Project Grant 18881354422

The Toledo Museum of Art received a $464,506 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs grant program (CFDA 45.164) to reimagine the museum's American art collection and implement a temporary exhibition. Key activities included expanding the museum's interpretation of American art to highlight Native American, African American, and Spanish colonial artists, and integrating works from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation...

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum will create and launch an online version of its past exhibition "Night Train to Nashville: Music City Rhythm & Blues 1945-1970" under a $199,710 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) program. Museum staff funded by the award will conduct research, writing, design, testing, and promotion to develop the new online exhibition focusing on black musicians'...

The Jewish Museum in New York, New York received a $100,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs federal grant program (CFDA 45.164) to present the temporary exhibition "Revisiting New York: 1962-64" from July 22, 2022 to January 8, 2023. The exhibition will provide a comprehensive overview of the radical shift that occurred in American art, history, and global culture from 1962 to 1964 through critically...

The National Blues Museum in St. Louis, Missouri was awarded a $685,346 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture (AAHC) program (CFDA 45.309). The grant will fund the creation of a new interactive exhibition at the museum to contextualize the development of blues music, from classic vaudeville and acoustic blues to jump and electric blues. The exhibition will highlight the geographic subgenres of blues...

The Museum der Moderne Salzburg received a $290,600 project grant award from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs to support the exhibition and publication of works by American video artist Bill Viola. Funded under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) to advance U.S. foreign policy and cultural relations objectives, the exhibition was held from July 16 through October 30, 2022. As the sub-awardee, Museum der Moderne Salzburg utilized the funding to curate...

The Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, New York will produce a new exhibition titled "Artists & Inspiration in the Wild" under a $1,992,806 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301). The exhibition will showcase the Museum's collection of fine and decorative artworks from 1800 to present day exemplifying the "Adirondack style" and its connections to the natural landscape. Activities will include...

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 Rubin Museum of Art, a non-profit cultural institution in New York, 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) grant program. The funding supports the development and implementation of "Gateway to Himalayan Art," a traveling exhibition that presents the iconography, materials, and artistic and cultural practices of the Himalayan region through a multimedia approach....

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 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...