HELEN FRANKENTHALER FOUNDATION GIVES $200,000 FOR JOAN JONAS’S US PAVILION PROJECT
The MIT List Visual Arts Center today announced it’s received a gift of $200,000 from the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation. The gift will support Joan Jonas’s presentation for the US Pavilion at the Fifty-sixth Venice Biennale, “They Come to Us Without a Word.” The List—which has been tasked with raising funds for the project—has brought in $1.5 million to date.
Paul Ha, director of the MIT List Visual Arts Center and commissioner and cocurator of the US Pavilion at the Fifty-sixth Venice Biennale, stated, “On behalf of the List, Joan Jonas, and everyone involved in this project, I extend our great appreciation to the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation for its incredible generosity and support.”
Added Ha, “We’re very excited to present Joan Jonas’s latest work in Venice this May, and the foundation’s gift will play an important role in bringing her vision for the US pavilion to life.”
More details on Jonas’s installation can be found here.
