GI-269526-20 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | Norman Rockwell Museum | Norman Rockwell: Imagining Freedom | 6/1/2020 - 12/31/2021 | $400,000.00 | Mary | | Berle | | | | Norman Rockwell Museum | Stockbridge | MA | 01262-9702 | USA | 2020 | American Studies | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 400000 | 0 | 400000 | 0 | Implementation of an
exhibition based on Norman Rockwell’s Four
Freedoms series at the Norman Rockwell Museum.
This exhibition implementation project builds upon the success of a traveling exhibit, Rockwell, Roosevelt and the Four Freedoms. The project includes an adapted temporary exhibit, Rockwell, Roosevelt and the Four Freedoms, the distribution of 100 "Civic Citizens" mini-exhibits to libraries with a goal of reaching underserved audiences in all 50 states, digital resources and humanities lectures by national thought leaders available live and virtually. With partners American Library Association and Tanglewood Learning Institute, this project will engage communities across the country in collaborative discussions and participation in community projects, leading to deeper knowledge of civics. The project uses Rockwell's Four Freedoms as points of access to increase understanding of democracy and universal freedoms, and to introduce new audiences to humanities topics. The anticipated project reach is 2 million people. |
GI-269527-20 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | Children's Museum of Indianapolis, Inc. | Power of Children: Making A Difference "Malala's World" | 6/1/2020 - 9/30/2022 | $400,000.00 | Jennifer | | Pace-Robinson | | | | Children's Museum of Indianapolis, Inc. | Indianapolis | IN | 46206-3000 | USA | 2020 | History, General | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 400000 | 0 | 400000 | 0 | Implementation
of a fourth story, Malala’s World,
within the existing permanent exhibition The
Power of Children: Making a Difference.
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis (Museum) proposes the addition of “Malala’s World” to expand the permanent exhibit entitled The Power of Children: Making A Difference. Through this project, the Museum will build upon its groundbreaking and successful permanent exhibit by adding the inspirational story of Malala Yousafzai, a young girl from Pakistan who advocated for and continues to support education and equality under the threat of the Taliban. In 2014, Malala was awarded the Nobel Prize for her advocacy efforts. Since opening in 2007, over 3.5 million children and their families and 250,000 students have visited The Power of Children: Making A Difference exhibit. Additionally, 67,578 have visited the traveling version in locations across the United States. |
GI-269616-20 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum | Spiro and the Art of the Mississippian World | 6/1/2020 - 8/31/2022 | $400,000.00 | Eric | | Singleton | | | | National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum | Oklahoma City | OK | 73111-7906 | USA | 2020 | Native American Studies | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 400000 | 0 | 400000 | 0 | Implementation of a traveling exhibition on the artifacts discovered at Spiro Mounds and the history and people of the Mississippian world.
The goal of exhibition is to share the history of the Spiro culture from its humble beginnings to its rise as one of the premier cultural sites in all of North America. The Spiro people, and their Mississippian peers, are nearly forgotten in the pages of North American history, yet they created one of the most exceptional societies in all of the Americas. This exhibition explores the archaeological and historical data connecting the Spiro site to other communities throughout North and Central America, discusses the Spiroan community and religious activities, and highlights the enduring legacy of Native Americans today who are descended from Mississippian cultural groups. This 200-object exhibition will include a publication, symposium, and website, all of which was developed in collaboration with the Caddo Nation, the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes, and scholars from over a dozen universities and museums from across the United States. |
GI-269659-20 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | Milwaukee Art Museum | Americans in Spain | 6/1/2020 - 12/31/2021 | $300,000.00 | Brandon | | Ruud | | | | Milwaukee Art Museum | Milwaukee | WI | 53202-4018 | USA | 2020 | Art History and Criticism | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 300000 | 0 | 300000 | 0 | 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.
Americans in Spain (working title) is the first major exhibition to present to a large audience the widespread influence of Spanish art and culture on American painting during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Organized by MAM and the Chrysler Museum of Art (CMA), the exhibition is currently scheduled to travel to two venues. Curators at both museums have worked closely with esteemed scholars to examine an underexplored moment in history when many of America’s most prominent artists traveled to Spain for training. Americans in Spain focuses on a time when both countries were undergoing significant shifts in power, culture, and worldviews. The exhibition sheds light on the how the political, economic, and cultural conditions affected how the artists experienced Spain and shaped their work. This close look at the artists’ sojourns brings light to an understudied aspect of American art and provides a rich opportunity to expand the understanding of American visual culture. |
GI-269665-20 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | Field Museum of Natural History | First Kings of Europe: The Emergence of Hierarchy in the Prehistoric Balkans | 6/1/2020 - 4/30/2024 | $399,357.00 | William | Arthur | Parkinson | | | | Field Museum of Natural History | Chicago | IL | 60605-2827 | USA | 2020 | Archaeology | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 399357 | 0 | 399357 | 0 | Implementation of a traveling exhibition on the evolution of hierarchy in prehistoric southeastern Europe.
The Field Museum requests support from the National Endowment for the Humanities for the implementation of a traveling exhibition—tentatively titled First Kings of Europe: The Emergence of Hierarchy in the Prehistoric Balkans—about the evolution of hierarchy in prehistoric southeastern Europe. Featuring some of the most compelling archaeological finds from the Neolithic period, Copper Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age, First Kings will tell the story of how small, autonomous, farming communities of the Neolithic evolved into centralized, hierarchical, and bureaucratic states during the Iron Age, approximately 8,000-2,500 years ago. |
GI-269669-20 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | Portland Museum of Art | Mythmakers: The Art of Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington | 6/1/2020 - 5/31/2021 | $300,000.00 | Diana | | Greenwold | | | | Portland Museum of Art | Portland | ME | 04101-3802 | USA | 2020 | Art History and Criticism | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 300000 | 0 | 300000 | 0 | 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.
With more than fifty paintings, watercolors, illustrations, and sculptures, Mythmakers: The Art of Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington, brings together many of Homer and Remington’s most iconic oil paintings, watercolors, and sculptures to examine how each embodied a quintessential American identity for audiences at the turn of the century. This timely and vital project explores the ways in which Homer’s late marine seascapes and Remington’s visions of the Western plains responded to profound cultural and social changes in the United States in the late 19th-century, and how these linkages resonate in contemporary society. |
GI-269678-20 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | Concord Museum | Concord: At the Center of Revolution | 6/1/2020 - 8/31/2021 | $400,000.00 | Thomas J. | | Putnam | | | | Concord Museum | Concord | MA | 01742-3701 | USA | 2020 | U.S. History | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 400000 | 0 | 400000 | 0 | 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.
