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Property Sold to Benefit The Foundation for Community Empowerment
The Foundation for Community Empowerment was created by J. McDonald Williams in 1995 as a catalyst for comprehensive efforts to transform low-income neighborhoods in South Dallas and to build a replicable model for urban revitalization. The Foundation's mandate is based on the belief that in whole cities, people have equal economic opportunities, are equally self-sufficient and participate equally in political and civic life--regardless of an individual's socio-economic status. Over the past 18 years, the Foundation has worked to identify systemic problems and collaborate with members of the community to find and implement solutions. It has assembled people, data, ideas and resources to revitalize South Dallas, improving areas such as education and social services with the goal of making Dallas a whole city.
The Foundation has grown and developed in response to the needs of the community. In 2003, it recognized the need for structured inquiry into the changing community conditions in Dallas and for systemized data collection to construct solutions that would effect change. In response to this need, the Foundation formed a research team, which has successfully built partnerships with faculty from local universities, colleagues in similar nonprofit agencies, and policy makers. In 2005, the Foundation realized that the true nature of disparities in Dallas could not be fully understood without an appreciation for the context of disparities affecting urban communities across the country. Recognizing the need for an objective voice for public policy change in Dallas and around the nation, the Foundation established the J. McDonald Williams Institute as a source of objective research and policy recommendations relevant to urban revitalization and quality of life. The Institute is the first national think tank born of a community-based organization and this gives its research a spirit that is unique among its peers. While many institutes engage in research for the sake of research, the Institute truly believes the fruits of its research must serve the underserved by motivating the caliber of sustainable change necessary to improve quality of life and build a better city, nation, and world.
In 2008, the Institute moved to the University of Texas at Dallas, where it was renamed the Institute for Urban Policy Research. Today, the Institute assists the Foundation for Community Empowerment in setting its strategic direction and areas of focus, while the Foundation's deep relationships within the community help the Institute to realize its vision of motivating lasting change.
The Foundation recognized that some problems endemic to distressed neighborhoods, such as the deficiencies of urban public education, cannot be solved by discrete fixes at the neighborhood level. After working for years at various South Dallas schools the Foundation joined with the National Center for Educational Accountability and Texas Instruments to advocate for the transformation of Dallas ISD. The transformation effort called Dallas Achieves was overseen by a citizens group from the community, but was coordinated by the Foundation. In conjunction with the education initiatives, the Foundation was awarded two grants from NASA and partnered with Dallas ISD to implement a Math, Science, and Technology initiative. Early childhood development and education also constituted a key component of the Foundation's efforts. The early childhood initiatives sought to improve student outcomes, educate parents and caregivers, providing them with the knowledge necessary to ensure their children's wellbeing and success, and engage members of the community as well as professionals in the area of childcare, child development and early childhood education in collaborative advocacy.
In 2005 the Foundation founded Frazier Revitalization, Inc. to provide leadership and oversight for the implementation of a $300 million, comprehensive revitalization effort of the Frazier neighborhood, just east of Fair Park in southern Dallas. The Frazier neighborhood is one of the most distressed areas in the Dallas metropolitan area. Like many historic, inner-city predominantly African-American communities, Frazier has seen significant disinvestments (both public and private) and population loss over several decades. The goal is to help the residents stem that decline and rebuild the neighborhood according to their own vision. Currently, this revitalization effort is the Foundation's main focus.
Christie's is honored to present the following three works, which are being sold to benefit the Foundation for Community Empowerment.
John Marin (1870-1953) 1962)
New Mexico Landscape
Details
John Marin (1870-1953) 1962)
New Mexico Landscape
signed and dated 'Marin 29' (lower right)
watercolor and pencil on paper
16½ x 20 in. (41.9 x 50.8 cm.)
New Mexico Landscape
signed and dated 'Marin 29' (lower right)
watercolor and pencil on paper
16½ x 20 in. (41.9 x 50.8 cm.)
Provenance
The artist.
Estate of the above.
(Probably) [With]Cape Split Place, Inc., Addison, Maine.
[With]Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1991.
Estate of the above.
(Probably) [With]Cape Split Place, Inc., Addison, Maine.
[With]Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1991.
Literature
S. Reich, John Marin: A Stylistic Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, Tucson, Arizona, 1970, p. 610, no. 29.35.
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