The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) received a $349,813 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The 36-month grant, awarded on June 1, 2024, will support the cataloging, photography, housing, and public access expansion for the museum's recently acquired Raysor Collection of 7,655 works on paper. This project will ensure the preservation and care of these important collections,...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to The Baltimore Museum of Art, Inc. under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs program (CFDA 45.164) to support the temporary exhibition "Renaissance Woman." Scheduled from October 1, 2023 to January 7, 2024, the exhibition will bring together approximately 150 art objects exclusively made by women artists from collections across North America and Europe. Curated by Dr. Andaleeb Bantam, the...
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) received a $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop an interactive digital exhibition guide. The guide will accompany LACMA's upcoming temporary exhibition "The World Made Wondrous: The Dutch Collector's Cabinet and the Politics of Possession" scheduled for June 2023 to January 2024. It will invite visitors to reconsider how and why museums collect objects through multiple voices and...
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 Jewish Museum in New York, New York received a $100,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs federal grant program (CFDA 45.164) to present the temporary exhibition "Revisiting New York: 1962-64" from July 22, 2022 to January 8, 2023. The exhibition will provide a comprehensive overview of the radical shift that occurred in American art, history, and global culture from 1962 to 1964 through critically...
The Virginia Museum of History & Culture (VMHC) received a $170,670 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163). The grant will fund workshops for K-12 educators from across the country to learn about Virginia's pivotal role in the American Revolution. Educators will visit historical sites and landmarks, discuss teaching strategies, and analyze primary source documents from VMHC's...
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 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) received a $392,230 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301) to complete the digitization, preservation, and dissemination of its entire photography collection. This includes the newly acquired collection of 4,062 photographs by American photographer Aaron Siskind. VMFA will create verbal descriptions for 1,000 images to enhance accessibility for visually impaired...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $269,788 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to The Library of Virginia Foundation. The grant will support the fabrication of the "House to Highway: Reclaiming the Hidden History of Jackson Ward" exhibition, which will be displayed at The Library in 2025 and the JXN Project's Skipwith-Roper Complex in Jackson Ward in 2026. The project also includes a pull-up banner exhibition that...
The Museum of the American Revolution received a $192,836 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) federal grant program. The grant will support the development and implementation of a traveling exhibition titled "Liberty: Don Troiani's Paintings of the Revolutionary War." The exhibition will bring together nearly 40 of artist Don Troiani's original Revolutionary War paintings paired with...