The Concord Museum requests a $400,000 Public Humanities implementation grant to support the design, fabrication, and installation of a new permanent 6,000 sq. ft. exhibition, "Concord: At the Center of Revolution", and the development of dynamic related educational programming. This new interpretation addresses the NEH’s special encouragement to “consider the impact – both immediate and long term – of the momentous events of 1776” and to “advance civic education and knowledge of America’s core principles of government.” Grounded in new humanities scholarship, the exhibition will increase the Museum’s capacity to engage a range of adult visitors, families, and K-12 audiences with Concord’s history and its relevance to the present. |
GI-269686-20 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Portable Universe/El Universo en tus Manos: Thought and Splendor of Indigenous Colombia | 6/1/2020 - 5/31/2023 | $400,000.00 | Diana | | Magaloni | | | | Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Los Angeles | CA | 90036-4504 | USA | 2020 | Art History and Criticism | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 400000 | 0 | 400000 | 0 | Implementation of a 10,000-square-foot traveling exhibition on the art of Colombia from 500 BCE to 1600 CE.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) respectfully requests a $400,000 implementation grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support "Portable Universe/El Universo en tus Manos: Thought and Splendor of Indigenous Colombia," a traveling exhibition on view in Los Angeles (October 31, 2021-February 20, 2022) and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (June 20-September 19, 2021). Portable Universe will be the first comprehensive exhibition and in-depth investigation into the art of ancient Colombia in 20 years and will bring together approximately 400 objects spanning all major pre-Columbian cultures of Colombia from 500 BCE to 1600 CE. Curated by Dr. Diana Magaloni, Deputy Director, Program Director & Dr. Virginia Fields Curator of the Art of the Ancient Americas, and Director of Conservation,and Dr. Julia Burtenshaw, Assistant Curator, Art of the Ancient Americas,it will be accompanied by a catalogue and an array of interpretive humanities and educational programs. |
GI-269688-20 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | Denver Art Museum | Malinche as Metaphor Traveling Exhibition | 6/1/2020 - 4/30/2023 | $400,000.00 | Victoria | I. | Lyall | | | | Denver Art Museum | Denver | CO | 80204-2788 | USA | 2020 | Latin American History | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 400000 | 0 | 400000 | 0 | 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).
The Denver Art Museum (DAM), in collaboration with the Fowler Museum at UCLA, will present a traveling exhibition, Malinche as Metaphor, including public programs, publication, and a symposium. Co-curated by the DAM’s curator of pre-Columbian art Victoria Lyall, Ph.D., chief curator of the Fowler Museum Matthew H. Robb, Ph.D., and independent scholar Terezita Romo, this interdisciplinary exhibition will debut at the DAM from November 15, 2020 to February 28, 2021, then travel to the Fowler Museum from April 4, 2021 to July 25, 2021. Malinche as Metaphor is the first comprehensive exploration of the historical and cultural legacy of an indigenous woman at the heart of the Spanish Conquest of Mexico (1519–1521). Through historical and legal documents, scholarly and literary impressions, visual culture, and multi-media content, this exhibition traces Malinche’s continuing and contested legacy as a participant in the events of the Conquest. |
GI-269711-20 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | Clemson University | Call My Name: The Black Experience in the South Carolina Upstate from Enslavement to Desegregation | 5/1/2020 - 4/30/2026 | $400,000.00 | Rhondda | Robinson | Thomas | | | | Clemson University | Clemson | SC | 29634-0001 | USA | 2020 | African American History | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 400000 | 0 | 400000 | 0 | Implementation of a traveling exhibition examining the history of the African Americans who lived and worked the land that became Clemson University.
This project records, represents, and solicits the experiences of six generations of African Americans in a microcosm of American history and racial politics-Clemson, SC. Through this one university campus, built on formerly Cherokee land by settlers from the Ulster Plantations of Ireland, we start with the pre-history of the plantation in British colonial settings to tell an intergenerational story of African American life to the present day. Emerging from six years of work documenting, highlighting, and inviting community reflections (with two prior NEH grants), Call my Name assembles an unprecedented volume of materials on African American life in Upstate, Appalachian South Carolina. With this application, we seek $400,000 for the implementation phase of the Call My Name exhibition, including a 2-year staff person. After the conclusion of its three-state tour, the exhibit will be permanently installed in an off-campus, independent location, the Clemson Area African American Museum. |
GI-269725-20 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | Museum of the American Revolution | When Women Lost the Vote: A Revolutionary Story, 1776-1807 | 6/1/2020 - 6/30/2021 | $100,000.00 | Philip | | Mead | | | | Museum of the American Revolution | Philadelphia | PA | 19106-2818 | USA | 2020 | Women's History | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 100000 | 0 | 100000 | 0 | Implementation
of a temporary exhibition, educational materials, a website, and related public
programs exploring women’s citizenship and voting rights in the Early Republic.
When Women Lost the Vote: A Revolutionary Story 1776 – 1807 examines the little-known history of the nation’s first women voters—the New Jersey women who legally held the vote more than 100 years before the Nineteenth Amendment granted American women the franchise. Based on newly discovered poll lists and using original objects, digital interactives, and physical environments, the exhibition asks what new possibilities the Revolution created for women’s political activism. It explains how hope faltered amid rising partisanship, racism, and class tension as New Jersey closed the vote to all but propertied white men in 1807, yet, also how the Revolutionary promise rose again a generation later as suffragists drew inspiration from these early women voters. Timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the passage of women’s suffrage, the exhibition encourages visitors to consider that progress is not always linear, but that preserving rights and liberties requires constant vigilance.
"The Museum is planning for a partial reopening in August before we reopen to the public in September.
We anticipate limiting onsite visitation for the foreseeable future, including the cancellation of most
school groups visits and large group tours in spring 2021.
When Women Lost the Vote will open to the public on October 3 and will run through April 30, 2021.
Previously planned for the Museum’s special exhibit space, When Women Lost the Vote will be integrated
within the Museum’s core galleries, featuring newly installed historic objects and a new tableau scene,
and connected by an audio tour. It will also be made globally accessible to virtual visitors through a
robust online experience that will go live in September. An exhibition catalogue will also be published in
spring 2021.
The digital experience and many of the enhancements to the Museum’s core galleries will remain
permanently accessible for visitors.
Disseminating exhibition content across multiple formats will provide a flexible model for visitor
engagement. It will ensure broad public access to the exhibition, capitalizing on surging public interest in
the Museum’s virtual content, and accommodate onsite safety protocols in the galleries after reopening." |
GI-269765-20 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | Asia Society | Comparative Hell: Asian Religious Traditions and Depictions of the Afterlife | 10/1/2020 - 4/30/2024 | $400,000.00 | Peggy | A. | Loar | | | | Asia Society | New York | NY | 10065-7307 | USA | 2020 | History, Criticism, and Theory of the Arts | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 400000 | 0 | 400000 | 0 | Implementation
of a traveling exhibition of Asian artworks inspired by religious and cultural beliefs
about Hell.
