Public Humanities Projects Cumulative Awards List, 2018 to 2022
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Planning
Regeneration: Black Cinema 1900–1970
Academy Foundation
Los Angeles, CA
Award: Outright; $75,000
Development of a traveling exhibition, digital and educational content, and public programsexploring the role of African Americans in the American film industry.
Malinche as Metaphor Exhibition Planning
Denver Art Museum
Denver, CO
Award: Outright; $60,000
Planning of an exhibition on the historical and cultural legacy of Malinche (died, 1529), an indigenous Mexican Gulf Coast woman who was the explorer Hernando Cortés’ translator, cultural interpreter, and mistress during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire (1519–21).
Leaving a Legacy: DC Public Library Honors Dr. King
DC Public Library Foundation Inc.
Washington, DC
Award: Outright; $35,000
Match; $5,000
Planning of a permanent exhibition at the District of Columbia public library and a website examining the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. in Washington, D.C.
Once Divided, Reunited: Atlanta BeltLine Transforms Historic Railroad Barriers to Modern-Day Connectors
Atlanta BeltLine, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
Award: Outright; $52,532
Planning for historic site interpretation of Atlanta’s railroad corridor, including exhibitions,public programs, and trail signage.
A New View of the Battle of the Wabash
Ball State University
Muncie, IN
Award: Outright; $74,875
Planning for a traveling exhibition and related public programs about the Battle of the Wabash, a 1791 Native American military victory over the U.S. Army.
Unstuck in Time: Slaughterhouse-FiveThen and Now
Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library
Indianapolis, IN
Award: Outright; $20,000
Planning a permanent exhibition and the expansion of an existing traveling exhibition exploring the impact of Kurt Vonnegut and his seminal novel Slaughterhouse-Five.
Madame John’s Legacy: Exploring the History of the French Quarter
Friends of the Cabildo, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
Award: Outright; $40,000
Planning of the reinterpretation of Madame John’s Legacy, an eighteenth-century French colonial style house in New Orleans.
Old Sturbridge Village Interpretive and Educational Plan
Old Sturbridge Village
Sturbridge, MA
Award: Outright; $75,000
Development of a new interpretive plan and educational materials for Old Sturbridge Village to mark the site’s seventy-fifth anniversary in 2021.
Permanent Installation of Medieval Arms & Armor
Worcester Art Museum
Worcester, MA
Award: Outright; $40,000
Planning for a long-term exhibition of the museum’s arms and armor collection.
The History and Cultural Impact of Video Games: A New Gallery at The Strong
The Strong Museum
Rochester, NY
Award: Outright; $75,000
Planning of a permanent gallery exploring the history and impact of video games on popular culture, learning, and American leisure.
Journey to Sanctuary
Lincoln University, Pennsylvania
Lincoln University, PA
Award: Outright; $74,699
Planning for a permanent exhibition, a traveling exhibition, a website, and public forums exploring the role of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in encouraging migration out of the segregated South and creating community in Philadelphia from the 1940s to the 1970s.
Planning Carnegie Museum of Natural History's "Egypt on the Nile"
Carnegie Institute
Pittsburgh, PA
Award: Outright; $35,204
Planning for the reinterpretation of the museum’s Egyptian collection that would explore the intersection of human and natural histories in ancient Egypt.
Sacred Landscapes: Visions of Nature and Myth in Ancient Rome
San Antonio Museum of Art
San Antonio, TX
Award: Outright; $15,000
Match; $20,000
Planning for an exhibition examining the depictions of landscapes in ancient Roman art and society.
Implementation
Native North America: Indigenous Art from the 1950s to Now
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Inc.
Bentonville, AR
Award: Outright; $65,000
Implementation of a traveling exhibition, related public programing, and an exhibition catalog on contemporary Native art from the United States and Canada.
Beyond Line: The Art of Korean Writing
Museum Associates
Los Angeles, CA
Award: Outright; $100,000
Implementation of a temporary, single-site exhibition on the art and history of Korean calligraphy.
The Autry Museum of the American West: A Reinterpretation of the Imagined West
Autry Museum of the American West
Los Angeles, CA
Award: Outright; $400,000
Implementation of a permanent exhibition, a documentary, and public programs exploring images of the American West in popular culture.
