The Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, OH was awarded a $499,395 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The grant will support six mutually reinforcing and free out-of-school learning opportunities for over 5,000 young adults in the Cincinnati region to help offset learning loss resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. The center will build on and expand five successful young adult programs:...
The Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center will relaunch its Teen Arts Council program to address critical needs in arts education and the social-emotional impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on youth. Funded by a $108,420 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the National Leadership Grants program, the Teen Arts Council empowers teens to create and plan arts programs for their peers. It will use strategies such as diversity, supportive staff, authentic work...
The Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati, Ohio will receive $343,540 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301) to fully digitize and make accessible its permanent collections online from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2025. Museum staff will work with a contracted photographer and art handlers to photograph 558 objects and update records for 790 objects in its collections of European and American paintings and sculpture,...
The Cincinnati Art Museum was awarded a $111,441 National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to expand digital content creation and delivery capabilities. Under the one-year project grant ending October 31, 2022, the museum will enhance existing digital programming by augmenting free public Wi-Fi access to include outdoor spaces, developing mobile recording studio carts for flexible use throughout museum facilities and grounds, and providing staff and volunteers...
The Cincinnati Museum Center received a $499,685 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. Through this funding, the Museum Center will develop and design a new permanent exhibition, the Indigenous Peoples Gallery, which will explore the region's long history of human habitation, from earliest Native American societies to the tribal nations still residing in the central Ohio Valley. The project will build...
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (ICA) was awarded a $583,117 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to deepen and expand youth engagement programs for teens in grades 6-12. The funding will support the ICA's work with over 2,000 Boston-area teens through school partnerships and out-of-school programs aimed at empowering youth to develop creative skills, strengthen identity, and build leadership abilities. A key aspect of the project is the expansion of programs...
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 Cincinnati Museum Center will fabricate and install the exhibit "Ancient Worlds Hiding in Plain Sight" under a $500,017 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program. Combining the museum's invertebrate paleontology collection with new technology, the exhibit will blend science, history, and technology to showcase the prehistoric environment of Cincinnati. Key activities during the September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2024 period of...
The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis will receive $301,431 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301) to conduct audience engagement research and evaluation from September 2022 to August 2024. The museum will work with three consultants to gather input from internal and external stakeholders through focus groups and surveys to identify strengths, weaknesses, and gaps in current audience engagement efforts. Based on research findings,...
The Canton Museum of Art in Canton, Ohio will continue and expand its Museum to Go program, which provides virtual visual arts education to fourth and sixth grade students. Funded by a $110,524 project grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the program aims to improve academic achievement and wellbeing through arts immersion. Each lesson includes a 360-degree virtual tour of a current exhibit, aligned activities on key artworks, and hands-on art making. The program...