Project Grant GI30465125
- The Center received a $162,500 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs grant program (CFDA 45.164). The award will support the project "THE DEMOCRATIC LENS: PHOTOGRAPHY AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT" from September 1, 2021 through April 30, 2024. Under this award, the Center will use photography and civic engagement programs to explore human history and culture. Specifically, the Center will provide public programs...
- This $500,000 National Endowment for the Humanities project grant funds the creation of a new digital imaging studio and staff positions at the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The studio and staff will expand the Library's digitized collections of African American, African, and African Diasporic materials. Specifically, the grant supports the establishment of a satellite digital imaging unit and the hiring of two full-time positions to increase the...
- The Carnegie Hall Corporation received a $400,000 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 will support the production of a timeline exhibition and public programs on the history of African American music from March 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022. The Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs grant program aims to provide opportunities for the American public to...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $149,934 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169) to Northeastern University. The grant will support the development of machine learning tools and cataloging workflows to provide access to Northeastern's large collection of over 1 million photographic prints from the Boston Globe photo morgue. The project aims to create open-source software and processes that can be leveraged by...
- The Minneapolis Institute of Arts received a $325,061 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs federal grant program (CFDA 45.164) to support the development of an exhibition and publication on Native American photography. Key activities to be performed under the award include curatorial research, advisory consultation, object loan contracting, interpretive plan development, community engagement, formative...
- 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 $400,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to The Catticus Corporation, a woman-owned non-profit organization, to produce, test, assess, and host an educational interactive documentary website titled "The Barbara Johns Project." This project aims to illuminate the African American struggle for freedom during the era of segregation (Jim Crow) in the South between the Civil War and...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $349,650 project grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169) to Pharos: The International Photo Archives Association. The grant will enable Pharos, a collaboration among 14 North American and European art historical photo archives, to create an open and freely accessible digital research platform. This platform will provide consolidated access to photo archive images and associated...
- The Academy Foundation received a $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs federal grant program (CFDA 45.164) to support the implementation phase of the Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971 temporary exhibition at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Opening in February 2022, the exhibition explores the visual culture of Black cinema from its early days to just after the Civil Rights Movement with the...
- The Clemson University project, "Reconstructing the Black Archive: South Carolina as Case Study, 1739-1895," received a $395,594 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The funding supports the project from October 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023 under the NEH's Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163). The project aims to uncover ways to understand and reconstruct early Black lives in South Carolina through collaborative...
This $400,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) will support the development and presentation of "BLACK PHOTOJOURNALISM", a comprehensive traveling museum exhibition focused on the work of Black photojournalists active in the United States from the end of World War II to the 1984 presidential campaigns. The exhibition will feature original photographs, moving images, and printed ephemera, the majority of which have never been exhibited, showcasing significant imagery by approximately 40 Black photographers drawn from various collections. The award to the Carnegie Institute, doing business as Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, will enable the creation and curation of this unprecedented exhibition that will present historic events, such as the March on Washington and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as everyday community occasions. The project will run from September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2027.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $400.0k | 8/12/25 |