Peabody Essex Museum, Inc. (Salem, MA 01970-3726)
Daniel Finamore (Project Director: August 2008 to May 2011)
GI-50062-09
America's Historical and Cultural Organizations: Implementation Grants
Public Programs
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[Grant products][Media coverage]
Totals:
$380,000 (approved)
$380,000 (awarded)
Grant period:
4/1/2009 – 1/31/2011
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Fiery Pool: Maya and the Mythic Sea
Implementation of a traveling exhibition, a catalog, a website, and educational and public programs that will offer new perspectives on the centrality of water in ancient Maya art and culture.
The Peabody Essex Museum requests $400,000 toward the costs of Fiery Pool: Maya and the Mythic Sea, a ground-breaking traveling exhibition, publication, interactive website and suite of school and intergenerational public programs that will present recent scholarship, newly excavated material, and recent advances in epigraphy to a broad general public. This first truly themed exhibition on Maya art and culture will investigate the centrality of water, primarily the sea, to Maya daily life and spiritual beliefs and practices through 90 objects from 10 countries but primarily from those in the Yucatan region of Central America. Objects range in size from small, finely incised precious materials to large-scale stone stela and carved architectural elements up to 11 feet tall. Multi-media interpretive elements will allow visitors to better "read" Maya symbolism, particularly relating to water and water rituals as well as to understand Maya hieroglyphic writing and origin stories.
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