Project Grant GE29076023
- The J.B. Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky was awarded a $802,520 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The grant will support the final phase of the museum's "Louisville's Black Avant-Garde" exhibition series, which addresses inequality in the appreciation of Black artists and their works. Key activities include planning and finalizing two single-artist exhibitions and a major group exhibition,...
- The Frazier History Museum in Louisville, Kentucky received a $170,464 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to plan and develop the new permanent exhibition "Voices Uncovered: The History of the Commonwealth." Funded through the NEH's Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs program, the exhibition will tell the stories of lesser-known figures in Kentucky's history from diverse backgrounds. It will feature narratives that are often excluded from...
- The Kentucky Science Center was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs grant program (CFDA 45.164) to develop the "Uniquely Human" museum exhibition from October 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022. The grant will support an exhibition design firm to take the exhibition concept from its existing framework through final design, including planning and fabrication support for a prototype. It will also fund...
- 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...
- This $195,374 National Endowment for the Humanities project grant supports the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts to retain five staff members engaged in collections stewardship and inaugural exhibition planning activities. Funded through the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program, the one-year award enables the museum to employ a preparator, two assistant registrars, an associate curator and an exhibition designer. These staff will oversee the conservation of the...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $862,168 to the Kentucky Humanities Council, Inc. dba Kentucky Humanities through the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129) for the period of June 15, 2021 through April 30, 2023. The funding will support the Kentucky Humanities Council's local, statewide, and regional public humanities programming. As the state humanities council for Kentucky, the organization will utilize the funds to promote public...
- The Kentucky Humanities Council, Inc., doing business as Kentucky Humanities, was awarded a $3,275,517 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129). The five-year award beginning November 1, 2018 supports local, statewide, and regional public humanities programming through October 31, 2023. The Federal/State Partnership program provides annual grants to humanities councils in each state and...
- The University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. was awarded a $400,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to revise galleries in the Spencer Museum of Art's collection from May 2021 through April 2025. The grant will support reimagining the Spencer Museum's collection galleries to provide opportunities for the public to explore human history and culture through its exhibitions and programs, in line...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to the University of Illinois under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs federal grant program (CFDA 45.164) to implement the reinstallation of its internationally renowned collection of ancient and colonial Andean art at the Krannert Art Museum. The grant period runs from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024 and will support reorganizing and rehousing the collection, developing new interpretive materials,...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $188,125 to the Kentucky Humanities Council, Inc. dba Kentucky Humanities through the Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants program (CFDA 45.130) from May 2017 through September 2020. The funding supported the Prime Time Family Reading Time Kentucky Expansion into Public Schools project to strengthen Kentucky Humanities' institutional capacity and work in the humanities. As part of the project, Kentucky Humanities expanded its Prime Time...
RE-IMAGINING THE ART OF KENTUCKY [THE SPEED ART MUSEUM WILL DEVELOP AND PLAN A MULTIDISCIPLINARY RE-IMAGINING AND REINSTALLATION OF THE MUSEUM?S KENTUCKY GALLERY, A SPACE DEVOTED TO SHARING AND INTERPRETING KENTUCKY-MADE AND KENTUCKY-ASSOCIATED WORKS OF ART. THE NEW INSTALLATION WILL BE A PERMANENT, COMPREHENSIVE EXHIBITION IN THE KENTUCKY GALLERY THAT WILL PLACE OBJECTS WITHIN HUMANITIES-BASED CONTEXTS, COMBINING WORKS FROM THE SPEED?S COLLECTION, WORKS BORROWED FROM OTHER INSTITUTIONS AND INDIVIDUALS, AND WORKS BY CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS. FUNDS FROM A PLANNING GRANT WILL MOVE THE PROJECT FORWARD BY INVOLVING AN ADVISORY PANEL OF FIVE HUMANITIES SCHOLARS IN PLANNING AROUND THE PROJECT?S HUMANITIES THEMES, GENERATING A COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION OF THE CURRENT AND PLANNED STATE OF THE KENTUCKY GALLERY, AND CREATING DESIGN STANDARDS AND STRATEGIES.]
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $40.0k | 5/31/23 |