The Helen Frankenthaler Basis is giving $3.3m to 69 visible arts organisations throughout the US to assist them make energy-efficient upgrades—reminiscent of including photo voltaic panels and altering the lighting of their buildings, or auditing their general power use and creating plans for attaining carbon neutrality.
That is the muse’s fourth spherical in as a few years of the Frankenthaler Local weather Initiative (FCI), and 2024 marks the primary 12 months of its Catalyst Grant—funding short-term tasks at organisations “at earlier phases of their climate-action trajectory”, per an announcement.
This 12 months’s grantees embody massive establishments just like the New Museum in New York Metropolis (receiving $100,000), Seattle Artwork Museum ($100,000), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico ($50,000), MoMA PS1 ($25,000) and Massachusetts Museum of Modern Artwork ($25,000), in addition to smaller ones like The Kitchen ($50,000), The Chinati Basis ($50,000), Storefront for Artwork and Structure ($25,000) and the Steven Myron Holl Basis ($15,000). Artwork colleges are additionally among the many grantees—together with the Rhode Island College of Design ($50,000) and the College of the Artwork Institute of Chicago ($50,000).
At MacDowell, the fabled artist residency will use its nearly $100,000 grant to renovate its studio areas in an effort to attain carbon neutrality by 2045. In the meantime, the Middle for Pictures at Woodstock’s $25,000 grant will go in the direction of rehabilitating an previous cigar manufacturing unit into an all-electric constructing.
“During the last 4 years, FCI grantees have developed and carried out groundbreaking climate-focused initiatives, inspiring a surge in functions and extra formidable tasks,” Elizabeth Smith, director of the Frankenthaler Basis, mentioned in a press release. “Extending the muse’s full vary of grantmaking actions, FCI upholds Helen Frankenthaler’s legacy and cultivates a future the place our peer organisations within the visible arts cleared the path in making a extra sustainable world.”
Launched in 2021, FCI was one of many first grant programmes within the US to fund power effectivity and clear power particularly for visible artwork organisations. Over time, it has funded greater than $14m in environmental enchancment tasks at over 200 establishments in 37 US states and Puerto Rico.
