The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) awarded a $100,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024) to Art Opportunities Inc., doing business as Artworks, a non-profit arts organization in Cincinnati, Ohio. The grant will support youth arts employment opportunities and the creation of public art installations along the 34-mile Crown multi-use trail loop around Cincinnati. The project period runs from July 1, 2024, to May 31,...
The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $125,000 Project Grant to Asian Arts Initiative to support an arts and landscape design installation in Philadelphia's Chinatown North/Callowhill neighborhood. The grant was awarded on July 1, 2022 under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024) and will support the installation through June 30, 2024. The Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program aims to support opportunities...
The Arts Commission Greater Toledo (ACTg) received a $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024). The purpose of the award is to support subgranting to the nonprofit arts sector in Ohio in response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. ACTg will distribute subgrants to other nonprofit organizations to support opportunities for communities to participate in the arts and...
The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to L.a.n.d. Studio, Inc. to support a series of public art installations in the Kinsman Woodland Hills Union-Miles and Buckeye neighborhoods of Cleveland, Ohio from July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2023. The funding supports the awardee's delivery of art installations as part of the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024), which aims to provide opportunities for public participation in...
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 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...
This Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (MFA) program supports the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in expanding its arts-based educational programming and community partnerships in the Philadelphia neighborhoods of Kensington and Feltonville. The $797,000 award will enable PAFA to hire two part-time art educators, add a fourth partner school, and continue providing year-round bilingual services such as student...
This federal Project Grant award of $475,650 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program supports Clockshop, a minority-owned and woman-owned non-profit arts organization in Los Angeles, to conduct a cultural asset mapping process. Through this project, Clockshop will engage the diverse local communities near a planned 18-acre state park to document their cultural practices, personal histories, and lived experiences through oral histories,...
The Portland Art Museum, through its Center For An Untold Tomorrow division, received a $325,000 project grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) federal grant program. The grant funded the development and delivery of "THE ART OF RESILIENCE: A CONTINUUM OF TLINGIT ARTS" public program from August 2016 through July 2020. This program explored Tlingit history and culture through humanities-focused...
This $125,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024) will support public art installations and related community engagement events in the Norris Square neighborhood of Philadelphia. The funding will enable the awardee, Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates, to create public artworks that transform the local community, unite artists and residents, and promote individual and social...