Deadline: 1-Sep-21
The New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) is pleased to announce Conservation Treatment Grant Program that aims to provide support for treatment procedures to aid in stabilizing and preserving objects held in collections of museums, historical, and cultural organizations in New York State.
The NYSCA/GHHN Conservation Treatment Grant Program is a partnership of the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) and Greater Hudson Heritage Network (GHHN).
Funding Information
- Individual grant awards will not exceed $7,500. No match required.
- A total of approximately $151,689 is available in 2021, which includes $40,000 in dedicated funding for Long Island and NYC organizations courtesy of the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation.
What they Fund
- Support is available for conservation treatment of paintings, works on paper (including individual drawings, watercolors, prints or photographs), textiles (including costumes, domestic textiles and upholstery), furniture, frames, sculpture, historical, ethnographic and decorative objects.
- Frames are an integral part of a painting and applicants must address frame condition and treatment when applying for painting conservation. Support is also available for treatment costs for supports, stands and mounts that are integral to the treatment of the object.
- Grants will support in-state transportation costs for the objects and/or the conservators, and the cost of insurance for the work(s) to be treated.
- Requests for treatment of outdoor sculpture must include the description of an on-going maintenance program already in existence, or one to be implemented, at your institution. An engineer’s report may be required for some sculptures.
Ineligible Funding
What they do not fund:
- Grants will not support staff salaries. Grants will not support out-of-state transportation, or the cost of obtaining the treatment estimate for this proposal. Grants will not support conservation of archival collections.
- Funds are not available for preventive care, such as rehousing or reformatting of objects, purchase of storage furniture, monitoring or upgrading of environmental systems.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applications will be accepted from nonprofit organizations, museums, historical organizations, or other cultural institutions either incorporated in or registered to do business in New York State that own, care for, and exhibit collections to the public. Please be aware proof of non-profit status may be requested.
- Federal and municipal museums and historic sites who are interested in applying must contact the Conservation Treatment Grant administrator well in advance of the deadline to discuss eligibility.
- Collections owned by state agencies and religious institutions are ineligible for grant support.
- Grant awards will be made to institutions lacking in-house conservation staff with expertise in the area for which support is requested.
- Organizations may submit only one request, which may involve a single object or a group of related objects, all owned by the applicant institution.
- Objects that interpret the history/heritage of New York State are strongly encouraged for conservation.
- The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation has provided additional dedicated support for conservation treatment projects in Nassau and Suffolk Counties.
- Eligible institutions of all sizes are welcome to request support from this state-wide program; those with small budgets are encouraged to apply.
Note: Priority consideration will be given to applicants who have not yet received three consecutive treatment grants. If granted, funds from this program shall adhere to New York State Education Law Section 3.27, Rules of the Board of Regents regardless of whether the applicant is a museum or not.
For more information, visit http://www.greaterhudson.org/nyscaghhn-conservation-treatment-grant.html