The American Creed Community Conversations Initiative
Citizen Film, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
Award: Outright; $245,000
Implementation of a public screening and discussion program on shared American ideals as addressed in the PBS documentary film American Creed.
Idaho: The Land and Its People
Idaho State Historical Society
Boise, ID
Award: Match; $400,000
Implementation of a permanent exhibition on the role of Native Americans in the history and culture of Idaho.
Modern by Design: Chicago Streamlines America
Chicago Historical Society
Chicago, IL
Award: Outright; $0
Match; $100,000
Implementation of a temporary exhibition examining the role of Chicago in popularizing mid-twentieth-century modern design and the impact of this design on American culture.
Great Stories Club: Reading and Discussion for At-Risk Youth
American Library Association
Chicago, IL
Award: Outright; $397,255
Implementation of a nationwide series of humanities-focused reading and discussion programs for at-risk youth dealing with themes of empathy, heroism, and marginalization.
Chicago Reflects on the 1919 Race Riots
Newberry Library
Chicago, IL
Award: Outright; $200,000
Implementation of a city-wide series of eleven public programs and development of digital resources exploring the history and aftermath of the Chicago race riots of July 1919 on the centenary.
Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Medieval Trans-Saharan Exchange
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
Award: Outright; $350,000
Implementation of a traveling museum exhibition on the trade network that linked West Africa, the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe from the eighth to the sixteenth century.
The Mastheads
City of Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Pittsfield, MA
Award: Outright; $87,600
Match; $10,300
Implementation of a two-year community conversation and in-school programming series connecting local residents in the Pittsfield area to the literary and urban history of the Berkshires.
The Last Empresses of China
Peabody Essex Museum
Salem, MA
Award: Outright; $200,000
Implementation of the installation of a 10,000-square-foot-exhibition exploring the role of empresses in China’s Qing Dynasty (1644–1912).
Monsters & Myths: Transatlantic Surrealism in the 1930s and 1940s
Baltimore Museum of Art
Baltimore, MD
Award: Outright; $100,000
Match; $100,000
Implementation of a traveling exhibition, public programs, and a catalog exploring the impact of war and transatlantic exchange on the art of surrealists during the 1930s and 1940s.
Delta Blues Museum: The Story of America's Music
Delta Blues Museum
Clarksdale, MS
Award: Outright; $360,000
Match; $100,000
Implementation of a 9,000-square-foot exhibition, public programs, and curriculum materials exploring the history and influence of American Blues music and its connection to the Mississippi Delta.
Mississippi Stories: Visions of a Changing South
Mississippi Museum of Art, Inc.
Jackson, MS
Award: Outright; $275,000
Reinstallation of a permanent exhibition and creation of accompanying public programming and publications with art and stories of Mississippi.
Here, Now, and Always: Renovation and Renewal
Museum of New Mexico Foundation
Santa Fe, NM
Award: Outright; $460,000
Implementation of a reinterpretation of a permanent exhibition on Native American art of New Mexico and the Southwest at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture.
Roberto Burle Marx: Modern Nature of Brazil—A Garden-Wide Humanities Exhibition
New York Botanical Garden
Bronx, NY
Award: Outright; $460,000
Implementation of a traveling exhibition on Brazilian artist and landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx (1909–94).
Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow
New-York Historical Society
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $400,000
Implementation of a national touring exhibition, educational programing, and a website
exploring citizenship and Jim Crow laws in the post-emancipation era.
Lift Every Voice: Why African American Poetry Matters Today
Library of America
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $369,000
Production of an anthology of African American poetry and an accompanying series of reading and discussion programs.
American Art Galleries Reinstallation Project
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, PA
Award: Outright; $400,000
Implementation of a reinterpretation of the museum’s permanent early American art galleries.
Slavery at Jefferson's Monticello: Paradox of Liberty
Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc.
Charlottesville, VA
Award: Outright; $300,000
Implementation of traveling and panel exhibitions exploring the complicated role of slavery in our national founding and the experiences of enslaved people at Monticello.
Fiscal Year 2019
Planning
Wakaji Matsumoto: An Artist in Two Worlds, Los Angeles and Hiroshima, 1917–1944
Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, CA
Award: Outright; $75,000
Planning of a traveling exhibition, public programs, and a catalog examining Japanese immigration and life in rural California and Hiroshima through the photographs of Wakaji Matsumoto (1889–1965).
