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The Frankenthaler Foundation is pleased to share the details of its 2024 FCI Grantees—a diverse cohort of sixty-nine museums, art schools, and visual arts centers located throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. Through a range of clean energy and net-zero initiatives, retrofits of historical buildings, and the creation of comprehensive climate action plans, these organizations are leading the way in addressing climate change.

Image: Helen Frankenthaler in her East Eighty-third Street studio, New York, in front of “Hybrid Vigor” (1973, in progress), 1973. Courtesy Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Archives, New York. Photograph by Edward Youkilis. Artwork © 2024 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

The Board of Directors of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation announced today that Richard Armstrong has been elected to serve as a Director on its Board.  A seasoned museum director, curator, and arts administrator, Armstrong has more than five decades of experience in museum governance and curation at preeminent art institutions across the country, most recently having served as the Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation from 2008 to 2023.

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On Thursday, March 21, 2024, Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Executive Director Elizabeth Smith will speak about the work of Helen Frankenthaler in context of the Sheldon’s exhibition on artists of the New York School.

Image: Red Frame, 1964, Acrylic on canvas
98 3/16 × 82 inches (249.40 × 208.28 cm)
Sheldon Museum of Art, Nebraska Art Association

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