Project Grant 18897324422

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a $554,624 Project Grant under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program to The Exploratorium in San Francisco, CA. The grant will fund the creation of a cohort-based leadership development training program for middle and senior-level managers at the museum. The program aims to address inequitable access to leadership development opportunities and will involve identifying and hiring consultants to collaborate on designing the...

The Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco, doing business as the Chinese Culture Center, received a $146,555 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America program. The grant will support the expansion of the Center's "41 Ross Artist-in-Residence" program, located at the Center's offsite storefront space in San Francisco's Chinatown. Key activities include selecting three artists for three-month residencies, organizing public...

The San Jose Museum of Art will receive $582,885 under a Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301) to implement institution-wide trainings and infrastructure improvements focused on collaboration. From September 2022 through August 2025, museum staff will participate in on-demand and in-person trainings to develop core competencies for non-hierarchical work and improve communication tools, procedures and practices. This...

The Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco will implement a youth arts fellowship program called "Generation Chinatown" under a $117,020 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301). The fellowship will deepen 7-10 multiethnic high school students' creative skills and civic leadership abilities through workshops, public art projects, and engagement with Chinatown residents to explore issues of place,...

The Aamc Foundation will receive $100,000 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the National Leadership Grants program to support a ten-month mentorship program pairing junior art curators with three to five years of experience with senior curators. Two cohorts of ten mentors and ten mentees each will engage in a three-day residency, site visits to mentor institutions, a conference, and virtual meetings. The goal is for junior curators to improve skills in supporting...

The Palo Alto Art Center Foundation will implement a community engagement project titled "Creative Attention" under a $235,779.60 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program. Through the grant, the Art Center will partner with a licensed art therapist to encourage community members to use art to address anxiety and recognize manifestations of the emotion. Therapeutic art workshops will be conducted and an intergenerational family...

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) received a $620,975 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America program to enhance accessibility and inclusivity for museum visitors with disabilities. The two-year initiative will involve integrating inclusive design practices into the museum's interpretive materials, programs, and digital content. Key products and services to be delivered include expanding visual descriptions for artworks,...

The Association of African American Museums (AAAM) will expand its Executive Leadership Training Program in collaboration with Howard University School of Business through this $262,055 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). Building on a successful pilot, AAAM will offer leadership training to 25 mid-level and senior museum professionals annually from FY2023-FY2026. The...

The Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco received a $100,110 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program to create a seven-month exhibition titled "Xianrui: Cathy Lu" and a community youth engagement program. The exhibition and programming will explore topics relevant to the state of Asian American identity and xenophobia facing the community. The Chinese Culture Center will co-design the programming...

The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts will receive $427,608 under a Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' National Leadership Grants program to advance the digital accessibility and offerings of its Artist Power Center online platform. Designed to provide relief and economic opportunities to Bay Area artists disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Center will develop a more flexible virtual platform connecting arts employers to artists. This...