This Project Grant award, provided by the Department of the Interior's National Park Service under the Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program (CFDA 15.904), is supporting the Louis Armstrong House Museum to rehabilitate the historic Louis Armstrong House in Corona, Queens, NY. The $800,000 grant, with a performance period from June 1, 2024 to May 31, 2027, will fund architectural services, historic structure reports, preservation plans, and physical preservation of the historic...
This $500,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Park Service under the Historic Preservation Fund Grants-in-Aid for Competitive Grants program (CFDA 15.966) will support the Louis Armstrong House Museum, a nonprofit organization in Corona, Queens, NY, in conducting repairs to the floors, walls, ceiling, wallpaper, and cabinets of the historic Louis Armstrong House. The grant award, which has a performance period from December 1, 2024, to September 30, 2028, is part of the congressionally...
The Louis Armstrong House Museum received a $100,000 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture (AAHC) program (CFDA 45.309). The funding will support the museum's efforts to solicit and record oral histories from the local community about the life, work, and community impact of jazz legend Louis Armstrong and his wife Lucille. The museum staff will conduct one-on-one and group interviews, catalog the...
The Louis Armstrong House Museum in New York was awarded a $100,000 Digital Projects for the Public grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (CFDA 45.164) to support the prototyping phase of its "From Jazz to Hip-Hop in Queens" project. This project aims to increase awareness about the influential role that the jazz community in Queens had on the rise of hip-hop music. Building upon an earlier discovery phase, the prototyping phase will focus on developing primary,...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to the Louis Armstrong House Museum in New York. The grant will fund "The Bridge - Mapping Jazz and Hip-Hop in Queens", an interactive website that explores the interconnected histories and evolutions of jazz and hip-hop in the borough of Queens. The project will document and interpret how the diverse communities and character of Queens played a...
The Bronx Museum of Arts will receive $799,458 under a two-year Museums for America Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to enhance community engagement programs promoting equity and social justice through the arts. Key initiatives include deepening partnerships and improving access to public programs, commissions and residencies for local artists, and digitally accessible learning materials. Free professional development seminars and a residency program will allow...
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 King Manor Museum was awarded a $120,000 Project Grant by 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 series of three exhibitions exploring local and national history, as well as the abolition of slavery in New York. The exhibitions will focus on the history and legacy of antislavery activism from 1805 through the end of the Civil War, the history of Jamaica, Queens, and the American...
The Queens Public Library was awarded a $433,760 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture program. Through this funding, the Queens Library will partner with other organizations to celebrate and document 50 years of hip hop's influence on American culture. Key deliverables include coordinating in-person and streaming educational hip hop programming nationwide from its Langston Hughes Community Library and...
The Queens Museum of Art received a $150,000 project grant award from the National Endowment for the 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) to support opportunities for all people to participate in the arts and arts education, integrate the arts with strategies that promote well-being and resilience, and build capacity and...