Project Grant 19259457824

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 National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to Clockshop, a minority-owned and woman-owned non-profit organization, to support community engagement activities and cultural asset mapping along the Los Angeles River. The purpose is to influence the design and engineering of future park land development. This grant is funded through the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024), which aims to support public participation in the...

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 National Endowment for the Arts has awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to Artsconnect, Inc. to support the commissioning and exhibition of public art commemorating the 70th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) Supreme Court decision. The grant is funded through the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024), which supports opportunities for public participation in the arts and arts education. The project will be led...

The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts received a $792,642 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America program, effective September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2025. The grant will enable the organization to implement and evaluate a project designed to engage the local community in activating prominent public spaces with art at six sites in and around its San Francisco campus. The project will involve a curatorial council of community members...

This federal Project Grant award of $475,650 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program supports Clockshop, a minority-owned and woman-owned non-profit arts organization in Los Angeles, to conduct a cultural asset mapping process. Through this project, Clockshop will engage the diverse local communities near a planned 18-acre state park to document their cultural practices, personal histories, and lived experiences through oral histories,...

This $125,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024) will support public art installations and related community engagement events in the Norris Square neighborhood of Philadelphia. The funding will enable the awardee, Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates, to create public artworks that transform the local community, unite artists and residents, and promote individual and social...

This Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (MFA) program supports the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in expanding its arts-based educational programming and community partnerships in the Philadelphia neighborhoods of Kensington and Feltonville. The $797,000 award will enable PAFA to hire two part-time art educators, add a fourth partner school, and continue providing year-round bilingual services such as student...

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $125,000 Project Grant to Asian Arts Initiative to support an arts and landscape design installation in Philadelphia's Chinatown North/Callowhill neighborhood. The grant was awarded on July 1, 2022 under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024) and will support the installation through June 30, 2024. The Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program aims to support opportunities...

The Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates received a $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024) to support personnel, facilities, and safety supplies expenses from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2023 in response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program aims to support opportunities for all people to...