The HEART Project

FAIN: GA-276200-20

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia, PA 19102-1424)
Monica Zimmerman (Project Director: May 2020 to December 2022)

The retention of eight staff members to expand online public programs and curate digital exhibits.

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (“PAFA”) seeks an NEH grant of $150,000 to support Humanity, Empathy and the Arts, also known as The HEART Project, a series of humanities-based programs serving three distinct segments of its audiences - teens, medical students, educators, and professionals, and exhibition enthusiasts. These programs have been put at risk at precisely the time when they are most needed by our communities. For almost a decade, PAFA has been pushing the boundaries of how an art museum conceives of serving its diverse public, particularly by committing to multi-disciplinary public program series that connect art making and art history to the wide variety of humanities disciplines that have a shared interest in exploring and evolving what it means to think humanistically in the modern age.