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Program

Public Programs: America's Historical and Cultural Organizations: Planning Grants

Period of Performance

9/1/2010 - 10/31/2011

Funding Totals

$40,000.00 (approved)
$40,000.00 (awarded)

Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008

FAIN: GE-50277-10

Yale University (New Haven, CT 06510-1703)
Robin Jaffee Frank (Project Director: January 2010 to February 2012)

Planning for a traveling exhibition, a catalog, and public programs about the history of Coney Island and its depiction in art and popular culture over the last 150 years.

The Yale University Art Gallery requests $40,000 to plan Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008. It will be the first major art exhibition to explore America's iconic playground as a place and an idea, from its beginnings as a watering hole for the wealthy, through its transformation into an entertainment mecca for the masses, to the closing of its last amusement park.