Project Grant 19171574424

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 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...

The Portland Art Museum will receive $638,046 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301) to mount a retrospective exhibition of works by mid-century modernist Oscar Howe and a concurrent site-specific installation by artist Jeffrey Gibson. The Museum will collaborate with Many Nations Academy teachers and students to develop student-led tours of the exhibition and will partner with the Native American Youth and Family...

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 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 Toledo Museum of Art received a $464,506 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs grant program (CFDA 45.164) to reimagine the museum's American art collection and implement a temporary exhibition. Key activities included expanding the museum's interpretation of American art to highlight Native American, African American, and Spanish colonial artists, and integrating works from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation...

The New Orleans Museum of Art received a $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop the traveling exhibition "Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club." Funded through the NEH's Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs program, the exhibition will highlight an understudied body of work by African American artist Jacob Lawrence from the 1960s exploring his relationship with Nigeria's Mbari Artists and Writers Club. The exhibition is...

The Philadelphia Museum of Art received a $400,000 implementation grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to support the development of the "Mary Cassatt at Work" exhibition. The exhibition, co-curated by Dr. Jennifer Thompson and Dr. Laurel Garber, will examine Cassatt's depictions of women's activity and feminine labor in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The project is anticipated to feature...

The Heckscher Museum of Art received a $540,051 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The grant will support a collaborative effort to produce exhibitions and associated educational programming showcasing major works by LGBTQ+ artists. The project will establish a community advisory board and a youth advisory board to inform exhibit interpretation and programming, ensuring that LGBTQ+ youth voices and...

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) awarded a $120,000 Project Grant to the Queens Museum of Art to support an exhibition and commission by artist Xaviera Simmons under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024). The Queens Museum of Art will curate a solo exhibition of Simmons' work and commission a new piece from January 1, 2022 through April 30, 2023. The NEA's Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program aims to...