Project Grant 19305714424

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 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 federal Project Grant award of $749,117.00 from the Department of the Interior National Park Service under the Pacific Northwest and Hawaiian Islands Arts program (CFDA 15.071) will support the "Outer Coast Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Being Curriculum" project. The award, effective March 7, 2025 through December 23, 2026, will enable the non-profit organization Outer Coast to establish degree programs, cultural centers, and initiatives that enhance Alaska Native artistic...

The Clyfford Still Museum received a $657,651 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (MFA) program (CFDA 45.301) to expand access to its Art Crawl program for infants and their caregivers. The project will partner with community-based organizations to provide museum-based sessions and programming at community-based early learning centers, targeting audiences traditionally excluded from arts-based education. Key activities include...

The Portland Art Museum was awarded a $609,441 federal Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The grant will support the creation of a retrospective exhibition on the life and work of modernist painter and printmaker Yoshida Chizuko (1924-2017). The exhibition will feature Chizuko's early paintings and sketches, rare monotypes, woodblock prints, and mixed media prints, as well as archival materials such as...

The Chickasaw Nation Department of Tourism received a $124,122 project grant from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs under the Indian Economic Development program (CFDA 15.032) to relocate and expand Exhibit C Gallery from March 2023 to March 2024. Exhibit C Gallery, operated by the Chickasaw Nation Department of Commerce, will relocate from a 3,500 square foot space in Bricktown, Oklahoma City to a new 10,000 square foot gallery adjacent to the First Americans Museum and...

This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program, totaling $307,827, will support the University of Montana in developing indigenized collections handling, decision-making, and educational programs focused on determining cultural affiliation for objects with unclear records in its anthropological collections. Specifically, the University will hire two postdoctoral fellows, a graduate research assistant, and...

The Sealaska Heritage Institute Inc. will receive $1.25 million under a four-year Project Grant award from the Department of the Interior National Park Service Alaska Region. The funding supports the Pacific Northwest and Hawaiian Islands Arts federal grant program (CFDA 15.071). Through 2027, Sealaska will operate its arts campus facilities and provide outreach, workshops, artist residencies, and internships. It will partner with the Institute of American Indian Arts and University of Alaska...

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 National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the Museum of New Mexico Foundation a $172,564 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to develop an exhibition and related public programming exploring Indigenous voting rights in New Mexico. Through contracted employees, the Foundation will complete exhibition research, including archival investigation and oral histories; create exhibition text and checklists; and conceive educational outreach. By the...