Project Grant 1544007016

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 National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to Colour Of Music, Inc., doing business as Colour Of Music Festival, to support personnel and marketing expenses from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2023. This funding falls under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024), which aims to support opportunities for public participation in the arts and arts education, integrate the arts with strategies promoting well-being and...

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to the International Festival of Arts to support personnel and marketing expenses from January 1, 2022 through September 30, 2023. This funding was provided through the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024), which aims to support opportunities for public participation in the arts and arts education, integrate the arts with strategies promoting well-being and community resilience,...

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to Fundarte, Inc. of Florida under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024) for the period of January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022. The grant funding will support Fundarte, Inc.'s personnel, facilities, safety supplies, and marketing expenses to respond to and aid recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. As the pandemic impacted arts organizations' abilities to operate, this award will...

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded Museum Hue, Inc. a $150,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024) to support personnel expenses from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2023 in response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program aims to support opportunities for all people to participate in the arts and arts education, integrate the arts...

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Inc. doing business as Brooklyn Arts Exhange under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024). The two-year grant will support personnel and facilities expenses from January 2022 through December 2023 to enable Brooklyn Arts Exchange to respond to and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals...

The Portland Art Museum, through its Center For An Untold Tomorrow division, received a $325,000 project grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) federal grant program. The grant funded the development and delivery of "THE ART OF RESILIENCE: A CONTINUUM OF TLINGIT ARTS" public program from August 2016 through July 2020. This program explored Tlingit history and culture through humanities-focused...

This Project Grant award of $305,853 from the National Eye Institute (CFDA 93.867 Vision Research) supports the development of a novel laser technology called stretched-pulse-mode-locking (SPML) by Bluebird Photonics, Inc. The goal is to enable next-generation optical coherence tomography (OCT) instrumentation capable of high-speed, wide-field imaging of the human retina. Specific aims include implementing a bias-free Sagnac-loop amplitude modulator and developing a closed-loop locking mechanism...

The Chicago Humanities Festival was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs program (CFDA 45.164). The grant will support the development and implementation of six in-person speaker programs on topics related to racial justice, gender equality, and building an inclusive society. These programs will be part of the Chicago Humanities Festival in 2022 and will take place in neighborhoods around Chicago....

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to Living Arts Trust Inc., doing business as O Cinema, from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023. The grant supports personnel expenses under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024). This program aims to provide opportunities for public participation in the arts, integrate arts strategies that promote well-being and community resilience, and build arts sector capacity and...