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January 31, 2006
LEF Foundation Awards Grant to Faculty Member Morgan Schwartz
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(New York, NY) Assistant Professor of Digital Multimedia Morgan Schwartz is the recipient of a prestigious grant from the LEF Foundation. Through the foundation's Contemporary Works Fund, LEF awarded 31 grants, totaling $303,000, to support the creation and presentation of contemporary work in the fields of visual art, performing art, intermedia, architecture and design.
Professor Schwartz received $5,000 to support Whether/Weather, a messaging system exploring communication and discovery through illuminated beacons launched into the sky.
A native of Jamaica Plain, Mass., Professor Schwartz earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Visual Arts at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in affiliation with Tufts University. He served as a Visiting Professor at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts before joining the faculty at Marymount Manhattan College.
LEF was established as a private family foundation in 1985. Grants are awarded for individual artists' projects and to organizational programs that foster the creative development of artists living and working in the six New England states. LEF seeks opportunities where its funding protects the artist's ability to take creative risks and enhances the success of a project by leveraging additional support. Reflecting a strong belief in the value of experimentation and the important role that art and its practice hold in society, LEF grants allow artists to take their work in new directions.
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