GRANTS IN PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Division of Public Programs
Announced: February 2005
HUMANITIES PROJECTS IN LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES
Consultation Grants
Sharing Indiana's History during World War I with the People of Indiana
Indiana State Library
Indianapolis, IN
Award: $8,555.00
Consultation with scholars, curators, and librarians for a traveling exhibition and educational programs on World War I and its impact on Indiana and the experiences of Hoosier men and women who fought or in other ways participated in the war.
Age in America
Libraries for the Future
New York, NY
Award: $10,000.00
Consultation with scholars, educational programming experts, exhibit designers, and curators who would develop the initial themes and plans for exhibitions and programs on the role of the elderly in American society.
HUMANITIES PROJECTS IN MUSEUMS AND HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS
Consultation Grants
American Beach: The Impact of Integration on Segregated Resorts
A.L. Lewis Historical Society
Amelia Island, FL
Award: $10,000.00
Consultation for a public forum on the history of American Beach and other African American segregated beach communities during the Jim Crow era and on the changes they experienced after integration.
Owens-Thomas House Reinterpretation
Telfair Museum of Art
Savannah, GA
Award: $10,000.00
Consultation for a new interpretation of the Owens-Thomas House and its inhabitants, placing the house in the context of Savannah in the 1830s.
Planning Meaningful L. C. Bates Museum Interpretation for Visitors
L.C. Bates Museum
Hinckley, ME
Award: $10,000.00
Consultation to plan site tours, exhibitions, a website, and public programs about a historic orphanage in the larger contexts of the history of orphans and institutional child care since the late 19th century.
Exploring Our Past
Boston Children's Museum
Boston, MA
Award: $9,915.00
Consultation for a permanent hands-on history exhibition based on items in the museum's extensive collection of American items.
Laura Jernegan: A Girl on a Whaleship
Martha's Vineyard Historical Society
Edgartown, MA
Award: $10,000.00
Consultation to plan both an online exhibition and a permanent exhibition around a diary kept by a six-year-old girl on a whaling voyage from New Bedford, Massachusetts, to the South Seas in 1868.
Civil War Missouri: Exhibit and Public Programming
Friends of the Missouri State Archives
Jefferson City, MO
Award: $9,607.00
Consultation for a traveling exhibition, catalog, and accompanying programs exploring the unique nature of the Civil War in Missouri.
Exhibit Planning and Interpretation of Ellis Island's Hospitals
Save Ellis Island
Gladstone, NJ
Award: $10,000.00
Consultation with scholars and interpretive specialists to develop the first permanent exhibition interpreting the hospital complex on Ellis Island.
Introductory Interpretive Multimedia Exhibit for the Historic Home of 19th-Century Artist Thomas Cole
Greene County Historical Society, Thomas Cole Site
Catskill, NY
Award: $10,000.00
Consultation for a permanent interpretation of Thomas Cole's studio at Cedar Grove exploring Cole's art-making and its influence on the Hudson River School of landscape painting.
Arts of Kashmir
Asia Society
New York, NY
Award: $10,000.00
Consultation for an international loan exhibition and programs on the arts and crafts of Kashmir circa 300-1900.
John Schneider's Saloon
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
New York, NY
Award: $10,000.00
Consultation with scholars and interpretive experts to develop an interpretation of an immigrant saloon operated in the museum's historic tenement building at 97 Orchard Street.
Interpreting the Shakers for a Broader Audience
Shaker Museum and Library
Old Chatham, NY
Award: $10,000.00
Consultation for reinterpretation and reinstallation of a permanent exhibition and development of public programs on Shaker society at the museum's new facility at Mount Lebanon Shaker Village in New Lebanon, New York.
Voices of Greensboro Core History Exhibition
Greensboro Historical Museum
Greensboro, NC
Award: $10,000.00
Consultation to define themes and identify preliminary design issues for a new permanent core history exhibition about Greensboro, North Carolina, to open during the city's bicentennial celebration in 2008.
A New Core Exhibit of Western Reserve History
Western Reserve Historical Society
Cleveland, OH
Award: $10,000.00
Consultation to plan a new, permanent core exhibition about the history of the Western Reserve from the 18th century to the present.
The Past and the Present: Relating to Decorative Arts
Historic Bethlehem Partnership, Inc.
Bethlehem, PA
Award: $10,000.00
Consultation to develop an interpretive master plan of humanities themes for the Kemerer Museum of Decorative Arts.
Abraham Lincoln: Shadow of a Man
Abraham Lincoln Museum
Harrogate, TN
Award: $10,000.00
Consultation for a permanent exhibition exploring the relationship of Lincoln to his era.