Origins of Oakland: Land, Labor, Home, and Native Presence
Friends of Peralta Hacienda Historical Park
Oakland, CA
Award: Outright; $40,000
Planning the interpretation of the archaeological remains of the original structures at Peralta Hacienda to uncover the story of Native American influence on site.
Becoming Americans: Immigrant and Refugee Writing in the 21st Century
American Writers Museum Foundation
Chicago, IL
Award: Outright; $40,000
A temporary, single-site, 900-square-foot exhibit that examines the influence on American culture of fiction, poetry, memoir, and other genres of writing by immigrants and refugees to the United States in the last thirty years.
Emily Dickinson Museum Comprehensive Interpretive Planning
Amherst College
Amherst, MA
Award: Outright; $63,025
Planning for a new interpretive plan and public programs at the home of poet Emily Dickinson (1830–86).
Ethiopia at the Crossroads
Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, MD
Award: Outright; $40,000
Planning for a traveling exhibition exploring the art of Ethiopia from antiquity to the present.
Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art
Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts
Minneapolis, MN
Award: Outright; $74,452
Planning meetings, curatorial travel and research, and audience evaluation for developing an exhibition on the reflection of the supernatural in American art over the decades.
BK Brooklyn Climber
Brooklyn Children’s Museum
Brooklyn, NY
Award: Outright; $66,150
Match; $8,850
Planning an exhibition that would relate the history of Brooklyn and Brooklynites over time through a climbing structure.
The New York Mystique
Museum of the City of New York
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $44,909
Planning of a permanent exhibition illuminating the cultural meaning and lived experience of New York City.
Religion and the American West
New-York Historical Society
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $75,000
Planning for a traveling exhibition to examine the role of religion in nineteenth-century westward expansion.
Arise Women of the Nation: Staten Islanders in the Fight for Women’s Right to Vote
Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences
Staten Island, NY
Award: Outright; $40,000
Planning of a temporary exhibition and public programs exploring the role of Staten Island in the creation and passage of the 19th Amendment.
The Thaddeus Stevens & Lydia Hamilton Smith Historic Site
Lancaster County Historical Society
Lancaster, PA
Award: Outright; $75,000
Development of a site interpretive plan exploring the impact of Thaddeus Stevens and Lydia Hamilton Smith on the Underground Railroad in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and the Reconstruction Amendments.
Creating Together: Reimagining the High Desert Museum’s Exhibition on the Indigenous Columbia Plateau
High Desert Museum
Bend, OR
Award: Outright; $45,000
Planning for the reinstallation of the High Desert Museum’s 4,500-square-foot By Hand Through Memory permanent exhibition.
Implementation
Where the Truth Lies: The Art of Qiu Ying
Museum Associates
Los Angeles, CA
Award: Outright; $100,000
Implementation of a single-site, temporary exhibition on the art of Ming Dynasty painter Qiu Ying (c. 1494–c. 1552).
Scrap Yard: Innovators of Recycling
Jewish Museum of Maryland
Baltimore, MD
Award: Outright; $50,000
Match; $25,000
Implementation of a traveling exhibition, website, curriculum, and public programs exploring the history of the scrap industry in America.
Dharma and Punya: Buddhist Ritual Art of Nepal College of the Holy Cross
Worcester, MA
Award: Outright; $100,000
Implementation of a temporary, single-site exhibition exploring the art and architecture of the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal.
More Than a Job: Work and Community in New Bedford’s Fishing Industry
New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center, Inc.
New Bedford, MA
Award: Outright; $200,000
Match; $15,000
Implementation of a permanent exhibit and supporting programs exploring themes of labor, immigration, and the changing nature of work and community in New Bedford’s commercial fishing industry.
Maine’s Mid-Century Moment: A Bicentennial Celebration
University of Maine, Augusta
Augusta, ME
Award: Outright; $100,000
Implementation of sixteen humanities discussions exploring the artistic and literary interpretations of Maine’s identity in the mid-twentieth century.
In the Vanguard: Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, 1950–1969
Portland Museum of Art
Portland, ME
Award: Outright; $100,000
Implementation of a traveling exhibition, an audio tour, and a catalog documenting the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts at its height from 1950 to 1969.
