For three internships. $12,000

Highways, Santa Monica, California. For one internship. $4,000

Historic Italian Hall Foundation, Los Angeles, California. For one internship. $4,000

Historical Society of Long Beach, California. For one internship. $4,000

HUC—Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California. For two internships. $8,000

Immaculate Heart Community, Los Angeles, California. For one internship at the Corita Art Center. $4,000

Inner-City Arts, Los Angeles, California. For two internships. $8,000

Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, Los Angeles, California. For one internship. $4,000

Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, California. For three internships. $12,000

L.A. Freewaves, Los Angeles, California. For two internships. $8,000

LAXART, Los Angeles, California. For one internship. $4,000

Library Foundation of Los Angeles, California. For two internships. $8,000

Long Beach Museum of Art Foundation, California. For two internships. $8,000

Los Angeles Arboretum Foundation, Inc., Arcadia, California. For one internship. $4,000

Los Angeles Art Association, California. For one internship at Gallery 825. $4,000

Los Angeles Conservancy, California. For two internships. $8,000

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Inc., California. For two internships. $8,000

Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, California. For one internship. $4,000

Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Foundation, California. For one internship at the William S. Hart Museum, Newhall. $4,000

Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery Associates, California. For one internship. $4,000

Machine Project, Los Angeles, California. For one internship. $4,000

MAK Center for Art and Architecture, West Hollywood, California. For one internship. $4,000

Millard Sheets Gallery, Pomona, California. For one internship. $4,000

Museum Associates, Los Angeles, California. For three internships at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. $12,000

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California. For three internships. $12,000

Museum of Jurassic Technology, Culver City, California. For two internships. $8,000

Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California. For two internships. $8,000

Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, California. For two internships. $8,000

P.S. ARTS, Los Angeles, California. For one internship. $4,000

Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California. For two internships. $8,000

Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, California. For one internship. $4,000

Pasadena Museum of California Art. For two internships. $8,000

Petersen Automotive Museum Foundation, Los Angeles, California. For one internship. $4,000

Pharmaka, Los Angeles, California. For one internship. $4,000

Plaza de Cultura y Arte Foundation, Los Angeles, California. For one internship. $4,000

Plaza de la Raza, Inc., Los Angeles, California. For one internship. $4,000

Pomona College, Claremont, California. For one internship at the Pomona College Museum of Art. $4,000

Rancho Los Cerritos Foundation, Long Beach, California. For two internships. $8,000

Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont, California. For two internships. $8,000

Ryman Carroll Foundation, Los Angeles, California. For two internships. $8,000

St. Elmo Village, Inc., Los Angeles, California. For one internship. $4,000

Santa Monica Museum of Art, California. For two internships. $8,000

Scripps College, Claremont, California. For three internships at the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery. $12,000

Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles, California. For one internship at the Museum of Tolerance. $4,000

Society for the Preservation of Drum Barracks, Wilmington, California. For one internship at the Drum Barracks Civil War Museum. $4,000

Southern California Asian American Studies Central, Los Angeles. For two internships at Visual Communications. $8,000

Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research, Los Angeles. For one internship. $4,000

Tierra del Sol Center for the Handicapped Foundation, Sunland, California. For one internship at the First Street Gallery Art Center, Claremont. $4,000

Velaslavasay Panorama, Los Angeles, California. For one internship. $4,000

Venice Arts: In Neighborhoods, California. For one internship. $4,000

Vincent Price Art Gallery Foundation, Monterey Park, California. For one internship. $4,000

Watts Labor Community Action Committee, Los Angeles, California. For one internship. $4,000

The Wende Museum of the Cold War, Inc., Culver City, California. For one internship. $4,000


Scholars and Fellows at the Getty Center and Villa

Getty Research Institute

Visiting Scholars

Uwe Winifred Fleckner, Berlin, Germany. $8,633


Library Research Grants

Gwen Lynn Allen, San Francisco, California. $500

Alice Barnaby, Devon, England. $2,500

Magdalena Bialonowska, Swidnik, Poland. $2,500

Carole Blumenfeld, Paris, France. $2,500

Benoît Philippe Buquet, Paris, France. $2,500

Edina Eszenyi, Budapest, Hungary. $2,500

Emily Joyce Evans, Champaign, Illinois. $1,000

Pamela Marie Fletcher, Brunswick, Maine. $1,000

Anne Linden Helmreich, Cleveland Heights, Ohio. $1,000

Elizabeth Jean Hornbeck, Columbia, Missouri. $1,000

Ted Hovet, Bowling Green, Kentucky. $1,000

Keala Jane Jewell, Hanover, New Hampshire. $1,000

Danielle Marie Johnson, Astoria, New York. $1,000

Alexandra Helen MacGilp, London, England. $2,500

Albert Narath, Berlin, Germany. $2,500

Thomas William Ort, Raleigh, North Carolina. $1,000

Julie J. Park, Ontario, Canada. $1,000

Shalon D. Parker, Spokane, Washington. $750

Prudence Marie Peiffer, Washington, DC. $1,000

Nicasio Gradaille Peña, Vigo, Spain. $2,500

Daniel Ricardo Quiles, New York. $1,000

Carsten Ruhl, Bochum, Germany. $2,500

Sarah Grace Sharp, Brooklyn, New York. $1,000

Victoria Ann Sheridan, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. $1,000

Hadas Anna Steiner, Buffalo, New York. $1,000

Alison Gail Stewart, Lincoln, Nebraska. $1,000

Maia Todorova Toteva, Washington, DC. $1,000

Anke Ariane Van Wagenberg-Ter Hoeven, Salisbury, Maryland. $1,000

Melissa Christine Warak, Austin, Texas. $1,000

Nigel Steven Whiteley, Carnforth, England. $2,500


J. Paul Getty Museum

Guest Scholars

Gordon Balderston, Independent Art Historian, London, England. For research on the bronzes in Ludovico Ludovisi's collection in Rome. $9,333

Szilvia Bodnár, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary. For research for a catalogue of the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century German drawings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. $8,588

Melanie Holcomb, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. For research and completion of the catalogue for a major international loan exhibition on medieval drawing, Pen and Parchment: The Art of Drawing in the Middle Ages. $9,333

Asok Kumar Das, Independent Scholar, West Bengal, India. For research on a book and exhibition project on the Mughal natural history painter Ustad Mansur. $8,588

Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, Landscape Architect and Historian, London, England. For research for a forthcoming book on the evolution of the London Square. $9,597

Sylvie Penichon, Amon Carter Museum of Art, Fort Worth, Texas. For the preparation of a manuscript for a publication on the care and identification of twentieth-century color photographic prints. $9,333

Sarah Schultz, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota. For research on the creation of an expanded paradigm for experience/interpretation as a holistic practice and function across the art museum. $9,597

George Shackelford, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts. For the preparation of a catalogue for the forthcoming exhibition exploring Edgar Degas's transformation of the female nude into a modern idiom. $8,633

Bodo Balthasar von Dewitz, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany. For research on the construction of the image of the artist in photographic portraiture from the ninenteenth century forward. $8,588

Training Fellowships

Mohsen Abd-El Hamid Abd-El Ghany, Giza, Egypt. For a training fellowship at the J. Paul Getty Museum. $6,111

Nagwan Edwar Daoud, Cairo, Egypt. For a training fellowship at the J. Paul Getty Museum. $6,111




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