Project Grant HC27506620

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...

Award Summary The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded Carnegie Institute, doing business as Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, a $400,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) beginning September 1, 2025, and concluding August 31, 2027. The primary deliverable is "Black Photojournalism," the first comprehensive traveling museum exhibition documenting the work of approximately 40 Black photojournalists active in the United...

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 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 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $304,885 Project Grant to PRX Inc., a non-profit media company, to produce a seven-episode podcast series titled "Division Street Revisited." This series, plus a 1-hour opening special for public radio, will revisit Studs Terkel's seminal oral history collection "Division Street: America" by interviewing the children and grandchildren of the original participants. The podcast will explore how themes of race, work,...

The Bruce Cole Humanities Initiative at Grand Central Atelier The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded Grand Central Atelier, Inc. a Project Grant of $1,999,459 under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to implement a two-year initiative honoring the late Bruce Cole, former NEH Chairman and humanities advocate. The initiative will deliver a comprehensive suite of public programming and scholarly activities from March 1, 2026 through February 29, 2028,...

The Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, Inc. was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs program (CFDA 45.164) to develop the "Pioneering Women of American Architecture" podcast and website. The podcast and accompanying website will feature biographical essays on a diverse range of women architects and designers who played important roles in shaping 20th century American architecture. Both...

The National Liberty Museum received a $100,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to develop the Voices of Liberty Podcast, a limited-series public humanities initiative. The podcast will feature conversations with scholars, museum professionals, politicians, artists, comedians, and community members exploring what liberty means in contemporary society, with particular emphasis on the Declaration...

This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities, under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161), provides $499,998 to the University of Florida from October 2021 through September 2024. The funding supports a collaborative effort by six scholars to produce the first book-length study examining architecture of the African diaspora in and from the United States. The publication will include histories of buildings, cities, landscapes, and interiors...

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...