The Toledo Museum of Art received a $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts to support personnel expenses in response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The grant was awarded under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024) to support opportunities for all people to participate in the arts and arts education, integrate the arts with strategies that promote well-being and resilience, and build capacity and...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $400,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants program (CFDA 45.130) to the Toledo Museum of Art. This funding supports critical renovations to the century-old plumbing infrastructure in the Edward B. Green Building, which houses the museum's art collection and serves as a venue for arts and humanities programming. The project will safeguard the museum's valuable artworks and provide comfortable, inviting...
This $300,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants program (CFDA 45.130) will support the Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) in developing a comprehensive Climate Smart Mitigation and Adaptation Plan (MAP). The project aims to help TMA, a prominent non-profit cultural institution, assess its greenhouse gas emissions, plan emissions reduction strategies, and leverage its expertise to guide the arts and culture sector...
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 Columbia Museum of Art received a $200,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to mount a traveling exhibition on contemporary African American art and implement supporting public programs from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022. The museum will install the "30 Americans" exhibition drawn from the Rubell Family Collection, featuring 57 works by 30 artists. Interpretive and educational...
The Portland Art Museum, through its Center For An Untold Tomorrow division, received a $325,000 project grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) federal grant program. The grant funded the development and delivery of "THE ART OF RESILIENCE: A CONTINUUM OF TLINGIT ARTS" public program from August 2016 through July 2020. This program explored Tlingit history and culture through humanities-focused...
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...
The Kalamazoo Institute of Arts (KIA) received a $199,006 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) federal grant program. The grant will support KIA's core humanities programming and staff salaries, and fund the creation of two new exhibits - one on masculinity from the 1960s to present, and another on women's influence on art and culture in the 1950s. Additionally, the funding will enable KIA to...
The Flint Institute of Arts was awarded a $150,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants program, which provides federal matching funds to strengthen humanities infrastructure and capacity. This two-year, $450,000 capital campaign project will replace nine failing humidification units within the Institute's mechanical system that regulate temperature and humidity in the gallery and collection storage areas. The new...