HELEN FRANKENTHALER FOUNDATION GIVES $2 MILLION TO ART SCHOOLS, ANNOUNCES EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES
UCLA is the only institution recognized for both its museum and academic program
The UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture was recognized by two new university-level education initiatives from the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation (HFF).
The HFF awarded the Department of Art $500,000 to create an endowment that will support scholarships for M.F.A. students in painting. The UCLA Chancellor's Centennial Scholars Match contributed an additional $250,000 to support these new scholarships.
In addition, the HFF announced the Frankenthaler Prints initiative which benefits art museums at universities, including the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts/Hammer Museum, UCLA.
We are proud that UCLA is the only institution recognized for both its museum and its academic program.
"The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation announced today that it is launching two new educational initiatives that will support art and art history students studying at the undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate levels. The foundation will give a total of $2 million to four art schools: Columbia University School of the Arts; the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; the University of California, Los Angeles’s School of the Arts and Architecture; and the Yale School of Art. Each institution will receive a one-time endowment gift of $500,000 and will be invited to work with the foundation to develop a program related to the artist, which may take the shape of a lecture or visit to the organization’s New York City research center.
Helen Frankenthaler, Untitled, 1967, screenprint, 25 3/4 x 17 7/8 inches (65.4 x 45.4 cm). © 2018 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Chiron Press, New York. Photo: Steven Sloman. In addition, the foundation will also establish the Frankenthaler Prints Initiative for which it will donate ten prints from its collection of Helen Frankenthaler’s works to ten university museums: the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas Austin, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts at UCLA’s Hammer Museum, the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Princeton University Art Museum, the RISD Museum at the Rhode Island School of Design, the SCAD Museum of Art at Savannah College of Art and Design, and the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas.
Selected for their commitment to the acquisition of prints and development of educational programming, the institutions will receive one-time grants of $25,000 for the presentation of exhibitions and scholarship on the works, which range from etchings, lithography, monotypes, screenprints, and woodcuts.
“Helen had a strong interest in supporting college- and university-level art education,” Clifford Ross, chair of the foundation’s board of trustees, said in a statement. “Her own fortunate training at Bennington, and her active lecture schedule at art schools and universities during her career, made her aware of the benefits of an enlightened and stimulating education. With Frankenthaler Scholarships, we hope to extend Helen’s interests to help outstanding students who will particularly benefit from our financial support."— Nov. 30, 2018
This story originally appeared on the Artforum website.
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