The Mexic Arte Museum was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program. The grant will support the digitization of approximately 1,500 Latinx artworks in the museum's collection and the creation of online exhibitions and humanities programs exploring the ongoing struggles, experiences, and aspirations of cross-generational Latinx and Chicanx communities. Specifically, the museum will...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $349,931 Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access grant (CFDA 45.149) to the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) to support the "Bilingual Voices in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Phase 2" project. This 3-year project aims to preserve 240 bilingual sociolinguistic interviews, expand the collection by 50 new interviews, and enhance the project website with data visualizations and metadata to provide...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $131,116 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, doing business as the Health Sciences Division, for the project "A RIVER OF MEMORIES: PRESERVING LIVED EXPERIENCE IN THE BORDERLANDS OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY, TEXAS". This grant, with a performance period from May 1, 2024 to December 31, 2025,...
This Project Grant award of $336,762 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) supports a collaboration between San Diego State University (SDSU) and Tijuana's Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura (IMAC) to organize, protect, digitize, and make available online the visual and cultural heritage materials of the Archivo Histórico de Tijuana. The project will preserve and provide access to rare...
The University of Arizona received a $385,968 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to bolster humanities research, education, and public engagement programs focused on U.S.-Mexico borderlands cultural heritage from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022. Through collaboration between the University of Arizona Press, Norville Gem and Mineral Museum, Writing Skills...
New Mexico State University will receive $1,037,289 over three years from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program (CFDA 45.149) to undertake the Amador Family Correspondence Digitization Project. The project will digitize and provide intellectual access to the personal correspondence of the Amador family held in the university's archives. As the awardee, New Mexico State University's Office of...
The National Museum of Mexican Art received a $102,300 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America federal grant program to digitize and provide online access to the Sandra Cisneros Textile Collection. The Museum will digitize 78 outfits and select an additional 70+ objects from the Collection, which features mid-20th century Mexican garments and textiles of cultural, artistic, historical and anthropological value. Museum curatorial staff and a...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $149,899 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV). The grant, titled "ENTRE NOSOTRAS: PRESERVING ORAL HISTORIES OF MIGRANT FARMWORKER MOTHERS," aims to document and foster transcultural resilience in the face of climate change among migrant farmworker mothers in the Rio Grande Valley. The project will: 1)...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded The Metropolitan Museum of Art a $468,500 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to expand access to materials by historically underrepresented artists at the museum's Thomas J. Watson Library. Over the course of the one-year project period from October 1, 2021 to January 31, 2023, grant funds will support adding at least 600 publications by Indigenous American, Hispanic American, Asian American and...
This $150,000 Project Grant was awarded on January 1, 2024 by the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The grant funds a 2.5-year initiative titled "BUILDING COMMUNITY AND BELONGING FOR HISPANIC STUDENTS THROUGH THE HUMANITIES" (BCBHS) at The Research Foundation for The State University of New York. The BCBHS program will create an advanced Spanish language...