Grant Portfolio > 2018
Grant Year: 2018
The Cradle of Aviation Museum and Education Center is the proud recipient of a $100,000 grant from the Robert Lion Gardiner Foundation. The grant is being used to support a new traveling exhibit, “Space, A Journey to Our Future” along with supporting programs. The exhibit acknowledges the significant achievements of the past and looks to the future of space exploration. The exhibit will open to the pub . . .
Grant Year: 2018
Elias Pelletreau (1726-1810), an important Southampton silversmith and craftsman, created richly detailed, beautifully ornate, and shimmering eighteenth-century objects: teapots, pepper boxes, porringers, tankards and jewelry. This is the first museum exhibition devoted to exploring Pelletreau’s life and work since the Brooklyn Museum mounted one in 1959. Accompanied by a beautiful full-length catalo . . .
Walt Whitman Birthplace Association
Grant Year: 2018
Invigorate Whitman Exhibit Space for his 200th Birthday Year Celebration.
Walt Whitman Birthplace Association
Grant Year: 2018
On May 31, 2019, WWBA hosted a day full of revelries featuring music, performances, and a scholarly lecture. Later that day, Whitman enthusiasts for a “Happy Birthday Hour” toast in honor of his 200th Birthday. Compagnia de' Colombari, an international collective of performing artists founded and directed by Karin Coonrod, presents More Or Less I Am: a music-theater piece drawn entirely from Walt Whitman’ . . .
Grant Year: 2018
With support from the Gardiner Foundation, LI Traditions, in association with filmmakers Greg Blank and Barbara Weber will produce a feature length documentary about the south shore bay houses in the Town of Hempstead, dating back to the 1800s when baymen built shelters while they harvested clams, shellfish and wildfowl. The houses have been passed down from generation within the same families. Today there are approximately 30 bay houses in the Town.
Grant Year: 2018
The grant was used to fund the Meeting House’s new 1731 Concert Series and its Harvest Arts Festival. The 1731 Concert Series will feature three performances by professional New York-based ensembles and will include, but not be limited to music written around 1731. The Harvest Arts Festival began with a still life drawing class “Autumnal Light from 1731” with New York Times illustrator Rob Sheppe . . .
Celebrate St. James – Past Present
Grant Year: 2018
Celebrate St. James presented a musical comedy about the wonderful history of our town in the last two centuries to educate and entertain our residents. The show was titled, “99 Minutes from Broadway – a Funny Thing Happened on the Way to St. James.” The opening of the show was a tableau of William Sydney Mount, an American genre painter who lived and painted in in our local community. The . . .
Grant Year: 2018
The Long Island Public Humanities Opportunity is a Humanities New York (HNY) initiative funded by the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation. The initiative will partner with history presenting institutions and community-based organizations in Long Island to enhance networks and programming that resonate with traditionally underserved audiences and communities. To do so, HNY will first conduct four foc . . .
Garden City Historical Society
Grant Year: 2018
Purchase technology and hire consultants to develop long term marketing and strategic plan.
Cutchogue New Suffolk Historical Council
Grant Year: 2018
Exterior oak siding restoration/stabilization; construct barrier free access ramp and related archeological investigations; new electric
Grant Year: 2018
The Robert D.L. Gardiner Foundation has provided funding to support college students training senior-citizen volunteers in transcription and annotation of historical manuscripts, and to extend this model for community-engaged collaboration beyond the Rochester region. We will also create a series of short videos narrated by volunteers and students that illustrate and supplement the written training guidel . . .
Grant Year: 2018
Robert David Lion Gardiner (RDLG) Foundation awarded Webb Institute a $250,000 grant over a three-year period to support need-based room and board scholarships. This grant enables the best and brightest students of diverse populations into Webb’s educational programs. Webb joins a list of approximately 70 colleges and universities in the United States that meet the full demonstrated need of its student body.
