The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $399,960 Project Grant under the CFDA 45.164 Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Inc. for the "Knowing the West" traveling exhibition. This exhibition will feature 130 artworks from the 19th to early 20th century by both Native and non-Native artists, including textiles, baskets, paintings, pottery, sculpture, beadwork, saddles, and prints. The goal is to present a more...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) provides $219,407 to the University of Oklahoma to host a four-week summer institute called "The Visual West" in 2025. The institute will reexamine the visual imagery and material culture that shaped ideas about the American West since the 19th century, with a focus on complexities of indigeneity, race, gender, sexuality, and...
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts received a $325,061 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs federal grant program (CFDA 45.164) to support the development of an exhibition and publication on Native American photography. Key activities to be performed under the award include curatorial research, advisory consultation, object loan contracting, interpretive plan development, community engagement, formative...
The National Hispanic Cultural Center Foundation, University of Minnesota, and University of Texas Rio Grande Valley will collaborate on a three-year, $700,000 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize and provide open access to Mexican American art and archival materials. Funded under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program, which supports preserving and providing intellectual access to humanities resources, approximately...
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, in partnership with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition, will produce the temporary exhibition "Bears Ears: Living Land" through a $100,000 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' National Leadership Grants program. The exhibition, co-curated by representatives from the Navajo Nation, Hopi Tribe, Pueblo of Zuni, Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation,...
The Museum of Art and History at the McPherson Center will produce an exhibit and related programming focusing on Indigenous perspectives on socio-ecological challenges. Funded September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024 by a $390,539 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program, the exhibit and two phases of collaborator-driven programming will seek to create space for ongoing conversations around community and creative ecologies. Working with the...
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...
This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161), provides $100,000 to fund an international conference on Indigenous borderlands in North America and the preparation of a published volume of essays. The University of New Mexico will host the conference from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2023, bringing together historians and scholars from other disciplines with Indigenous community representatives....
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a $601,249 Project Grant under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program to The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. The grant will support the development of an exhibition celebrating and centering North American Indigenous picture book artists and documenting their contributions to children's literature. The project includes research to develop a full chronology of Indigenous artists, outreach and relationship building with an...
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...