Project Grant 1744007075

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, under the Professional and Cultural Exchange Programs - Citizen Exchanges (CFDA 19.415) federal grant program, provides $2,101,165.00 to fund the design, implementation, installation, and related educational programming for the official U.S. exhibition at the 61st Art Biennale in Venice, Italy in 2026. The award incorporates a new artist, Alma Allen, into the exhibition. The project has a...

The Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs awarded a $975,531.70 Project Grant to Spaces to support the official U.S. presentation at the 18th International Architecture Biennale in Italy. The grant was awarded under the Professional and Cultural Exchange Programs - Citizen Exchanges program (CFDA 19.415) to fund the exhibition from September 16, 2022 through June 30, 2024. The Citizen Exchange activities supported by this program include international cultural...

The Tampa Museum of Art was awarded a $207,376 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The grant will enable the museum to partner with King's Kids Christian Academy, a needs-based private school, to expand the museum's art therapy-informed program, Art Space, to three new campuses. Project activities include developing art therapy-informed lesson plans and piloting, evaluating, and refining the school and museum visits. The...

The Rubin Museum of Art, a non-profit cultural institution in New York, received a $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) grant program. The funding supports the development and implementation of "Gateway to Himalayan Art," a traveling exhibition that presents the iconography, materials, and artistic and cultural practices of the Himalayan region through a multimedia approach....

The Columbia Museum of Art received a $200,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to mount a traveling exhibition on contemporary African American art and implement supporting public programs from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022. The museum will install the "30 Americans" exhibition drawn from the Rubell Family Collection, featuring 57 works by 30 artists. Interpretive and educational...

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Inc. received a $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024). The funding will 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 public participation in the...

The Museum of Art and Design at Miami Dade College received a $500,040 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (MFA) program. The funding will support the creation of exhibitions focused on the history, use, and cultural significance of the Freedom Tower, a National Historic Landmark. Key project activities include content development, curation of exhibitions, an orientation film, and guided interpretive tours in English and...

The Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs awarded the Portland Art Museum a $4,917,308.34 Project Grant under the Professional and Cultural Exchange Programs - Citizen Exchanges (CFDA 19.415) program. The grant funding will support the museum's presentation of the exhibition "The Space in Which to Place Me" featuring artist Jeffrey Gibson at the 60th International Art Exhibition in Venice, Italy from July 2023 to November 2024. The Portland Art Museum has...

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 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...