Project Grant GI28541422
- The Trustees of Walters Art Gallery Inc., operating as the Walters Art Museum, received a $494,629 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301) to develop the exhibition "Ethiopia at the Crossroads." This exhibition will celebrate the artistic traditions of Ethiopia from antiquity to the present, exploring the country's cultural significance and humanistic legacy through new, interactive lenses including...
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art was awarded a $400,000 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs program (CFDA 45.164) to support the traveling exhibition Africa & Byzantium from May 1, 2023 through August 31, 2024. The grant will enable the Museum to organize the exhibition in collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art, challenging common preconceptions about the arts of Africa and Byzantium through educational...
- The Walters Art Museum in Maryland received a $463,376 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs program (CFDA 45.164) to broaden access to humanities for audiences. The funding will support retaining six positions focused on African American and Native American history and launching new initiatives through October 2023. Specifically, the Museum will maintain two positions and hire four additional full-time staff....
- 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 the Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums (Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco) a $100,000 Project Grant on January 1, 2026, under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to develop and present "The Etruscans: From the Heart of Ancient Italy" exhibition. The primary deliverable is a major temporary museum exhibition featuring approximately 200 objects showcasing Etruscan culture and its influence on Western...
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art was awarded a $500,370 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The grant will support the development and launch of a suite of public programs tied to the reopening of the museum's galleries dedicated to the arts of Africa, Ancient Americas, and Oceania. The initiative will activate the collections and ideas explored in the new galleries, create multiple entry points for the...
- 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...
- Grant Award Summary: Black Photojournalism Exhibition Carnegie Institute, doing business as Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, received a $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to develop and execute "Black Photojournalism," a comprehensive traveling museum exhibition. The grant was awarded on September 1, 2025, with a completion date of August 31, 2027. The exhibition will be...
- The American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR) will extend its popular "Museum in a Suitcase" model through pop-up events and non-governmental organization community engagement in Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria. Funded through a $200,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, ASOR aims to increase regional cooperation and further memoranda of understanding for cultural property protection. The award falls under the Cultural...
- 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...
ETHIOPIA AT THE CROSSROADS [THIS PROJECT SUPPORTS "ETHIOPIA AT THE CROSSROADS," A LANDMARK INTERNATIONAL LOAN EXHIBITION THAT CELEBRATES THE ARTISTIC TRADITIONS OF ETHIOPIA FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT. OPENING AT THE WALTERS ART MUSEUM IN FALL 2024, THIS EXHIBITION WILL EXPLORE THE CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE AND HUMANISTIC LEGACY OF ETHIOPIA, FROM THE EARLIEST PREHISTORIC ORIGINS THROUGH TODAY. THIS WILL BE THE FIRST MAJOR ART EXHIBITION IN AMERICA TO EXAMINE ETHIOPIAN ART IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT BY EXAMINING HOW ETHIOPIA EMBODIES THE IDEA OF "CROSSROADS" GEOGRAPHICALLY, HISTORICALLY, AND CULTURALLY. ACCOMPANIED BY INTERPRETIVE EXPERIENCES IN THE GALLERIES, CONTEMPORARY ART INSTALLATIONS, A DYNAMIC SUITE OF PUBLIC PROGRAMS, AND A FIELD-LEADING SCHOLARLY PUBLICATION, "ETHIOPIA AT THE CROSSROADS" WILL ENRICH SCHOLARS AND THE PUBLIC ALIKE WITH A GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF THE COMPLEX EXCHANGE OF VISUAL CULTURE BETWEEN ETHIOPIA AND THE WORLD.]
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| Not listed | $396.0k | 4/13/22 |