2020: Bicentennial Vision for Maine Past, Present, and Future
Maine Humanities Council
Portland, ME
Award: Outright; $100,000
Match; $10,000
Implementation of scholar-facilitated reading and discussion sessions, a humanities speakers bureau, and a “Theater of Ideas” that explore the history of Maine’s road to statehood to commemorate the state’s bicentennial.
Mr. Pruitt’s Possum Town: Trouble & Resilience in the American South
Curators of the University of Missouri
Columbia, MO
Award: Outright; $150,000
Implementation of a traveling exhibition, a website, curriculum materials, and related public programs exploring the day-to-day lives of blacks and whites in the rural community of Columbus, Mississippi.
Shaping Humans: A Discussion Series on Technology, Disability, and Human Flourishing
Hastings Center
Garrison, NY
Award: Outright; $250,000
Implementation of six public discussions on disability and technology at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
From Sitting Room to Soapbox: Emma Lazarus and Union Square, 1860s-1930s
American Jewish Historical Society
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $300,000
Implementation of a permanent exhibition exploring how Americans engaged in social activism and responded to activist movements in both private spaces and the public sphere, 1860–1930.
The Warrior Chorus: American Odyssey
Aquila Theatre Company Inc.
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $250,000
Implementation of audience forums, workshops, lectures, and reading groups at 24 locations around the country centered on a stage adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey.
Digital Worlds: History and Cultural Impact
Strong Museum
Rochester, NY
Award: Outright; $700,000
Implementation of a permanent exhibition, on-line content, educational materials, and public programs exploring the history and cultural impact of video games.
Please Touch Museum’s New Centennial Innovations Gallery
Please Touch Museum
Philadelphia, PA
Award: Outright; $200,000
Implementation of a permanent exhibition that explores the 1876 Centennial Fair in Philadelphia.
Free and Equal: The Promise of Reconstruction in America
University of South Carolina, Columbia
Columbia, SC
Award: Outright; $280,000
Implementation of a tour through Beaufort County, South Carolina, exploring the story of Reconstruction using a mobile app, a website, and an information kiosk.
Freedom Stories: Unearthing the African American Heritage of Appalachia
International Storytelling Center
Jonesborough, TN
Award: Outright; $200,000
Implementation of a series of public discussions and an accompanying podcast and website that engage professional storytellers with humanities scholars to explore the history of African Americans in Appalachia.
Fiscal Year 2020
Planning
Lives of the Cosmos: Celestial Visions along the Silk Road
Regents of the University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
Award: Outright; $74,538
Planning of a traveling exhibition on the cave-temples at Dunhuang.
Crossings: Mapping, Migration, and Tourism in the United States. An Exhibition at the Newberry Library
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.
Interpretive Exhibit Design for a New African American Visitor and Cultural Center at the Historic Clinton A.M.E. Zion Church in Great Barrington, MA
Clinton Church Restoration, Inc.
Great Barrington, MA
Award: Outright; $40,000
Planning 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.
The Personal and the Present: A New Vision for Michigan’s Holocaust Museum
Holocaust Memorial Center
Farmington Hills, MI
Award: Outright; $71,774
Planning for the reinterpretation and expansion of a permanent exhibition, related public programs, and curriculum materials exploring the history of the Holocaust.
Brooklyn Museum: Katsinam: Spirits of the Hopi World
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences
Brooklyn, NY
Award: Outright; $75,000
Planning of a traveling exhibition on the Brooklyn Museum of Art’s collection of Hopi Katsina dolls.
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.
Re-imagining 35 Centuries of Glass
Corning Museum of Glass
Corning, NY
Award: Outright; $75,000
Planning for the reinterpretation of an encyclopedic glass exhibition.
Exhibition Planning Project: Museum of Arts and Design, Materials that Make a Difference
Museum of Arts and Design
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $40,000
Planning meetings for the reinterpretation of the permanent collections of design and craft.
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.
Under the Same Sky: Birds in Art and Myth Traveling Exhibition
Sabiha Al Khemir Foundation, Inc.
New York City, NY
Award: Outright; $75,000
Planning of a traveling exhibition of artworks from multiple traditions and periods featuring birds.
