The American Folk Art Museum received a $304,879 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) through the Museums for America (MFA) program (CFDA 45.301). The two-year grant will support the museum's work with neurodiverse artists whose artwork is part of the museum's collection. Key deliverables include: Creating an online resource with information about neurodiverse artists and their work. Hiring a Collections Associate who will receive training on the...
The American Folk Art Museum in Long Island City, New York will receive $121,461 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the National Leadership Grants program (CFDA 45.312) to upgrade its software and digitize archival materials from November 1, 2021 to October 31, 2022. The museum will implement new software to allow additional media types like audio and visual files to be added to its website for the first time. This will include digitizing archival photos, letters,...
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley a $755,132 Project Grant under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The grant will support the museum's compact storage installation project to upgrade their storage units and shelving to accommodate their growing collections, increase collection accessibility, and provide for long-term preservation of the collections. The project aims to address the challenge of collections storage...
The Arlington Historical Society received a $254,702 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. This grant will support the inventory, digitization, and rehousing of over 16,000 at-risk objects in the museum's collection, including archival materials, photographs, books, ceramics, glass, and textiles. Planned activities include the installation of high-density rolling storage units, digitization of items, updating...
The New York Historical Society received a $437,881 project grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program to centralize storage and improve care and management of its landmark American paintings collection. Under the award, the Society will install 23 large-scale painting screens to house over 400 paintings, including masterpieces from its existing collection and 100 additional works from the Robert L. Stuart Collection acquired to document and...
This Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program will provide $269,276 to the A.T. Still University of Health Sciences in Kirksville, Missouri to improve the collections storage environment and enhance the care of the museum's 90,000 artifacts. The project will involve temporarily relocating the artifacts, deconstructing the existing shelving, and installing a new high-density mobile shelving system, which...
The Greenville Museum of Art received a $160,008 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The grant will fund activities to update the museum's permanent collections storage area, including temporarily relocating artwork, purchasing and installing high-density storage systems, rehousing the collection, and enhancing catalog records. The project will also provide two paid summer internships in partnership with East...
The International Museum of Art and Science was awarded a $107,993 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The 2-year grant project will improve collection stewardship and accessibility for approximately 5,600 works of Mexican and Latin American folk art in the museum's collection. Key activities include photographing, cataloging, and inputting data for the collection into a collections software database to provide...
The New-York Historical Society received a $400,634 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program to build staff cultural competency in accessibility and improve K-12 programming for students with disabilities. The project will create sustainable systems and structures to ensure all programs account for the needs of students with disabilities, establish consistent accessibility training for museum education staff, and...
The Walter Anderson Museum of Art in Ocean Springs, Mississippi received a $104,674 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America federal grant program. Funded from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2022, the grant will support the museum's purchase and installation of new storage furniture to properly house and increase public access to its permanent collection. A 2019 preservation needs assessment revealed the museum vault lacks adequate storage...