Preparation for The Phillips Collection’s 100th anniversary exhibition, publication, digital components, and programs

FAIN: GA-275862-20

Phillips Collection (Washington, DC 20009-1090)
Elsa Smithgall (Project Director: May 2020 to October 2022)

The retention of twelve employees to engage in research, cataloguing, public programming, and website development for an exhibition.

NEH funds will support an interdepartmental project team of curatorial, public engagement, interdisciplinary, and digital staff as they complete activities associated with The Phillips Collection's 100th anniversary exhibition, publication, and programs. "Seeing Differently: The Phillips Collects for a New Century" will open in February 2021, therefore it is imperative that our humanities work continues, and evolves, during the pandemic. NEH funds will enable us to retain key positions, maintain the robust research, publication, and interpretive content development that were reliant on other funding sources, and allow us to devote more resources to developing digital engagement opportunities—a necessity to better serving our audiences during and after the pandemic.