Project Grant 19305134424

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 Rubin Museum of Art, a non-profit cultural institution in New York, received a $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) grant program. The funding supports the development and implementation of "Gateway to Himalayan Art," a traveling exhibition that presents the iconography, materials, and artistic and cultural practices of the Himalayan region through a multimedia approach....

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 Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a $126,576 Project Grant under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program to the University of Rochester's Memorial Art Gallery. The grant will fund the conservation treatment of 29 South Asian miniature paintings and drawings dating from the 16th to 19th centuries, which are currently inaccessible to visitors and researchers due to their poor condition. A professional conservator will document the treatment process through...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a $601,249 Project Grant under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program to The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. The grant will support the development of an exhibition celebrating and centering North American Indigenous picture book artists and documenting their contributions to children's literature. The project includes research to develop a full chronology of Indigenous artists, outreach and relationship building with an...

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 Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs awarded $319,000 to Kunstmeile Krems Betriebs GMBH, operating as Karikaturmuseum Krems, to support the exhibition "Helen Frankenthaler. Painterly Constellations" from April 23 through October 30, 2022. This Project Grant funding will support the exhibition under the agency's Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) to inform and influence foreign publics and strengthen cultural relationships. The completion date for the...

The Rubin Museum of Art was awarded a $1,007,056 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program to develop and present a flexible, modular traveling exhibition on the art, iconography, and cultural practices of the Himalayan region. The museum will partner with five university museums to adapt and install the exhibition, which will feature digital and narrative content to enhance public understanding of Himalayan spiritual ideas like...

The Milwaukee Art Museum will undertake a $830,830 project grant awarded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301) to digitally image 3,000 works from its permanent collection for online access. Prioritizing artwork by artists of color, women, and those conveying narratives of marginalized communities, the Museum will make these collection images available on its website by August 2024. This initiative aims to inform the...

The Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College will improve access to its permanent collection of approximately 8,500 objects through a $508,015 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' (IMLS) Museums for America program. Under the award, the museum will update collection records by incorporating additional photography, bibliography, exhibition history, provenance, and conservation information. This added content will enhance discoverability through keywords and linked...