Asia Society seeks an Implementation Grant in the amount of $400,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support “Comparative Hell,” a travelling, international loan exhibition that is scheduled to open at Asia Society Museum in New York, NY in September 2020, and at Asia Society Texas Center in Houston, TX in spring 2021. Developed with major Planning Grant support from the NEH, “Comparative Hell” will be a cross-cultural presentation of approximately seventy artworks inspired by notions of hell, including sacred, didactic narrative paintings and sculptures spanning the eighth to twenty-first centuries, from the Asian religious traditions of Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, and Islam. NEH support will enable Asia Society to install the exhibition; publish a scholarly exhibition catalogue; develop didactics, educational resources, and an interactive exhibition website; and present a scholarly symposium and series of complementary public programs. |
GI-271394-20 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | Asian Art Museum of San Francisco | Asian Art Museum’s "Dance in the Arts of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayan Region" Exhibition | 9/1/2020 - 7/31/2023 | $250,000.00 | Forrest | | McGill | | | | Asian Art Museum of San Francisco | San Francisco | CA | 94102-4734 | USA | 2020 | Art History and Criticism | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 250000 | 0 | 250000 | 0 | Implementation of a traveling exhibition about dance in the arts, culture, and religion of the Indian cultural sphere.
“Dance in the Arts of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayan Region” (working title) will use the accessible and engaging subject of dance as an entry point to encourage visitors to explore key humanities themes—including religion, power, gender, sexuality, and cultural continuity—as they relate to and are expressed through the arts and cultures of this region. Dance is everywhere in artworks from this geographic area and is seen to possess enormous power. Dance can not only convey the most profound religious, spiritual, and social messages, but potentially can disrupt or invigorate the world. “Dance” will feature approximately 125 artworks spanning 2,000 years from different mediums and cultures; interpretive and explanatory materials; and complementary education and public programs. Altogether, this project (starting 9/1/2020 and ending 10/31/2022) will invite visitors to better understand the immense power of dance in the region and its ability to convey and create meaning. |
GI-271419-20 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | Yiddish Book Center | Yiddish: A Global Culture | 9/1/2020 - 10/31/2023 | $200,000.00 | David | | Mazower | | | | Yiddish Book Center | Amherst | MA | 01002-3375 | USA | 2020 | Jewish Studies | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 200000 | 0 | 200000 | 0 | Implementation of a permanent exhibition of Yiddish language and culture from the late nineteenth century to the present.
The year 2020 will be the Yiddish Book Center’s fortieth anniversary. To mark the occasion, we are creating the world’s first permanent exhibit to explore the extraordinary range of literature, theater and music created in Yiddish since the late 19th century. Yiddish: A Global Culture will illuminate this vibrant and cosmopolitan world through a rich mix of photographs, historic objects and the Center’s unparalleled collections of Yiddish books. Most Jewish museums treat Yiddish culture as a marginal phenomenon. By contrast, our exhibition will place it at the heart of the modern Jewish story - a sophisticated, transnational culture that has continued reinventing itself into the present day. We will show women as prominent creators and consumers of this culture, and the importance of migration and exile as formative experiences for both writers and readers. Using the vast resources of the Center’s physical holdings, as well as our digital collections of audio recordings, oral histories |
GI-271433-20 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | National September 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center Foundation, Inc. | Traveling Exhibition and Public Programming to 20 Libraries Across the United States in Recognition of the 20th Anniversary of September 11, 2001 | 9/1/2020 - 12/31/2022 | $200,000.00 | Clifford | | Chanin | | | | National September 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center Foundation, Inc. | New York | NY | 10281-1116 | USA | 2020 | Public History | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 200000 | 0 | 119112.73 | 0 | Implementation of a panel exhibition, public programming, and librarian training for twenty libraries across the country.
The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 were a world historical event that resulted in the largest loss of life from a foreign attack on American soil and the greatest loss of rescue personnel in a single event in American history. In 2021, America will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the attacks. In recognition of this significant marker of generational change and, as individuals now on the cusp of adulthood have no lived memory of that September morning, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, in partnership with the American Library Association, will employ an exhibition and public programming to travel to 20 libraries around the country from January 2021 through December 2022. The project will lay out the events of September 11, 2001, its historical precursors, and its continuing legacy for contemporary society, while encouraging libraries to create programming that will explore connections between 9/11 and their local communities. |
GI-271448-20 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | San Antonio Museum of Art | Art, Nature, and Myth in Ancient Rome | 9/1/2020 - 8/31/2023 | $100,000.00 | Jessica | | Powers | | | | San Antonio Museum of Art | San Antonio | TX | 78209-6396 | USA | 2020 | Art History and Criticism | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 100000 | 0 | 100000 | 0 | Implementation of a temporary exhibition about landscape imagery in Roman art from the late Republic and early Empire.
"Art, Nature and Myth in Ancient Rome" will be the first exhibition in the United States to explore the wealth of landscape imagery in ancient Roman art. Our audiences' engagement with this striking genre will concentrate on three humanities themes: Human Engagement with Roman Landscapes, Roman Landscapes in Context, and Landscapes in Roman Art. Presented at the San Antonio Museum of Art from October 2021 to January 2022, the exhibition will present approximately 65 works, including wall paintings, sculptures, mosaics, and cameo glass and silver vessels. The proposed checklist features important works from the Vatican Museums and five Italian lenders, many of which have never before been exhibited in the United States. The project received an NEH exhibition planning grant (2018), and we are now requesting an implementation grant to support the shipping and installation of the international and domestic loans, which are essential to conveying the exhibition’s humanities themes. |
GI-271495-20 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art | Crafting America | 9/1/2020 - 8/31/2022 | $200,000.00 | Jen | | Padgett | | | | Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art | Bentonville | AR | 72712-4947 | USA | 2020 | Art History and Criticism | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 200000 | 0 | 200000 | 0 | Implementation of a traveling exhibition highlighting American craft since 1940.
A fresh perspective on American craft from the 1940s to today, Crafting America presents a bold statement on the past, present, and future relevance of craft to American identity. Featuring over 100 objects, this traveling exhibition showcases work in ceramics, glass, metal, fiber, wood, and other media. The exhibition traces skilled making across boundaries and asserts the vital role of craft in American history and culture since World War II. The intertwined nature of craft and American experience are foregrounded by the exhibition’s thematic structure, exploring the ideas of Life, Liberty, and The Pursuit of Happiness. This framework examines craft as an inherently democratic form, one that enables individuals from diverse backgrounds to realize the nation’s founding ideals in a broad and more inclusive way. |
GI-271498-20 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | University of Virginia | Implementation of the Traveling Exhibition "Madayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala" and Associated Programs | 9/1/2020 - 12/31/2023 | $300,000.00 | Margo | | Smith | | | | University of Virginia | Charlottesville | VA | 22903-4833 | USA | 2020 | Art History and Criticism | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 300000 | 0 | 300000 | 0 | Implementation of a traveling exhibition about the art, culture, and environment of the Yolngu people of northern Australia.
