Project Grant 18083585118

The National Blues Museum in St. Louis, Missouri was awarded a $685,346 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture (AAHC) program (CFDA 45.309). The grant will fund the creation of a new interactive exhibition at the museum to contextualize the development of blues music, from classic vaudeville and acoustic blues to jump and electric blues. The exhibition will highlight the geographic subgenres of blues...

This $177,324 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) will support the National Blues Museum in St. Louis, Missouri to conduct two six-day experiential learning workshops for K-12 educators in July 2024. The workshops, titled "The St. Louis Blues: Music, Migration, and the Movement," will examine the dynamic historical connections between music, urban environments, and race...

The BB King Museum & Delta Interpretive Center will update exhibit technology and enhance the visitor experience under a $318,185 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Specifically, the museum will review and update interactive content, source new high-resolution images and film, write new code, and install new software and hardware to improve audio-visual components in its permanent blues music history exhibit. These technology upgrades aim to better educate...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $291,480 under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs grant program (CFDA 45.164) to The Center For Independent Documentary, Inc. for post-production and outreach activities supporting the documentary film "The Blues Society." The film explores the history and impact of the Memphis Country Blues Festivals of the late 1960s. The award period is from May 1, 2022 to April 30, 2025. As part of the Public Programs grant program, the...

The National Blues Museum was awarded a $399,659 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture program to strengthen its curatorial activities. With this funding over a three-year period from July 2022 to June 2025, the Museum will hire a full-time curator to develop temporary exhibitions and draft critical collection care plans including an emergency plan, environmental monitoring procedures, and a registration...

This $498,763 federal Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program will enable City Lore Inc., a New York-based non-profit cultural organization, to create exhibitions and programming focused on immigrant communities. The exhibitions will explore topics such as women in blues, Cuban music, J'Ouvert festival traditions, and LGBTQ+ house ballroom culture, and will be held in locations across New York,...

The Jack Hadley Black History Museum will develop an oral history project and new exhibition focused on its founder with $188,477 in funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' (IMLS) Museum Grants for African American History and Culture program (CFDA 45.309). Staff will work with consultants to conduct community workshops on oral history collection and create standards-aligned educational materials from transcribed interviews with museum elder James "Jack" Hadley....

This $136,500 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program supports a 2-year project by Appalshop Inc. to identify, preserve, and amplify Black Appalachian experiences and voices in central Appalachia. The project involves cultural mapping of Black churches and faith experiences, collecting oral histories from an integrated community in Kentucky, and participating in...

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum will create and launch an online version of its past exhibition "Night Train to Nashville: Music City Rhythm & Blues 1945-1970" under a $199,710 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) program. Museum staff funded by the award will conduct research, writing, design, testing, and promotion to develop the new online exhibition focusing on black musicians'...

This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) provides $143,386.00 to support the curation and circulation of the Gullah/Geechee Alkebulan Archive over a two-year period from February 2024 to January 2026. The project, led by the Regents of the University of Minnesota, aims to collect and curate oral histories and cultural artifacts related to the Gullah/Geechee Nation through community-based events. The...