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The Sandy Spring Museum's Regional Folklife Center was awarded a $492,031 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program to collaborate with local folk artists and communities in Montgomery County, Maryland to sustain and advance folk arts. Through its MocoLore traditional arts series and integration of 130 folk artists into major annual events, the majority of whom are BIPOC and immigrant community members, the museum will educate the public about...

The Chesapeake Children's Museum received a $150,000 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The grant will enable the museum to establish a series of programs to inspire connections and creativity by exploring history, culture, and expression through music. The museum will offer hands-on workshops, music-related activities, concerts, and presentations on-site and at area schools and community spaces. The...

The Sandy Spring Museum received a $268,115 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America (MFA) program (CFDA 45.301) to support its Folk Artist Enterprise Initiative. This three-year project (Sep 2024 - Aug 2027) will connect folk artists, particularly from marginalized or immigrant communities, to public audiences through new promotional materials, workshops, and events hosted at the museum's rental space. The initiative aims to increase...

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to Colour Of Music, Inc., doing business as Colour Of Music Festival, to support personnel and marketing expenses from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2023. This funding falls under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024), which aims to support opportunities for public participation in the arts and arts education, integrate the arts with strategies promoting well-being and...

This National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Digital Humanities Advancement Grant (CFDA 45.169) provides $349,987 to Georgia Tech Research Corporation to develop the HUMDRUM(R) software platform for computational musicology and ethnomusicological research. The project aims to create new digital tools, datasets, and pedagogical materials to enable musicologists, music theorists, and ethnomusicologists to leverage computational methods for their research. Key objectives include expanding...

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 Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs awarded a $108,200 project grant to support the 2021 edition of the internationally renowned Music Unlimited 35 festival at Alter Schl8hof Wels in Upper Austria from November 5 through 7, 2021. The funding supports the achievement of U.S. public diplomacy goals under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) by informing and expanding relationships between the U.S. and European publics through international cultural exchange....

The Morris Center for Lowcountry Heritage will partner with local educators to create a new fourth-grade school field trip program serving students in four surrounding counties, with funding of $337,200.00 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (MFA) grant program (CFDA 45.301). The project activities include recruiting a school programs coordinator, developing field trip resources, training docents, and implementing improved field trip programs...

The federal Project Grant award of $204,000.00 was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to the American Musicological Society, Inc. (AMS), a non-profit organization based in New York. The primary objective of this grant is to support the "Music of the United States of America" (MUSA) series, a comprehensive 40-volume collection of scholarly editions featuring historically significant and...

This Project Grant award of $152,210.00 from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs supports the Udruzenje Rock Skola Mostar (Mors) non-profit organization in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The funding is provided through the AEECA/ESF PD Programs (CFDA 19.900), which aims to support civil society and democracy building public diplomacy programs in Europe, Eurasia, and Central Asia. The grant will be used to operate the Mostar Rock School as a place of exchange and...