Grant Portfolio
Long Island University (Moses)
Grant Year: 2018
Long Island University will identify, preserve, and make accessible hundreds of thousands of hard copy New York State Parks-housed historical documents that showcase the legacy of celebrated urban planner Robert Moses who shaped Long Island’s parks, recreation facilities, bridges, and highways. LIU Post’s Palmer School of Library and Information Science will provide the professional expertise and technical . . .
Sagtikos Manor Historical Society
Grant Year: 2018
The Sagtikos Manor Historical Society has been awarded a $23,625 grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation for the conservation of historically significant artwork and furniture at the Suffolk County Parks historic house in West Bay Shore, NY. The grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation will provide for conservation of the 1834 William Sidney Mount portrait of Mrs. Mary Howard . . .
Oysterponds Historical Society, Inc.
Grant Year: 2018
The Oysterponds Historical Society is grateful to the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation for its award of $53,330 to create a comprehensive collections care plan. OHS holds some of the most significant and deepest collections representing a single community on Long Island, with objects that exemplify life in Orient and East Marion from the seventeenth century through the present day. OHS is committed . . .
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 public . . .
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 catalog being . . .
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’s . . .
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 Shepperson. This . . .
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 show also . . .
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 focus . . .
Garden City Historical Society
Grant Year: 2018
Purchase technology and hire consultants to develop long term marketing and strategic plan.
