FEBRUARY 2005
Shulte Grants For The Arts & Crafts
In the past two years, the Fort Mason Foundation has awarded
nearly $200,000 to Bay Area nonprofit organizations through
the Shulte Grants for the Arts and Crafts Program. The Foundation
has announced a new cycle of grants totaling $90,000.
The Shulte Grants program was established in 2002 as a result
of a bequest to the Foundation from the estate of Mrs. Leta
Shulte. It is designed to foster, promote, and provide education
in the arts and crafts for people of all ages. It is also
intended to strengthen existing institutions that support
artists or launch new cultural endeavors.
"Mrs. Shulte loved Fort Mason Center," said Foundation
Executive Director Alexander Zwissler. "She also loved
arts and crafts. So it seemed only fitting to honor her gift
by establishing a grant program that supports both her passions."
Past Shulte Grants awardees include A Home Within, a nonprofit
organization that offers free therapy to foster children;
Shadowlight Productions for their presentation of a Balinese
tale that included hands-on puppetry and mask-making workshops;
and Young Audiences of Northern California, one of the Bay
Area’s oldest and largest arts education organizations.
First year winners included the American Institute of Graphic
Arts, the Museum of Craft and Folk Art, and quilt maker Joe
Cunningham.
"As an example," Zwissler said, "Joe Cunningham
used the funding to rent the Herbst International Exhibition
Hall for a month-long retrospective of the history of quilts
– a gallery of new and antique works of art. He also
created a hands-on quilt-making workshop for children. The
quilt maker was there every day, answering questions, hand-working
new quilts, explaining various techniques, and providing the
history of the unique quilts hanging on the walls."
"We’ve received so many exciting and highly creative
proposals in the past," Zwissler added, "We are
looking forward to this new cycle."
Submissions for the Shulte Grants must be postmarked by February
16, 2005. See grant
applications for workshop
time and place, or more information, call (415) 345-7510
– Ronald Tierney
Image: Shulte Grant Recipient Quilt Maker Joe Cunningham
(seated)
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