Project Grant 18656476221

The Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded Opus 40 Inc. a $600,000 Project Grant under the Save America's Treasures federal grant program (CFDA 15.929) to restore and repair the central bluestone sculpture at Opus 40, a 55-acre sculpture park and nationally significant historic site located in Saugerties, New York. Constructed over 40 years within an abandoned quarry, the central sculpture consists of undulating ramps, paths, platforms, grottos, pools, and stairs formed from millions...

The Palo Alto Art Center Foundation will implement a community engagement project titled "Creative Attention" under a $235,779.60 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program. Through the grant, the Art Center will partner with a licensed art therapist to encourage community members to use art to address anxiety and recognize manifestations of the emotion. Therapeutic art workshops will be conducted and an intergenerational family...

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 Phoenix Art Museum received a $240,746 project grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program (CFDA 45.149). The grant will support the museum's installation of an exhibition titled "Landscapes of Extraction: The Art of Mining in the American West." Museum staff will design, implement, and manage the exhibition, which will feature approximately 75 paintings and prints focused...

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...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) awarded The Trust for Public Land $100,000.00 under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024) to support multidisciplinary arts activities on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. The project, which commenced on October 1, 2025, and extends through September 30, 2027, involves transforming underutilized school grounds into an outdoor learning space through community-based...

This cooperative agreement award from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management New Mexico Region provides $145,504.38 to the Public Lands Interpretive Association to develop an interpretive plan and site designs for the Cross Bar Management Area in northern Texas from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The interpretive plan and site designs will educate visitors about recreational opportunities and the historical significance of the area as a strategic helium reserve under...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) awarded the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade $1,015,069 under the Promotion of the Arts Partnership Agreements program (CFDA 45.025) on July 1, 2025, with a completion date of September 30, 2026. This Project Grant supports arts programs, services, and activities aligned with the awardee's NEA-approved strategic plan. As a state arts agency, the Colorado Office of Economic Development and...

The Goggle Works Center for the Arts was awarded a $289,700 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program to implement the "Como Crecemos (How We Grow)" project. The project will expand the Center's existing efforts serving Hispanic and Latinx audiences through designing inclusive exhibitions, programs, and communications. Key activities include two major exhibitions of works by conventionally marginalized artists and an outreach...

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...