Project Grant GA30526824

The Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS) was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program (CFDA 45.149). The grant will fund oral history collection efforts focused on Yemeni seafarers, women in the automotive industry, and entrepreneurs to expand the Arab American National Museum's collections. Specifically, the funding will support the...

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 University of Michigan Museum of Art was awarded a $500,069 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) federal grant program. The grant will fund the development and implementation of programming to educate young voters, engage them in dialogue across differing ideologies, and increase civic understanding and participation. The museum will partner with the City of Ann Arbor, the University of Michigan Creative Campus...

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 Motown Historical Museum in Detroit, Michigan will receive $493,770 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture program to implement a general collection preservation and reorganization project. As part of the project, the museum will hire curatorial and archival staff to inventory, rehouse, and improve storage conditions for over 20,000 artifacts currently on exhibit or in storage, including musical instruments,...

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to the Arab Community Center For Economic And Social Services (ACCESS) through the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024). The grant will support personnel, facilities, safety supplies, and marketing expenses from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022 to aid ACCESS' response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals...

The National Museum of Mexican Art will partner with four organizations that make up the Mexican Cultural Arts Alliance to deliver leadership development and arts programming to strengthen cultural identity in Mexican communities across four Midwestern cities. Funded by a $413,269 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America program, the National Museum of Mexican Art and its partners will grow the capacity of local arts organizations in...

The Detroit Institute of Arts received a $100,400 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the National Leadership Grants program (CFDA 45.312) to develop virtual and in-person educational resources for students and teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The museum will create online video content and virtual field trips to allow for interaction with its collection from remote locations. It will also distribute educational kits to individual schools and homes...

The Asian Arts Initiative received a $112,300 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services on November 1, 2021 to support collaborative visual art exhibitions and pop-up projects with Indigenous Arts and Culture organizations through October 31, 2022. Funded activities include producing exhibitions and pop-up projects showcasing Indigenous and Asian American artists in Philadelphia's Chinatown North/Callowhill neighborhood. The grant also supports at least one Indigenous...

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...