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About the Professional Scholars Grant

The Foundation's mission is to expand the art establishment's canon to include artists of the African Diaspora and to introduce the Great Masters of African American Art and their art traditions to kids as well as adult audiences.

The Professional Scholars Grant awards $2,000.00 to art historians, critics and writers to continue the work begun on the African-American Timeline of Art History. In 2006 the African-American Timeline will focus on these Master Artists whose contributions to the visual arts have been summarily dismissed by the mainstream establishment of art history: William H. Johnson, Edmonia Lewis, Harriet Powers, and Charles White. They are a few of the names from a long list of under-represented African American artists the Foundation supports.

Application Deadline February 28, 2007

Professional Scholars Grant Selection Committee:

Dr. Whitney Chadwick, Dr. David Driskell, Dr. Lisa Farrington, Dr. Sandra Jackson, Dr. Moira Roth

Professional Scholars Grantees:

2002	Dr. Catherine Bernard: Patterns of Change: the Work of Lois Mailou Jones
	Dr. Deborah Cullen-Morales: A Life in Print: Robert Blackburn and American Printmaking
	Dr. Margaret Rose Vendryes: Casting Feral Benga: A Biography of Richmond Barthé's Signature Work
	Dr. Lisa Gail Collins: A Child’s Eye, an Artist’s Mind, and a Man’s Heart: Romare Bearden
2003	Dr. Lori Verderame: The Sculptural Legacy Of Selma Burke
	Dr. Krista A. Thompson: African American Artists and the Muse of Haiti During the US Occupation 1915-1934 - Essay Pending
2004	Kyra E. Hicks: Martha Erskine Ricks: 19th Century Quiltmaker
	Theresa Leininger-Miller: Sculpting the New Negro - Portraits of African Americans by Augusta Savage - Essay Pending
2005	Trish Maunder: From Harlem to the Classroom - The Art of African American Masters for Elementary and Middle School Kids
2006	To be announced

A quote from Sharon Patton's Introduction to her book African-American Art (Oxford University Press, 1998), expresses the views of the Foundation exactly.

"...I hope that readers will not only learn about black people as artists, but also the ways in which art manifests the cultural diversity that is part of belonging to the African Diaspora."

For additional information contact:

Barbara F. Wallace, Secretary
tel: 201-816-1374
e-mail: enquiries@anyonecanflyfoundation.org

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