$15,000 toward the post-production costs associated with the documentary film Jack Smith & the Destruction of Atlantis, sponsored by Millennium Film Workshop, directed by Mary Jordan and produced by Kenneth Wayne of Tongue Press. An influential force in the history of film, contemporary art, and performance in New York, Smith’s photographs from the late 1950s and early 1960s often depict narrative tableaux populated by the eccentric figures of underground bohemia.

$13,000 toward the acquisition of the 1946 painting Center Columns, Blue-Red for the museum’s permanent collection. Born in Oklahoma’s Indian Territory, Smith worked in New York and taught at various institutions, including the University of Georgia. Using canvases of various sizes and shapes, Smith painted hard-edged, abstract geometric forms defined by tangential lines in brilliant primary colors.

$15,000 toward the documentary Leon Polk Smith: Full Circle by filmmaker Jerry Gambone. Born in Oklahoma’s Indian Territory, Smith worked in New York over five decades. He painted hard-edged, abstract geometric forms with undulating lines in brilliant primary colors on canvases of varied sizes and shapes.

$10,000 toward the photography component of Flaming Creature: The Art and Life of Jack Smith, a retrospective exhibition organized by guest curator Edward Leffingwell. An influential force in the history of film, contemporary art, and performance in New York, Smith’s photographs from the late 1950s and early 1960s often depict narrative tableaux populated by the eccentric figures of underground bohemia.