The Canton Museum of Art in Canton, Ohio will continue and expand its Museum to Go program, which provides virtual visual arts education to fourth and sixth grade students. Funded by a $110,524 project grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the program aims to improve academic achievement and wellbeing through arts immersion. Each lesson includes a 360-degree virtual tour of a current exhibit, aligned activities on key artworks, and hands-on art making. The program...
The Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati, Ohio will receive $343,540 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301) to fully digitize and make accessible its permanent collections online from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2025. Museum staff will work with a contracted photographer and art handlers to photograph 558 objects and update records for 790 objects in its collections of European and American paintings and sculpture,...
The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft (Kmac Museum) received a $110,000 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the National Leadership Grants program. The one-year award will support the creation or reinstatement of four revenue-generating positions in marketing and communications, education, special events, and visitor services. These new staff will implement expanded marketing strategies, additional educational opportunities and programs, special events and...
The American Folk Art Museum in Long Island City, New York will receive $121,461 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the National Leadership Grants program (CFDA 45.312) to upgrade its software and digitize archival materials from November 1, 2021 to October 31, 2022. The museum will implement new software to allow additional media types like audio and visual files to be added to its website for the first time. This will include digitizing archival photos, letters,...
The Mass Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA) received a $163,849 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the National Leadership Grants program. Mass MoCA will expand its free online hub for educational and multidisciplinary virtual programming, leveraging newly created digital resources to foster audience engagement, learning, and conversation within broader social networks. This directly pivots from the museum's annual admission-free community day, which...
The Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio will receive $312,474 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301) to create a new Young Adult Creativity Center. The Center will host over 200 annual events and engage more than 6,000 young adults ages 13 to 21 from the greater Cincinnati region in career-building and professional development activities in the creative industries. Two new career-focused programs, Teen...
The Museum of Science, Boston, in partnership with a coalition of museums and media producers, received a $558,512 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the National Leadership Grants (CFDA 45.312) program. The two-year project, running from September 2023 to August 2025, aims to build the foundation for museums of any size to address current topics of relevance through immersive digital experiences. Key activities include identifying best practices,...
The Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, OH was awarded a $499,395 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The grant will support six mutually reinforcing and free out-of-school learning opportunities for over 5,000 young adults in the Cincinnati region to help offset learning loss resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. The center will build on and expand five successful young adult programs:...
The Cleveland Museum of Art received a $630,592 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301) to create and share 600 3D photogrammetry images of works from its 63,000-object permanent collection. The museum will engage a contractor to photograph the objects and produce the 3D models, which will be made accessible on the museum's website and through host repositories. This initiative will advance the museum's open access...
The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis will receive $301,431 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301) to conduct audience engagement research and evaluation from September 2022 to August 2024. The museum will work with three consultants to gather input from internal and external stakeholders through focus groups and surveys to identify strengths, weaknesses, and gaps in current audience engagement efforts. Based on research findings,...