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About the John Burton Harter Charitable Trust

The John Burton Harter Charitable Trust is a non-profit foundation established in 2002. It aims to preserve, publish and exhibit J. B. Harter's work in addition to funding scholarships, exhibitions and projects relating to the artist's lifelong aesthetic and philosophical interests and involvements.

In addition to numerous donations of artwork to museums and non-profit organizations, sponsored projects of the last two years include:

2002-present
Grants underwriting the Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation's newsletter, The Archive. (www.leslielohman.org)
2010
Title Sponsor, 24th Annual Art Against AIDS event organized by NO/Aids Task Force (www.noaidstaskforce.org)
2010
Grant supporting the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery October 2010-February 2011 exhibition, Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, Washington, D.C. (www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/exhhide.html)
2010
Grant underwriting programs at the Zeitgeist Multi-disciplinary Arts Center in New Orleans, LA (www.zeitgeistinc.net)
2009
Grant underwriting art exhibitions and related programs at the New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA (www.noma.org)
2009
Grant supporting HERE Arts Center's LGBT artists and acclaimed theatre artist Taylor Mac's The Lily's Revenge, running in New York October 29 through November 22, 2009.(http://www.here.org/see/now/)
2009
Grant underwriting the catalogue of Keith Haring: Print Retrospective, 1982-1990, From the Collection of Mr. Barry J. Cooper and Mr. Stuart H. Smith at the Collins C. Diboll Art Gallery and Visual Art Center, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA, November 5, 2009 through January 29, 2010. (http://www.loyno.edu/dibollgallery/calendar.htm)
2008
Grant underwriting the catalogue and exhibition, Gentleman Callers, Paul Cadmus and George Dureau from the Collection of Kenneth Holditch at the New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, May 25 through October 12, 2008. (http://www.noma.org/)
2008
Grant supporting the New Orleans AIDS Memorial, a memorial designed by Tim Tate, the site plan designed by the Tulane School of Architecture, erected in New Orleans' Washington Square Park and dedicated on World AIDS Day, Sunday, November 30, 2008.
2008
Grant underwriting a documentary [in progress], The Sons of Tennessee Williams, being directed and produced by Tim C. Wolff, telling the story of gay men of New Orleans whose participation in glamorous public drag balls predates established gay liberation history in the U.S. by nearly ten years. (http://exposureroom.com/members/timwolffhouse.aspx/assets/)

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