Hammer Museum Receives $200,000 Grant from Ford Foundation

December 7, 2017

The Hammer Museum at UCLA offers collections, exhibitions, and programs that span the classic to the contemporary in art, architecture, and design. The Hammer’s international exhibition program focuses on wide-ranging thematic and monographic exhibitions, highlighting contemporary art since the 1960s and the work of emerging artists through Hammer Projects and the Hammer’s biennial, Made in L.A. As a cultural center, the Hammer Museum offers nearly 300 free public programs a year, including lectures, readings, symposia, film screenings, and music performances. 

"The Ford Foundation has given Los Angeles’s Hammer Museum a $200,000 grant to support public programming. With aid from the grant, the museum will continue to offer free programs and special events with a focus on social justice.

The grant money will also help the museum upgrade its technological infrastructure. The Hammer plans to use the money to help reach a wider audience through digital outreach and to archive old content.

In a statement, the Hammer’s director, Ann Philbin, said, “We are eager now to share our equally impactful public programs with the wider audience they deserve. By investing in a critical pillar of our activities, Ford is giving us the ability to strengthen our infrastructure, share this important work more broadly, and realize the full potential of our public programs."— Alex Greenberger, Dec. 6, 2017

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