Project Grant 19443624426

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 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 High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia will receive $534,156 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program to support their Creative Aging and Lifelong Learning Initiative from September 2021 through August 2023. Under this Project Grant award, the High Museum will build foundational support for new programs aimed at enhancing the aging experience for older residents in the Atlanta metro area through creativity, social connection, and lifelong learning...

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 American Folk Art Museum was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The grant will support the development and enhancement of ongoing virtual programming and the hiring of a new Community Engagement Educator position to better serve local communities. Specifically, the Museum will continue and expand virtual offerings such as...

The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Inc., a nonprofit organization, was awarded a $1,204,832 Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The 3-year grant, beginning on September 1, 2023, will enable the organization to expand its existing summer visual arts and creative writing program to serve an additional 270 participants, reaching wider audiences by reducing barriers to participation. Key activities to be supported include...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $700,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to Craft In America, Inc., a non-profit organization based in Los Angeles, California. The grant will fund a national collaboration, "HANDWORK: CELEBRATING AMERICAN CRAFT 2026", to showcase the diversity of American craft traditions through a four-part public television series. This initiative aims to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the...

This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) provides $1,400,000 to Mid-America Arts Alliance to support implementation of the Creative Forces Subgranting Program under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals (CFDA 45.024) federal grant program. The funding period is from July 1, 2021 to September 30, 2024. Through 12 sub-awards, Mid-America Arts Alliance will support various community arts programs across multiple states that promote the...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, under the Professional and Cultural Exchange Programs - Citizen Exchanges (CFDA 19.415) federal grant program, provides $2,101,165.00 to fund the design, implementation, installation, and related educational programming for the official U.S. exhibition at the 61st Art Biennale in Venice, Italy in 2026. The award incorporates a new artist, Alma Allen, into the exhibition. The project has a...

The Museum of the American Revolution received a $192,836 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) federal grant program. The grant will support the development and implementation of a traveling exhibition titled "Liberty: Don Troiani's Paintings of the Revolutionary War." The exhibition will bring together nearly 40 of artist Don Troiani's original Revolutionary War paintings paired with...