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The Getty Foundation, based in Los Angeles, California, at the Getty Center, awards grants for "the understanding and preservation of the visual arts".〔Getty Foundation. (About the Foundation. ) Retrieved September 18, 2008.〕 In the past, it funded the Getty Leadership Institute for "current and future museum leaders", which is now at Claremont Graduate University.〔Getty Foundation. (The Leadership Institute. ) Retrieved September 18, 2008.〕 Its budget for 2006-07 was budget of $27.8 million. It is part of the J. Paul Getty Trust.〔 == Grants == The Foundation was originally called the "Getty Grant Program," which began in 1984 under the direction of Deborah Marrow.〔Muchnic, Suzanne. Director wants a wider reach for Getty grants. ''Los Angeles Times'', March 5, 1990.〕 The J. Paul Getty Trust can spend up to 0.75% of its endowment on gifts and grants; by 1990 the Getty Grant Program (then based in Santa Monica) had made 530 grants totaling $20 million to "art historians, conservators and art museums in 18 countries".〔 Among notable grants of the Program were grants to partially fund the publication of books, for example to "provide for additional illustrations or allow a book's purchase price to be lowered".〔 Some books "published with the assistance of the Getty Grant Program" were: : * Hamburger, Jeffrey F. ''The Rothschild canticles: art and mysticism in Flanders and the Rhineland circa 1300''. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990. ISBN 0-300-04308-2 : * Nesbit, Molly, and Eugène Atget. ''Atget's seven albums''. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992. ISBN 0-300-03580-2 : * Jones, Amelia, and Laura Cottingham. ''Sexual politics: Judy Chicago's Dinner Party in feminist art history''. (Angeles, CA ): UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center in association with University of California Press, Berkeley, 1996. ISBN 0-520-20565-0 In 1998, the Program granted $750,000 for electronic cataloging to art museums in the Los Angeles area.〔Woolard, John. Getty gives "lifesaver" grants to L.B. arts. ''Press-Telegram'' (Long Beach, CA), January 15, 1998.〕 The program awarded $180,000 in 1999 to the National Gallery in Prague to digitize images of works of art in its collections.〔The Getty Grant Program supports art digitization project. ''Information Today'', April 1999.〕 In 2005, the program awarded the University of California, Los Angeles and to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston almost $400,000 to "support the documentation and preservation of Latino and Latin American art".〔Chattopadhyay, Collette. Funds: Getty Grant Program, Los Angeles, California. ''Art Nexus,'' April/June 2005.〕 The name of the Getty Grant Program was changed to "Getty Foundation" in 2005 to "better reflect January 24, 2005. Retrieved September 18, 2008.〕 Grants made by the Foundation include funding the Multicultural Undergraduate Internship Program, begun in 1993, "seeks to increase staff diversity within visual arts organizations" in Los Angeles County.〔Getty Foundation. (Getty Foundation Multicultural Undergraduate Internship Program celebrates 15th anniversary. ) June 12, 2007. Retrieved August 28, 2008.〕 Between 2002 and 2007, the Foundation expended over $13.5 million to fund "plans to care for, maintain, and preserve... historic resources" at 86 United States colleges and universities.〔Getty Foundation. (The Getty Foundation announces recipients of 2007 Campus Heritage Grants. Final year of program that has awarded more than $13.5 million toward the preservation of 86 college and university campuses nationwide. ) June 26, 2007. Retrieved September 18, 2008.〕 In 2006, the Foundation committed $3.5 million to restore an 80 by 100 foot "America Tropical" mural on Olvera Street in Los Angeles that was painted by David Alfaro Siqueiros.〔Orlov, Rick. Getty group to restore controversial Olvera St. mural. ''Daily News of Los Angeles'', August 2, 2006.〕 In 2006, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the Foundation announced a $2 million fund "to aid New Orleans's visual arts organizations".〔Pogrebin, Robin. (Arts, briefly; Getty Foundation to aid arts in New Orleans. ) ''New York Times'', February 8, 2006. Retrieved August 30, 2008.〕 As of June 2008, the Foundation has four priorities for grants:〔Marrow, Deborah. (New funding priorities. Message from the Director. ) June 2008. Retrieved September 18, 2008.〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Funding Priorities )〕 *"Strengthening art history as a global discipline" *"Promoting the interdisciplinary practice of conservation" *"Increasing access to museum and archival collections" *"Developing current and future professionals and leaders" In the summer of 2011, the foundation is funding Multicultural Undergraduate Internships at 70 Los Angeles-area museums and visual arts organizations. The internships seek to attract into museum and visual arts organizations students from historically underrepresented groups: people of African American, Asian, Latino/Hispanic, Native American, and Pacific Islander descent. A major Getty initiative for 2011-12 is (Pacific Standard Time ): Art in LA 1945-1980, is an unprecedented collaboration that brings together more than sixty cultural institutions from across Southern California for six months beginning October 2011 to tell the story of the birth of the L.A. art scene. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Getty Foundation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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