Planning a New Exhibition for Carpenters’ Hall Carpenters Company of City and County of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
Award: Outright; $40,000
Planning of a new permanent exhibition for Carpenter’s Hall, the site at which the First Continental Congress met.
The Retreat Farm Story Paths and Landscape Learning Center
Retreat Farm, Ltd.
Brattleboro, VT
Award: Outright; $40,000
Planning of five walking path tours and an educational visitor center to interpret the historical relationship between people and the environment in Vermont.
Implementation
Crafting America
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Bentonville, AR
Award: Outright; $200,000
Implementation of a traveling exhibition highlighting American craft since 1940.
Portable Universe/El Universo en tus Manos: Thought and Splendor of Indigenous Colombia
Museum Associates
Los Angeles, CA
Award: Outright; $400,000
Implementation of a 10,000-square-foot traveling exhibition on the art of Colombia from 500 BCE to 1600 CE.
Asian Art Museum’s "Dance in the Arts of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayan Region" Exhibition
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.
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.
Malinche as Metaphor Traveling Exhibition
Denver Art Museum
Denver, CO
Award: Outright; $400,000
Implementation of an exhibition on the legacy of Malinche (died, 1529), an indigenous Mexican Gulf Coast woman who was the explorer Hernando Cortés’ translator, cultural interpreter, and mistress during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire (1519–21).
First Kings of Europe: The Emergence of Hierarchy in the Prehistoric Balkans
Field Museum of Natural History
Chicago, IL
Award: Outright; $399,357
Implementation of a traveling exhibition on the evolution of hierarchy in prehistoric southeastern Europe.
Power of Children: Making A Difference "Malala's World"
Children's Museum of Indianapolis, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
Award: Outright; $400,000
Implementation of a fourth story, Malala’s World, within the existing permanent exhibition The Power of Children: Making a Difference.
Yiddish: A Global Culture
National Yiddish Book Center, Inc.
Amherst, MA
Award: Outright; $200,000
Implementation of a permanent exhibition of Yiddish language and culture from the late nineteenth century to the present.
Concord: At the Center of Revolution
Concord Antiquarian Society
Concord, MA
Award: Outright; $400,000
Implementation of a new permanent, 6,000-square-foot exhibition, education materials, and public programs exploring the history of Concord in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Norman Rockwell: Imagining Freedom
Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge
Stockbridge, MA
Award: Outright; $400,000
Implementation of an exhibition based on Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms series at the Norman Rockwell Museum.
Historic Places: Implementation
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.
Mythmakers: The Art of Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington
Portland Museum of Art
Portland, ME
Award: Outright; $300,000
Implementation of a traveling exhibition exploring the lives and sociocultural impacts of painter Winslow Homer (1836–1910) and painter and sculptor Frederic Remington (1861–1909) on fin-de-siècle America.
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.
Comparative Hell: Asian Religious Traditions and Depictions of the Afterlife
Asia Society
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $400,000
Implementation of a traveling exhibition of Asian artworks inspired by religious and cultural beliefs about Hell.
Traveling Exhibition and Public Programming to 20 Libraries Across the United States in 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.
Spiro and the Art of the Mississippian World
National Cowboy and Western
Heritage Museum
Oklahoma City, OK
Award: Outright; $400,000
Implementation of a traveling exhibition on the artifacts discovered at Spiro Mounds and the history and people of the Mississippian world.
When Women Lost the Vote: A Revolutionary Story, 1776–1807
Museum of the American Revolution
Philadelphia, PA
Award: Outright; $100,000
Implementation of a temporary exhibition, educational materials, a website, and related public programs exploring women’s citizenship and voting rights in the Early Republic.
Call My Name: The Black Experience in the South Carolina Upstate from Enslavement to Desegregation
Clemson University
Clemson, SC
Award: Outright; $400,000
Implementation of a traveling exhibition examining the history of the African Americans who lived and worked the land that became Clemson University.
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.
Implementation of the Traveling Exhibition "Madayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala" and Associated Programs
Rector and Visitors of the 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.
Humanities Discussions
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.
Americans in Spain
Milwaukee Art Museum
Milwaukee, WI
Award: Outright; $300,000
Implementation of a traveling exhibition that explores the influence of Spanish art and culture on American painting during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
¡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.
