MUSEUM GRANT AWARDS
ALASKAKodiak, 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 ARIZONAFort 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. CALIFORNIALos 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 COLUMBIAGallaudet 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 ILLINOISChicago, 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. KENTUCKYConsultationLouisville, 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. LOUISIANANew 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. MARYLANDBaltimore, 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. MASSACHUSETTSWorcester, 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 MICHIGANDearborn, 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. MISSISSIPPIConsultationLaurel, 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 JERSEYNewark, 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 MEXICOSanta 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 YORKBrooklyn, 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 New York, Yeshiva University Museum $30,701 Consultation NORTH CAROLINACharlotte, 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 PENNSYLVANIAPhiladelphia, 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 RHODE ISLANDProvidence, 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. TEXASConsultationSan 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. UTAHSalt 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. VIRGINIANewport 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. WASHINGTONConsultationYakima, 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. WISCONSINEau 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 WYOMINGCody, 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. |