The Museum Loan Network, a new program announced last October funcded by the Joh
n S. and James L. Knight Foundation and
The Pew Charitable Trusts to promote collection sharing among Americna museums a
warded it first grant awards in February
1996.   The next deadline is May 15, 1996.  For more information abd/or guidelin
es, contact Lori Gross, Director, Museum
Loan Network, MIT, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, N52-439, Tel: (617)252-1888, Fax: (
617)252-1899, E-mail: [log in to unmask]

The following institutions received awards:

Surveying Grants ($10,000 range) were awarded to:

The Art Institute of Chicago to survey Asian Art; 20th Century painting & sculpt
ure
The Brooklyn Museum to survey African artworks
The Detroit Institute of Arts to survey their collection (in consultation with o
ther Michigan museums)
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY to survey ceramics
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC to survey Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial a
rt
San Antonio Museum of Art suvey Latin American Art

Travel Grants($1,750-$3,500 range) were awarded to:

The Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
James A. Michener Art Museum
University Arts Museum, California State, Long Beach
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
Norton Museum of Art,
Williams College Museum of Art


In addition, the first Implementation Grant($10,000) was awarded to The Museum o
f Art and Archaeolog at the University of
Missouri-Columbia for the loan of a Mark Rothko painting from the National Galle
ry of Art.



Lori Gross, Director, Museum Loan Network