Project Grant 19170564424

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....

The Rubin Museum of Art was awarded a $1,007,056 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program to develop and present a flexible, modular traveling exhibition on the art, iconography, and cultural practices of the Himalayan region. The museum will partner with five university museums to adapt and install the exhibition, which will feature digital and narrative content to enhance public understanding of Himalayan spiritual ideas like...

The Philbrook Museum of Art, Inc. received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs federal grant program. The grant will support the development and presentation of the traveling exhibition "Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mid-Century Mexican Modernism" from June to September 2022. Products and services include the exhibition featuring documentary photographs, reconstructed outfits and jewelry of...

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 San Diego Museum of Art received a $350,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to implement the "Wonders of Creation: Art, Science, and Innovation in the Islamic World" temporary traveling exhibition. This exhibition will feature over 150 works of Islamic art and material culture, including manuscripts, scientific instruments, and contemporary art, exploring the intersections of art,...

The Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs awarded $319,000 to Kunstmeile Krems Betriebs GMBH, operating as Karikaturmuseum Krems, to support the exhibition "Helen Frankenthaler. Painterly Constellations" from April 23 through October 30, 2022. This Project Grant funding will support the exhibition under the agency's Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) to inform and influence foreign publics and strengthen cultural relationships. The completion date for the...

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 Metropolitan Museum of Art was awarded a $400,000 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs program (CFDA 45.164) to support the traveling exhibition Africa & Byzantium from May 1, 2023 through August 31, 2024. The grant will enable the Museum to organize the exhibition in collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art, challenging common preconceptions about the arts of Africa and Byzantium through educational...

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) received a $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop an interactive digital exhibition guide. The guide will accompany LACMA's upcoming temporary exhibition "The World Made Wondrous: The Dutch Collector's Cabinet and the Politics of Possession" scheduled for June 2023 to January 2024. It will invite visitors to reconsider how and why museums collect objects through multiple voices and...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a $126,576 Project Grant under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program to the University of Rochester's Memorial Art Gallery. The grant will fund the conservation treatment of 29 South Asian miniature paintings and drawings dating from the 16th to 19th centuries, which are currently inaccessible to visitors and researchers due to their poor condition. A professional conservator will document the treatment process through...