Project Grant 18883155122

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $110,000 project grant to The Harlem School of the Arts, Inc. to support free pre-professional arts education programs for underserved students in New York City. This funding falls under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024), which aims to expand access to arts participation and education and build capacity in the arts sector. Through this one-year award covering July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023, The...

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to The Art Effect Of The Hudson Valley Inc., doing business as The Art Effect, to support the establishment of a Youth Arts Empowerment Zone with public art installations and arts programming in Poughkeepsie, New York. The funding period is from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2023. Under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024), the grant funds will enable The Art Effect to implement...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a $157,899 Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) project grant to The Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW) to implement an educational program engaging local high school students enrolled in the English as a New Language program. The program will involve field trips and weekly in-school classes designed to help students improve their language skills through photography. The project will culminate in a student-produced public art...

This $272,364 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education under the TRIO Student Support Services (CFDA 84.042A) program will provide comprehensive support services to disadvantaged students at Ulster County Community College in Stone Ridge, NY. The primary objectives are to increase student retention, graduation rates, and facilitate transfers from two-year to four-year institutions, with a focus on improving academic potential,...

The Fashion Institute of Technology received a $182,444 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to deliver a series of one-week residential workshops exploring Italian American public art in New York City. The "Creative Spaces/Contested Spaces" project will strengthen place-based humanities teaching and learning by examining how monuments, landmarks, and public artworks are...

The Historic Hudson Valley in Tarrytown, New York will strengthen its digital capacity and develop online teacher resources through a $119,001 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' National Leadership Grants program. Under the award, set to run from November 2021 through October 2022, the nonprofit will hire new interpretive staff with skills in digital storytelling to lead virtual programs and train existing staff on differences between in-person and online...

The Brooklyn Museum will create intensive arts education curricula for up to 10 underserved schools in Brooklyn, New York during the 2021-2022 academic year under a $231,230 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The museum aims to develop inspiring encounters with art that transform perspectives through its school partnerships, expecting to reach approximately 1,000 K-12 students. Prioritizing Title I schools impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the project will...

The federal Project Grant award, with ID MA256056OMS24, was provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) grant program. The $400,000 award will fund BRIC Arts Media Brooklyn to offer 35-40 twelve-session arts and media education residencies per year in partnership with New York City public schools. The residency programs will focus on strengthening students' arts and media mastery, critical thinking skills, and social-emotional...

This Project Grant award of $189,258 from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) will fund an educational workshop series titled "FOREVER WILD: THE ADIRONDACKS IN THE GILDED AGE AND PROGRESSIVE ERA." The project, led by history professors from SUNY Cortland, will use the historic Camp Huntington site in the Adirondacks as a resource to explore how ideas of wilderness shaped America during the Gilded...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded Bric Arts Media Bklyn Inc. a $100,000 project grant under the National Leadership Grants program to produce One Brooklyn TV in partnership with the New York City Department of Education. One Brooklyn TV will bring educational media content to over 550,000 households in Brooklyn, providing students access to remote curriculum and instructional videos regardless of internet access. Now in its second year, the program will focus on creating...