Free For All: Public Library Discussions Initiative
Video Veracity, Inc
New Orleans, LA
Award: Outright; $310,000
Implementation of a national discussion program centered around the film
Free For All: Inside the Public Library.
Fiscal Year 2021
Planning
Reflections in Lafayette Park: Reimagining an Urban Oasis
Heart of Los Angeles Youth, Inc
Los Angeles, CA
Award: Outright; $40,000
Planning grant to design three temporary exhibitions with public programs examining the history of Lafayette Park in Los Angeles.
Bears Ears: Living Land
Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Foundation
Los Angeles, CA
Award: Outright; $75,000
Development of a temporary and traveling exhibition on the history and culture of tribes of the Bears Ears region in southeastern Utah.
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.
Updating the Amache Interpretation Plan: Reframing Interpretation at a WWII Japanese Incarceration Site
Sonoma State University
Rohnert Park, CA
Award: Outright; $40,000
Development of a master interpretive plan for exhibitions, site interpretation, and public programs for the Granada Relocation Center National Historic Landmark, known as Amache, and the Amache Museum.
The Earth(S)eed Archive: Science Fiction Creates the Future
New Children's Museum
San Diego, CA
Award: Outright; $58,425
Planning for an exhibit centered on the life, work, and impact of American science fiction writer Octavia Butler.
Curatorial Planning and Research for an Exhibition: The Near East to the Far West: French Orientalism and the American Frontier, at the Denver Art Museum
Denver Art Museum
Denver, CO
Award: Outright; $50,000
Planning for an exhibit that examines the impact of French Orientalism depictions of the American west in art, literature, and popular culture.
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.
The Business of Addiction: The Economic and Moral Complexities of the Opium Trade
Captain Forbes House Museum
Milton, MA
Award: Outright; $40,000
Development of a temporary exhibition, including virtual elements, a teacher workshop, and public programing, examining the legacy of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century opium trade.
The Power of Place: Interpreting a Freedom House
North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
Edenton, NC
Award: Outright; $74,415
Planning for a historical interpretation of the home of civil rights activist Golden Frinks (1920–2004) in Edenton, North Carolina.
New Masks Now: Artists Innovating Masquerade in Contemporary West Africa
North Carolina Museum of Art
Foundation, Inc.
Raleigh, NC
Award: Outright; $69,023
Planning for a traveling exhibition, a catalog, and public programs exploring the contemporary arts of masquerade in four West African countries.
Sharing Stories of Community Resilience to Disasters: Designing a New Model for Collaborative Traveling Exhibits
North Dakota State University
Fargo, ND
Award: Outright; $16,421
A planning grant to support a traveling exhibition about natural disasters.
Celestial Bodies: Native Astronomy of the US Southwest
Museum of New Mexico Foundation
Santa Fe, NM
Award: Outright; $40,000
Planning a temporary exhibition at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture on astronomical knowledge and practice of southwestern U.S. Native tribes.
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.
Turning the Tables: Hip-Hop and Media, From Fringe to Global Phenomenon
Paley Center for Media
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $40,000
Planning of an exhibition on the history and culture of hip-hop music and its relationship to the media.
Lost Labor of Love: The CETA Art and Humanities Project
City Lore, Inc.
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $75,000
Planning for a traveling exhibit about the 1970s Federal Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), that provided work for artists.
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.
Historias del Westside: Museo del Westside Inaugural Exhibition
Esperanza Peace and Justice Center
San Antonio, TX
Award: Outright; $75,000
Planning a permanent exhibition for the Museo del Westside and tours of the eleven-building complex comprising the Mexican-American historic district on San Antonio’s Westside.
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
Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971
Academy Foundation
Beverly Hills, CA
Award: Outright; $100,000
Implementation of an exhibition exploring the history of African American representation in cinema.
Dining with the Sultan: The Fine Art of Feasting at the Islamic Courts
Museum Associates
Los Angeles, CA
Award: Outright; $400,000
Implementation of a traveling exhibition on the arts of Islamic courtly dining culture from the eighth through the nineteenth centuries, including a catalog and public programs.
The Sand Creek Massacre Exhibition
State Historical Society of Colorado
Denver, CO
Award: Outright; $400,000
Implementation of a permanent exhibition about the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho tribal members.
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.
