Project Grant GA27586220

The Phillips Collection received a $197,845 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs grant program (CFDA 45.164) to support exhibitions and public programs celebrating its centennial. The grant will fund an interdepartmental team to fabricate and install two exhibitions featuring renowned American artists David Driskell and Alma Thomas from October 2021 through January 2022. The team will also plan and implement...

The Philadelphia Museum of Art received a $400,000 implementation grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to support the development of the "Mary Cassatt at Work" exhibition. The exhibition, co-curated by Dr. Jennifer Thompson and Dr. Laurel Garber, will examine Cassatt's depictions of women's activity and feminine labor in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The project is anticipated to feature...

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 Philadelphia Museum of Art received a $500,466 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The grant will support an ongoing effort to catalogue, photograph, digitize, research, and rehouse 7,832 small- to mid-sized drawings from the museum's Prints, Drawings, and Photography Department. The project will add provenance research, description, and publication and exhibition histories for select works, and make the...

The International Center of Photography in New York City was awarded a $215,784 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' National Leadership Grants program to reinstate and expand its library-based public programs. Under the one-year award running from November 2021 through October 2022, the Center will deliver both in-person and virtual public programs focused on photography at its William Randolph Hearst Library location. Programming will include book events, film...

The New Orleans Museum of Art will use a $100,000 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' National Leadership Grants program to hire a Digital Assets Manager. With a completion date of October 31, 2022, the award will support efforts to expand public access to the museum's permanent collection through digital tools and resources. The Digital Assets Manager will resolve the museum's backlog of pre-pandemic digital processing work and substantially increase the...

The Museum of Contemporary Photography received a $519,181 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program to digitize and catalog approximately 6,000 artworks from its permanent collection. The grant will support hiring and training two curatorial assistants who will research and update artist biographies and catalog content based on surveys with artists, their agents, and families. This project will result in increased public...

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...

The Museum of the City of New York, Inc. received a $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) program. The grant will support the development of the exhibition "THE NEW YORK CENTURY: 100 YEARS OF IMAGINING THE CITY, 1923-2023" exploring how arts, media, and culture have portrayed New York City over the past century. Opening in 2023, the exhibition will invite visitors to consider how...

The Portland Art Museum will receive $638,046 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301) to mount a retrospective exhibition of works by mid-century modernist Oscar Howe and a concurrent site-specific installation by artist Jeffrey Gibson. The Museum will collaborate with Many Nations Academy teachers and students to develop student-led tours of the exhibition and will partner with the Native American Youth and Family...