Project Grant 19457984126

The American Arts Conservancy Inc. received a $2.1M Project Grant from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs under the Professional and Cultural Exchange Programs - Citizen Exchanges program (CFDA 19.415) to design, implement, and install the official United States exhibition at the 61st Art Biennale in Venice, Italy in 2026. The award, obligated on September 30, 2025, with a completion date of January 1, 2027, encompasses the development and delivery of all...

The New York Historical Society received a $650,000 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 funding supports the ACTS OF FAITH: RELIGION AND THE AMERICAN WEST NATIONAL TRAVELING EXHIBITION from May 1, 2021 through April 30, 2024. The exhibition will explore how religion shaped the exploration and settlement of the American West, highlighting the diversity of spiritual beliefs...

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 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 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 Rubin Museum of Art, a non-profit cultural institution in New York, received a $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) grant program. The funding supports the development and implementation of "Gateway to Himalayan Art," a traveling exhibition that presents the iconography, materials, and artistic and cultural practices of the Himalayan region through a multimedia approach....

The San Diego Museum of Art received a $350,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to implement the "Wonders of Creation: Art, Science, and Innovation in the Islamic World" temporary traveling exhibition. This exhibition will feature over 150 works of Islamic art and material culture, including manuscripts, scientific instruments, and contemporary art, exploring the intersections of art,...

The Rubin Museum of Art was awarded a $1,007,056 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program to develop and present a flexible, modular traveling exhibition on the art, iconography, and cultural practices of the Himalayan region. The museum will partner with five university museums to adapt and install the exhibition, which will feature digital and narrative content to enhance public understanding of Himalayan spiritual ideas like...

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...

The Milwaukee Art Museum will undertake a $830,830 project grant awarded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301) to digitally image 3,000 works from its permanent collection for online access. Prioritizing artwork by artists of color, women, and those conveying narratives of marginalized communities, the Museum will make these collection images available on its website by August 2024. This initiative aims to inform the...