Project Grant MA249145OMS21
- The Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego received a $146,200 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) federal grant program. The funding will support a community engagement series to promote physical, psychological, and social healing through art in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The project will involve hosting a series of eight public engagement events, including panels, symposia, interactive art...
- The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Inc., a nonprofit organization, was awarded a $1,204,832 Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The 3-year grant, beginning on September 1, 2023, will enable the organization to expand its existing summer visual arts and creative writing program to serve an additional 270 participants, reaching wider audiences by reducing barriers to participation. Key activities to be supported include...
- The Philadelphia Museum of Art will use a $230,028 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' National Leadership Grants program to launch an audience engagement initiative. The museum will gradually resume in-person art programs for children and families to help reconnect patrons following pandemic closures. It will organize weekly art-making activities and playdates, create family-friendly gallery resources, distribute art kits, and reinstate its large-scale summer...
- The Denver Art Museum will receive $479,144 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301) from September 2021 through August 2024 to strengthen its early childhood art and creativity programs. The Museum will establish an Early Childhood Participant Action Group composed of early childhood stakeholders to co-create new program elements for an in-community mini-exhibition program called Art Lives Here/El Arte Vive Aqui. The...
- The Tampa Museum of Art was awarded a $207,376 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The grant will enable the museum to partner with King's Kids Christian Academy, a needs-based private school, to expand the museum's art therapy-informed program, Art Space, to three new campuses. Project activities include developing art therapy-informed lesson plans and piloting, evaluating, and refining the school and museum visits. The...
- This Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (MFA) program supports the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in expanding its arts-based educational programming and community partnerships in the Philadelphia neighborhoods of Kensington and Feltonville. The $797,000 award will enable PAFA to hire two part-time art educators, add a fourth partner school, and continue providing year-round bilingual services such as student...
- The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts received a $792,642 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America program, effective September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2025. The grant will enable the organization to implement and evaluate a project designed to engage the local community in activating prominent public spaces with art at six sites in and around its San Francisco campus. The project will involve a curatorial council of community members...
- The Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco, doing business as the Chinese Culture Center, received a $146,555 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America program. The grant will support the expansion of the Center's "41 Ross Artist-in-Residence" program, located at the Center's offsite storefront space in San Francisco's Chinatown. Key activities include selecting three artists for three-month residencies, organizing public...
- The San Jose Museum of Art will receive $582,885 under a Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301) to implement institution-wide trainings and infrastructure improvements focused on collaboration. From September 2022 through August 2025, museum staff will participate in on-demand and in-person trainings to develop core competencies for non-hierarchical work and improve communication tools, procedures and practices. This...
- The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston was awarded a $614,382 Museums for America (MFA) grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) with a project period from September 1, 2024 to December 31, 2025. The grant will support the ICA's implementation of an array of out-of-school programs for 2,000 Boston-area teens that engage young people with art and artists, support their well-being, foster creativity and critical thinking skills, provide professional training, and...
The Palo Alto Art Center Foundation will implement a community engagement project titled "Creative Attention" under a $235,779.60 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program. Through the grant, the Art Center will partner with a licensed art therapist to encourage community members to use art to address anxiety and recognize manifestations of the emotion. Therapeutic art workshops will be conducted and an intergenerational family day organized. The Art Center will also develop a related art exhibition in partnership with artists, community stakeholders, government agencies, local school districts, and social service organizations. The "Creative Attention" project builds on the Art Center's existing artist residencies, exhibitions, art education programs, and community outreach efforts to showcase artist perspectives and the transformative power of art during times of increased anxiety.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | ($13k) | 2/10/23 | ||
| Not listed | ($13k) | 2/10/23 | ||
| Not listed | $129.7k | 7/16/21 |