Project Grant 18607387820

The Museum of Boulder, in partnership with the Boulder Public Library and Boulder County NAACP Chapter, will receive $500,000 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301) to develop activities highlighting the history of Black people in Colorado from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2024. Over the three-year period of performance in Boulder, CO, the Museum of Boulder will employ a community-centered process to develop an...

This $1,102,807 federal Project Grant award from the National Park Service's Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program (CFDA 15.904) was provided to the Leona Tate Foundation For Change, Inc. to fabricate and install a permanent exhibit at the Tate, Etienne Prevost (TEP) Interpretive Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. The exhibit will depict the classroom and principal's office of the historic McDonogh School #19, documenting and preserving the site's significance in the African American...

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $110,000 project grant to The Harlem School of the Arts, Inc. to support free pre-professional arts education programs for underserved students in New York City. This funding falls under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024), which aims to expand access to arts participation and education and build capacity in the arts sector. Through this one-year award covering July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023, The...

The Denver Art Museum will receive $479,144 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301) from September 2021 through August 2024 to strengthen its early childhood art and creativity programs. The Museum will establish an Early Childhood Participant Action Group composed of early childhood stakeholders to co-create new program elements for an in-community mini-exhibition program called Art Lives Here/El Arte Vive Aqui. The...

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 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 Clark Atlanta University Art Museum (CAUAM) was awarded a $308,768 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture (AAHC) program. The grant will fund the establishment of a Museum Educator position at CAUAM to expand access to the museum's collection, foster partnerships with CAU faculty across multiple departments, and enhance public programs. Key activities include: Hiring a Museum Educator to bring...

The Bronx Museum of Arts will receive $799,458 under a two-year Museums for America Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to enhance community engagement programs promoting equity and social justice through the arts. Key initiatives include deepening partnerships and improving access to public programs, commissions and residencies for local artists, and digitally accessible learning materials. Free professional development seminars and a residency program will allow...

This $300,000 federal Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (CFDA 45.164 Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs) will fund the development of an engaging website that increases understanding of New England slavery and the experiences of African Americans in early rural New England. The project will focus on the life of Lucy Terry Prince, the first documented African American poet, from her birth and captivity in Africa around 1726 to her enslavement in Deerfield,...

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...