1998 PEI GRANTEES A description and related visual material for these exhibitions are available by clicking on each institution's name. Beaver College Art Gallery Period Room: A Project by Amy Hauft —$46,750 Chester Springs Studio Reenactment/Rapprochement —$77,250 The Fabric Workshop and Museum Jorge Pardo —$91,650 Foundation for Today's Art-Nexus Context —$33,525 Main Line Art Center Points of Departure: Art on the Line —$200,000 Moore College of Art and Design, Goldie Paley Gallery La Futurista: Benedetta Cappa Marinetti (1917-1944) —$114,772 Philadelphia Folklore Project Folk Arts of Social Change —$69,895 Philadelphia Museum of Art Museum Studies #4: Rikrit Tiravanija and Museum Studies #5: Gabriel Orozco —$84,500 The eight 1998 Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative grantees were selected from among twenty-seven applicant organizations throughout the five-county metropolitan region. This first round of annual awards ranged from $33,525 to $200,000 and totaled $718,342; these awards reflect the full funding amount requested by each grantee organization for their project. PEI grants are awarded on a competitive basis and are selected by a panel of visual arts professionals from around the country with both specific expertise and a broad knowledge of the field. The panel for 1998 included: Richard Koshalek, Director, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art who served as panel chair; Thelma Golden, Curator and Director of Branches, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City; Katy Kline, Director, List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Kathryn Reasoner, Executive Director, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA; Timothy Rub, Director, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; Tom Sokolowski, Director, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA; Nina Stritzler-Levine, Director of Exhibitions, Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York City; Fred Wilson, an internationally recognized artist who lives in New York City, and Victor Zamudio-Taylor, an independent arts consultant, curator, and a lecturer in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas, Austin. In selecting the grant recipients, the PEI panel rewarded those organizations that rethought their programmatic assumptions, stretched the conceptual boundaries of their understanding of their missions, and whose projects would ultimately increase their institutional capacity. The selected 1998 projects represent a broad range of organizational types and encompass a variety of exhibition concepts.