MUSEUM GRANT AWARDS
Division of Public Programs
Announced: July 1999
ALASKA
Kodiak, Alutiiq Heritage Foundation $194,555PROJECT DIRECTOR: Amy F. Steffian, (907) 486-7004
MATCHING FUNDS $58,000
TITLE: Looking Both Ways: Heritage and Identity of the Alutiiq People
DESCRIPTION: A traveling exhibition, educational programs, CD-ROM, and catalog on the Alutiiq people of south coastal Alaska, featuring prehistoric and contemporary materials.
Fairbanks, University of Alaska Museum $135,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Aldona Jonaitis, (907) 474-6939
TITLE: Rose Berry Alaskan Art Gallery
DESCRIPTION: Installation of a new wing of the museum devoted to Alaskan
art with special emphasis on the ways in which people have responded expressively
to the region.
ARIZONA
Fort Apache, White Mountain Apache Tribe $40,330PROJECT DIRECTOR: Nancy E. Mahaney, (520) 338-4625
TITLE: Transitions in the Apache World: The Fort Apache Legacy-An Interpretive Plan for the Fort Apache Historic Park
DESCRIPTION: Planning for a comprehensive interpretation of Fort Apache Historical Park, which includes buildings from the 19th-century fort, an interpretive center, and prehistoric and historic sites.
CALIFORNIA
Los Angeles, University of California, Los Angeles $200,000PROJECT DIRECTOR: Doran H. Ross, (310) 825-4259
TITLE: The Heritage of African Music
DESCRIPTION: Collaborative simultaneous exhibitions at three Los Angeles area museums on
African and African American music, together with educational programs, a music CD, website, and catalog.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Gallaudet University $50,035PROJECT DIRECTOR: Jean L. Bergey, (202) 651-5635
MATCHING FUNDS $50,000
TITLE: History Through Deaf Eyes
DESCRIPTION: A traveling exhibition on the historical development of a deaf community in the U.S.
Consultation
Heritage Preservation $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Susan K. Nichols, (202) 634-1422
TITLE: Voices in Bronze and Stone: Americans and their Public Sculpture
DESCRIPTION: Consultation among scholars to plan a traveling panel exhibition
on how public memory is shaped by public sculpture.
ILLINOIS
Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago $290,000PROJECT DIRECTOR: Stephen Little, (312) 443-3652
TITLE: Taoism and the Arts of China
DESCRIPTION: A traveling exhibition on Taoist art and culture accompanied by a catalog, website, and interpretive programs.
KENTUCKY
ConsultationLouisville, Filson Club $5,564
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Mark V. Wetherington, (502) 635-5083
TITLE: Portraits and the Stories They Tell
DESCRIPTION: Consultation to facilitate interpretive exhibitions of 300 19th- and 20th-century American portrait paintings illustrating the history of Kentucky and the transappalachian West.
LOUISIANA
New Orleans, Amistad Research Center $10,000PROJECT DIRECTOR: Donald E. DeVore, (504) 865-5535
TITLE: Through the Lens of Promise: African Americans in the South, 1895-1955
DESCRIPTION: A symposium and staff site visits to develop an exhibition concerned with African Americans who built community organizations, schools, churches, and businesses in response to Jim Crow.
MARYLAND
Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery $100,000PROJECT DIRECTOR: Gary K. Vikan (410) 547-9000
MATCHING FUNDS $100,000
TITLE: Reinstallation of the Medieval Collection
DESCRIPTION: Reinstallation of the permanent collection of medieval art, including a website, educational and public programs, and a catalog.
MASSACHUSETTS
Worcester, Worcester Art Museum MATCHING FUNDS $200,000PROJECT DIRECTOR: Christine Kondoleon, (508) 799-4406
TITLE: Antioch: The Lost Ancient City
DESCRIPTION: A traveling exhibition, catalog, video, website, and interpretive programs on 2nd-6th century C.E. culture at Antioch, one of the four great cities of the Roman and early Christian world.
Consultation
Amherst, Amherst College $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Cynthia S. Dickinson, (413) 542-8161
TITLE: "I Dwell in Possibility": Interpreting Emily Dickinson's World
DESCRIPTION: Development of a new interpretive plan and outline of an
introductory video and handbook for tour guides at the Emily Dickinson
Homestead and adjacent Evergreens.
MICHIGAN
Dearborn, Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village $151,029PROJECT DIRECTOR: Judith E. Endelman, (313) 982-6071
TITLE: Your Place in Time: 20th Century America
DESCRIPTION: Implementation of an exhibition, traveling panel exhibition, brochure, and online programming about the interaction of people and technologies in everyday life in the 20th century.
MISSISSIPPI
ConsultationLaurel, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art $9,532
PROJECT DIRECTOR: George D. Bassi, (601) 649-6374
TITLE: Reinstallation of the Native American Basket Collection
DESCRIPTION: Consultation with academic and museum experts to develop a reinterpretation and reinstallation of the museum's extensive collection of Native American basketry.
NEW JERSEY
Newark, Newark Museum $135,000PROJECT DIRECTOR: Joseph Jacobs, (973) 596-6695
TITLE: Picturing America
DESCRIPTION: Reinstallation of the American art collection with video, audio, website, and other public and educational programs, placing American art in its social and cultural contexts.
NEW MEXICO
Santa Fe, Museum of New Mexico Foundation $175,000PROJECT DIRECTOR: Barbara Mauldin, (505) 827-6357
TITLE: Carnival!
DESCRIPTION: A traveling exhibition on the changing social meaning and dynamics of the carnival festival, based on case studies from nine communities in Europe and the Americas.
