Division of Public Programs Awards List July Council 2020

Public Humanities Projects

Planning Grants

Crossings: Mapping, Migration, and Tourism in the United States
Newberry Library
Chicago, IL
Award: Outright; $39,950 
Planning of an exhibition that illustrates how mapping and the shared experience of travel has shaped the American identity.

Making a Statement: Gordon Parks's Gift  of Photographs
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS
Award: Outright; $40,000 
Planning for a 2,950-square-foot temporary exhibition, a catalog, and a website exploring the life and work of multidisciplinary artist Gordon Parks (1912–2006) and his relationship with his home state of Kansas.

A New African American Visitor and Cultural Center at the Historic Clinton A.M.E. Zion Church in Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Clinton Church Restoration, Inc.
Great Barrington, MA
Award: Outright; $40,000 
Development of an exhibition and interpretive center focused on the role of Clinton A.M.E. Zion Church and the African American experience in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, as well as the impact of the Clinton Church on W.E.B. Du Bois.

A People's History of Brooklyn
Brooklyn Historical Society
Brooklyn, NY
Award: Outright; $75,000 
Planning of a permanent, immersive exhibition on the history of Brooklyn, utilizing unused spaces in the museum’s historic building.

Under the Same Sky: Birds in Art and Myth Traveling Exhibition
Sabiha Al Khemir Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $75,000 
Development of a traveling exhibition of artworks from multiple traditions and periods featuring birds.

Himalayan Art: Journeys of Discoveries 
Rubin Museum of Art
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $75,000 
Planning of a traveling exhibition about Himalayan art, history, religion, and culture.

The Retreat Farm Story Paths and Landscape Learning Center
Retreat Farm, Ltd.
Brattleboro, VT
Award: Outright; $40,000 
Development of five walking path tours and an educational visitor center to interpret the historical relationship between people and the environment in Vermont.

Implementation Grants

Crafting America
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Bentonville, AR
Award: Outright; $200,000 
Implementation of a traveling exhibition highlighting American craft since 1940.

Diego Rivera's America
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco, CA
Award: Outright; $200,000 
Implementation of a traveling exhibition about Diego Rivera’s murals and paintings from the 1920s to the 1940s.

Dance in the Arts of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayan Region
Asian Art Museum Foundation
San Francisco, CA
Award: Outright; $250,000 
Implementation of a traveling exhibition about dance in the arts, culture, and religion of the Indian cultural sphere.

¡Vivan las Revoluciones!: Forming More Perfect Unions Across the Americas
Newberry Library
Chicago, IL
Award: Outright; $150,000 
A series of public programs celebrating the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States and its role in similar events in Latin American nations.

Yiddish: A Global Culture
National Yiddish Book Center
Amherst, MA
Award: Outright; $200,000 
Implementation of a permanent exhibition of Yiddish language and culture from the late nineteenth century to the present.

Foundations of Interpretation
Old Sturbridge Village
Sturbridge, MA
Award: Outright; $250,000 
Implementation of a new interpretive plan at Old Sturbridge Village expanding tours to reflect the diversity of early New England.

Boom Town: Detroit in the 1920s Exhibition at the Detroit Historical Museum
Detroit Historical Society
Detroit, MI
Award: Outright; $100,000 
Implementation of a single-site, temporary exhibition exploring Detroit in the 1920s through the life stories of twenty diverse inhabitants.

Recognition of the 20th Anniversary of September 11, 2001
National September 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $200,000 
Implementation of a panel exhibition, public programming, and librarian training for twenty libraries across the country.

Art, Nature, and Myth in Ancient Rome
San Antonio Museum of Art
San Antonio, TX
Award: Outright; $100,000 
Implementation of a temporary exhibition about landscape imagery in Roman art from the late Republic and early Empire.

Madayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
Award: Outright; $300,000
Implementation of a traveling exhibition about the art, culture, and environment of the Yolngu people of northern Australia.

Warrior Spirit Project
National Indian Education Association
Washington, DC
Award: Outright; $250,000 
Implementation of an online archive, educational materials, and oral history exhibition that collects, interprets, and chronicles the contribution of Native American veterans to the United States.

Media Projects

Development Grants

Eyes on the Prize Reclaimed
Center for Independent Documentary, Inc.
Boston, MA
Award: Outright; $75,000 
Development of a documentary film about the history and legacy of Eyes on the Prize, the landmark public television series about the civil rights movement.

Tourist Nation: The History of American Tourism
Stone Lantern Films
Suffern, NY
Award: Outright; $75,000 
Development of a four-part documentary series exploring the history and impact of American tourism.

Luis Muñoz Marín: The Making of a Modern Puerto Rico
New York Foundation for the Arts
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $75,000
Development of a ninety-minute film on the life of Luis Muñoz Marin(1898–1980), the first democratically elected governor of Puerto Rico.

Production Grants

The People's Will
Center for Independent Documentary, Inc.
Boston, MA
Award: Outright; $400,000
Match; $85,000
Production of a sixty-minute documentary using the 1849 Astor Place Riot to explore the history of theater, American politics, and social class in burgeoning urban centers.

American Masters—Buckley
WNET
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $500,000 
Production of a 120-minute film about the life and legacy of William F. Buckley Jr.

Trace Material
The New School
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $200,000 
roduction of six thirty-minute episodes on the social history of plastic products.

Loïe Fuller: Obsessed with Light
Independent Feature Project, Inc.
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $325,000 
Production of a ninety-minute documentary exploring the life and creative legacy of performing artist Loïe Fuller (1862–1928).

Short Documentaries

Poetry in America Season Three: "More Perfect Union" Episode Sequence
Verse Video Education, Inc.
Brookline, MA
Award: Outright; $250,000
Production of five twenty-four-minute episodes of a television series on American poetry.

The Rosenwald Schools of North Carolina and The Rosenwald Schools of South Carolina
Longleaf Productions
Greensboro, NC
Award: Outright; $120,000
Production of two thirty-minute documentaries about Rosenwald Schools in North Carolina and South Carolina.