Project Grant 1359007049

The Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center will relaunch its Teen Arts Council program to address critical needs in arts education and the social-emotional impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on youth. Funded by a $108,420 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the National Leadership Grants program, the Teen Arts Council empowers teens to create and plan arts programs for their peers. It will use strategies such as diversity, supportive staff, authentic work...

The Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio will receive $312,474 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301) to create a new Young Adult Creativity Center. The Center will host over 200 annual events and engage more than 6,000 young adults ages 13 to 21 from the greater Cincinnati region in career-building and professional development activities in the creative industries. Two new career-focused programs, Teen...

The Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, OH was awarded a $499,395 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The grant will support six mutually reinforcing and free out-of-school learning opportunities for over 5,000 young adults in the Cincinnati region to help offset learning loss resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. The center will build on and expand five successful young adult programs:...

The Palo Alto Art Center Foundation will implement a community engagement project titled "Creative Attention" under a $235,779.60 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program. Through the grant, the Art Center will partner with a licensed art therapist to encourage community members to use art to address anxiety and recognize manifestations of the emotion. Therapeutic art workshops will be conducted and an intergenerational family...

The Denver Art Museum will receive $479,144 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301) from September 2021 through August 2024 to strengthen its early childhood art and creativity programs. The Museum will establish an Early Childhood Participant Action Group composed of early childhood stakeholders to co-create new program elements for an in-community mini-exhibition program called Art Lives Here/El Arte Vive Aqui. The...

This $1,000,000 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, under the Innovative Approaches to Literacy; Promise Neighborhoods; Full-Service Community Schools; and Congressionally Directed Spending for Elementary and Secondary Education Community Projects program (CFDA 84.215), will support the purchase of equipment and supplies for the cultural center operated by Artsquest, a non-profit organization in Fountain Hill, PA....

The Children's Museum of Tacoma (CMT) was awarded a $288,952 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the National Leadership Grants program (CFDA 45.312) to implement the Free Play to Learn Plus (P2L+) program from November 1, 2021 through October 31, 2022. Building on two existing outreach initiatives, P2L+ will provide live virtual classes, prerecorded classes, activity kits, family STEAM nights, resource guides, and eventual in-person classes in...

The Children's Museum of Tacoma will expand its Tacoma Out of School Time Intermediary program to provide over 54,000 elementary and middle school students in Pierce County, Washington with academic support through expanded learning opportunities (ELOs) under a $5.2 million project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The museum will hire 14 new staff, partner with 73 schools, and contract with over 60 community ELO providers to offer students safe, structured, and...

The federal Project Grant award, with ID MA256056OMS24, was provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) grant program. The $400,000 award will fund BRIC Arts Media Brooklyn to offer 35-40 twelve-session arts and media education residencies per year in partnership with New York City public schools. The residency programs will focus on strengthening students' arts and media mastery, critical thinking skills, and social-emotional...

The Hands On Children's Museum will use a $404,858 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program to conduct an "Inspired Chefs" early childhood STEAM learning initiative from September 2021 through August 2023. As part of the Inspired Chefs programming, the Museum will offer cooking classes and camps for children and youth, organize a new Kitchen Tools pop-up exhibit, and redesign an on-site garden shed to support seed-to-table...