| ZH-258494-18 | Challenge Programs: Humanities Access Grants | National Building Museum | Investigating Where We Live | 5/1/2017 - 9/30/2020 | $50,000.00 | Theresa | A. | Esterlund | | | | National Building Museum | Washington | DC | 20001-2637 | USA | 2017 | Arts, General | Humanities Access Grants | Challenge Programs | 0 | 50000 | 0 | 50000 | Investigating
Where We Live, a
museum-centered program in which middle and high school students from the
Washington, D.C. metropolitan area examine
the people, places, and history that shape their communities.
The National Building Museum has offered Investigating Where We Live since 1996, empowering youth from the Washington metropolitan area to examine the people, places, and history that shape their own communities. Each summer, approximately 35 middle and high school students work together over five weeks (three full days per week) to plan, design, and install an exhibition of professional quality at the Museum. Past programs have focused on urban transformation in historically African-American neighborhoods as in Recapturing Shaw’s Legacy (July 26, 2013–June 8, 2014) and on themes like memorialization as exemplified by New Monuments Revealed (July 25, 2015–June 6, 2016). This program, which is free to students, was honored with the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award in 2013. |