Project Grant 19057154123

The Bronx Museum of Arts will receive $799,458 under a two-year Museums for America Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to enhance community engagement programs promoting equity and social justice through the arts. Key initiatives include deepening partnerships and improving access to public programs, commissions and residencies for local artists, and digitally accessible learning materials. Free professional development seminars and a residency program will allow...

The Rubin Museum of Art, a non-profit cultural institution in New York, received a $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) grant program. The funding supports the development and implementation of "Gateway to Himalayan Art," a traveling exhibition that presents the iconography, materials, and artistic and cultural practices of the Himalayan region through a multimedia approach....

This $498,763 federal Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program will enable City Lore Inc., a New York-based non-profit cultural organization, to create exhibitions and programming focused on immigrant communities. The exhibitions will explore topics such as women in blues, Cuban music, J'Ouvert festival traditions, and LGBTQ+ house ballroom culture, and will be held in locations across New York,...

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 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...

City Lore Inc. received a $380,659 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America federal grant program. The award will support the expansion of City Lore's "Creative Traditions" initiative through a series of community-curated exhibitions, public programs, and mentoring opportunities aimed at sustaining the cultural traditions of diverse New York City communities. Key deliverables include the creation of a citywide folk and community...

This Project Grant award of $163,906.00 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) will fund two one-week workshops hosted by the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) in July 2025. The workshops, titled "LAND AS ARCHIVE: NATURAL AND HUMAN HISTORIES OF THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN," will convene 20 participants from the humanities fields each session to develop analytical and practical skills in...

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...

The Brooklyn Children's Museum Corporation will implement the "We Are #BrooklynKids" project through a $587,545 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program. Over two years, the Museum will partner with three community organizations to engage approximately 100 Central Brooklyn families, including 400 children, in exhibit and program planning. In collaboration with guest curators from Central Brooklyn, the Museum will also present...

The Jewish Museum in New York, New York received a $100,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs federal grant program (CFDA 45.164) to present the temporary exhibition "Revisiting New York: 1962-64" from July 22, 2022 to January 8, 2023. The exhibition will provide a comprehensive overview of the radical shift that occurred in American art, history, and global culture from 1962 to 1964 through critically...