The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a $502,153 Project Grant through the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program to The Studio Museum in Harlem, Inc. The grant will fund the installation of an inaugural exhibition focused on the life and artistic achievements of artist Tom Lloyd. The exhibition will feature Lloyd's electronic sculptures, metal and paper works, and travel to three additional venues along with an exhibit publication. The project also includes free, weekly...
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 Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs awarded $837,184 under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) to support the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (Mumok) exhibition "Blackness, White, and Light." The exhibition, scheduled from March 31 to September 3, 2023, will be the first comprehensive solo exhibition in Europe of New York-based artist Adam Pendleton. As part of the Public Diplomacy Programs' goal of informing and influencing foreign...
The Studio Museum in Harlem will develop the Thomas J. Price exhibition "Witness" and 2021-22 season of InHarlem community-based collaborative programming under a $104,320 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' National Leadership Grants program. The Museum will deepen its roots in the Harlem community through InHarlem by providing arts-based programming for families, teens, and adults through both digital and in-person initiatives operating with local NYC...
The Phillips Collection received a $197,845 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs grant program (CFDA 45.164) to support exhibitions and public programs celebrating its centennial. The grant will fund an interdepartmental team to fabricate and install two exhibitions featuring renowned American artists David Driskell and Alma Thomas from October 2021 through January 2022. The team will also plan and implement...
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 J.B. Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky was awarded a $802,520 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The grant will support the final phase of the museum's "Louisville's Black Avant-Garde" exhibition series, which addresses inequality in the appreciation of Black artists and their works. Key activities include planning and finalizing two single-artist exhibitions and a major group exhibition,...
The New Orleans Museum of Art received a $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop the traveling exhibition "Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club." Funded through the NEH's Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs program, the exhibition will highlight an understudied body of work by African American artist Jacob Lawrence from the 1960s exploring his relationship with Nigeria's Mbari Artists and Writers Club. The exhibition is...
The Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs awarded a $370,000 Project Grant to support the first extensive solo exhibition of works by renowned U.S. artist Jordan Wolfson at the Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria. The grant was awarded on July 1, 2022 under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) to advance national interests and enhance relationships between the U.S. and other countries by informing and influencing foreign publics. The funding will support the exhibition of...
The Portland Art Museum will receive $638,046 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301) to mount a retrospective exhibition of works by mid-century modernist Oscar Howe and a concurrent site-specific installation by artist Jeffrey Gibson. The Museum will collaborate with Many Nations Academy teachers and students to develop student-led tours of the exhibition and will partner with the Native American Youth and Family...