The Portland Art Museum will receive $638,046 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301) to mount a retrospective exhibition of works by mid-century modernist Oscar Howe and a concurrent site-specific installation by artist Jeffrey Gibson. The Museum will collaborate with Many Nations Academy teachers and students to develop student-led tours of the exhibition and will partner with the Native American Youth and Family...
The Portland Art Museum in Oregon will use a $128,299 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' National Leadership Grants program to increase its workforce and provide staff training as it reopens after pandemic-related closures. Approximately 30 positions will be rehired with assistance from a new Recruiter role. Interview skills training will be conducted for hiring teams, and new hires will receive equity and de-escalation training. These recruitment and training...
The Portland Art Museum was awarded a $609,441 federal Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The grant will support the creation of a retrospective exhibition on the life and work of modernist painter and printmaker Yoshida Chizuko (1924-2017). The exhibition will feature Chizuko's early paintings and sketches, rare monotypes, woodblock prints, and mixed media prints, as well as archival materials such as...
The Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs awarded the Portland Art Museum a $4,917,308.34 Project Grant under the Professional and Cultural Exchange Programs - Citizen Exchanges (CFDA 19.415) program. The grant funding will support the museum's presentation of the exhibition "The Space in Which to Place Me" featuring artist Jeffrey Gibson at the 60th International Art Exhibition in Venice, Italy from July 2023 to November 2024. The Portland Art Museum has...
The Seattle Art Museum received a $330,370 federal Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America program. The grant will support the museum's efforts to strengthen and support its staff by establishing a new organizational structure. Key activities include collecting and analyzing data to understand the museum's current structure, identifying barriers to career advancement, providing training to develop equity skills and awareness, holding staff...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was awarded a $500,370 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The grant will support the development and launch of a suite of public programs tied to the reopening of the museum's galleries dedicated to the arts of Africa, Ancient Americas, and Oceania. The initiative will activate the collections and ideas explored in the new galleries, create multiple entry points for the...
The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) received a $497,021 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (MFA) program (CFDA 45.301). The grant will be used to update the museum's laboratories and improve the educational spaces for youth educational programming. OMSI will partner with Project LEDO, a Portland-based community organization, to host family advisory workshops and develop prototypes for new lab experience...
The Museum of Contemporary Photography received a $519,181 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program to digitize and catalog approximately 6,000 artworks from its permanent collection. The grant will support hiring and training two curatorial assistants who will research and update artist biographies and catalog content based on surveys with artists, their agents, and families. This project will result in increased public...
The Art Museum of Southeast Texas received a $116,489 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) federal grant program. The grant will fund the continuation of a multi-year project to photograph and digitize the museum's permanent art collection. Building on previous IMLS grants, this final phase will result in the photography of an additional 200 two-dimensional artworks from the museum's collection. Museum staff, working...
The Portland Art Museum, through its Center For An Untold Tomorrow division, received a $325,000 project grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) federal grant program. The grant funded the development and delivery of "THE ART OF RESILIENCE: A CONTINUUM OF TLINGIT ARTS" public program from August 2016 through July 2020. This program explored Tlingit history and culture through humanities-focused...