Getty Foundation The Paper Project Grants 2022, Graphic arts, Architecture design
The Paper Project Grants 2022 by Getty Foundation
10 June 2022
Getty Foundation Awards Over $1 Million to Fund Curatorial Innovation at 15 Art Institutions
Among projects is a $53K grant to support an architectural project in Sweden
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.: Gift of Margot Paul Ernst in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Norman S. Paul, S1987.976.11:

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The Paper Project Grants 2022 News
LOS ANGELES ? The Getty Foundation has awarded 15 new grants totaling nearly $1.3 million to support exhibitions, publications, digital projects, and workshops that foster curatorial innovation in the graphic arts as part of its Paper Project initiative. The Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, Sweden will use its grant to fund a digital exhibition about copying and tracing architectural drawings in the 18th century. The museum holds over 600 architectural tracings representing the earliest and largest corpus known of its kind, featuring images of French, Italian, and Swedish Baroque palaces and churches, garden designs, Rococo interior decorations, funerary monuments, and more. The project will include high-resolution digital images of the tracings, whose legibility has faded over time with oxidation, and instructional videos that reveal the process behind how architects and drafters made their copies.
Created in 2018, The Paper Project funds a variety of projects by ambi...