Mission: To aid, internationally, those individuals who have worked as artists over a significant period of time.

Background:
Founded in 1985, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation awards grants to individual artists using dual criteria: recognizable artistic merit, and financial need of a professional and/or personal nature. Its Lee Krasner Awards, by nomination only, are based on the same criteria but are given in recognition of lifetime artistic achievement. The foundation owns the copyright to reproductions of images by Jackson Pollock and Krasner; it does not, however, have gallery space or mount exhibitions of their work. Since its inception, PKF has awarded 2,608 grants totaling over $37 million to artists in sixty-five countries. The foundation has no grantmaking restrictions regarding style, school, technique, or subject matter, but the work must fall within the categories of painting, sculpture, installation, and works on paper.

Outstanding Web Features:
In addition to a rolling collection of images from artists associated with the foundation, the PKF Web site supplies grant guidelines, including a downloadable brochure and application; a list of recent grantees, who received 107 grants totaling $2.1 million in fiscal year 2003-2004 (a list of Lee Krasner Award recipients is on the same page); concise answers to frequently asked questions; recent press releases; and an online form for sending a comment or request for a grant application.