Project Grant 19196984424

This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program, provides $260,952 to the Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation to continue the Alvin Ailey Choreographic Legacy Project. The Project will historically preserve choreography from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater repertory for restaging by professional dance companies and universities through cataloging production notes, performance histories, and...

Federal Grant Award Summary The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs awarded The American Arts Conservancy Inc. a Project Grant of $2.1 million under the Professional and Cultural Exchange Programs - Citizen Exchanges (CFDA 19.415) to design, implement, install, and provide related educational programming for the official U.S. exhibition at the 61st Art Biennale in Venice, Italy in 2026. The award, obligated on September 30, 2025, with a completion deadline of...

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...

This $149,999 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) supports the "Making the Digital Dance" project at the University of Alabama. The project aims to develop digital infrastructure and tools to increase access to archival dance information across four existing digital performing arts archives. Key project activities include: Prototyping a dance data commons based on the Wikidata integration model to...

This $498,763 federal Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program will enable City Lore Inc., a New York-based non-profit cultural organization, to create exhibitions and programming focused on immigrant communities. The exhibitions will explore topics such as women in blues, Cuban music, J'Ouvert festival traditions, and LGBTQ+ house ballroom culture, and will be held in locations across New York,...

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 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 Phillips Collection received a $197,845 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs grant program (CFDA 45.164) to support exhibitions and public programs celebrating its centennial. The grant will fund an interdepartmental team to fabricate and install two exhibitions featuring renowned American artists David Driskell and Alma Thomas from October 2021 through January 2022. The team will also plan and implement...

Federal Grant Award Summary Carnegie Institute, operating as Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, received a $400,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) program, awarded September 1, 2025, with a completion date of August 31, 2027. The award supports the development and delivery of "Black Photojournalism," the first comprehensive traveling museum exhibition documenting the work of...

The Visual Arts Center of New Jersey will partner with the Elizabeth Public School system and Cultures and Literacies through Art for the 21st Century to expand the CALTA21 curriculum for 9th and 10th grade bilingual social studies classrooms. Funded by a $101,881 project grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program, the partners will identify themes of Latinx contributions to American and world history to incorporate into the curriculum. They will...