Project Grant U351D180117

The Palo Alto Art Center Foundation will implement a community engagement project titled "Creative Attention" under a $235,779.60 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program. Through the grant, the Art Center will partner with a licensed art therapist to encourage community members to use art to address anxiety and recognize manifestations of the emotion. Therapeutic art workshops will be conducted and an intergenerational family...

The federal Project Grant award, with ID MA256056OMS24, was provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) grant program. The $400,000 award will fund BRIC Arts Media Brooklyn to offer 35-40 twelve-session arts and media education residencies per year in partnership with New York City public schools. The residency programs will focus on strengthening students' arts and media mastery, critical thinking skills, and social-emotional...

The Museum der Moderne Salzburg received a $290,600 project grant award from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs to support the exhibition and publication of works by American video artist Bill Viola. Funded under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) to advance U.S. foreign policy and cultural relations objectives, the exhibition was held from July 16 through October 30, 2022. As the sub-awardee, Museum der Moderne Salzburg utilized the funding to curate...

The Movimiento De Arte Y Cultura Latino Americana De San Jose, Incorporated (Movimiento) will develop visual arts exhibitions and related public programs under a $523,940 project grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America program. Over the three year award period ending August 2024, Movimiento will produce twelve major visual art exhibitions providing honoraria for up to 250 exhibiting artists. The organization will also expand public programs and...

The Milwaukee Art Museum will undertake a $830,830 project grant awarded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301) to digitally image 3,000 works from its permanent collection for online access. Prioritizing artwork by artists of color, women, and those conveying narratives of marginalized communities, the Museum will make these collection images available on its website by August 2024. This initiative aims to inform the...

The Visual Arts Center of New Jersey will partner with the Elizabeth Public School system and Cultures and Literacies through Art for the 21st Century to expand the CALTA21 curriculum for 9th and 10th grade bilingual social studies classrooms. Funded by a $101,881 project grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program, the partners will identify themes of Latinx contributions to American and world history to incorporate into the curriculum. They will...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $305,343 Project Grant to the Internet Archive under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to develop a comprehensive reference resource of key art history and humanities collections published online. Working in partnership with the New York Art Resources Consortium, consisting of the Frick Art Reference Library, Museum of Modern Art, and Brooklyn Museum, the Internet Archive will create a...

The Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University will receive $199,773 under a Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' National Leadership Grants program to expand free arts resilience programs that help individuals and communities cope with stress and build connections in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and issues of racism. A full-time Director of Art and Resilience will ramp up programs developed in partnership with artists, social workers, medical...

Artswestchester, Inc. was awarded a $114,375 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' National Leadership Grants program to partner with mental health and nonprofit organizations on a community tile mural and celebration initiative. Through 50 free participatory tile-making and painting workshops led by teaching artists at cultural, mental health, and community venues countywide, the program aims to strengthen engagement and collaboration to address negative pandemic...

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to The Art Effect Of The Hudson Valley Inc., doing business as The Art Effect, to support the establishment of a Youth Arts Empowerment Zone with public art installations and arts programming in Poughkeepsie, New York. The funding period is from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2023. Under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024), the grant funds will enable The Art Effect to implement...