$5,000 for the shipping and crating costs associated with Rediscovering Slobodkina: Pioneer of American Abstraction, a traveling retrospective exhibition on the painter, organized by guest curator Sandra Kraskin, foundation director Ann Marie Mulhearn Sayer, and presented at the Heckscher Museum of Art. Born in Siberia, Slobodkina immigrated to New York in 1928 and became a founding member (later president) of the American Abstract Artists group. Using a personal technique of transferring preparatory drawings onto gesso-covered board, Slobodkina created paintings in a flat, abstract style that incorporates line and suspended or interlocking forms with pure, un-modulated color.

$3,000 toward the restoration of three paintings by the artist, organized by Jonathan Sherman of Sherman Art Conservation. Born in Siberia, Slobodkina immigrated to New York in 1928 and became a founding member (later president) of the American Abstract Artists group. Using a personal technique of transferring preparatory drawings onto gesso-covered board, Slobodkina created paintings in a flat, abstract style that incorporates line and suspended or interlocking forms with pure, unmodulated color.

$20,000 for the conservation of thirty-six works by the painter, organized by conservator Jonathan Sherman and museum curator Anne Cohen DePietro. Born in Siberia, Slobodkina immigrated to New York in 1928 and became a founding member (later president) of the American Abstract Artists group. Using a personal technique of transferring preparatory drawings onto gesso-covered board, Slobodkina created paintings in a flat, abstract style that incorporates line and suspended or interlocking forms with pure, unmodulated color.