The Great American Songbook Foundation (GASF) in Carmel, Indiana will receive $102,876 under a Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants (NLG) program to expand and enhance its Perfect Harmony program. Perfect Harmony originally offered on-site programming but transformed into an entirely virtual experience during the pandemic to provide 7,500 seniors with robust monthly interactive and informative musical experiences that help...
The Withers House Museum will improve access to its photographic collection through a $102,000 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museum Grants for African American History and Culture program. Under the award spanning July 2023 through June 2025, the museum will hire a part-time photo archivist and contract specialists to catalog, digitize, and make accessible up to 50,000 photographs and negatives. Key deliverables include conducting a conservation assessment;...
The Colburn School will receive $749,310 through a Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Save America's Treasures program to improve processing and digitization of the Herbert and Trudl Zipper Archive. The grant-funded work will create finding aids and artifact descriptions to enhance intellectual control over the collection, which documents the influential Austrian-born performing artists and educators. Most of the archive will also be digitized and rehoused to...
This Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services will support the WGBH Educational Foundation in creating educational resources to improve access to public media archives. Under the $213,358 award provided through the National Leadership Grants program, the Foundation will develop 20 sets of primary resources featuring archival public television and radio programming aligned with commonly taught topics in American history and current events. The sets will include teaching...
The federal grant award of $595,000.00 from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) under the National Historical Publications and Records Grants program (CFDA 89.003) supports a project by the John and Lillian Miles Lewis Foundation, Inc. in Winston, GA. The project aims to preserve, digitize, and provide public access to historical records and documentary sources related to United States history. Key activities include digitizing archival collections, creating online editions...
The Withers Collection, Inc., a non-profit organization, received a $100,000 federal Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture (AAHC) program (CFDA 45.309). The grant will fund the enhancement of the museum's stewardship of its collection by archivally storing and digitizing approximately 4,000 photographs from its collection that document civil rights history and African American life and culture....
The Louis Armstrong House Museum will preserve a collection of collages created by renowned jazz musician Louis Armstrong, with funding support from a $275,834 Project Grant awarded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Save America's Treasures program. The Museum will stabilize 77 of the 700 collages Armstrong made out of photographs, newspaper clippings and other ephemera from his Queens, New York home. Activities will include documenting, cleaning, stain removal and...
The Weeksville Society will use this $703,414 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museum Grants for African American History and Culture (CFDA 45.309) program to complete a comprehensive collections inventory and increase public access to the Weeksville Heritage Center's collections documenting the history of Weeksville, one of the largest free Black communities in pre-Civil War America. Key project activities include cataloging unprocessed collection items,...
This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will fund the creation of a critical edition of the works of American composers George and Ira Gershwin. The Regents of the University of Michigan will receive $575,000 to produce scholarly yet practical editions that restore the brothers' artistic intentions for landmark musical scores such as Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris, and Porgy and Bess. As part of the Promotion of the Humanities Research program, the University...
The Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, on behalf of the National Canal Museum, will receive $241,470 under a three-year Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program to conduct a comprehensive inventory and improve access to its offsite collections storage facility. As part of the Museums for America program's goal of strengthening museums' ability to serve the public, 10,000 objects from the Museum's personnel and financial records,...