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Article: Black, Hispanic and native American artists to have works displayed to wider audience as result of grants made to museums by Metropolitan Life Foundation.
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- April 10, 1986
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NEW YORK, April 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Dozens of black, Hispanic and native American artists will have their works displayed to a wider audience thanks to eight new museum programs announced today as winners of the 1986 Metropolitan Life Foundation Museum Grants for Minority Visual Arts.
The programs, the third-year winners of the three-year, $300,000 competition, will be awarded a total of $100,000. The museums involved are:
-- The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, $15,000 to purchase works by contemporary American artists of Mexican descent, thereby expanding the museum's permanent collection.
-- San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, Calif., ...