The Museum of the City of New York, Inc. received a $497,998 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs federal grant program (CFDA 45.164). The funding will support the development and implementation of four exhibitions focused on the history of New York City, its role in shaping American culture, and planning for the museum's 2023 centennial. Specifically, the grant will allow for three current exhibitions on the history...
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 Museum of the City of New York, Inc. was awarded a $522,110 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 museum's efforts to create educational programs and classroom resources aligned with New York City's "Civics for All" public school initiative. Key activities include: Convening a paid teacher advisory group to work with a curriculum consultant to develop educational...
The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, New York received a $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024). The grant funding will support personnel expenses from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2023 to aid the organization's response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program aims to support...
The Museum Association of New York (Museumwise Museum Association Of NY), a non-profit organization, received a $494,284 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (CFDA 45.164 Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs) to support a series of public programs exploring the role of museums in American democracy. The project, titled "A New Agora for New York: Museums as Spaces for Democracy," included exhibitions, lectures, oral history projects, virtual programs,...
The New York Historical Society will receive $267,269 over three years from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to support its Fellowship Program. Through this Project Grant award, starting in 2023 the Society will provide one fellowship annually through 2026 for promising scholars in American history. Fellows will conduct interdisciplinary research in history, art history, and material culture using the Society's...
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 Boston Children's Museum will receive $220,175 from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to develop the "Our City" exhibition through community outreach and engagement. The Museum seeks to preserve humanities collections and staff by working with community members to identify meaningful objects from existing holdings, record oral histories, and install object vignettes and audio guides. Activities include...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded The Metropolitan Museum of Art a $468,500 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to expand access to materials by historically underrepresented artists at the museum's Thomas J. Watson Library. Over the course of the one-year project period from October 1, 2021 to January 31, 2023, grant funds will support adding at least 600 publications by Indigenous American, Hispanic American, Asian American and...
The Museum of the City of New York, Inc. received a $100,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to support the exhibition "Shirley Chisholm: A Brooklyn Life" in 2024-2025. This exhibition will explore the early life, path-breaking political career, and lasting legacy of Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress and the first woman to run for President on a major party ticket. The...