Project Grant 1542007038

This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163), provides $189,999.00 to the American Society of Landscape Architects Library & Education Advocacy Fund, Inc. to develop and pilot a framework for K-12 educators nationwide to explore local and national landscapes through a design-centered lens. The project, titled "Teaching Environmental Humanities Through...

The National Building Museum was awarded a $400,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs program (CFDA 45.164) to implement the "Building Stories" exhibition from May 1, 2023 through April 30, 2024. The exhibition will explore the built environment as experienced through children's books, activating these stories and their settings to investigate how the built world influences lives and communities. By...

The Jewish Museum in New York, New York received a $100,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs federal grant program (CFDA 45.164) to present the temporary exhibition "Revisiting New York: 1962-64" from July 22, 2022 to January 8, 2023. The exhibition will provide a comprehensive overview of the radical shift that occurred in American art, history, and global culture from 1962 to 1964 through critically...

The Frank Lloyd Wright Trust was awarded a $447,317 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (MFA) program (CFDA 45.301) to expand the Teaching by Design teacher professional development program at the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio. The project will conduct 12 professional development seminars, recruit guest educators and 4 resident artists, and develop, implement, and evaluate an artist-in-residence program. This will address...

The Fashion Institute of Technology received a $182,444 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to deliver a series of one-week residential workshops exploring Italian American public art in New York City. The "Creative Spaces/Contested Spaces" project will strengthen place-based humanities teaching and learning by examining how monuments, landmarks, and public artworks are...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a $505,934 Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) project grant to the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City. The funding will support the museum's efforts to expand and refocus its educational programming to address the New York Department of Education's Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework. The museum will partner with teaching artists and 12 New York City public high school teachers to develop and implement...

The Frank Lloyd Wright Trust received a $112,616 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The funding will support the Trust's development of virtual tours and associated workshops at the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio and Frederick C. Robie House sites. Specifically, the Trust will complete video tours of both sites currently under development,...

This Project Grant award of $189,258 from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) will fund an educational workshop series titled "FOREVER WILD: THE ADIRONDACKS IN THE GILDED AGE AND PROGRESSIVE ERA." The project, led by history professors from SUNY Cortland, will use the historic Camp Huntington site in the Adirondacks as a resource to explore how ideas of wilderness shaped America during the Gilded...

This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) provides $300,000 to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum Inc. to produce and implement an interactive, multimedia "Counter-History" exhibit at the museum's visitor center. The exhibit will elevate the museum's family history approach, make its sources more visible, and thematically connect historic and contemporary migration stories. Drawing on content...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a $386,142 Project Grant under the Museums for America (MFA) program to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Fowler Museum. The grant will support the museum in creating an exhibition and associated programming focused on the role of fire in traditional ecological knowledge and how this knowledge has been embedded into historical and contemporary art objects from three Indigenous communities in Southern California: the...