PUBLIC PROGRAMS GRANT AWARDS
HUMANITIES PROJECTS IN LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES Small Grants to Libraries The following libraries were awarded grants of $500 to participate in the Mercantile Library's Bard of the People: The Life and Times of John Steinbeck. Libraries nationwide will enjoy a wide variety of public programming marking the centenary of the author's birth
Consultation Grants OUTRIGHT AWARD: $10,000.00 The Seminole Wars Consultation on a television documentary about the military conflicts between the United States and the Seminole Indians from 1817 to 1858. Greater New Orleans Educational TV Foundation; New Orleans, LA OUTRIGHT AWARD: $10,000.00 Stories from the Faubourg Treme Consultation and research for a documentary film on the social, cultural and anthropological history of the Faubourg Treme, the oldest Black urban neighborhood in America, which borders the French Quarter of New Orleans. Minnesota Public Radio; St. Paul, MN OUTRIGHT AWARD: $10,000.00 Black History Radio Consultation with scholars on a series of one-hour radio documentary programs on aspects of 20th-Century African American history. New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA); New York, NY OUTRIGHT AWARD: $10,000.00 Free and Accepted: The Masonic Order in Twentieth Century America Consultation on a documentary film about the history of the Masonic Order in the twentieth century. Women Make Movies, Inc.; New York, NY OUTRIGHT AWARD: $10,000.00 Historias De Ellas: Cuban Women's Stories of Exile and Immigration Consultation on a documentary film that tells the story of Cuban immigrants in the United States from 1959 to the present. Women Make Movies, Inc.; New York, NY OUTRIGHT AWARD: $10,000.00 Women Report the World: Women War Correspondents of WWII Consultation for a documentary film on the first women to cover war as journalists from the front lines, their influence on how war was reported, and the impact of the opening of this profession to women. HUMANITIES PROJECTS IN MUSEUMS AND HISTORICAL ORGANIZATIONS Consultation Grants Alaska Design Forum; Anchorage, AK OUTRIGHT AWARD: $9,374.00 Quonset: The Ongoing History of Quonset Huts in Alaska Consultation with scholars and a museum curator to plan a traveling exhibition, Web site and book exploring the impact of Quonset huts on the built environment and culture of post-World War II Alaska. Burritt on the Mountain: A Living Museum; Huntsville, AL OUTRIGHT AWARD: $9,990.00 Living with Nature Preliminary planning for interpretive themes and strategies that will guide visitors through a new on-site orientation center. Chrysler Museum of Art; Norfolk, VA OUTRIGHT AWARD: $9,507.00 Reinstalling the Chrysler Museum's Glass Collection Consultation with scholars and museum professionals, as well as staff travel to related installations, in order to develop a reinterpretion of an important glass collection. Cincinnati Observatory Center; Cincinnati, OH OUTRIGHT AWARD: $10,000.00 Astronomy Artifacts Interpretive Consultant Grant Consultation with scholars to determine interpretive themes for a new permanent exhibition on the history of astronomy. Conner Prairie Pioneer Settlement; Fishers, IN OUTRIGHT AWARD: $10,000.00 Project Development/Institutional Planning for Conner Prairie's Circa 1940 Rural Community Consultation to conceive interpretive themes to inform recreation of a rural Indiana crossroads community ca. 1940. Historic House Trust of New York City; New York, NY OUTRIGHT AWARD: $9,980.00 Lott House Interpretive Planning Project Consultation for institutional master planning to develop historical exhibitions and programs interpreting a 1720 Dutch Colonial house on its original site. Jackson Hole Historical Society and Museum; Jackson, WY OUTRIGHT AWARD: $10,000.00 Gathering Perspectives: Interpretive Planning in Jackson Hole Consultation with scholars and museum professionals that will lead to fresh interpretive approaches in the museum's new exhibitions. Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington; Washington, DC OUTRIGHT AWARD: $10,000.00 Interpretive Plan for Historic Adas Israel Synagogue Consultation with scholars and museum experts to define a new interpretation of an historic 1876 Jewish synagogue in downtown Washington, D.C. Long Island Museum of American Art, History, & Carriages; Stony Brook, NY OUTRIGHT AWARD: $10,000.00 Re-interpreting the Carriage Collection Consultation with humanities scholars and museum experts to conceive a new interpretation of an historic carriage collection. Mary Ball Washington Museum & Library; Lancaster, VA OUTRIGHT AWARD: $10,000.00 Telling the Whole Story: Developing an Inclusive Interpretation Consultation to develop a comprehensive interpretive plan for the presentation of the history of the Northern Neck of Virginia. National Museum of Wildlife Art; Jackson, WY OUTRIGHT AWARD: $10,000.00 Wildlife Art: Kitsch or Kunst? Consultation with scholars on how to improve the museum's interpretation of its collection and how better to contextualize the art within the West. New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Center; Las Cruces, NM OUTRIGHT AWARD: $10,000.00 Interpreting New Mexico's Rural Living, Farming, and Ranching Consultation to bring humanities questions and ideas into sharper focus within the museum's treatment of the history of agriculture in the region. North Carolina Museum of Art; Raleigh, NC OUTRIGHT AWARD: $10,000.00 Ethiopia: Icons of the Past, Images of the Present Consultation to develop an interpretive plan for a traveling exhibition, with accompanying public and educational programs, on traditional and modern Ethiopian art. Pejepscot Historical Society; Brunswick, ME OUTRIGHT AWARD: $10,000.00 Family Memory at the Skolfield-Whittier House Consultation with scholars and museum professionals to develop an interpretation of the Skolfield-Whittier House as a site of family memory. Phoenix Art Museum; Phoenix, AZ OUTRIGHT AWARD: $10,000.00 On Death and Dying: Skulls and Skeletons in World Art and Culture Consultation with scholars and interpretive specialists on themes that will inform an exhibition on cross-cultural differences in mortuary art and objects. Plimoth Plantation; Plymouth, MA OUTRIGHT AWARD: $10,000.00 Interpreting Environmental History of Plymouth Colony Consultation to conceptualize outdoor, gallery, and online exhibitions and programs interpreting the history of cultural differences in using land and sea resources. Public Museum of Grand Rapids; Grand Rapids, MI OUTRIGHT AWARD: $10,000.00 Ethnic Exhibition Consultation Project Consultation with scholars and community advisors to shape a permanent exhibition examining ethnicity, race and immigration in Grand Rapids. Save Ellis Island!, Inc.; Gladstone, NJ OUTRIGHT AWARD: $10,000.00 Center for Immigrant Contributions Planning Charette Consultation with scholars and museum experts to define interpretive themes for a new center documenting America's immigrant experience. Seabrook Village Foundation, Inc.; Midway, GA OUTRIGHT AWARD: $10,000.00 "If Walls Could Talk": Listening to Our Past to Build Our Future Consultation to develop an improved living history interpretation of the story of African Americans on the "Rice Coast" of Georgia between 1865 and 1930. Southeastern Colorado Heritage Center; Pueblo, CO OUTRIGHT AWARD: $5,500.00 Consultation for Museum Interpretive Plan Consultation with scholars on how to interpret the region's cultural history in the center's new displays. University of Rochester Memorial Art Gallery; Rochester, NY OUTRIGHT AWARD: $10,000.00 Foundations of Civilization East and West: Reinstallation of the Asian and Ancient Galleries Consultation and staff travel to related installations in order to develop a reinterpretation of the museum's ancient and Asian galleries. Women of the West Museum; Denver, CO OUTRIGHT AWARD: $10,000.00 Home on the Range: Community and Culture in the American West Consultation to develop the content of a national traveling exhibition, web site, and other interpretive programs exploring the relationship among home, community and landscape in the American West.
SPECIAL PROJECTS National Council for the Traditional Arts; Silver Spring, MD OUTRIGHT AWARD: $10,000.00 Preliminary Planning for Interpretive Programs at the Blue Ridge Music Center Consultation with experts on the heritage of roots music to develop an interpretive plan for exhibits and programming for the new Blue Ridge Music Center. Watercourse; Bozeman, MT OUTRIGHT AWARD: $10,000.00 Project Archaeology: A New National Heritage Education Program Consultation with scholars, educators, and experts in archaeology and historic preservation to expand and redesign a program that develops materials and activities for diverse audiences on the interpretation and protection of archaeological resources. |