Project Grant 18550734119

The State Historical Society of Colorado (History Colorado) was awarded $500,000 under a Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs to support humanities initiatives in rural Colorado through September 2022. History Colorado will install a new wireless network across its eight museum properties to improve connectivity for visitors, staff, and community members. It will also reinterpret the Fort Garland Museum and Cultural Center,...

The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Denver, received a $150,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support research on the impact of creative art therapies on healthcare professionals. The two-year grant, awarded May 1, 2023 and set to be completed by April 30, 2025, will fund interviews, lectures, focus groups and long-term analysis to study the University's Colorado Resiliency Arts Labs program and its effects on...

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $100,000 two-year Project Grant to SU Teatro Inc. under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024). The funding will support SU Teatro's personnel, facilities, and marketing expenses to respond to and aid recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. As a nonprofit arts organization based in Colorado, SU Teatro will use the grant funds to provide opportunities for community participation in the arts and arts...

The Mountain Time Arts organization was awarded a $120,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024). The grant will support public art installations and performances in Montana that address the history and ongoing presence of Indigenous peoples in Yellowstone National Park from July 1, 2022 through October 31, 2022. The Promotion of the Arts Grants program aims to provide opportunities for...

The University of Denver received a three-year, $150,000 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 award will support the development of a new curricular initiative titled "Youth Voices in El Movimiento and the Struggle for Racial Justice along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountain West." The initiative centers on cultivating young...

The federal Project Grant award in the amount of $146,245 was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The grant supports an intergenerational oral history project in Taos, NM that will engage youth aged 14-20 to capture the resilience and cultural knowledge of elders from the region's three land-based cultures. Under the guidance of professional staff and a multi-stakeholder advisory committee, the youth...

The High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia received a $532,415 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America program. The 3-year grant will support the museum's Creative Aging and Lifelong Learning department in engaging Atlanta's growing older adult population by expanding programming and partnerships to combat social isolation. Key project activities include: meeting with local stakeholders to assess at-risk populations, researching related programs...

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to the Art Students League of Denver from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2023. The grant funding supports personnel expenses to aid in response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The grant falls under the NEA's Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024). This program aims to support opportunities for public participation in the arts and arts education, integrate the arts...

The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Inc., a nonprofit organization, was awarded a $1,204,832 Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The 3-year grant, beginning on September 1, 2023, will enable the organization to expand its existing summer visual arts and creative writing program to serve an additional 270 participants, reaching wider audiences by reducing barriers to participation. Key activities to be supported include...

The Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco will implement a youth arts fellowship program called "Generation Chinatown" under a $117,020 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301). The fellowship will deepen 7-10 multiethnic high school students' creative skills and civic leadership abilities through workshops, public art projects, and engagement with Chinatown residents to explore issues of place,...