NEH on the Road
The Division of Public Programs has increased the useful life and geographic reach of selected NEH-funded exhibitions via the NEH on the Road program, supported through a cooperative agreement with the Mid-America Arts Alliance (MAAA). The program supports smaller versions of exhibitions, which travel to mid-sized museums and other cultural institutions. For venues that have already received a confirmed booking for an NEH on the Road exhibition through MAAA, NEH offers grants of $1,000 to support the costs of humanities programming based on exhibition themes. Information on booking an exhibition can be found at the MAAA Web site, nehontheroad-maaa.org/.

GM-50163 (cooperative agreement with MAAA), Mid-America Arts Alliance:
¡Carnaval!
A 2004 grant supported the circulation of this exhibition, which provides windows into eight communities in Europe and the Americas where carnival is a high point of the year. ¡Carnaval! features individuals who have dedicated much of their lives to planning, creating, and carrying out carnival festivities. Images, video, costume pieces, and masks from their performances relate the communities’ history and cultural traditions, while conveying the ways in which the celebration of carnival helps build communities.
Project URL: nehontheroad-maaa.org/exhibitions/carnaval/

GM-50163 (cooperative agreement with MAAA), Mid-America Arts Alliance:
Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art.
A 2004 grant supported the circulation of Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art, an exhibition that traces the parallel histories of coiled basketry in Africa and America and explores the contemporary evolution of an ancient art in a global economy. Featuring baskets from the low country of South Carolina and Georgia as well as from diverse regions of Africa, the exhibition traces the story of coiled baskets used to winnow and transport rice on both sides of the Atlantic—from the domestication of rice in Africa two millennia ago, through the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the era of Carolina rice plantations, up to the present day.
Project URL: nehontheroad-maaa.org/exhibitions/grass-roots/