$5,000 to archivally preserve work by the artist, organized by estate family members Victoria Shields Weslek and Jason Shields. Blurring the lines between painting, printmaking, sculpture, and installation, Shields produced complicated process-oriented work with a bold approach to color, line and composition. By abandoning the conventions of the stretched canvas, he increasingly worked with handmade paper as a sculptural medium that he presented in New York galleries.

$6,000 for an exhibition with accompanying catalogue on artist Alan Shields, organized by director Dona Warner. Blurring the lines between painting, printmaking, sculpture, and installation, Shields produced complicated process-oriented work with a bold approach to color, line and composotion. By abandoning the conventions of the stretched canvas, he increasingly worked with handmade paper as a sculptural medium that he presented in numerous New York galleries.