Madayin is a traveling exhibition that will immerse visitors in the art, culture and environment of the Yolngu people of tropical northern Australia. For millenia, Yolngu have painted sacred designs on their bodies and ceremonial objects. With the arrival of missionaries and anthropologists in 1935, they turned to eucalyptus bark to express the richness and complexity of their knowledge system to outsiders. The result was an outpouring of creativity that continues to this day as artists find innovative ways to express their worldview across cultures. A unique collaboration between Yolngu curators from Yirrkala and the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of UVA, Madayin presents the history of bark painting from a Yolngu perspective. Featuring more than 100 works produced between 1935-2019, it showcases eight decades of one of Australia’s most unique contributions to global art and culture, while exposing American audiences to a complex alternative way of viewing our shared planet. |
GI-271499-20 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | Detroit Historical Society | Boom Town: Detroit in the 1920s Exhibition at the Detroit Historical Museum | 11/1/2020 - 12/31/2022 | $100,000.00 | Tracy | | Irwin | | | | Detroit Historical Society | Detroit | MI | 48202-4009 | USA | 2020 | Urban History | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 100000 | 0 | 100000 | 0 | Implementation of a single-site, temporary exhibition exploring Detroit in the 1920s through the life stories of twenty diverse inhabitants.
The Detroit Historical Society will install a new temporary exhibition at the Detroit Historical Museum entitled Boom Town: Detroit in the 1920s that explores that important and dynamic decade, and brings to life the social justice and civic rights issues of the era such as women’s suffrage, African American rights, growth of anti-immigration factions among others that both illustrate the position of Detroit and the nation in the last century, while also offering context for conditions today. |
GI-271544-20 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | Diego Rivera's America | 9/1/2020 - 8/31/2023 | $200,000.00 | Janet | C. | Bishop | | | | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | San Francisco | CA | 94102-4522 | USA | 2020 | Art History and Criticism | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 200000 | 0 | 199924 | 0 | Implementation of a traveling exhibition about Diego Rivera’s murals and paintings from the 1920s to the 1940s.
SFMOMA requests support for the exhibition Diego Rivera’s America, on view October 24, 2020 – January 31, 2021. Diego Rivera (1886-1957) was one of the most aesthetically, socially, and politically ambitious artists of the 20th century. His complex compositions on public walls in Mexico and the United States made history and shaped history, and directly inspired muralists across the continent from the 1930s to today. Diego Rivera’s America is the most in-depth examination of the artist’s work in more than two decades. It will provide a new critical and contemporary interpretation of his images, whether painted on the wall or on the easel. The exhibition will be supported by a scholarly catalogue, education programs for students of all ages, and free public programs. Additionally, in-gallery interpretive media content will further contextualize Rivera and his work. |
GI-278045-21 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | Jewish Museum | Revisiting New York: 1962-64 | 5/1/2021 - 4/30/2023 | $100,000.00 | Claudia | | Gould | | | | Jewish Museum | New York | NY | 10128-0118 | USA | 2021 | Arts, General | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 100000 | 0 | 100000 | 0 | Implementation of a temporary exhibition exploring the cultural, historical, and aesthetic shifts in American art from 1962–64.
The Jewish Museum will present the temporary exhibition “Revisiting New York: 1962-64” from July 22, 2022 to January 8, 2023. This large scale project, encompassing two floors of the Museum, will provide a comprehensive overview of the three-year period from 1962-64, a time that saw a radical shift in American art, history, and global culture. The show will critically examine the development of the New York art world against this backdrop, highlighting how artists across the cultural landscape interacted with the changing city around them and demonstrating how their work was inextricably tied to this broader context. To accompany the exhibition, the Museum will produce a robust schedule of related programming for students, families, visitors with disabilities, and the general public. A scholarly catalogue, co-published by Yale University Press, will lay the groundwork for future research on this topic, and an accompanying audio guide will further enrich exhibition content. |
GI-278237-21 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | Worcester Art Museum | Implementation of the Worcester Art Museum's Arms and Armor Galleries | 5/1/2021 - 4/30/2024 | $400,000.00 | Jeffrey | Louis | Forgeng | | | | Worcester Art Museum | Worcester | MA | 01609-3123 | USA | 2021 | Arts, General | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 400000 | 0 | 400000 | 0 | Implementation of the reinstallation of a permanent collection of medieval arms and armor, including open storage, a visible conservation lab, and a study center.
The Worcester Art Museum (WAM) seeks renewed support from the NEH to assist with the final design and installation of its new permanent 5,000 sq. ft. Arms and Armor Galleries. Featuring almost the entirety of WAM’s 2,000-object Higgins Collection of arms and armor, the galleries will emphasize accessibility, empowering visitors of diverse ages, backgrounds, and a broad spectrum of abilities, to curate their own experience in exploring the stores embodied in these alluring objects. The installation will be multisensory and multimedia to accommodate different learning styles, and will highlight the multiple thematic lenses through which these objects can be understood. The underlying humanities themes shaping the installation include the contrast between the seemingly pragmatic purpose of these objects and their complex functions, and the meaning of their enduring power as symbols today even though they are no longer in actual use. |
GI-278241-21 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | Children's Museum of Indianapolis, Inc. | Emmett Till's Journey Home: A Story of Racism that Shocked a Nation | 5/1/2021 - 12/31/2023 | $400,000.00 | Jennifer | | Pace-Robinson | | | | Children's Museum of Indianapolis, Inc. | Indianapolis | IN | 46206-3000 | USA | 2021 | African American History | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 400000 | 0 | 400000 | 0 | 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.
The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis (Museum), together with the Emmett Till Interpretive Center (ETIC), requests a grant of $400,000 from the NEH to create the traveling exhibition, "Emmett Till’s Journey Home: A Story of Racism that Shocked a Nation" (tentative title) in partnership with the Till family and notable Till scholars. Featuring a vandalized Emmett Till historical marker that represents the ongoing challenges of racism in the United States, the traveling exhibition will tell the story of 14-year-old Emmett Till and his racially motivated 1955 murder, which sparked the civil rights movement and inspired a generation of young activists. By focusing on the story of one child, Emmett, the exhibition will make the difficult topic of the nation’s long history of racism accessible for family audiences, fostering dialogue and, as a result, inspiring families to take action to address modern-day racism in their own communities. |
GI-278252-21 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | New York Historical Society | Acts of Faith: Religion and the American West National Traveling Exhibition | 5/1/2021 - 4/30/2024 | $650,000.00 | Marci | | Reaven | | | | New York Historical Society | New York | NY | 10024-5152 | USA | 2021 | U.S. History | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 650000 | 0 | 650000 | 0 | Implementation of a traveling exhibition on the religious aspects of westward expansion in the nineteenth century.
