The New Mexico Humanities Council received a $2,984,500 project grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129). The grant period runs from November 1, 2016 through October 31, 2021 and supports the STATE HUMANITIES PROGRAM. Through this funding, the New Mexico Humanities Council will promote local, statewide, and regional public humanities programming. As the designated state humanities council...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (CFDA 45.149 - Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access) provides $149,998 to the Pueblo of Isleta, a federally recognized Native American tribe in New Mexico, to sustain craft traditions across generations. The project will offer community-led, hands-on, intergenerational learning workshops focused on Isleta craft technologies such as moccasin-making, weaving, sewing, and embroidery....
The Gallup New Deal Art Virtual Museum Project will receive $400,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs grant program (CFDA 45.164) from March 1, 2023 to February 28, 2026. Galluparts, Inc. will leverage this three-year Project Grant to create an interactive online platform that unifies 156 New Deal-era artworks currently held across six locations in Gallup, New Mexico. The virtual museum aims to make the collection widely...
The Tucson Museum of Art received a $105,133 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to support the Stories from Clay research project from January 1, 2022 through March 31, 2023. The museum will leverage digital strategies and community-based approaches to expand records and interpretations of its historical indigenous pottery collection to be more inclusive of indigenous methodologies and perspectives....
The Springfield Museums Corporation received a $117,655 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to update the interpretation of Native American history at its five museums in Springfield, Massachusetts. Working with local Native American tribes, the Museums will redesign its Native American hall to provide a more inclusive, accurate, and unbiased depiction of the innovations, resilience, and culture of...
The federal Project Grant award "INDIGENOUS HISTORIES OF THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDERLANDS" in the amount of $173,044.00 was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163). The award supports a 2-week residential institute for secondary social studies educators, led by faculty from the History Department at Northern Arizona University (NAU) in collaboration with the NAU Institute for...
The federal Project Grant award in the amount of $146,245 was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The grant supports an intergenerational oral history project in Taos, NM that will engage youth aged 14-20 to capture the resilience and cultural knowledge of elders from the region's three land-based cultures. Under the guidance of professional staff and a multi-stakeholder advisory committee, the youth...
This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129) provides $200,000.00 in supplemental funding to the New Mexico Humanities Council (NMHC) to support communities impacted by the 2022 Hermit's Peak and Calf Canyon wildfires. The funding will be used by NMHC to deliver humanities-based recovery and cultural resilience activities, including disaster recovery programs and cultural...
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts received a $325,061 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs federal grant program (CFDA 45.164) to support the development of an exhibition and publication on Native American photography. Key activities to be performed under the award include curatorial research, advisory consultation, object loan contracting, interpretive plan development, community engagement, formative...
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...