Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media

Period of Performance

5/1/1977 - 4/30/1978

Funding Totals

$8,085.00 (approved)
$8,085.00 (awarded)


Meet a Museum

FAIN: GN-10383-77

Gatewave (New York, NY)
James R. Jones (Project Director: May 1977 to present)

To bring the humanities to the handicapped through a radio series for the blind about 6 museums in the New York City area. Each of the six 15-minute programs will be introduced by the museum director and will include a discussion of one permanent exhibit by a curator. The series will be heard by about 200,000 listeners through the 100 station network radio reading service and the 50 regional libraries of the Library of Congress Division of the Blind and Physically Handicapped.