Project Grant 19140744223

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 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...

This Project Grant award of $190,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) supports the "CINCINNATI SOUNDS: EXPLORING A MUSICAL CITY'S SPACES, PLACES AND SOUNDS" project. The project will triangulate multiple perspectives through multidisciplinary scholarship, sound mapping, site visits, and applications to humanities research and teaching. Key project activities include workshops with discussions...

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...

This $870,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration (CFDA 17.289 Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending) supports workforce development and creative skills programming by non-profit organization As220 in Providence, Rhode Island. The grant, active from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2027, will fund multidisciplinary arts education, creative workforce initiatives, and professional development services for underserved youth,...

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...

The Urban Arts Partnership received a $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024) to support personnel, facilities, and safety supplies from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2022. The Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program aims to support opportunities for community participation in the arts and arts education, integrate the arts with...

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to Ingenuity Inc Chicago to support an ongoing collective impact initiative in Chicago Public Schools. The grant was awarded under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024) and will support opportunities through December 31, 2022. The Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program aims to support opportunities for all people to participate in the arts and arts...

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to The Art Effect Of The Hudson Valley Inc., doing business as The Art Effect, to support the establishment of a Youth Arts Empowerment Zone with public art installations and arts programming in Poughkeepsie, New York. The funding period is from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2023. Under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024), the grant funds will enable The Art Effect to implement...

The Arts Commission Greater Toledo (ACTg) received a $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024). The purpose of the award is to support subgranting to the nonprofit arts sector in Ohio in response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. ACTg will distribute subgrants to other nonprofit organizations to support opportunities for communities to participate in the arts and...