"Acts of Faith: Religion and the American West" is an expansive, multi-format traveling exhibit and educational initiative that will premiere in New York from September 2022 through February 2023 and then embark on a multi-venue national tour beginning with our primary institutional partner, the Eiteljorg Museum. Deploying a wide range of artifacts, art, historical documents, photographs, and ephemera from museums and collections across the country, this immersive exhibit will engage hundreds of thousands of visitors in an exploration of the religious dimensions of westward expansion in the United States during the long 19th century and how that history continues to shape our culture today. Secondary formats include a virtual exhibition, audio and digital content, live and virtual public programming, evergreen K-12 curriculum materials, a family gallery guide, and a discussion kit to support community conversations will support the engagement of a broad and diverse national audience. |
GI-278264-21 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | History Colorado | The Sand Creek Massacre Exhibition | 5/1/2021 - 7/31/2023 | $400,000.00 | Shannon | | Voirol | | | | History Colorado | Denver | CO | 80203-2109 | USA | 2021 | U.S. History | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 400000 | 0 | 400000 | 0 | Implementation of a permanent exhibition about the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho tribal members.
History Colorado respectfully requests an implementation grant to support the construction of Sand Creek Massacre, a five-year minimum, permanent exhibition at the History Colorado Center in Denver. Our staff are developing the exhibition in partnership with three tribes: Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, Northern Arapaho Tribe, and Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. On November 29, 1864, U.S. federal troops attacked a peaceful camp of Cheyenne and Arapaho who, at the direction of Colorado’s governor, were lawfully occupying the land along the Sand Creek on southeastern Colorado’s plains. Under Colonel John Chivington's command, the troops murdered more than 230 women, children, and elders as they tried to run for safety. This exhibition will be the first in the U.S. to share the culturally vetted history of the massacre through the voices of Cheyenne and Arapaho tribal members. |
GI-278280-21 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | Chicago History Museum | Fire! The Great Chicago Fire at 150 | 5/1/2021 - 10/31/2024 | $376,503.00 | Erica | | Griffin | | | | Chicago History Museum | Chicago | IL | 60614-6038 | USA | 2021 | Urban History | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 376503 | 0 | 376503 | 0 | Implementation of a permanent exhibition and accompanying public programs analyzing how the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 shaped the city.
The Chicago History Museum requests support for a landmark permanent exhibition revives the story of the Great Chicago Fire 150 years after it ravaged the city in 1871. CHM will draw on extensive resources to translate our humanities scholarship for children in our target age group of 7-13 and their adults. Comprehensive front-end research on serving family audiences in the history museum setting, an unparalleled collection of artifacts and primary source documents from the Great Fire, and institutional and scholarly expertise on a topic with proven appeal across generations position us for success. The exhibition, its programs and media will support three experience goals: 1) Connect visitors and program participants to the history and relevance of the Great Chicago Fire; 2) Inspire civic and social-emotional learning among youth through historical inquiry 3) Foster intergenerational engagement with intellectually and emotionally resonant historical content. |
GI-278303-21 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | Para la Naturaleza, Inc. | Flora Borinqueniana: Three Centuries of Botanical Illustrations | 5/1/2021 - 12/31/2023 | $290,750.00 | Ivonne | | Sanabria | | | | Para la Naturaleza, Inc. | San Juan | PR | 00902-3554 | USA | 2021 | History of Science | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 290750 | 0 | 290750 | 0 | Implementation of a traveling exhibition on the history, science, and politics of botanical illustrations of Puerto Rican flora.
Para la Naturaleza (PLN), an operational unit of The Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico, seeks support in the amount of $290,750 from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Public Humanities Projects Program, for the Exhibition: Flora Borinqueniana: Three Centuries of Botanical Illustrations. This is an exhibition of traveling nature under the Implementation Category of the program. Through botanical illustrations, historic documents and objects from the 18th to the 20th centuries, the exhibition fuses art, history, science, politics, education and culture to explore how the story of the acquisition of knowledge and understanding about Puerto Rico’s natural surroundings informs the history of modern Puerto Rico as a whole. |
GI-278325-21 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | University of Texas, Austin | Painted Cloth: Fashion and Ritual in Colonial Latin America | 5/1/2021 - 1/31/2023 | $99,999.00 | Simone | J. | Wicha | | | | University of Texas, Austin | Austin | TX | 78712-0100 | USA | 2021 | Art History and Criticism | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 99999 | 0 | 99999 | 0 | 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.
The Blanton Museum of Art respectfully requests $100,000 in support of our upcoming 2021 exhibition, "Painted Cloth: Fashion and Ritual in Colonial Latin America". "Painted Cloth" is organized by Rosario I. Granados, the Blanton’s Marilynn Thoma Associate Curator, Art of the Spanish Americas, and explores the production and meaning of garments used in civil and religious settings across Latin America in the late 1600s and 1700s. There are approximately seventy-seven works in the exhibition (from paintings, to sculptures, prints, furniture and garments), with twenty drawn from the Blanton’s permanent collection, and upon installation will take up the entirety of the Blanton’s temporary exhibition galleries (approximately 8,000 square feet). |
GI-278330-21 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | Academy Foundation | Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971 | 5/1/2021 - 10/31/2022 | $100,000.00 | Doris | | Berger | | | | Academy Foundation | Beverly Hills | CA | 90211-1907 | USA | 2021 | Film History and Criticism | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 100000 | 0 | 100000 | 0 | Implementation of an exhibition exploring the history of African American representation in cinema.
To support the implementation phase of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures temporary exhibition, Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898–1971. Opening in February 2022, the exhibition explores the visual culture of Black cinema in its manifold expressions, from its early days to just after the civil rights movement, with a goal to redefine U.S. film history by elevating these underrepresented aspects of artistic production and presenting a more inclusive story. Regeneration is co-curated by Doris Berger, head of curatorial affairs at the Academy Museum, and Rhea L. Combs, supervisory museum curator, photography & film at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, and will be the first exhibition of its kind—a research-driven, in-depth look at Black participation in American filmmaking. |
GI-278338-21 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc. | Revisioning the Spencer Museum of Art’s Collection Galleries | 5/1/2021 - 4/30/2025 | $400,000.00 | Saralyn | Reece | Hardy | | | | University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc. | Lawrence | KS | 66045-3101 | USA | 2021 | Art History and Criticism | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 400000 | 0 | 400000 | 0 | Implementation of a thematic reinstallation of the permanent collection at the Spencer Museum of Art.
