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Grant Recipients

2024

Professional exchanges and research travel for an exhibition of contemporary American and French art – Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia): $10,000

The organization and operation of study days and professional exchanges on universal accessibility in museums, in support of the touring tactile gallery,
Please Do Touch! – Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes: $20,000

Publication of the bilingual edition of the exhibition catalogue for 
Electric Op – Musée d’Arts de Nantes: $13,300

Research travel and study of the French artist Jean Dupas in support of the 2026 exhibition on the artist 
– Musée des Beaux-Art de Bordeaux: $8,100

2023

Le Paris de la Modernité, 1905-1925 – Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris: $6,500

Let’s Boogie-Woogie in Museums: A Musical and Transatlantic Journey against Racism – Museums of Strasbourg: $9,433

Marisol: A Retrospective – Buffalo, AKG Art Museum and Montreal Museum of Fine Arts: $20,000

James Abbott McNeill Whistler: The Butterfly Effect – Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen: $20,000

2022

Professional exchanges and research travel for “Simon Vouet: Painting, Power, Performance” – Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California: $8,250


Research and development of programs aimed to engage blind and low vision visitors- Portland Art Museum, Oregon: $10,000


Virtual exhibition: France and America’s role in the Slave Trade and its Abolition – Musées de Rouen, France: $ 11,600

Development of an app for customized tours for visitors with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) or pervasive developmental disorders (PDD) – Lyon Musée des Beaux Arts: $11,800

Study Days related to an exhibition on “Promenades on Paper: Eighteenth-Century French Drawings from the Bibliothèque nationale de France”- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours: $8,850

Professional exchanges and research travel for “Matisse and the Sea” – Saint Louis Art Museum: $6,000



2021

Virtual symposium: Expanding and Redirecting Historical Research Related to Franco-American Artistic Relationships between 1918 and 1964 – Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France: $6,240


Professional exchanges/research travel for “The Laundress: Degas, Working-Class Women, and Impressionism” – Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio: $10,400


The World Made Wondrous: The Dutch Collector’s Cabinet and the Politics of Possession – Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California: $20,000


Exploring Power, Moving the Narratives – Musées de Marseille, France: $19,543

2020

Private Lives: Home, Family and the Art of the Nabis – Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio: $14,000


Hayter’s Atelier 17. Towards a Free Print – Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France: $15,640

Art Alive “Tableaux vivants” & Digital Presentations of Op’Art in Buffalo and Nantes collections – Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York: $8,450


Virtual Tour of the Decorations painted by Hippolyte Flandrin for the Church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés – Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France: $9,900


Ports of Exile, Home Harbours – Musées de Rouen, France: $9,900


Our Natural World – A Virtual Sensory Based Experience – Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada: $10,000


Series of podcasts Behind the Scenes, Dialogues between FRAME museums professionals: $10,000


Virtually reuniting paintings of Adam and Eve, by the 17th-century Dutch painter, Hendrick Goltzius & Cabinets of Art and Curiosity – Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut: $10,000

2019

American Response to French Art, 1850-1920 – Denver Art Museum, Colorado: $10,630


Surrealism in American Art – Musées de Marseille, France: $12,000


The United States of Abstraction, American artists in France, 1946-1964 – Musée d’arts de Nantes, France: $13,000


Free Form – Dreams of Freedom – Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts: $13,500


Curating a Culture of Respect – Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille; Musée Fabre de Montpellier; Musées de Strasbourg, France: $11,500


The Art of Inclusion – Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon; Musées de Marseille: $4,600


Bridges Across Borders – Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours, France: $1,322


Please Touch. Tactile Gallery – Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille; Musée d’arts de Nantes, France: $12,075

2018

Please Touch. Tactile Gallery – Musées des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France: $6,380


Art and Empathy – Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut: $10,000


Private Lives: Home, Family and the Art of the Nabis – Portland Art Museum, Oregon: $10,000


The Path toward Color: Armand Guillaumin, Cézanne, Van Gogh, and their Circle – Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri: $11,090


Autism Spectrum Disorder Protocol for Museums – Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada: $11,900


Curating a Culture of Respect – Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille; Musée Fabre de Montpellier; Musées de Strasbourg, France: $12,980


The Art of Inclusion – Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon; Musées de Marseille; Musée des Augustins de Toulouse, France: $5,723


Bridges across Borders – Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours, France: $1,357


Please Touch. Tactile Gallery – Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon; Musée d’arts de Nantes, France: $11,800

2017

Curating a Culture of Respect – Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille; Musée Fabre de Montpellier; Musées de Strasbourg, France: $14,445


The Art of Inclusion – Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon; Musée des Augustins de Toulouse, France: $4,494


Bridges Across Borders – Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours, France: $1,391


Please Touch. Tactile Gallery – Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France: $8,560

2016

Georgia O’Keeffe and her Photographer Friends – Musée de Grenoble, France: $25,862


Curating a Culture of Respect – Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille; Musée Fabre de Montpellier; Musées de Strasbourg, France: $16,128


The Art of Inclusion – Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon; Musées de Marseille; Musée des Augustins de Toulouse, France: $16,800


Bridges Across Borders – Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours, France: $672

2015

Curating a Culture of Respect – Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille; Musée Fabre de Montpellier; Musées de Strasbourg, France: $22,000

2014

Curating a Culture of Respect – Musées de Strasbourg, France; Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts: $9,900

2013

Joseph Cornell and the Surrealists in New York – Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France: $192,000

2012

Bodies and Shadows. Caravaggio and his Legacy – Musée Fabre de Montpellier; Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France; Los Angeles County Museum of Fine Arts, California; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut.


The Mourners: Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy –  Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia

2011

The Mourners: Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy –   Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California

2010

The Mourners’ Trunk – Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, France.


Music and Art – Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon ; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours, France.


Talking Art – Musées de Marseille; Musée Fabre de Montpellier, France.


The Mourners: Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy – Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri; Dallas Art Museum, Texas