Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant lectures (32.01)

Historical note

In the fall of 1981, Rhode Island School of Design received a $150,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to be spread over a five-year period from 1982-1987. The goal of the grant was to support faculty and curriculum development through a series of seminars and lectures delivered by visiting artists and critics, and to distribute faculty awards for independent research.

President Hall’s 1981 grant application proposed "senior level seminars for fine art students taught by outstanding contemporary artists and critics, public lectures by visiting artists and critics, and the establishment of a creative leave program for fine arts faculty members and for liberal arts teachers engaged in the history, philosophy, or criticism of art."