NEA Grants for 2001 - National Endowment for the Arts, United States - Brief Article

Art in America, July, 2001 by Stephanie Cash, David Ebony

The National Endowment for the Arts has announced its final grants for fiscal year 2001. Totaling $53.9 million, the 832 grants comprise 63 percent of the agency's grantmaking budget. The 2001 budget of $105 million reflects a $7-million increase, the endowment's first hike since 1992. The grants were given in the categories of Access, Education, Heritage/Preservation, Arts on Radio and Television, Leadership Initiatives, and Partnership Agreements, which received the largest percentage of monies for distribution to state and regional agencies.

Among the recipients are "Art21 ," which received $200,000 to support a four-year public television series on contemporary visual art and artists in the U.S.; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, $35,000 to help produce material related to a touring exhibition on colonial Mexican art; the Art Institute of Chicago, $30,000 to develop a Web site for its video data bank; and San Francisco's Galeria de la Raza, $24,000 to commission digital murals in the city's Mission District.