Project Grant 18618625520

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to the American Folklore Society from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2023. The funding supports personnel expenses to respond to and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic under the 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 with strategies promoting well-being and...

City Lore Inc. received a $380,659 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America federal grant program. The award will support the expansion of City Lore's "Creative Traditions" initiative through a series of community-curated exhibitions, public programs, and mentoring opportunities aimed at sustaining the cultural traditions of diverse New York City communities. Key deliverables include the creation of a citywide folk and community...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) provides $174,088 to the American Musicological Society, Inc. (AMS) to host a two-week residential institute at the University of Maryland from July 14-26, 2025. The institute, titled "Musics of the United States: Telling Our Stories," will convene thirty higher education faculty participants to engage with new...

This is a $232,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences grant program (CFDA 47.075). The grant supports collaborative research at the University of Maryland, College Park to elucidate the computational and neural mechanisms underlying music enculturation, or how people spontaneously engage with and learn unfamiliar musical cultures. The research combines computational...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $149,698 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the Southwest Folklife Alliance Inc. (doing business as Tucson Meet Yourself) for the CLIMATELORE project. This 18-month project, running from February 2024 to July 2025, aims to document the climate-related impacts on folk, traditional, and indigenous communities in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands region. The project will...

This Project Grant award of $190,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) supports the "CINCINNATI SOUNDS: EXPLORING A MUSICAL CITY'S SPACES, PLACES AND SOUNDS" project. The project will triangulate multiple perspectives through multidisciplinary scholarship, sound mapping, site visits, and applications to humanities research and teaching. Key project activities include workshops with discussions...

The federal Project Grant award of $150,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) supports the "Transmission Regained: Recalling Traditional Lifeways through Intergenerational Oral History in the 'World's Borough' Queens" project. This initiative invites young people in the diverse student body of LaGuardia Community College, part of the Research Foundation of the City University of New...

The American Folk Art Museum was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant 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 grant will support the development and enhancement of ongoing virtual programming and the hiring of a new Community Engagement Educator position to better serve local communities. Specifically, the Museum will continue and expand virtual offerings such as...

The Southwest Folklife Alliance Inc., doing business as Tucson Meet Yourself, received a $1,000,000 two-year 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 funds will support the National Folklife Network initiative to strengthen traditional arts through training, fieldwork, convenings, community collaborations and cultural asset mapping. The initiative will be implemented in...

This $598,703 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The grant aims to elucidate the computational and neural mechanisms underlying musical enculturation - how people spontaneously engage with and learn the musical structures of unfamiliar cultures. The research involves implementing a series of behavioral, neuroimaging, and neurophysiology...