ANDREA FRANK FOUNDATION AWARDS.

The Andrea Frank Foundation has announced this year's grant awards totaling $648,839. Founded in 1995 by Robert Frank in memory of his daughter, the foundation supports the work of artists and non-profit cultural and educational organizations working in photography, video, film and other visual arts. Last year's grants were awarded solely to individual artists, while this year's grants have been awarded to both organizations and individuals.

Three organizations, House of Toast Film and Video Collective (Windsor, Ontario), Project Row Houses (Houston, TX) and Self-Help Graphics and Arts, Inc. (Los Angeles, CA), received a total of $133,000 in one-time organization challenge grants. Seven organizations received a total of $169,000 in 2000 with another $234,000 to follow in 2001/2002 as matching funds. The seven organizations chosen were Communication Resources (Chicago, IL), Cinematexas International Short Film and Video Festival (Austin, TX), Essex Art Center (Lawrence, MA), Light Work (Syracuse, NY), 911 Media Arts Center (Seattle, WA), Outside In (Santa Fe, NM) and Tohono O'odham Community Action (Sells, AZ).

Individual grants totaling $112,839 were awarded to seven artists: Dorothy Grandbois (New Mexico), Carlos Gustavo (New York), Harmony Hammond (New Mexico), James Luna (California), Clarissa T. Sligh (New York), Charlene Maxxine Stevens (Rhode Island) and Bonnie Benally Yazzie (New Mexico). This year the foundation also delivered $90,000 to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston to complete a $100,000 grant awarded to the museum for a retrospective exhibition and publication of the work of Louis Faurer organized by Anne Wilkes Tucker. The foundation initiated this project with the museum in 1998.