The Andrea Frank Foundation. (Newswire).

The Andrea Frank Foundation has awarded Challenge Grants to The Anthology Film Archives, based in New York City, the Studio Museum in Harlem, also of New York City and the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York. Each grant is in the amount of $250,000. For the organizations involved, the awards mark the start of fundraising campaigns to match the grants and build endowment funds to support their operations. The Anthology Film Archives will expand on their screenings of living artists and continue their central mission of presenting, preserving and interpreting independent cinema and video. The Studio Museum in Harlem will use the grant to support its Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program, an expansion that will, in keeping with its mission, focus on artists of African descent, and the award will also allow the Museum to promote increased community involvement through public programs created by artists. The Visual Studies Workshop will build on its established residency program, provide enhanced production facilities for artists, offer screenings and exhibitions, and initiate new creative projects. Robert Frank founded the Andrea Frank Foundation in 1995 in memory of his daughter Andrea Frank.