Project Grant PG28785422

The University Museum at Southern Illinois University will use a $350,437 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (CFDA 45.301 - Museums for America) to improve the stewardship of its collections. Over the 2-year grant period from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2025, museum staff will inventory approximately 11,000 objects from the South and Central American, American History, and 3-dimensional Contemporary Art collections. This will involve training staff in collections...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $212,979 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the Midwest Art Conservation Center, Inc. (MACC), a non-profit organization. This 2-year grant, awarded on March 1, 2024, will support the development of tools for remote risk assessment and emergency planning to improve the sustainability and resilience of public art collections nationwide. Specifically, the grant...

The Buffalo Soldiers National Museum will receive $150,000 through a Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture federal grant program to improve collections care and access. Specifically, over the two-year project period from July 2022 through June 2024, the Museum will catalog and digitize more than 4,000 items in its African American military collection. It will also provide staff with collections...

The Philbrook Museum of Art received a $934,795 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Save America's Treasures program (CFDA 15.929) to safeguard and preserve its Native art collection. The grant funding will enable the museum to coordinate the installation of fire suppression and new smoke detection systems, as well as outfit storage and gallery areas with security cameras and access control panels. This preservation effort will ensure the museum's...

The Meek-Eaton Southeastern Regional Black Archives Research Center and Museum (MEBA) at Florida A&M University will use a $726,884 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture program to build its digital capacity and expand public services for its collections. Key activities include hiring a full-time archivist to assist with inventorying, cataloging, and rehousing collections; creating and updating finding...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded a $400,000 Project Grant under the Save America's Treasures (CFDA 15.929) program to SUL Ross State University in Alpine, Texas. The grant will fund improvements to the storage and preservation of the Museum of the Big Bend's historic map collection. Key activities include hiring a curator to research the collection provenance, undertake professional development, and develop a catalog; addressing environmental issues in the storage area; and...

The University of Maryland, College Park was awarded a $578,780 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture (AAHC) federal grant program (CFDA 45.309). The grant will fund a three-year project to increase accessibility of three archival collections from African American artists: the papers of artist Alonzo Davis, interviews and field notes of artist and scholar Michael D. Harris, and documents of artist...

Talladega College will reinterpret six murals by African American artist Hale Woodruff housed at the Dr. William R. Harvey Museum of Arts, which illustrate the Amistad captives' fight against slavery, quest for freedom and repatriation, and struggle for liberation, educational enlightenment, and equality. The project will also identify, inventory, assess, catalog, digitize, and preserve 400 artifacts for use in enhancing the Amistad mural exhibition. Project staff will create an online...

This $169,303 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Save America's Treasures program will support the Blackwater Draw Museum at Eastern New Mexico University (ENMU) in preserving and improving the collection and records for the Blackwater Draw archaeology site. The project will preserve approximately 2,790 artifacts, 870 photographic negatives, and 1,356 35mm film strips documenting over 13,000 years of cultural activity at the site. ENMU staff...

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,...