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Southampton - Rocco Landesman, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, announced that the Parrish Art Museum has been recommended for a grant of $60,000 to support the installation of its permanent collection in its new building in Water Mill, scheduled open in summer 2012. The Parrish is one of 1,145 not-for-profit national, regional, state, and local organizations recommended for a grant as part of the federal agency's second round of fiscal year 2011 grants. In total, the Arts Endowment will distribute more than $88 million to support projects nationwide.
An independent agency of the federal government, the National Endowment for the Arts advances artistic excellence, creativity, and innovation for the benefit of individuals and communities. NEA Chairman Landesman said, "NEA research shows that three out of four Americans participate in the arts. The diverse, innovative, and exceptional projects funded in this round will ensure that Americans around the country continue to have the opportunity to experience and participate in the arts."
The Parrish's future home in Water Mill will have three times the gallery space of its current facility, allowing the Museum to present, for the first time, a major, permanent installation of its distinguished collection while simultaneously holding special exhibitions. Museum visitors, including the many national and international tourists to the East End of Long Island, will be able to view works in the collection in the context in which many were created. At the same time, visitors to the Museum's newly-enhanced website will have access to a virtual tour of the installation and in-depth interpretive material.
"The Parrish holds many spectacular works of art, but has not been able to provide access to these treasures on a permanent basis. Now, with the new building and this wonderfully generous support of the NEA, the Museum will have the opportunity to share these works with the public," noted Parrish Director Terrie Sultan. "Visitors will see and experience works such as William Merritt Chase's "The Bayberry Bush," paintings by Fairfield Porter, and contemporary art by such American masters as Chuck Close. There will always be something to see at the Parrish, and we are deeply appreciative of the NEA for helping us to realize the full potential of this first ever installation of the permanent collection."
The Museum's programs are made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York State's 62 counties, and the property taxpayers from the Southampton School District and the Tuckahoe Common School District.
About The Parrish Art Museum
Founded in 1897 and located in Southampton, NY, the Parrish Art Museum celebrates the artistic legacy of Long Island's East End and its reverberation throughout the world. Since the mid 1950s the Museum has grown from a small village art gallery into an important museum with a collection of more than 2,600 works of art from the 19th century to the present. It includes such contemporary painters and sculptors as John Chamberlain, Chuck Close, Eric Fischl, April Gornik, Elizabeth Peyton, as well as such masters as Dan Flavin, Roy Lichtenstein, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and Willem de Kooning. The Parrish houses among of the world's most important collections of works by the preeminent American Impressionist William Merritt Chase and by the groundbreaking post-war American realist painter Fairfield Porter. A vital cultural resource serving a diverse audience, the Parrish organizes and presents changing exhibitions and offers a dynamic schedule of creative and engaging public programs including lectures, films, performances, concerts, and studio classes for all ages. In mid-2012, the Parrish will move to a new building in Water Mill designed by internationally acclaimed architects Herzog & de Meuron. The 34,500-square-foot facility will triple the Museum's current exhibition space and allow for the simultaneous presentation of loan exhibitions and installations drawn from the permanent collection.
The National Endowment for the Arts was established by Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. To date, the NEA has awarded more than $4 billion to support artistic excellence, creativity, and innovation for the benefit of individuals and communities. The NEA extends its work through partnerships with state arts agencies, local leaders, other federal agencies, and the philanthropic sector.
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