Project Grant 18874854422

The Mississippi Museum of Art received 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 to develop educational resources and curriculum focused on the Great Migration. The museum will create a critical reader textbook and higher education coursework centered around its upcoming "A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration" exhibition,...

Grant Award Summary: Black Photojournalism Exhibition Carnegie Institute, doing business as Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, received a $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to develop and execute "Black Photojournalism," a comprehensive traveling museum exhibition. The grant was awarded on September 1, 2025, with a completion date of August 31, 2027. The exhibition will be...

This $498,763 federal Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program will enable City Lore Inc., a New York-based non-profit cultural organization, to create exhibitions and programming focused on immigrant communities. The exhibitions will explore topics such as women in blues, Cuban music, J'Ouvert festival traditions, and LGBTQ+ house ballroom culture, and will be held in locations across New York,...

The Columbia Museum of Art received a $200,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to mount a traveling exhibition on contemporary African American art and implement supporting public programs from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022. The museum will install the "30 Americans" exhibition drawn from the Rubell Family Collection, featuring 57 works by 30 artists. Interpretive and educational...

The San Diego Museum of Man will reimagine and update its existing "Race: Are We So Different" exhibit with $460,013 in funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' (IMLS) Museums for America (MFA) program. Under the two-year project grant award beginning September 2021, the Museum will comprehensively redesign the exhibit content and develop new interactive elements with community input. The updated exhibit will expand on themes of biology, social history and personal...

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...

Federal Grant Award Summary The Buffalo Soldiers National Museum (BSNM), operating as the Center for African American Military History, Inc., received a $977,535 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture program (CFDA 45.309). The one-year award, obligated on October 1, 2025, with a completion date of September 30, 2026, funds the design, fabrication, and installation of four new immersive exhibits that...

The Great Plains Black History Museum, Archives and Interpretive Center Inc. received a $1.0 million Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture program (CFDA 45.309), effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2028. The award funds the design, fabrication, and installation of new museum exhibits that showcase American history through the lens of African American heritage and culture in Nebraska and...

This $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) will fund the development and implementation of an interactive, multimedia "Counter-History" exhibit at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York. The exhibit will elevate the museum's family history approach, making its sources more visible and thematically connecting historic and contemporary migration stories. The award supports the...

The Milwaukee Art Museum will undertake a $830,830 project grant awarded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301) to digitally image 3,000 works from its permanent collection for online access. Prioritizing artwork by artists of color, women, and those conveying narratives of marginalized communities, the Museum will make these collection images available on its website by August 2024. This initiative aims to inform the...