Project Grant 19059743423

Education Through Music Inc. was awarded a $100,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024) to support music instructor fees for a year-long music education program for students at partner schools in Bronx School District 11 in New York City. The grant will fund the delivery of music instruction to students from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2023 to promote arts participation and...

This federal Project Grant award of $300,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) will support the development of "The Bridge - Mapping Jazz and Hip-Hop in Queens," an interactive website that explores the interconnected histories and evolutions of jazz and hip-hop music, and the distinct role the borough of Queens played in the development of these two significant American musical genres. The project,...

This $1,000,000 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, under the Innovative Approaches to Literacy; Promise Neighborhoods; Full-Service Community Schools; and Congressionally Directed Spending for Elementary and Secondary Education Community Projects program (CFDA 84.215), will support the purchase of equipment and supplies for the cultural center operated by Artsquest, a non-profit organization in Fountain Hill, PA....

The Louis Armstrong House Museum in New York was awarded a $100,000 Digital Projects for the Public grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (CFDA 45.164) to support the prototyping phase of its "From Jazz to Hip-Hop in Queens" project. This project aims to increase awareness about the influential role that the jazz community in Queens had on the rise of hip-hop music. Building upon an earlier discovery phase, the prototyping phase will focus on developing primary,...

This $386,139 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of an ecosystem to empower musicians through artificial intelligence-enabled music production tools. Funded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the four-year award to Northwestern University will create an open-source software framework and initiatives allowing musicians and AI researchers to collaborate on improving AI music creation tools. The framework will facilitate deployment of new AI models...

This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) provides $349,987.00 to develop software tools, datasets, and pedagogical materials for computational musicology analysis. The project, titled "HUMDRUM(R): COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS FOR MUSICOLOGICAL AND ETHNOMUSICOLOGICAL RESEARCH," aims to create new data and expand existing HUMDRUM tools to facilitate the digital study of non-Western music,...

The Queens Public Library was awarded a $433,760 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture program. Through this funding, the Queens Library will partner with other organizations to celebrate and document 50 years of hip hop's influence on American culture. Key deliverables include coordinating in-person and streaming educational hip hop programming nationwide from its Langston Hughes Community Library and...

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 National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $300,000 project grant to the Regents of the University of California, San Francisco to support the Sound Health Network. The grant was awarded on July 1, 2021 under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024) and will support the Network through June 30, 2022. The Sound Health Network will convene experts in music neuroscience, health, and wellness to identify and promote research findings on how music...

The Exploratorium will develop affordable, portable STEAM exhibits and at-home learning experiences in partnership with Community Science Workshops under a $499,850 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program. Through the grant period of September 1, 2022 to February 28, 2025, The Exploratorium will collaborate with CSWS to design 8-10 exhibits and accompanying digital lessons to enable STEAM learning in underserved communities across...