NEW YORK
Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum $135,000PROJECT DIRECTOR: Brooke Kamin Rapaport, (718) 638-5000
TITLE: Vital Forms: American Art in the Atomic Age, 1941- 1962
DESCRIPTION: Implementation of a traveling exhibition, catalog, and related educational and public programs based on a comprehensive interpretation of American art and design, 1941-62.
Ithaca, Cornell University $200,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Herbert J. Engman, (607) 255-2536
TITLE: Coming Up On the Season: Migrant Farmworkers in the Northeast
DESCRIPTION: A traveling exhibition on the history of migrant farm labor
in the northeastern U.S. and on the lives and backgrounds of migrant workers
in the region.
New York, Yeshiva University Museum $30,701
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Sylvia A. Herskowitz, (212) 960-5390 MATCHING FUNDS
$10,000
TITLE: A Perfect Fit: The Garment Industry and American Jewry
DESCRIPTION: Planning for two traveling exhibitions and related programs
about how Jews in the garment industry influenced American culture between
1860 and 1960 and how they were affected by it.
Consultation
Oneida, Oneida Community Mansion House $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Bruce M. Moseley, (315) 363-0745
TITLE: Interpretive Planning Colloquium
DESCRIPTION: A colloquium, planning conference, and interpretive plan
for the site of an influential 19th- century utopian society, the Oneida
Community Mansion House.
NORTH CAROLINA
Charlotte, Museum of the New South $200,858PROJECT DIRECTOR: Christopher B. Martin, (704) 333-1887
TITLE: New City, New South: Tradition and Transformation in the Carolina Piedmont
DESCRIPTION: Implementation of a permanent exhibition, publications, and related public and educational programming on Charlotte as a case study of the New South regional city.
Charlotte, Mint Museum of Art $40,858
PROJECT DIRECTOR: E. M. Whittington, (704) 337-2074
TITLE: Life, Death, and Sport: The Mesoamerican Ballgame
DESCRIPTION: Planning for a traveling exhibition, catalog, and website
in association with the first major exhibition in the United States on
the elaborate Mesoamerican team sport played from 1500 B.C.E. onward.
PENNSYLVANIA
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art $100,653PROJECT DIRECTOR: Joseph J. Rishel, (215) 684-7611
TITLE: Art in Rome in the 18th Century
DESCRIPTION: A exhibition and accompanying catalog, website, public programs, and educational materials interpreting the art of 18th-century Rome.
Consultation
Philadelphia, Atwater Kent Museum $9,750
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Victoria T. Hawkins, (215) 922-3031
TITLE: The Philadelphia Story in the Life of the Nation
DESCRIPTION: Consultation with scholars to develop an exhibition on Philadelphia
history.
RHODE ISLAND
Providence, Rhode Island School of Design $90,000PROJECT DIRECTOR: Susan Hay, (401) 454-6514
MATCHING FUNDS $50,000
TITLE: The Tirocchi Project
DESCRIPTION: Implementation of a traveling exhibition, catalog, website, and accompanying educational and public programming on the artistic and social history of early 20th-century fashion in the U.S.
TEXAS
ConsultationSan Antonio, San Antonio Museum of Art $4,965
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Tracy A. Baker-White, (210) 978-8182
TITLE: Flight or Fancy? The Secret Life of Charles A.A. Dellschau
DESCRIPTION: Conference for scholars and staff curatorial travel to develop an interpretive exhibition of Charles A.A. Dellschau's watercolor drawings of airships.
UTAH
Salt Lake City, Children's Museum of Utah $17,086PROJECT DIRECTOR: Karey L. Rawitscher, (801) 328-3383
MATCHING FUNDS $7,000
TITLE: Nine Mile Canyon Multi-Media Project
DESCRIPTION: Planning for a CD-ROM, website, video, and audio exhibition for children exploring themes in the history, geology, and ecology of Utah’s Nine Mile Canyon.
VIRGINIA
Newport News, Mariners Museum $40,796PROJECT DIRECTOR: Claudia L. Pennington, (757) 591-7750
TITLE: Against Human Dignity: The Transatlantic Slave Trade
DESCRIPTION: Planning for a traveling exhibition, gallery guide, symposium, and related public and educational programs on the transatlantic slave trade, its development and legacy.
WASHINGTON
ConsultationYakima, Yakima Valley Museum and Historical Association $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: John A. Baule, (509) 248-0747
TITLE: Southern Columbia Plateau Pictorial Beadwork
DESCRIPTION: Consultation with scholars and other advisors to plan a new exhibition on the changing styles and messages in Plateau Native American beadwork from the onset of the reservation period.
WISCONSIN
Eau Claire, Chippewa Valley Museum $41,400PROJECT DIRECTOR: Susan M. McLeod, (715) 834-7871
TITLE: Country Places: Evolving Families, Farms, and Neighborhoods
DESCRIPTION: Planning for a long-term exhibition, traveling panel exhibition, companion publications, conference, and related educational and public programs on the rural heritage as a context for understanding contemporary farms.
Consultation
Chippewa Falls, Chippewa Falls Museum of Industry and Technology $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Julie A. Johnson, (715) 720-9206
TITLE: Keys to Change: Master Planning for Interpretation
DESCRIPTION: Development of a humanities-based interpretive plan for a
new industrial heritage museum.
WYOMING
Cody, Buffalo Bill Historical Center $177,060PROJECT DIRECTOR: B. B. Price, (307) 578-4069
TITLE: Plains Indian Museum Reinterpretation
DESCRIPTION: Reinterpretation of the Plains Indian Museum at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center.
NOTE: Where “Matching Funds” are indicated, the grantee receives outright the amount listed on the first line. However, NEH will award additional funding up to the designated “Matching Funds” amount on a dollar for dollar match basis if the grantee raises an equivalent amount. NEH matching funds help grantees raise additional funding for their projects by enabling them to offer potential donors the incentive of a doubling of their contributions by federal funds.