Project Grant 19202674224

The Fashion Institute of Technology received a $182,444 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to deliver a series of one-week residential workshops exploring Italian American public art in New York City. The "Creative Spaces/Contested Spaces" project will strengthen place-based humanities teaching and learning by examining how monuments, landmarks, and public artworks are...

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 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 Museum of the African Diaspora was awarded a $510,402 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture federal grant program (CFDA 45.309). The grant will support expansion of the MOAD in the Classroom educational outreach program to provide free classroom instruction and museum visits for over 2,400 Title I third grade students in the San Francisco Bay Area. Key deliverables include creation of standards-aligned...

The Academy Foundation received a $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs federal grant program (CFDA 45.164) to support the implementation phase of the Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971 temporary exhibition at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Opening in February 2022, the exhibition explores the visual culture of Black cinema from its early days to just after the Civil Rights Movement with the...

The Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator (DVCAI), a woman-owned, Black American-owned non-profit organization, received a $498,730 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture (AAHC) program on July 1, 2024. The grant will enable DVCAI to enhance its organizational sustainability and programming focused on the Latin and Caribbean diaspora. Key project activities include hiring a part-time graduate...

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 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 University of Connecticut received $272,910 in federal funding under the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants program (CFDA 45.312) to design, build, and launch a digital archive containing over 20,000 American fashion illustrations spanning 1790 to 1930. The award, issued September 1, 2026, with completion targeted for August 31, 2028, funds the creation of an extensible database structure that will initially house digitized fashion plates with capacity...

The International African American Museum received $814,610 in federal funding through the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museum Grants for African American History and Culture program (CFDA 45.309). The award, effective September 1, 2026, through August 31, 2028, supports a comprehensive project to preserve, interpret, and expand access to a rare collection of nineteenth-century daguerreotypes. Key deliverables include the development of an ethical interpretive framework,...