Fire! The Great Chicago Fire at 150
Chicago Historical Society
Chicago, IL
Award: Outright; $376,503
Implementation of a permanent exhibition and accompanying public programs analyzing how the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 shaped the city.
Let’s Talk About It: Women’s Suffrage
American Library Association
Chicago, IL
Award: Outright; $249,999
Resources and training for a nationwide reading and discussion program focused on the history of suffrage and its aftermath.
Emmett Till's Journey Home: A Story of Racism that Shocked a Nation
Children's Museum of Indianapolis, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
Award: Outright; $400,000
Implementation of a traveling exhibition on Emmett Till, whose lynching at the age of 14 in 1955 was a major turning point in the civil rights movement.
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.
Revisioning the Spencer Museum of Art’s Collection Galleries
University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc.
Lawrence, KS
Award: Outright; $400,000
Implementation of a thematic reinstallation of the permanent collection at the Spencer Museum of Art.
Our City: Building Kindness and Empathy
The Children's Museum
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.
Implementation of the Worcester Art Museum's Arms and Armor Galleries
Worcester Art Museum
Worcester, MA
Award: Outright; $400,000
Implementation of the reinstallation of a permanent collection of medieval arms and armor, including open storage, a visible conservation lab, and a study center.
Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art
Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts
Minneapolis, MN
Award: Outright; $400,000
Implementation of a traveling exhibit examining the expression of supernatural and otherworldly ideas in American art.
The Democratic Lens: Photographyand 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.
Warrior Chorus: American Democracy
Aquila Theatre Company Inc.
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $399,980
Public programs led by veterans and scholars based on classical Greek and American historical texts to address the meaning of democracy.
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.
Revisiting New York: 1962-64
Jewish Museum
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $100,000
Implementation of a temporary exhibition exploring the cultural, historical, and aesthetic shifts in American art from 1962–64.
Acts of Faith: Religion and the American West National Traveling Exhibition
New-York Historical Society
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $650,000
Implementation of a traveling exhibition on the religious aspects of westward expansion in the nineteenth century.
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).
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.
Flora Borinqueniana: Three Centuries of Botanical Illustrations
Para la Naturaleza, Inc.
San Juan, PR
Award: Outright; $290,750
Implementation of a traveling exhibition on the history, science, and politics of botanical illustrations of Puerto Rican flora.
Painted Cloth: Fashion and Ritual in Colonial Latin America
University of Texas, Austin
Austin, TX
Award: Outright; $99,999
Implementation of a single-site, temporary exhibition on the relationships between secular and liturgical garments and the art of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Latin America.
Fiscal Year 2022
Planning
Visual Legacies and the American West: Resilience and Reckoning
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Bentonville, AR
Award: Outright; $75,000
Planning of a traveling exhibition that reckons with visual and historical legacies of the merican West by placing art by Native American and non-Native American artists in conversation.
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Borderlands Traveling Exhibition Planning Phase
Academy Foundation
Los Angeles, CA
Award: Outright; $75,000
Planning for a bilingual, traveling exhibition, a catalog, curriculum materials, and public programs on the history of Chicanx representation and participation in American filmmaking.
Black Mariners of the Black Pacific: Planning the Exhibition
Maritime Museum Association of San Diego
San Diego, CA
Award: Outright; $75,000
Planning for a traveling exhibition exploring the historical role of Black mariners along the Pacific coast and islands from the sixteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries.
Planning the Interpretation of the Fort Garland Museum
State Historical Society of Colorado
Denver, CO
Award: Outright; $40,000
Planning for the reinterpretation of an 1850s U.S. Army fort in south-central Colorado.
Making Connections, Increasing Visibility, and Telling Stories: Indigenizing Open Storage at IUMAA
Indiana University, Bloomington
Bloomington, IN
Award: Outright; $71,861
Planning for a permanent visible storage exhibition of Native American and Indigenous archaeological and ethnographic objects using dialogue-based interpretive approaches.
Dorothea Dix Park Conservancy Historic Places Planning Grant
Dorothea Dix Park Conservancy
Raleigh, NC
Award: Outright; $75,000
Creation of a site-wide cultural interpretive plan for Raleigh’s Dorothea Dix Park.
