Project Grant 19454714426

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 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 Hispanic Society of America will receive $576,335 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301) to improve long-term care and conservation of its textile collection from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. A conservation research fellow and adjunct textile conservator will photograph and rehouse textiles with archival materials, update collection database records with assistance from two paid interns, generate...

The Briscoe Western Art Museum received a $511,355 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 development and production of an exhibition titled "Tejano Legacy: Another American Origin Story" to open in July 2026 for the country's Semiquincentennial. The exhibition will follow the history of Tejanos through centuries of political and social shifts within America's southern...

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 Department of State Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs awarded a $230,000 Project Grant to Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees to display a free exhibition titled "USA Hall of Heroes" at the Whirinake Whare Taonga Museum in New Zealand. The exhibition aims to encourage exploration, diversity, and confidence in youth through shared values between the United States and New Zealand. Funded under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) to support the achievement of U.S. foreign...

The federal Project Grant award, provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the American Latino Museum Internship and Fellowship Initiative (CFDA 45.031), will support an undergraduate internship program implemented through a partnership between the Arte Americas: The Mexican Art Center, the State Center Community College District, the University of California Merced, and California State University Fresno. The $555,195 award, with a performance period from August 1,...

This $498,763 federal Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program will enable City Lore Inc., a New York-based non-profit cultural organization, to create exhibitions and programming focused on immigrant communities. The exhibitions will explore topics such as women in blues, Cuban music, J'Ouvert festival traditions, and LGBTQ+ house ballroom culture, and will be held in locations across New York,...

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 Museo De Las Americas, Inc. received a $118,795 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) federal grant program. The grant will enable the museum to enhance its creative workshop programming through curriculum evaluation, co-creation with staff and participants, and professional development. Specifically, the museum will contract with an educational consulting firm to assess the current workshop curriculum,...