Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Extends Its Impact on Arts Education through Ongoing Initiative Fostering New Research and Engagement with Frankenthaler’s Practice
The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation announced ten new recipients of its Frankenthaler Prints Initiative, an ongoing program for university-affiliated art museums that reflects the Foundation's commitment to supporting undergraduate and graduate education in the visual arts and art history. The awardees include ten museums from across the country, each of which will receive a group of prints and five to ten related trial proofs drawn from the Foundation's extensive collection of work by Frankenthaler. The museums also receive a one-time grant of $25,000 to develop a project or program for the study, presentation, and interpretation of the editions and proofs within a three-year timeframe.
Prints Initiative grantees are selected based on a demonstrated commitment to prints as a significant collecting area and teaching tool. These museums also have few, if any, Frankenthaler prints in their collections. University art museums awarded 2023 Frankenthaler Prints Initiative gifts include:
The Block Museum of Art - Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Cantor Arts Center - Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art - Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Georgia Museum of Art - University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Grey Art Gallery - New York University, New York, NY
Henry Art Gallery - University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Lowe Art Museum - University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
North Dakota Museum of Art - University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
Syracuse University Art Museum - Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
University of New Mexico Art Museum - University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
"We are delighted to launch phase two of the Frankenthaler Prints Initiative following the successful completion of the first round of the program," remarked Elizabeth Smith, Executive Director of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation. "These gifts advance the study of Frankenthaler's work and invite new scholarly investigation about her printmaking practice. We are excited to see what fresh insights arise from the prints' inclusion in curricula, curatorial programming, and other new academic and artistic contexts at universities fostering the next generation of artists and scholars."