We Carry It Within Us: Reinterpretation at Historic Cherry Hill
Historic Cherry Hill
Albany, NY
Award: Outright; $48,165
Planning for a tour and orientation exhibit that incorporates new research and scholarship on Cherry Hill, a historic home in Albany, New York.
Over-the-Rhine Museum Interpretive Plan
Over-the-Rhine Museum
Cincinnati, OH
Award: Outright; $75,000
The creation of a ten-year interpretive plan for the Over-the-Rhine Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The Declaration’s Journey: 250 Years of America’s Founding Document
Museum of the American Revolution
Philadelphia, PA
Award: Outright; $75,000
Planning for a 5,000-square-foot temporary exhibition, a smaller traveling exhibit, and related public programming exploring the contested legacy of the Declaration of Independence.
Black Photographers Chronicle America, 1945–1985
Carnegie Institute
Pittsburgh, PA
Award: Outright; $70,951
Development of a traveling exhibition exploring African American photojournalism from World War II through the 1960s.
From Jikji to Gutenberg: The Origins of Printing from Cast-Metal Type
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
Award: Outright; $74,999
Planning for a synchronous multisite exhibition in 2027 to observe the 650th anniversary of the earliest texts printed by movable metal type in Western Europe and East Asia.
Implementation
The Great Stories Club: Reading and Discussion for At-Risk Youth
American Library Association
Chicago, IL
Award: Outright; $213,546
Implementation of a nationwide program to support reading and discussion groups for at-risk teens at small local libraries.
Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club
New Orleans Museum of Art
New Orleans, LA
Award: Outright; $300,000
Implementation of a traveling exhibition on the artistic exchange between African American artist Jacob Lawrence and West African artists during Lawrence’s travels to Nigeria in the 1960s.
The Crusades and the Chertsey Combat Tiles: A Medieval Masterpiece Reconstructed
College of the Holy Cross
Worcester, MA
Award: Outright; $100,000
Implementation for a temporary, single-site exhibition in 2023 exploring the history of the thirteenth-century Chertsey Abbey floor tiles in the context of war and cultural exchange of the Crusades.
Ethiopia at the Crossroads
Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
Award: Outright; $400,000
Implementation for a traveling exhibition exploring the art and visual culture of Ethiopia as a geographic crossroads from antiquity to the present, including public programs and a catalog.
Renaissance Woman
Baltimore Museum of Art
Baltimore, MD
Award: Outright; $100,000
Implementation of a female artist-centered exhibition of European art of the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries.
Storytellers and ADA Assistive Technology
Historic St. Mary's City Commission
St. Mary's City, MD
Award: Outright; $315,150
Production of three Storyteller kiosks as part of the Maryland Heritage Interpretive Center orientation exhibition and exhibition-wide ADA assistive technology.
What If ...?: Afrofuturism and the Quest for a Just, Inclusive, and Sustainable Society
Maine Humanities Council
Portland, ME
Award: Outright; $250,000
Implementation of a twenty-four-month initiative that would introduce Afrofuturism to residents of Maine through reading and discussion programs, speakers’ bureau events, and statewide community engagement events.
Brooklyn Time Machine
Brooklyn Children's Museum Corporation
Brooklyn, NY
Award: Outright; $499,500
Implementation of an interactive exhibition exploring 400 years of Brooklyn history.
The Joseph and Rachel Moore Tenement Home
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $400,000
Implementation of a sixty-minute guided tour and interactive media exploring the lives of African Americans and Irish immigrants in nineteenth-century New York City.
Dyckman Discussions: A More Perfect Union in Inwood
New York City of Dyckman
Farmhouse Museum
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $160,000
Humanities discussions exploring the history of New York City’s Inwood neighborhood from the colonial era through the nineteenth century.
400 Years of Latino Poetry
Literary Classics of the United States
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $849,449
A national series of public programs tied to the release of an anthology of Latino poetry.
Craft Front and Center: A Permanent Exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design
Museum of Arts and Design
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $377,364
Implementation for a permanent exhibition exploring the role of the studio craft movement in postwar American history and culture.
Vashon Heritage Museum: A Newly Imagined, Richly Diverse Permanent Exhibit
Vashon Maury Island Heritage Association
Vashon, WA
Award: Outright; $287,000
Implementation of a permanent exhibition examining the history of Vashon-Maury Island.