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PRESS RELEASE
October 2, 2002
Contact:
Katie Sproles, (541) 346-0942, ksproles@darkwing.uoregon.edu
GRANT SUPPORTS INAUGURAL INSTALLATION OF NEW AMERICAN AND REGIONAL ART GALLERY AT UO MUSEUM OF ART
EDITORS NOTE: For a scanned photo of a loaned work, call (541) 346-0942.
WHO:
The University of Oregon Museum of Art (UOMA).
WHAT:
The Museum Loan Network (MLN) grant supports the inaugural installation of
the art museum's new gallery of American and regional art. The UO Museum of
Art will borrow 19 works by American artists such as Richard Diebenkorn, Jacob
Lawrence, Adolf Gottlieb, Marsden Hartley and Ed Ruscha from the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, the Seattle Art Museum and the Detroit Institute of
the Arts.
WHEN:
Awarded this summer, the grant enables the UO art museum to borrow the artworks
for a two-year period upon its reopening in early 2004.
WHERE:
The new Schnitzer Gallery of American and Regional Art in the UO Museum of
Art.
WHY:
The borrowed artwork will allow, for the first time in the museum's history,
the presentation of its regional collection in the broader context of 20th-century
Western art. The MLN facilitates the long-term loan of art and objects of
cultural heritage among U.S. institutions as a way to enhance the installations
of museums, thus enabling them to better serve their communities. The MLN
grant programs help museums respond to the increasing public demand for installations
that are relevant to a range of age groups and cultural heritages, and to
provide better artistic, cultural and historical contexts for works on display.
The MLN programs have led to the sharing of objects among different types
of museums, fostering collaborations between institutions of varying size
and discipline throughout the United States. Funded and initiated by the John
S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts, the MLN is
administered by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Office of the
Arts.
QUOTE:
"The Museum Loan Network grant significantly enhances the breadth and
depth of the gallery installation and will provide us with an opportunity
to offer the visual arts to a much more diverse public audience," says
Lawrence Fong, UOMA associate director and curator of American and regional
art.
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