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 University at Albany, SUNY, in collaboration with the Empire State Library Network (ESLN), has received a Project Grant award of $249,996.00 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the National Leadership Grants (CFDA 45.312) program. The project aims to decrease barriers to implementing archival discovery and delivery systems, enabling under-resourced institutions to provide access to digital objects. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing a...
This three-year, $350,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program will support the American Research Center in Egypt, Inc. to digitize and provide open online access to 26 collections from its conservation archives. These archives document over 7,000 years of Egyptian culture and history at prehistoric, pharaonic, Coptic, Islamic, and Jewish sites across Egypt. By September 2025, the American Research...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $130,615 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants program (CFDA 45.130) to the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)'s School of Art & Art History. The grant, awarded on September 1, 2024 with a completion date of April 30, 2026, will support a strategic climate action plan for two UIC public-facing units: Gallery 400 and the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum. The project aims to conduct a comprehensive...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program awarded a $344,315 project grant to the Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc. to create a sustainable preservation media storage environment. The funding will support the purchase and installation of a walk-in freezer and HVAC system as part of a larger construction project to house the university's millions of unique media assets held by its Special...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $115,453 Project Grant (CFDA 81.087 - Renewable Energy Research and Development) to the South Hero Library Foundation, Inc. to purchase and install a 39.95 kW DC roof-mounted solar array on the Worthen Library and a neighboring Community Health Center building in South Hero, Vermont. The solar array is projected to generate 39,950 kWh of power, which will cover 102% of the library's annual electricity...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to Bard College under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to develop indigenous protocols to guide the creation and refinement of AI wearable and digital technologies. The project, titled "The Wihanble S'a Center at Bard College," aims to imagine, design, test, and prototype a series of research and technological development activities that build AI-driven systems grounded in both...
This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will support a $430,000 combined in-person and virtual summer institute for 25 English teachers of grades 6-12. The institute aims to guide participants in an in-depth inquiry into climate futurism through literary works and engagement with subject matter experts from October 2022 to September 2024. Hosted by Sonoma State University both virtually and with field trips across Northern California, the institute curriculum explores...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $305,343 Project Grant to the Internet Archive under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to develop a comprehensive reference resource of key art history and humanities collections published online. Working in partnership with the New York Art Resources Consortium, consisting of the Frick Art Reference Library, Museum of Modern Art, and Brooklyn Museum, the Internet Archive will create a...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $150,000 Digital Humanities Advancement Grant (CFDA 45.169) to Urban Archive, Inc., a Brooklyn-based non-profit organization, to implement Phase 4 of their Collections Management and Engagement Program (CMEP). This project grant supports the enhancement of Urban Archive's award-winning digital infrastructure, which provides a location-based digital platform and collections management system to enable cultural organizations across New York...