Grants That Make a Difference
"Grants that Make a Difference" highlights grants given to Southeastern organizations that have helped make a difference in people's lives. Getting the grant is only the beginning of the story. At least once a month, "Grants That Make a Difference" will profile these important grants and what their recipients are doing with them.
Florida State University has announced a gift with an estimated value of at least $50 million from art collector and philanthropist Dr. Helga Wall-Apelt.
The multi-tiered gift, the largest single gift ever received by FSU, includes $4 million for the expansion of the university's
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, an additional $4 million for the museum's endowment, a promised gift of Wall-Apelt's Asian art collection, and future gifts for ongoing support of the Ringling museum. Central to the gift is Wall-Apelt's extensive collection of Asian art, which includes a large collection of Chinese jades, bronze Southeast Asian sculptures from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and Cambodian stone figures dating to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
To showcase the artifacts, an extensive renovation of the Ringling's West Galleries (constructed in 1966) will include the addition of a pavilion to serve as an entrance to the center and the creation of an Asian tea garden across a lake from the facility. The venue also will house the Koger Collection of Chinese ceramics, acquired by the Museum in 2002. The museum has announced it will immediately begin a national search for a curator of Asian art, a position it expects to fill within the next six months.
Wall-Apelt's gift will allow the Ringling Museum to create a wing for the display and study of Asian art. Renovation and new construction will provide more than 10,000 square feet of display area, as well as new storage for the Museum's small objects and works on paper collections, a seminar room for the study of objects, and generous support space for museum activities. The Dr. Wall-Apelt Endowment for Asian Art will support curatorial staff, lectures, seminars, scholarly research, visits by guest scholars, internships, publications, exhibitions, public programs, and other activities related to Asian art and culture.
Wall-Apelt is the founder of Sarasota's Museum of Asian Art. This gift facilitates the transfer of programs formerly offered by the Museum of Asian Art, as well as its extensive collection, to The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art.
"Dr. Wall-Apelt's gift not only enhances the museum's holdings of non-Western art, but it fulfills the Ringling's pledge to build a $50 million endowment by the year 2007," said FSU president T.K. Wetherell.
Recipient Contact Information:
Recipient Name: Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 323062
Phone: 850-644-2525
URL: www.fsu.edu/
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