The revisioning of the Spencer Museum of Art's collection galleries will expand the diversity of cultures and identities represented in these exhibitions, center the experiences and comfort of visitors, and foster sustained inquiries into broad humanistic themes. The resulting exhibitions will be organized around four overlapping themes exploring ideas of intersections, empowerment, displacement, and illumination. These new thematic exhibitions will rebalance the collection galleries to showcase a breadth of mediums and foreground works of art by Black, Indigenous, and other artists of color and by women. An award from the National Endowment for the Humanities would provide critical support for continued community involvement in the realization of the project, as well as for casework, seating, production and installation, and evaluation of these fully reinstalled collection galleries across their first three years on view (2022-2025). |
GI-278350-21 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | Minneapolis Institute of Arts | Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art | 5/1/2021 - 8/31/2022 | $400,000.00 | Robert | Thomas | Cozzolino | | | | Minneapolis Institute of Arts | Minneapolis | MN | 55404-3506 | USA | 2021 | Arts, General | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 400000 | 0 | 400000 | 0 | Implementation of a traveling exhibit examining the expression of supernatural and otherworldly ideas in American art.
The Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts (dba Minneapolis Institute of Art, or Mia) respectfully requests an exhibition implementation grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support "Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art." This exhibition, its accompanying publication and public programs will broadly examine the centrality of otherworldly concerns and the spectral imagination to American artists. Featuring approximately 170 objects from well-known artists as well as those never before exhibited in museums, the exhibition has been developed with input from a broad advisory group, including artists, academics, and community members. Objects will include paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, Spiritualist material culture, and video. "Supenatural America" is organized by Mia and will be shown at the Toledo Museum of Art and Speed Art Museum before its finale and closing presentation at Mia. |
GI-278351-21 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Dining with the Sultan: The Fine Art of Feasting at the Islamic Courts | 7/1/2021 - 6/30/2025 | $400,000.00 | Linda | | Komaroff | | | | Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Los Angeles | CA | 90036-4504 | USA | 2021 | Arts, General | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 400000 | 0 | 400000 | 0 | 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 Los Angeles County Museum of Art requests a $400,000 grant to support the implementation of Dining with the Sultan: The Fine Art of Feasting at the Islamic Courts, premiering at LACMA April - September 2023 before traveling to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Organized by Dr. Linda Komaroff, Curator of Islamic Art, Dining with the Sultan will be the first museum exhibition to explore Islamic visual culture in the context of its related culinary and dining traditions. The exhibition will include more than 200 works from 25 public and private collections spanning the 8th through 19th centuries, including metalwork, ceramics, enameled glass, textiles, and illustrated manuscripts depicting food preparation and dining. Along with its catalogue and programming, Dining with the Sultan will make important contributions to scholarship in multiple humanities fields and will increase audiences’ understanding of the art and culture of the Islamic world and its diverse peoples and traditions. |
GI-280309-21 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | University of Pennsylvania | Eastern Mediterranean Gallery | 9/1/2021 - 8/31/2023 | $200,000.00 | Lauren | M. | Ristvet | | | | University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | PA | 19104-6205 | USA | 2021 | Archaeology | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 200000 | 0 | 200000 | 0 | 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.).
The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum) requests a $400,000 exhibitions implementation grant to install a 2,000-square-foot permanent gallery to showcase collections from the Levant and the Eastern Mediterranean. The Penn Museum holds one of the finest collections of ancient objects from the Israel, Jordan, Cyprus, and the Palestinian Territories in the world, with most of the collection coming from Penn''s own excavations. Much of this excavated material has never before been on display. Scheduled to open in fall 2022, the Eastern Mediterranean: Cultures, Conflict, and Creativity Gallery will introduce the Museum''s pioneering research and rich collections to public audiences. |
GI-280405-21 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | Boston Children's Museum | Our City: Building Kindness and Empathy | 9/1/2021 - 8/31/2023 | $200,000.00 | Melissa | | Higgins | | | | Boston Children's Museum | Boston | MA | 02210-1016 | USA | 2021 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 200000 | 0 | 200000 | 0 | Implementation of a 3,500-square-foot permanent exhibition exploring the diversity of identity through religion, history, and art.
Our City: Building Kindness and Empathy, a 3,500 square foot permanent exhibit at Boston Children’s Museum, invites children and their caregivers to think deeply about issues faced daily in a diverse society. Envisioned as a collaborative and dialogue-rich experience, this exhibit offers a welcoming, multisensory environment where families with young children can connect around music, food, family traditions and beliefs, visual art and design, history and political thought, and in doing so, surface questions of identity, cultural and social diversity, bias, and equity. Humanities scholars from the disciplines of religion, art, history, music, and philosophy have enriched the exhibit content, approach, experiences, and aesthetics. The Our City design team is translating their depth of knowledge into innovative methods for addressing the complex themes of identity, multiculturalism and diversity, and equity in ways that are meaningful for children 4-10 years old and their caregivers. |
GI-280460-21 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | Ball State University | St. Clair's Defeat Revisited: A New View of the Conflict Traveling Exhibit | 1/1/2022 - 8/31/2025 | $200,000.00 | Christine | K. | Thompson | | | | Ball State University | Muncie | IN | 47306-1022 | USA | 2021 | Native American Studies | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 200000 | 0 | 200000 | 0 | 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.
Ball State University, Applied Anthropology Laboratories (AAL), and the Ohio History Connection request a traveling Exhibitions Implementation grant to implement St. Clair's Defeat Revisited: A New View of the Conflict, a traveling exhibition that will be displayed at the Ohio History Center in Columbus, Ohio, and then travel to Northeastern Oklahoma (NEO) A&M College in Miami, Oklahoma, to The History Center, Fort Wayne, Indiana, and to a fourth performance site to be determined. The format of A New View will include both museum exhibits and associated public presentations by tribal Humanities Scholars and American Indian tribal citizens. A two-year Position in Public Humanities (PiPH) is included in this request. In addition to organizing the presentation series, the PiPH will create an exhibit guide and a K-12 curriculum guide to be used with the traveling exhibit. |
GI-280462-21 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | Morgan Library and Museum | Holbein: Capturing Character | 9/1/2021 - 8/31/2023 | $100,000.00 | John | | McQuillen | | | | Morgan Library and Museum | New York | NY | 10016-3405 | USA | 2021 | Art History and Criticism | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 100000 | 0 | 100000 | 0 | Implementation for a temporary exhibition examining the portraiture of Northern Renaissance artist Hans Holbein the Younger (Augsberg, 1497/98–London, 1543).
"Holbein: Capturing Character" explores the construction of personal identity in the Renaissance through the portraiture of Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/98–1543). Didactic in nature, Holbein's works reflect the personal relationships and rich cultural exchanges between painters and civic communities during a time when humanism and the arts became closely intertwined in Northern Europe. On view February 11 through May 15, 2022, this two-gallery exhibition will investigate how Holbein visually and intellectually represented the personal identity of his sitters through many of his most famous paintings, drawings, and prints, as well as works by his contemporaries and other objects. This will be the first monographic exhibition on the famous artist in nearly 40 years and the largest single collection of his works ever publicly exhibited in the United States. Accompanying the presentation will be a variety of engaging public programs and a fully illustrated catalogue. |
GI-280483-21 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Ancient Andean Art Gallery Re-installation Implementation | 9/1/2021 - 8/31/2024 | $200,000.00 | Allyson | | Purpura | Kasia | | Szremski | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Champaign | IL | 61801-3620 | USA | 2021 | Arts, General | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 200000 | 0 | 200000 | 0 | 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.
Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign requests a $400,000 Implementation Grant for the reinstallation of its internationally acclaimed collection of ancient and colonial Andean art. |
GI-285309-22 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | Museum of Arts and Design | Craft Front and Center: A Permanent Exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design | 5/1/2022 - 12/31/2024 | $377,364.00 | Elissa | | Auther | | | | Museum of Arts and Design | New York | NY | 10019-6106 | USA | 2022 | Art History and Criticism | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 377364 | 0 | 377364 | 0 | Implementation for a permanent exhibition exploring the role of the studio craft movement in postwar American history and culture.
Craft Front and Center is a permanent exhibition featuring the Museum’s collection that highlights the multiple historical, cultural, and aesthetic contexts for craft in the post-World War II era. This is the first permanent exhibition for the museum. The goals of the exhibition are to anchor the museum visit in a cohesive narrative and introduce audiences to the history of craft as a diverse movement rooted in an egalitarian ethos, providing a picture of craft as a multi-faceted and vital part of American history, culture, and society. The project will begin 05/01/2022 and end on 12/31/2023. |
GI-285316-22 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | College of the Holy Cross | The Crusades and the Chertsey Combat Tiles: A Medieval Masterpiece Reconstructed | 5/1/2022 - 8/31/2023 | $100,000.00 | Amanda | | Luyster | | | | College of the Holy Cross | Worcester | MA | 01610-2395 | USA | 2022 | Art History and Criticism | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 100000 | 0 | 100000 | 0 | 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.
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GI-285414-22 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | Walters Art Gallery | Ethiopia at the Crossroads | 5/1/2022 - 6/30/2025 | $400,000.00 | Christine | | Sciacca | | | | Walters Art Gallery | Baltimore | MD | 21201-5118 | USA | 2022 | Art History and Criticism | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 400000 | 0 | 396000 | 0 | 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.
This project supports "Ethiopia at the Crossroads," a landmark international loan exhibition that celebrates the artistic traditions of Ethiopia from antiquity to the present. Opening at the Walters Art Museum in Fall 2024, this exhibition will explore the cultural significance and humanistic legacy of Ethiopia, from the earliest prehistoric origins through today. This will be the first major art exhibition in America to examine Ethiopian art in a global context by examining how Ethiopia embodies the idea of "crossroads" geographically, historically, and culturally. Accompanied by interpretive experiences in the galleries, contemporary art installations, a dynamic suite of public programs, and a field-leading scholarly publication, "Ethiopia at the Crossroads" will enrich scholars and the public alike with a greater understanding of the complex exchange of visual culture between Ethiopia and the world. |
GI-285466-22 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | Historic St. Mary's City Commission | Storytellers and ADA Assistive Technology | 5/1/2022 - 3/31/2026 | $315,150.00 | Peter | | Friesen | | | | Historic St. Mary's City Commission | St. Mary's City | MD | 20686-0039 | USA | 2022 | U.S. History | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 315150 | 0 | 315150 | 0 | Production of three Storyteller kiosks as part of the Maryland Heritage Interpretive Center orientation exhibition and exhibition-wide ADA assistive technology.
The project includes production of three interactive interpretive elements called Storytellers to ensure diverse and inclusive history is presented. To assist in the development of the exhibition content that is fully representative of all the lived experiences of people on the site, the HSMCC will partner with community collaborators and humanities scholars. The project includes ADA assistive technology to enhance accessibility for those visitors who are blind or visually impaired by creating Visual Descriptions of the interactives that can be accessed by the visitor through technologies embedded in the exhibition or a personal cellphone. |
GI-287558-22 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | Vashon Maury Island Heritage Association | Vashon Heritage Museum: A Newly Imagined, Richly Diverse Permanent Exhibit | 9/1/2022 - 11/30/2024 | $287,000.00 | Elsa | | Croonquist | | | | Vashon Maury Island Heritage Association | Vashon | WA | 98070-4645 | USA | 2022 | History, General | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 287000 | 0 | 287000 | 0 |
Vashon Maury Island Heritage Museum respectfully requests an Implementation Grant of $325,000 from the NEH to complete the creation and installation of a newly imagined, comprehensive Permanent Exhibit that welcomes our community and accurately reflects the diverse, multi-faceted history of our Island and its many peoples. The history and heritage of Vashon-Maury Island, a rural spot located just a short ferry ride from Seattle or Tacoma, is reflective of much of the Pacific Northwest: home to Coast Salish culture that thrived in the Salish Sea for millennia, including the sx???babš of Vashon - then settled by the Euro-Asian-Americans who swept into the Puget Sound in the mid-1800s. As originally conceived over 20 years ago, our Permanent Exhibit was for the most part reflective of a Eurocentric settler’s heritage. A vast amount of information and crucial context was absent. The Museum will bring these hidden stories to light in the new Permanent Exhibit. |
GI-287587-22 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | Baltimore Museum of Art | Renaissance Woman | 9/1/2022 - 6/30/2024 | $100,000.00 | Andaleeb | | Banta | | | | Baltimore Museum of Art | Baltimore | MD | 21218-3898 | USA | 2022 | Art History and Criticism | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 100000 | 0 | 100000 | 0 | Implementation
of a female artist-centered exhibition of European art of the fifteenth through
eighteenth centuries.
The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) respectfully requests a $100,000 implementation grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support "Renaissance Woman" [working title], a temporary exhibition on view in Baltimore from October 1, 2023 to January 7, 2024. Curated at the BMA by Dr. Andaleeb Badiee Banta, Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs, "Renaissance Woman" will be the first North American thematic exhibition in over 40 years to present an expansive female artist-centered approach to European art of the 15th through 18th centuries. The exhibition will bring together approximately 150 objects exclusively made by women artists from collections across North America and Europe, as well as select private loans. It will be accompanied by comprehensive didactic materials and a robust slate of interpretive humanities and educational programs, along with a fully illustrated 250-page catalogue. |
GI-287686-22 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | New Orleans Museum of Art | Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club | 9/1/2022 - 10/31/2023 | $300,000.00 | Lisa | | Rotondo-McCord | | | | New Orleans Museum of Art | New Orleans | LA | 70179-0123 | USA | 2022 | Art History and Criticism | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 300000 | 0 | 300000 | 0 | 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.
Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence & the Mbari Club is a traveling exhibition jointly organized by the Chrysler Museum of Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art that highlights an under-researched body of work by the African American artist Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000), and celebrates the little-known creative exchange that occurred between Lawrence and his West African-based contemporaries during the 1960s. Lawrence’s travels to Nigeria in 1962 and 1964 occurred just a few years after Nigerian independence, when the citizens were embracing self-governance and developing the strategies to present a modern Nigeria to the world. The arts—music, literature, and drama—contributed forcefully to this sense of self-determination. The exhibition also explores his relationship with the Mbari Artists and Writers Club, an organization of continental African-based artists, writers, and dramatists promoting modern African artistic practice, and the Club's arts journal publication Black Orpheus. |
GI-287717-22 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | Brooklyn Children's Museum | Brooklyn Time Machine | 10/1/2022 - 12/31/2024 | $499,500.00 | Hana | | Elwell | | | | Brooklyn Children's Museum | Brooklyn | NY | 11213-1900 | USA | 2022 | Arts, Other | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 499500 | 0 | 499500 | 0 | Implementation of an interactive exhibition exploring
400 years of Brooklyn history.
Brooklyn Children’s Museum (BCM) requests an $499,500 Public Humanities Exhibit Implementation grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support Brooklyn Time Machine, a permanent exhibition exploring 400 years of Brooklyn’s history in a 25-foot high, three-level, gross-motor climbing structure for children ages 5 to 12. As part of this proposal, BCM requests funds for an Exhibit Manager, a public humanities position that will serve as project manager, research and source material from CBH and other partner collections, and coordinate scholar activities. |
GI-290758-23 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | Museum of the City of New York, Inc. | The New York Century: 100 Years of Imagining the City, 1923-2023 | 5/1/2023 - 4/30/2024 | $100,000.00 | Sarah | M. | Henry | | | | Museum of the City of New York, Inc. | New York | NY | 10029-5221 | USA | 2023 | Urban Studies | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 100000 | 0 | 100000 | 0 | Implementation of a short-term exhibition examining how New York City has been depicted in arts, media, and culture from 1923 to 2023.
"The New York Century: 100 Years of Imagining the City, 1923-2023" is a new exhibition opening at the Museum of the City of New York in celebration of our Centennial year in 2023. The exhibition seeks to answer “What does New York mean?” through a sweeping investigation of how the arts, media, and culture have imagined, represented, and interpreted New York City over the past one hundred years. Focusing our inquiry on the century since the Museum was founded and the dramatic changes that have taken place in the years since, "The New York Century" will invite visitors to consider the ways in which generations of diverse artists and creators have interpreted New York City as a matrix of people, places, and stories. |
GI-290768-23 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | Shelley and Donald Rubin Cultural Trust | Gateway to Himalayan Art | 7/1/2023 - 4/30/2027 | $400,000.00 | Michelle | | Bennett Simorella | Elena | | Pakhoutova | Shelley and Donald Rubin Cultural Trust | New York | NY | 10011-5491 | USA | 2023 | Art History and Criticism | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 400000 | 0 | 400000 | 0 | Implementation of a traveling exhibition geared to university galleries that would introduce essential concepts of Himalayan art and culture and a digital educational platform.
Gateway to Himalayan Art, developed with the support of a scholarly advisory group, is a traveling exhibition that presents the iconography, materials, and artistic and cultural practices of the Himalayan region through select objects from the Rubin Museum combined with narrative descriptions, photographs, audio tours, videos, and digital animations. The public will learn about the fundamental art forms and important universal ideas from the Himalayan region, such as compassion, karma, the cyclical nature of existence, and the interdependence of things. Presented in three modules with a variety of thematic access points, different museum communities can modify the exhibition according to their needs. An open-access digital platform expands material from the exhibition, offering additional opportunities for engagement and learning about a lesser-known area of art and culture necessary for a holistic understanding of Asia. |
GI-290823-23 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Humanities: Africa & Byzantium | 5/1/2023 - 8/31/2024 | $400,000.00 | Andrea | | Achi | | | | Metropolitan Museum of Art | New York | NY | 10028-0113 | USA | 2023 | Art History and Criticism | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 400000 | 0 | 400000 | 0 | Implementation of a traveling exhibition exploring the global impact of the art and culture of Byzantine-era North and East Africa, including public programs, online media, and a scholarly catalog.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) respectfully requests a $400,000 implementation grant from the NEH to support the traveling exhibition Africa & Byzantium, organized in collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA). Building upon a line of Met exhibitions related to Byzantium, Africa & Byzantium will foreground the critical role played by early African Christianity, its heritage, traditions, and history in the Byzantine world while challenging common preconceptions about the arts of both Africa and Byzantium. Through educational programs, interdisciplinary interpretative strategies, accessible digital materials, and a scholarly catalogue, the project will expand public understanding of Byzantium, its reach, and its transcultural authority. The exhibition will make accessible complex humanistic themes and ideas related to African identity, and will foreground the importance of the North and East Africa’s cultural heritage to the development of world history. |
GI-290842-23 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | National Building Museum | Building Stories at the National Building Museum | 5/1/2023 - 4/30/2024 | $400,000.00 | Cathy | | Frankel | | | | National Building Museum | Washington | DC | 20001-2637 | USA | 2023 | Literature, General | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 400000 | 0 | 400000 | 0 | Implementation of a long-term exhibition exploring the built environments in children’s books and how those worlds lay the foundations for understanding our surroundings.
The National Building Museum—the country’s only cultural institution illuminating what, how, and why we build—respectfully requests a grant of $400,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to implement Building Stories, a new, long-term exhibition exploring the built environment as we first discover it—through the pages of children’s books. By activating these stories and their built worlds, and the early foundations for how we begin to understand our surroundings, Building Stories will allow us to investigate the role the built environment plays in our own lives and communities—and how we can be agents of change for its more sustainable, equitable future. |
GI-290857-23 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Beyond the Image: Mesoamerican Color | 7/1/2023 - 6/30/2025 | $400,000.00 | Diana | | Magaloni | | | | Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Los Angeles | CA | 90036-4504 | USA | 2023 | Art History and Criticism | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 400000 | 0 | 400000 | 0 | Implementation of a traveling exhibition on the role and practice of polychromy in Mesoamerican art from ancient cultures to contemporary Indigenous communities, including a catalog and online resources.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) respectfully requests a $400,000 implementation grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support Beyond the Image: Mesoamerican Color, a traveling exhibition on view in Los Angeles, CA (Sept 2024 - Feb 2025) and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR (Spring 2025). Beyond the Image will showcase more than 200 exemplary artworks and artmarking implements from all major cultural regions of Mesoamerica, spanning three millennia of artistic practice, and including contemporary works by living Indigenous artists. This ambitious project brings decades of interdisciplinary research on Mesoamerican color and artmaking to public audiences for the first time. Curated by Dr. Diana Magaloni, Program Director of the Art of the Ancient Americas, and Dr. Alyce de Carteret, Postdoctoral Fellow, Art of the Ancient Americas, it will be accompanied by a catalogue and an array of interpretive humanities and educational programs. |