Project Grant 19206494424

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $304,885 Project Grant to PRX Inc., a non-profit media company, to produce a seven-episode podcast series titled "Division Street Revisited." This series, plus a 1-hour opening special for public radio, will revisit Studs Terkel's seminal oral history collection "Division Street: America" by interviewing the children and grandchildren of the original participants. The podcast will explore how themes of race, work,...

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...

The Queens Borough Public Library was awarded a $228,546 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program. The grant will support the creation of a 10-episode Queens Memory podcast season exploring the history of Asians in America. The podcasts will utilize existing oral histories from the library's archives, and will be edited by Asian American activists, scholars, and community members. Fifty-three Asian...

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...

Stone Soup Productions Inc. was awarded a $149,420 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs federal grant program (CFDA 45.164). The grant will support the development phase of Stone Soup Productions' "The People's Recorder" podcast series, which will explore the legacy of the 1930s Works Progress Administration Federal Writers' Project and discuss its achievements, shortcomings, and relevance today. The...

The Portland Art Museum, through its Center For An Untold Tomorrow division, received a $325,000 project grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) federal grant program. The grant funded the development and delivery of "THE ART OF RESILIENCE: A CONTINUUM OF TLINGIT ARTS" public program from August 2016 through July 2020. This program explored Tlingit history and culture through humanities-focused...

The Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs awarded the Portland Art Museum a $4,917,308.34 Project Grant under the Professional and Cultural Exchange Programs - Citizen Exchanges (CFDA 19.415) program. The grant funding will support the museum's presentation of the exhibition "The Space in Which to Place Me" featuring artist Jeffrey Gibson at the 60th International Art Exhibition in Venice, Italy from July 2023 to November 2024. The Portland Art Museum has...

The Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs awarded $117,500 under the Public Diplomacy Programs federal grant to Kunsthauswien GMBH. The funding supports Kunsthauswien's invitation of four American and US-based artists—Alia Ali, Nakeya Brown, Pixy Liao, and Carmen Winant—to showcase their works at the Photo Festival Foto Wien from March 5 to March 31, 2022. The Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) aims to support U.S. foreign policy goals through civic engagement and...

The Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco received a $100,110 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program to create a seven-month exhibition titled "Xianrui: Cathy Lu" and a community youth engagement program. The exhibition and programming will explore topics relevant to the state of Asian American identity and xenophobia facing the community. The Chinese Culture Center will co-design the programming...

This $300,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) will fund the development and implementation of an interactive, multimedia "Counter-History" exhibit at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York City. The exhibit will elevate the museum's family history approach, make its historical sources more visible, and thematically connect historic and contemporary migration...