Project Grant 18567035919

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...

The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts received a $792,642 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America program, effective September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2025. The grant will enable the organization to implement and evaluate a project designed to engage the local community in activating prominent public spaces with art at six sites in and around its San Francisco campus. The project will involve a curatorial council of community members...

The federal Project Grant award, with ID MA256056OMS24, was provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) grant program. The $400,000 award will fund BRIC Arts Media Brooklyn to offer 35-40 twelve-session arts and media education residencies per year in partnership with New York City public schools. The residency programs will focus on strengthening students' arts and media mastery, critical thinking skills, and social-emotional...

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $125,000 Project Grant to Asian Arts Initiative to support an arts and landscape design installation in Philadelphia's Chinatown North/Callowhill neighborhood. The grant was awarded on July 1, 2022 under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024) and will support the installation through June 30, 2024. The Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program aims to support opportunities...

This federal Project Grant award of $475,650 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program supports Clockshop, a minority-owned and woman-owned non-profit arts organization in Los Angeles, to conduct a cultural asset mapping process. Through this project, Clockshop will engage the diverse local communities near a planned 18-acre state park to document their cultural practices, personal histories, and lived experiences through oral histories,...

This Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (MFA) program supports the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in expanding its arts-based educational programming and community partnerships in the Philadelphia neighborhoods of Kensington and Feltonville. The $797,000 award will enable PAFA to hire two part-time art educators, add a fourth partner school, and continue providing year-round bilingual services such as student...

The Toledo Museum of Art received a $464,506 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs grant program (CFDA 45.164) to reimagine the museum's American art collection and implement a temporary exhibition. Key activities included expanding the museum's interpretation of American art to highlight Native American, African American, and Spanish colonial artists, and integrating works from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation...

The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston was awarded a $614,382 Museums for America (MFA) grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) with a project period from September 1, 2024 to December 31, 2025. The grant will support the ICA's implementation of an array of out-of-school programs for 2,000 Boston-area teens that engage young people with art and artists, support their well-being, foster creativity and critical thinking skills, provide professional training, and...

The Portland Art Museum will receive $638,046 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301) to mount a retrospective exhibition of works by mid-century modernist Oscar Howe and a concurrent site-specific installation by artist Jeffrey Gibson. The Museum will collaborate with Many Nations Academy teachers and students to develop student-led tours of the exhibition and will partner with the Native American Youth and Family...

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...