The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to the Portland Art Museum's Center For An Untold Tomorrow to support facilities expenses in response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The grant was awarded under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024), which supports opportunities for all people to participate in the arts and arts education, integrates the arts with strategies that promote well-being and...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $187,487 under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) federal grant program to The High Desert Museum in Oregon for the project period of January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2023.
The award will support archival work and public programming focused on the history and culture of Central Oregon's Plateau tribes. Key products and services include revising databases and catalogs to transform how the museum structures and...
The Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs awarded the Portland Art Museum a $4,917,308.34 Project Grant under the Professional and Cultural Exchange Programs - Citizen Exchanges (CFDA 19.415) program. The grant funding will support the museum's presentation of the exhibition "The Space in Which to Place Me" featuring artist Jeffrey Gibson at the 60th International Art Exhibition in Venice, Italy from July 2023 to November 2024. The Portland Art Museum has...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $250,000 Project Grant to the Beaverton Arts Foundation, Inc. under the Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants program (CFDA 45.130) to activate the Patricia Reser Center for the Arts as a space for fostering the humanities. Funding will support implementation of required audio/visual and related technological equipment to activate the new facility, which will include a 550-seat multipurpose theater, classrooms, meeting and conference...
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...
The High Desert Museum received a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to create a new permanent exhibition on the Indigenous Plateau. The grant will fund the $400,000 reinstallation of the Museum's 4,500 square foot permanent exhibition and a $100,000 two-year position in the humanities. The exhibition will highlight Plateau philosophy, lifeways, cultures, histories, and knowledge through...
The Toledo Museum of Art received a $464,506 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs grant program (CFDA 45.164) to reimagine the museum's American art collection and implement a temporary exhibition. Key activities included expanding the museum's interpretation of American art to highlight Native American, African American, and Spanish colonial artists, and integrating works from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation...
The Portland Art Museum received a $548,439 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The grant will support the museum's efforts to reimagine its permanent collection galleries and build staff capacity in community- and artist-centered programming. Specifically, the funding will be used to facilitate strategic discussions between staff and consultants, hire a project coordinator, host listening sessions with community...
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 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $500,000 Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grant to Literary Arts Inc., doing business as Portland Arts & Lectures, to renovate their new building located at 716 SE Grand in Portland, Oregon. The renovations will create additional classroom, event, community, and staff workspace, allowing Literary Arts to expand its literary and humanities programming. Planned improvements include a new bookstore, coffee bar, multi-purpose area...