Project Grant 19345434425

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) awarded a $120,000 Project Grant to the Queens Museum of Art to support an exhibition and commission by artist Xaviera Simmons under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024). The Queens Museum of Art will curate a solo exhibition of Simmons' work and commission a new piece from January 1, 2022 through April 30, 2023. The NEA's Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program aims to...

The Museum of Art and Design at Miami Dade College received a $500,040 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (MFA) program. The funding will support the creation of exhibitions focused on the history, use, and cultural significance of the Freedom Tower, a National Historic Landmark. Key project activities include content development, curation of exhibitions, an orientation film, and guided interpretive tours in English and...

This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) provides $600,000 to support the production of a feature documentary film titled "DIEGO & FRIDA IN DETROIT". The film will explore the life and art of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo during their time in 1930s Detroit, and the lasting impact they had on the city's cultural identity and political history. The project will be carried out by Women Make...

The Columbia Museum of Art received a $200,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to mount a traveling exhibition on contemporary African American art and implement supporting public programs from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022. The museum will install the "30 Americans" exhibition drawn from the Rubell Family Collection, featuring 57 works by 30 artists. Interpretive and educational...

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 Fashion Institute of Technology received a $182,444 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to deliver a series of one-week residential workshops exploring Italian American public art in New York City. The "Creative Spaces/Contested Spaces" project will strengthen place-based humanities teaching and learning by examining how monuments, landmarks, and public artworks are...

This $300,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) 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 and make the sources behind its historical narratives more visible, while thematically connecting historic and contemporary...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $290,750 Project Grant to Para La Naturaleza, Inc. under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to support the exhibition "Flora Borinqueniana: Three Centuries of Botanical Illustrations" from May 1, 2021 to December 31, 2023. The exhibition will fuse art, history, science, politics, education and culture to explore how the story of acquiring knowledge about Puerto Rico's natural surroundings informs the...

The Tampa Museum of Art was awarded a $207,376 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The grant will enable the museum to partner with King's Kids Christian Academy, a needs-based private school, to expand the museum's art therapy-informed program, Art Space, to three new campuses. Project activities include developing art therapy-informed lesson plans and piloting, evaluating, and refining the school and museum visits. The...

The Visual Arts Center of New Jersey will partner with the Elizabeth Public School system and Cultures and Literacies through Art for the 21st Century to expand the CALTA21 curriculum for 9th and 10th grade bilingual social studies classrooms. Funded by a $101,881 project grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program, the partners will identify themes of Latinx contributions to American and world history to incorporate into the curriculum. They will...