Its goals as a research institute are to promote innovative scholarship in the arts and the humanities, cross traditional academic boundaries, and provide a unique environment for research, critical inquiry, and debate. Integral to its interdisciplinary approach is the concept that visual arts and artifacts should be assessed within the broad historical and cultural contexts in which they were created. Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation - promotes the advancement and perpetuation of humanistic inquiry and artistic creativity by encouraging excellence in scholarship and in the performing arts, and by supporting research libraries and other institutions that preserve cultural heritage resources. Graham Foundation - offers grants to individuals and institutions pursuing research, publication, or programming in architecture, as well as related arts and academic disciplines. The object of the Henry Moore Foundation, set up in 1977, and generously endowed by Mr Moore, is 'to advance the education of the public by the promotion of their appreciation of the fine arts and in particular the works of Henry Moore'.
Site includes contest and event information, and links to drawing sites and galleries.
Jean Charlot Foundation - dedicated to collecting, promoting, and sharing resources relating to the life, career, philosophy, and art of Jean Charlot. The Kentucky Art and Craft Foundation hosts 12 exhibitions a year. Each year more than 85,000 visitors come to the foundation. Leeway Foundation - promotes the welfare of women and to benefit the arts. Annual grants made in selected visual or literary disciplines to women recepients.