Project Grant 19334534425

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...

This $195,374 National Endowment for the Humanities project grant supports the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts to retain five staff members engaged in collections stewardship and inaugural exhibition planning activities. Funded through the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program, the one-year award enables the museum to employ a preparator, two assistant registrars, an associate curator and an exhibition designer. These staff will oversee the conservation of the...

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to the Honolulu Museum of Art, doing business as the Honolulu Academy of Arts, to support personnel expenses in response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The grant was awarded under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024) and will support the delivery of products and services from April 1, 2022 through December 31, 2023. The Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations...

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Inc. 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). The funding will support personnel 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 public participation in the...

This federal Project Grant award of $300,000 was provided by the Department of the Interior's National Park Service Intermountain Region under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites program (CFDA 15.933). The funding will support Visual Communications Media, a non-profit media arts organization, to produce a 30-minute narrative film called "The Camera" that explores the intergenerational trauma and ongoing impacts of the Japanese American incarceration during World War...

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...

This $180,567 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) will enable the Japanese American National Museum to host a program that invites educators from across the country to Los Angeles to examine the history and ongoing impacts on the Little Tokyo neighborhood. The project will study how events and issues like restrictive covenants, World War II incarceration, eminent domain,...

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 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 Japanese American Cultural And Community Center (JACCC) received a $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024). The grant funding will support JACCC's personnel, facilities, and safety supplies expenses from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022 in response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The NEA's Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and...