HOT OFF THE PRESSES: SEP 13, 2011 The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts is pleased to announce its 2011 Grants to Organizations. Over $560,000 was awarded to 47 grantees, whose work engages a wide range of issues in architecture and related spatial practices. The awards given provide support to organizations for the production and public presentation of publications, exhibitions, films, new media initiatives, and other programs. “What is exciting about these projects is the innovative and diverse ways that they consider and demonstrate the impact of architecture, which is central to many contemporary issues. They reveal the ways that we understand, inhabit, and conceive of space,” says Sarah Herda, director of the Graham Foundation.
 
Over its 55-year history, the Graham Foundation has awarded more than 4,000 grants to individuals and organizations—totaling over $32 million. Grantees this year represent a diverse group of organizations across the U.S. and the world, including museums and galleries, publishers, universities and colleges, and architecture centers, who were selected from a pool of over 200 submissions after a highly competitive selection process. ABOUT THE GRAHAM FOUNDATION

Founded in 1956, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts makes project-based grants to individuals and organizations and produces public programs to foster the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. 2011 GRANTS TO ORGANIZATIONS

Click on any grantee project for a link to the Grantee’s Profile Page on www.grahamfoundation.org. American Academy in Rome Anyone Corporation Architectural Association The Architecture Foundation The Art Institute of Chicago Artists Space Association of Architectural Organizations Barbican Arts Centre The Bronx Museum of the Arts Canadian Centre for Architecture Cape Cod Modern House Trust The Center for Land Use Interpretation Chicago Architecture Foundation Chicago Humanities Festival Columbia University-Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Design Onscreen Hampshire College Harvard University-Graduate School of Design IE University Institute for the 21St Century Institute for Urban Design Kunstverein Library of American Landscape History Macdowell Colony Mak Center for Art and Architecture Museum for Contemporary Art Leipzig Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit National Building Museum Philadelphia Museum of Art Power House Productions Robert R. Taylor Network Scottsdale Cultural Council/Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art Serpentine Gallery The Society for Moving Images about the Built Environment Society of Architectural Historians Socrates Sculpture Park Southern California Institute of Architecture Space.City/Suyama Space University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe University of California, Los Angeles-Department of Architecture and Urban Design University of California, Los Angeles-Department of Architecture and Urban Design University of Chicago-Smart Museum of Art University of Illinois-Gallery 400 Van Alen Institute The Watts House Project Yale University-School of Architecture