| ZPP-283402-22 | Agency-wide Projects: ARP-Organizations (Public-related) | Edith Wharton Restoration, Inc. | Humanities Programming for The Mount 2022 | 1/1/2022 - 12/31/2022 | $200,000.00 | Anne | K. | Schuyler | | | | Edith Wharton Restoration, Inc. | Lenox | MA | 01240-0974 | USA | 2021 | Literature, General | ARP-Organizations (Public-related) | Agency-wide Projects | 200000 | 0 | 200000 | 0 | Resumption
of full-time, on-site literary and history programming.
The Mount, Edith Wharton's Home, is seeking funding to resume full-time on-site humanities programming in 2022, following two years of reduced programming, attendance, and income due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We will also continue to host online events as we did during the pandemic because it has allowed us to reach new, more diverse audiences. The Mount’s 2022 humanities programing will strengthen our core activities with a new focus on issues of racial justice, gender equality, and immigration. Our major goals are to: • Relate our interpretation of Edith Wharton to the present day by using her life and writings as the framework for conversations about class, gender, religion, ethnicity, and race. • Engage audiences with the literature of our own time, with a focus on writers who explore contemporary experience from underrepresented perspectives. • Present scholars and writers who interpret history from new or previously untold points of view. |