Project Grant PG26673119

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 Center received a $162,500 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs grant program (CFDA 45.164). The award will support the project "THE DEMOCRATIC LENS: PHOTOGRAPHY AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT" from September 1, 2021 through April 30, 2024. Under this award, the Center will use photography and civic engagement programs to explore human history and culture. Specifically, the Center will provide public programs...

This three-year project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program will provide $347,959 to Mississippi State University to develop a decolonial field school focused on community-engaged methods of collection and preservation at Brush Arbor Cemetery in Starkville, Mississippi. Through pairing oral histories, public archaeology, participatory GIS story mapping and black digital archives with traditional archival,...

The National Park Service awarded a $750,000 Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid (CFDA 15.904) project grant to the Mississippi Heritage Trust Inc., a non-profit organization, to rehabilitate the Riverside Hotel in Clarksdale, Mississippi. This culturally significant site hosted many famous Black artists and represents multiple eras of the African American civil rights movement. The grant will fund architectural services, historic structure reports, preservation plans, and physical...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a $122,452 Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) project grant to En Foco Incorporated, a non-profit organization in the Bronx, New York. The grant will support En Foco's efforts to inventory, rehouse, and digitize materials chronicling its 50-year exhibition history. Key activities include hiring a full-time digital librarian to research, organize, digitize, and rehouse the organization's exhibition archive. The digitized collection will...

The Elmore Bolling Foundation received a $264,199 Project Grant award from the Department of the Interior National Park Service National Office through the Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program. The grant will support restoration and preservation activities at the historic Lowndesboro School in Lowndesboro, Alabama over a three year period ending September 2024. The Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program, identified by CFDA #15.904, provides congressionally mandated grants...

The Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) was awarded a $266,669 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Save America's Treasures federal grant program (CFDA 15.929). The grant will support MDAH's efforts to inventory, catalog, rehouse, and prepare for curation a collection of over 2,000 archaeological sites across Mississippi representing 14,000 years of human occupation in the Southeast. MDAH staff archaeologists will supervise the...

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) received a $392,230 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301) to complete the digitization, preservation, and dissemination of its entire photography collection. This includes the newly acquired collection of 4,062 photographs by American photographer Aaron Siskind. VMFA will create verbal descriptions for 1,000 images to enhance accessibility for visually impaired...

The National Park Service awarded $503,014 under the Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program to the Georgia B. Williams Nursing Home, Inc. to rehabilitate the nursing home facility in Camilla, Georgia and convert it into a museum. The project will stabilize and document the exterior of the structure as needed, repair the roof and chimneys, and assess the foundation. Upon completion, the rehabilitated facility will house museum exhibits and historical interpretations spotlighting the...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded $141,426 under the Museums for America federal grant program to digitize the photo archive of the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History in Springdale, Arkansas. The museum will use the funding to digitize its Washington County Historical Society Collection, consisting of over 1,000 regionally significant images from 1850 to 1970. By making the collection available online on an on-demand basis 24 hours a day, the museum aims to increase access for...