Project Grant 19062564423

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 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 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 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 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts received a $792,642 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America program, effective September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2025. The grant will enable the organization to implement and evaluate a project designed to engage the local community in activating prominent public spaces with art at six sites in and around its San Francisco campus. The project will involve a curatorial council of community members...

The Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience received a $598,916 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) grant program. The two-year grant supports the museum's partnership with community organizations and a neighborhood advisory committee to provide arts and cultural programs focused on health and well-being for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities, as well as the general...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a $386,142 Project Grant under the Museums for America (MFA) program to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Fowler Museum. The grant will support the museum in creating an exhibition and associated programming focused on the role of fire in traditional ecological knowledge and how this knowledge has been embedded into historical and contemporary art objects from three Indigenous communities in Southern California: the...

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 Movimiento De Arte Y Cultura Latino Americana De San Jose, Incorporated (Movimiento) will develop visual arts exhibitions and related public programs under a $523,940 project grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America program. Over the three year award period ending August 2024, Movimiento will produce twelve major visual art exhibitions providing honoraria for up to 250 exhibiting artists. The organization will also expand public programs and...

The Wing Luke Memorial Foundation dba Wing Luke Asian Museum will receive $376,640 from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program to conduct two in-person workshops in Summer 2023. The workshops will build on the Museum's previous "In Our Own Words" workshops focused on enriching K-12 educators' understanding of early Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander histories in the Pacific Northwest. Led by...