Division Of Public Programs Awards List - July Council 2021

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Public Humanities Projects

Planning Grants

Cruising J-Town: Nikkei Car Culture in Southern California
Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, CA
Award: Outright; $75,000
Planning for an exhibition on Japanese Americans’ car culture throughout the twentieth century in California.

Planning of a Permanent Exhibition on the Global History of Genocide and Approaches to Genocide Prevention
Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois Inc.
Skokie, IL
Award: Outright; $69,086
Planning for a 1,000-square-foot permanent exhibition on the global history of genocide and mass atrocities.

Bringing Old North to the 21st Century: Historic Places Planning Grant
Old North Foundation of Boston, Inc.
Boston, MA
Award: Outright; $75,000
A planning grant to reinterpret the colonial Old North Church in Boston and its congregation’s ties to slavery from the American Revolution to the Civil War.

Reinstallation of the Brooklyn Museum's American Galleries
Brooklyn Institute of Arts And Sciences
Brooklyn, NY
Award: Outright; $40,000
Planning for the reinterpretation of the Brooklyn Museum’s permanent American art galleries.

Far More than Steel and Concrete: Urban Planning and The Panorama of New York
Queens Museum of Art
Corona, NY
Award: Outright; $40,000
Planning for a series of temporary exhibitions, interpretive wall texts, digital interactives, and public programs examining the twentieth-century history of New York City’s infrastructure and urban development.

Shaping Time: The Art and Culture of the Jewish Calendar
Yeshiva University
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $39,999
Planning of a 3,000-square-foot exhibition on the history of the Jewish calendar.

Clarissa Street Uprooted: Intergenerational History Ambassadors Exhibit
Center for Teen Empowerment
Rochester, NY
Award: Outright; $50,924
A multiformat exhibition that explores the twentieth-century history of the African American community in Rochester, New York.

Reinterpreting Texas at the Witte Museum, Where Nature, Science and Culture Meet
Witte Museum
San Antonio, TX
Award: Outright; $75,000
Planning for a reinterpretation of the museum’s permanent exhibition on the history of Texas.

Cia Siab (Hope) in Wisconsin:  A HMoob (Hmong) Story
University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
Oshkosh, WI
Award: Outright; $74,418
Planning of an 800- to 1,000-square-foot traveling exhibition that would celebrate the 50th year of Hmong resettlement in the U.S.

Implementation Grants

Ancient Andean Art Gallery Re-installation Implementation
University of Illinois
Champaign, IL
Award: Outright; $200,000
Implementation of a reinterpretation of the museum’s permanent gallery of Andean art and the creation of a digital portal allowing deeper exploration of the collection.

St. Clair's Defeat Revisited: A New View of the Conflict Traveling Exhibit
Ball State University
Muncie, IN
Award: Outright; $200,000
Implementation of a traveling panel exhibition examining the legacy of the victory of a coalition of Native American tribes over the U.S. Army at the battle of St. Clair’s Defeat on November 4, 1791.

Our City: Building Kindness and Empathy
Children's Museum, The
Boston, MA
Award: Outright; $200,000
Implementation of a 3,500-square-foot permanent exhibition exploring the diversity of identity through religion, history, and art.

The Democratic Lens: Photography and Civic Engagement
CENTER
Santa Fe, NM
Award: Outright; $162,500
Implementation of a lecture series examining the historical and contemporary role of photography in civic participation.

Holbein: Capturing Character
Pierpont Morgan Library
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $100,000
Implementation for a temporary exhibition examining the portraiture of Northern Renaissance artist Hans Holbein the Younger (Augsberg, 1497/98–London, 1543).

Flashpoints: Free Speech in American History, Culture & Society
PEN American Center, Inc.
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $150,000
Implementation of ten public discussion events addressing the history and value of free speech in the United States.

Eastern Mediterranean Gallery
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Award: Outright; $200,000
Implementation of a reinstallation of a permanent exhibition on the art and artifacts of ancient Eastern Mediterranean cultures and peoples from the Late Bronze Age (1,500 B.C.) to the Roman Period (1,000 A.D.).

Scranton's Story, Our Nation's Story
University of Scranton
Scranton, PA
Award: Outright; $152,791
Implementation of a public discussion series addressing Scranton and U.S. history as they relate to questions of national identity and citizenship.

Media Projects

Development Grants

Nihunavea: My Heart, My Center
Film Independent, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
Award: Outright; $60,000
Development of a ninety-minute documentary film on the Tejon Tribe of California’s struggle to reclaim sovereignty and revitalize their native language.

The Colfax Massacre
City Lore, Inc.
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $75,319
Development of a feature-length film about a Reconstruction-era conflict between southern whites and African Americans and its legal and social legacy.

Production Grants

Subtitle Podcast
Linguistic Society of America
Washington, DC
Award: Outright; $227,420
Production of a twenty-episode podcast season of Subtitle, a series on language and linguistics.

The Disappearance of Miss Scott
Center for Independent Documentary, Inc.
Boston, MA
Award: Outright; $500,000
Match; $75,000
Production of a ninety-minute documentary film about the pianist, entertainer, and activist Hazel Scott (1920–81).

My Underground Mother
Center for Independent Documentary, Inc.
Boston, MA
Award: Outright; $75,000
Development of a feature-length documentary film exploring the lives and legacies of women survivors of Nazi slave-labor camps.

Everything Seemed Possible: Luis Muñoz Marín and the Making of Modern Puerto Rico
New York Foundation for the Arts
Brooklyn, NY
Award: Outright; $500,000
Production of a ninety-minute documentary film on the life and career of Luis Muñoz Marín, the first elected governor of Puerto Rico.

The Five Demands: Two Volatile Weeks that Changed the Face of Higher Education
Jezebel Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $500,000
Production of a seventy-five-minute documentary film examining the legacy of the 1969 strike by Black and Puerto Rican students at City College of New York.

Short Documentaries

Poetry in America, Season 4: "More Perfect Union" Episode Sequence
Verse Video Education, Inc.
Brookline, MA
Award: Outright; $300,000
Production of five short films in the Poetry in America series.