Beverly Heritage Center Planning
Historic Beverly Preservation
Beverly, WV
Award: $10,000.00
Consultation for collection assessment, interpretive planning, and the design of two exhibitions in a planned museum on the history, folk life, and material culture of Beverly, West Virginia, and the creation of a small pilot exhibit to evaluate the themes.
Planning Grants
Planning for a New Alaska Gallery
Anchorage Museum Association
Anchorage, AK
Award: $40,000.00
Planning for a reinstallation of the museum's galleries that deal with Alaska history, with a special focus on the relationship between the people and the geographic place.
Objects and Agency: Creativity and Continuity in Native Alaska Material Culture
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
Award: $40,000.00
Planning for a traveling exhibition on the changing material culture of Alaska native groups (Aleut, Inupiaq, Yupik, Athabaskan, and Tlingit) from pre-contact through the 21st century, with a focus on how people's creations reflect changing cultural values and adaptation.
Landscaping America: Japanese American Gardeners and Their Gardens
Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, CA
Award: $40,000.00
Planning for a traveling exhibition of artifacts, photos, films, oral histories, and artwork about the roles that Japanese American gardeners and Japanese-style gardens have played in shaping the physical and cultural landscapes of the U.S. from the 19th century to the present.
Impressionism and the Art of the Past
Denver Art Museum
Denver, CO
Award: $40,000.00
Planning for an exhibition, catalog, audio tour, and accompanying programs exploring how Impressionist artists were influenced by artists and artistic styles of earlier eras.
Reinterpretation and Reinstallation of the Wolfsonian's Permanent Collection
Florida International University
Miami, FL
Award: $40,000.00
Planning for the reinterpretation and reinstallation of the museum's permanent collection of modern (1885-1945) European and North American decorative arts, industrial and graphic design, architectural design, and fine arts.
New Directions in Adult Education
Chicago Historical Society
Chicago, IL
Award: $40,000.00
Planning of new interpretive programs for adult audiences in conjunction with a renovated Chicago history gallery, examining Chicago as a cultural, economic, and political crossroads for the nation.
Planning a New Jane Addams-Hull House Museum Permanent Exhibition
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL
Award: $39,959.00
Planning to reinstall the permanent exhibitions at the Hull-House Museum to incorporate new scholarship about how Chicago's first settlement house, founded in 1889, influenced the definition of American democracy.
America's Kitchens
Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
Boston, MA
Award: $40,000.00
Planning of a nationally traveling exhibition, public programs, and publications on the cultural history of the kitchen in America.
Muses of the Avant Garde: Gerald and Sara Murphy and Their Circle
Williams College
Williamstown, MA
Award: $40,000.00
Planning of a traveling exhibition with related public programs about the influence that an American couple, Gerald and Sara Murphy, had on the transatlantic exchange of ideas about modern art in the 1920s and 1930s.
Great Art: New Start
Detroit Institute of Arts
Detroit, MI
Award: $40,000.00
Planning for a reinstallation of the museum's permanent European art collections in several newly renovated galleries.
James Presley Ball, 19th-Century Photographer: An Exhibition Project on His Life and Work
Cincinnati Museum Center
Cincinnati, OH
Award: $40,000.00
Planning of two traveling exhibitions with a catalog and public and school programs about African American photographer James Presley Ball as artist, entrepreneur, and abolitionist.
The Place I Call Home: Northeastern Pennsylvania's Underground Railroad History
Center for Anti-Slavery Studies
Montrose, PA
Award: $40,000.00
Planning for a traveling exhibition, together with a website and DVD, on the regional history of Abolitionism and the Underground Railroad and a research template that could be replicated in other similar areas.
Through Galveston's Gates: Immigration into Texas and America, 1845-1914
Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum
Austin, TX
Award: $40,000.00
Planning for a traveling exhibition and accompanying programs exploring immigration and slave migration through Galveston Island, Texas, 1845-1914.
Pioneer Airport Living History Project
Experimental Aircraft Association, Inc.
Oshkosh, WI
Award: $40,000.00
Planning for a living history program at the AirVenture Museum's Pioneer Airport emphasizing how aviation was embedded in American society and technology between 1919 and 1941.
SPECIAL PROJECTS
Planning Grants
The Immigrant Experience
OASIS Institute
St. Louis, MO
Award: $35,688.00
Planning for a cluster of seven informal non-credit courses for older adults to examine the role of immigration in the history and culture of the U.S., and for a related website and an intergenerational tutoring program.