Project Grant 18852013121

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...

The Michigan Street African American Heritage Corridor Commission will receive $166,750 under a Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museum Grants for African American History and Culture program. The Commission will build the capacity of five African American anchor institutions in Buffalo, New York - the Michigan Street Baptist Church, Nash House Museum, Historic Colored Musicians Club and Museum, and WUFO 1080 AM Black Radio History Collective - by developing...

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to Festival Dance & Performing Arts Association Inc., doing business as Festival Dance, to support personnel, facilities, and marketing expenses in response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The grant was awarded on January 1, 2022 with a completion date of July 31, 2024. The funding supports Festival Dance under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024). This...

The Chicago Sinfonietta Inc. received a $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts to support personnel, facilities, and marketing expenses from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2023. The funding is provided through 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 community...

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to the Coalition For African Americans In The Performing Arts Incorporated to support personnel safety supplies and facilities expenses in response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. This funding falls under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024), which aims to support opportunities for all people to participate in the arts and arts education, integrate the arts with...

The Michigan Street African American Heritage Corridor Commission received a $118,800 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture (AAHC) program (CFDA 45.309). The grant will fund the hiring of a new full-time Museum Collections and Interpretive Assistant to improve collections care and access at five historic locations: the Michigan Street Baptist Church, Nash House Museum, Historic Colored Musicians Club and...

This federal Project Grant award of $200,000.00 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) will support a series of programming titled "Harlem as an Incubator" from October 1, 2024 to December 31, 2026. The programming will present the history of Harlem as an incubator of arts, culture, and activism for people of the African diaspora through lectures, public discussions, and readings. The goal is to construct...

The Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) was awarded a $130,586 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program. The grant funding will support the digitization of 775 at-risk audio reels representing 731 radio broadcasts of live Boston Pops concerts conducted by Arthur Fiedler between 1958 and 1979. This project will preserve the original tapes and make the digitized files available to scholars...

The New Orleans Museum of Art received a $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop the traveling exhibition "Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club." Funded through the NEH's Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs program, the exhibition will highlight an understudied body of work by African American artist Jacob Lawrence from the 1960s exploring his relationship with Nigeria's Mbari Artists and Writers Club. The exhibition is...

The University of North Florida received a $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to document the Viola Muse Digital Edition. Funded under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161), the project will produce a digital edition of 73 manuscripts and typescripts totaling 262 pages from the Viola Muse Collection at the Jacksonville Historical Society. Viola Muse was a local hairdresser and interviewer/writer with the Negro Writers Division...