The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $175,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to the University of New Mexico (UNM) College of Fine Arts. The grant will fund a new two-week institute designed for 25 K-12 educators, including classroom teachers, arts educators, museum educators, librarians, and curriculum support staff. The institute, titled "Reimagining the U.S./Mexican Border through Multimodal Storytelling," will engage participants in multimodal inquiry by working with contemporary border artists and cultural workers to explore sound, visual, and embodied modalities related to children's literature and promoting empathetic discourse about the U.S.-Mexico border. The award period runs from Oct 1, 2024 to Dec 31, 2025.
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