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| How to Contact the Anyone Can Fly Foundation |
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Barbara F. Wallace
Anyone Can Fly Foundation, Inc.
P.O. Box 429, Englewood, NJ 07631.
Telephone: 201-816-1374
Email: enquiries@anyonecanflyfoundation.org |
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| The Board of Trustees |
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President: Faith Ringgold
Vice President: Grace Welty Matthews
Barbara Hoffman Esq., Counselor
Treasurer: Marjorie Durden CPA
Secretary: Barbara Faith Wallace
Dr. Lisa Farrington
Mr. Burdette Ringgold
Dr. Moira Roth |
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| Mission Statement |
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The mission of the Anyone Can Fly Foundation 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.
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| Programs |
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To accomplish its mission the Anyone Can Fly Foundation is initiating two new programs: The Distinguished Artists & Scholars Lifetime Achievement Award Program and the African-American Timeline of Art History Program.
The Distinguished Artists & Scholars Lifetime Achievement Award
This award is to honor Master Artists and Scholars of the African Diaspora who have created a groundbreaking body of work that changed the course of art history.
African-American Timeline of Art History
The focus of the Timeline Project will begin in Africa; proceed to the Middle Passage through slavery, through the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and '30s, the Black art period of the 1960s, and on to the present day. The Project begins this year with the dawn of the 20th century. The initial four artists featured are Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Aaron Douglas, and Jacob Lawrence. Trish Maunder, Project Director, 2005 African-American Timeline of Art History, will create a teacher's kit of presentation and art workshop materials including lesson plans for each of these artists. Teachers who receive grants from our Art With Kids Program will use this kit. In 2006 the Foundation will award Professional Scholars Grants to scholars to add Master Artists William H. Johnson, Edmonia Lewis, Harriet Powers, and Charles White to the Timeline Project. |
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| Professional Scholars Grant |
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The Foundation will offer a $2,000.00 Professional Scholars Grant to art historians, critics and writers who want to write about those artists whose careers began in the 1940s or before, and whose contributions to the visual arts have been summarily dismissed by the mainstream establishment of art history. A list of artists the Foundation supports is included. In 2006 we are featuring William H. Johnson, Edmonia Lewis, Harriet Powers, and Charles White. |
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Application Deadline: February 28, 2007
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| Art with Kids Grant |
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To achieve our mission the Foundation is offering an Art with Kids Grant(s) to a teacher, teaching parent or graduate student who will present an art appreciation program(s) at a designated Host Elementary School(s). The Art With Kids Program is an art appreciation program with teaching kits for Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Aaron Douglas, and Jacob Lawrence consisting of:
- A slide lecture with Q & A (included in the Foundation Art Teaching Kit);
- Art making workshop limited to no more than 25 students (included in the Foundation Art Teaching Kit)
- A group trip so that the children can see the Master Artist's original works at a museum or art gallery (organized by the 2007 Art With Kids Grant Recipient).
The award consists of $600.00 for the slide lecture, art making workshop, and museum trip presentation on any one of the featured Master Artists; $1,000.00 for presentations on two of the featured Master Artists; $1,400.00 for presentations on three; and if a 2007 Art With Kids Grant Recipient completes presentations on all four Master Artists, the total award will be $1,800.00.
An additional stipend of up to $200.00 is available for miscellaneous expenses and supplies upon presentation of receipts. This year the Art With Kids Program may be presented to up to 4 approved host elementary schools for a maximum total of $8000.00. The dates of presentation are from September 2007 - May 2008.
Applicants for Foundation Grants are selected with out respect to their race, creed or color.
The grantee, host school(s) and art museum for the 2007 grant year must all be located in the Metropolitan New York / New Jersey / Pennsylvania Tri-State Area. |
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Application Deadline: February 28, 2007
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