Project Grant 18936395122

The Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center will relaunch its Teen Arts Council program to address critical needs in arts education and the social-emotional impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on youth. Funded by a $108,420 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the National Leadership Grants program, the Teen Arts Council empowers teens to create and plan arts programs for their peers. It will use strategies such as diversity, supportive staff, authentic work...

The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (ICA) was awarded a $583,117 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to deepen and expand youth engagement programs for teens in grades 6-12. The funding will support the ICA's work with over 2,000 Boston-area teens through school partnerships and out-of-school programs aimed at empowering youth to develop creative skills, strengthen identity, and build leadership abilities. A key aspect of the project is the expansion of programs...

The federal Project Grant award in the amount of $146,245 was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The grant supports an intergenerational oral history project in Taos, NM that will engage youth aged 14-20 to capture the resilience and cultural knowledge of elders from the region's three land-based cultures. Under the guidance of professional staff and a multi-stakeholder advisory committee, the youth...

This two-year, $148,710 Project Grant awarded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the National Leadership Grants for Museums (CFDA 45.312) program will support the University of Connecticut's Greenhouse Studios, collaborating with its Asian and Asian American Studies Institute, to design a replicable community-engaged storytelling model. The project will develop an open-source Omeka plug-in to collect first-person narratives, which will be tested with the Fudeko...

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded Storycatchers Theatre a $100,000 Project Grant to support staff salaries and participant stipends for an in-person and virtual post-release performing arts jobs program for court-involved youth. This award falls under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024), which supports opportunities for all people to participate in the arts and arts education, and builds capacity and infrastructure within the arts...

This Project Grant award of $479,995 was made by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems under the CFDA program "Computer and Information Science and Engineering." The funding supports a collaborative research project between the University of Alabama and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, in partnership with learning scientists from SRI International. The goal of the project is to develop and test "Story Studio," a...

Explora Science Center & Children's Museum Of Albuquerque will implement the "Empowering Teens for Mental Health at X Studio Project" through a $108,740 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' National Leadership Grants program. The one-year project will bring together local teens, mental health professionals, and museum staff to develop expanded teen mental health programs and resources. It will also increase museum staff capacity to support teens'...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the federal Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), provides $122,654 to the University of California, Irvine to document the home and community storytelling practices of Mexican-American bilingual children with developmental language disorder. The key products of this 2-year project include: (1) providing ethnographic documentation of the...

This federal Project Grant award of $300,000 was provided by the Department of the Interior's National Park Service Intermountain Region under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites program (CFDA 15.933). The funding will support Visual Communications Media, a non-profit media arts organization, to produce a 30-minute narrative film called "The Camera" that explores the intergenerational trauma and ongoing impacts of the Japanese American incarceration during World War...

The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston was awarded a $614,382 Museums for America (MFA) grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) with a project period from September 1, 2024 to December 31, 2025. The grant will support the ICA's implementation of an array of out-of-school programs for 2,000 Boston-area teens that engage young people with art and artists, support their well-being, foster creativity and critical thinking skills, provide professional training, and...