The Pierpont Morgan Library received a $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) federal grant program. The award period is from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2023 to support the "HOLBEIN: CAPTURING CHARACTER" program. The Morgan Library will use the funding to provide opportunities for the American public to explore human history and culture through its "HOLBEIN: CAPTURING...
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 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $294,750 Project Grant to the New York Public Library (NYPL) to support the Scholars-in-Residence program at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, New York. The grant, part of the NEH's Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161), will fund stipends and selection expenses for fellows to conduct long-term research utilizing the Schomburg Center's extensive 11 million item collection, which includes...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $500,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants program (CFDA 45.130) to the Grand Rapids Public Museum. The grant will support the renovation of a portion of the museum's Community Archives and Research Center facility into a new public space. This will include the creation of two flexible artifact labs to be used by K-12 students for hands-on learning with objects, as well as by college students,...
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 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 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $493,865 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History (CMNH) to implement its upcoming permanent exhibition, "Egypt on the Nile." The grant will fund a two-year public humanities position and support the development of this immersive exhibition that will interpret the natural and human history of ancient Egyptian society by displaying genuine...
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 New York Public Library was awarded a $286,143 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program. The grant will support the Scholars-in-Residence program at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture located in Harlem, New York through June 2025. Fellows will conduct humanities research using the Center's extensive collection of over 11 million rare and unique items chronicling the Black experience in America and...
The Museum of the City of New York, Inc. received a $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) program. The grant will support the development of the exhibition "THE NEW YORK CENTURY: 100 YEARS OF IMAGINING THE CITY, 1923-2023" exploring how arts, media, and culture have portrayed New York City over the past century. Opening in 2023, the exhibition will invite visitors to consider how...