GRANTS IN PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Division of Public Programs
Announced: August 2003
HUMANITIES PROJECTS IN LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES
CONSULTATION GRANTS
When Women Went to WWII
University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Greensboro, NC
Award: $10,000
Consultation with scholars and others to assist in the design of a traveling panel exhibition and interpretive programs about women in military service during World War II.
IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS
Prime Time Family Reading Time: Expanding the National Scope
Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
New Orleans, LA
Award: $290,000
Implementation of 20 family reading and discussion programs in four states, along with staff training to enable the programs to be replicated statewide.
Reading Stories, Transforming Lives
People and Stories
Trenton, NJ
Award: $288,510
Implementation of 48 bilingual reading and discussion programs exploring such ideas as personal values and identity at 24 public libraries in 14 states.
Assimilating America: The Life and Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer
Library of America
New York, NY
Award: $299,850
Implementation of two museum exhibitions, a website, and a year of public programs at 50 libraries nationwide examining the work of writer Isaac Bashevis Singer and the immigrant literary tradition in America.
HUMANITIES PROJECTS IN MUSEUMS AND HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS
CONSULTATION GRANTS
Art of the Bwa
Birmingham Museum of Art
Birmingham, AL
Award: $10,000
Consultation with art historians and an archaeologist in preparation for a traveling exhibition on the art of the Bwa people of Burkina Faso.
Transforming Views: Community and Diversity in the Santa Barbara Presidio Neighborhood
Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation
Santa Barbara, CA
Award: $10,000
Consultation with scholars, community representatives, and museum professionals to bring recent scholarship to a new interpretation of the Trust's several sites, with emphasis on the historical narrative of the Presidio neighborhood.
Nation's Government
Capital Children's Museum
Washington, DC
Award: $10,000
Site visits to museums and consultation with scholars to shape interpretive strategies for an exhibition on the structure and functions of the federal government.
Communities of Intent: Three Towns Where Buildings Make A Point
Kidscommons...Columbus Community Children's Museum
Columbus, IN
Award: $10,000
Consultation with museum experts and scholars to develop themes and formats for an exhibition examining three intentional communities, each designed for a different purpose.
Enfield Shaker Museum Planning Workshop
Enfield Shaker Museum
Enfield, NH
Award: $10,000
Consultation to plan a revised overarching interpretation for a site containing nine historic buildings reflecting different periods and religious groups.
James Presley Ball: 19th-Century African American Photographer
Cincinnati Museum Center
Cincinnati, OH
Award: $10,000
Consultation with scholars to develop two temporary and two traveling exhibitions examining the life and work of James Presley Ball, a free black photographer and abolitionist.
Sugar and Slavery on a Century Hacienda
Puerto Rico Conservation Trust
San Juan, PR
Award: $10,000
Consultation with museum professionals in the United States and the Caribbean in preparation for an exhibition on sugar and slavery in Puerto Rico.
Woodrow Wilson's Life and Legacy: Planning for Interpretation at the Presidential Library
Woodrow Wilson Birthplace Foundation, Inc.
Staunton, VA
Award: $10,000
Consultation to plan interpretive themes for museum galleries within a presidential library facility now being designed.
Forest Heritage Museum Study
Randolph County Historical Society
Elkins, WV
Award: $10,000
Consultation with scholars and interpretive experts to refine interpretive planning for the Appalachian Forest Heritage Area and develop exhibition concepts for a new Forest Heritage Museum Center.
IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS
Transitions in the Apache World: The Fort Apache Legacy
White Mountain Apache Tribe
Whiteriver, AZ
Award: $281,755
Implementation of a permanent exhibition on the history of the White Mountain Apache, including both traditional culture and the changes that took place after the establishment of Fort Apache by the U.S. military.
Precious Cargo: Childbirth and Cradle Baskets in California Indian Culture
Marin Museum of the American Indian
Novato, CA
Award: $242,986
A traveling exhibition, a catalog, a documentary video, and a website on the cultural context of woven cradle baskets among California Indians, especially the Pomo and western Mono.
Becoming California, Becoming America: Peralta Hacienda Historic Core Interpretation
Friends of Peralta Hacienda Historical Park
Oakland, CA
Award: $300,000
Implementation of a new interpretive plan at the site of an historic ranch, examining the blending of Native American, Spanish, Mexican, and American identities in California.
Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
Award: $300,000
Implementation of a traveling exhibition, a publication, and interpretive programs examining the artistic world in the royal courts of ancient Maya city states during the Late Classic Period (A.D. 600-800) with particular attention to the court of Palenque in Mexico.
Building America: House and Home
National Building Museum
Washington, DC
Award: $300,000
Implementation of a permanent exhibition, a website, a catalog, and public programs interpreting the history of American domestic architecture.
Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand: American Indian Art of the Ancient Midwest and South
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Award: $200,000
Implementation of a traveling exhibition with a catalog and public programs on the prehistoric arts and culture of the midwestern and southern United States, focusing on what art reveals about the myths, legends, and cosmologies of native peoples.
Maine Homelife Exhibit
Maine State Museum
Augusta, ME
Award: $300,000
Implementation of a permanent exhibition, a video, a catalog, and a traveling panel exhibition examining domestic life in Maine from 1783 to the present.
Byrdcliffe: An American Arts and Crafts Colony
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
Award: $262,654
Implementation of a traveling exhibition, a publication, and public programs on the subject of the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony in Woodstock, New York.
Beauty for the Gods: Urhobo Art in a Modern World
Museum for African Art
Long Island City, NY
Award: $200,000
Implementation of a traveling exhibition with a catalog and public programs on traditional and contemporary art of the Urhobo people of the Niger River Delta.
Asian Games: The Art of Contest
Asia Society
New York, NY
Award: $300,000
Implementation of the first major traveling exhibition with interactive game spaces, a catalog, a website, and public programs-examining the role of games from various traditional Asian cultures as transmitters of social values.
A Perfect Fit: The Garment Industry and American Jewry
Yeshiva University Museum
New York, NY
Award: $200,000
Implementation of an exhibition with a catalog, a traveling exhibition, a website, and public programs about how Jewish immigrants influenced the development of America's clothing industry and how this involvement affected both Jewish American and mainstream culture.
Explore Art: Life Through Himalayan Paintings
Rubin Museum of Art
New York, NY
Award: $300,000
Implementation of an interactive website to provide contextual and interpretive material about Himalayan art.
Emissaries of Peace: The 1762 Cherokee/British Delegations
Museum of the Cherokee Indian
Cherokee, NC
Award: $300,000
Implementation of a traveling exhibition on the cross-cultural perceptions and exchanges between the Cherokee and the British as the result of the sojourn of Lt. Henry Timberlake among the Cherokee.
War for America: The British, French, and Indian War, 1754-1765
Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh, PA
Award: $300,000
Implementation of a multimedia traveling exhibition with a catalog, a website, and public and school programs about the French and Indian War and its larger contexts from multiple cultural perspectives.
American Visions of Liberty and Freedom
Virginia Historical Society
Richmond, VA
Award: $300,000
Implementation of a traveling exhibition, a website, publications, and public and educational programs about changing representations of the ideals of liberty and freedom in American history.
HUMANITIES PROJECTS IN MEDIA
CONSULTATION GRANTS
The New South Documentary Project
New Images Productions, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
Award: $10,000
Consultation with filmmakers and scholars for a documentary film series on the post-Reconstruction South from 1877-1920.
A Hemisphere Enflamed: Latin America's Revolution of Independence
The Global Alliance for Conservation
Los Angeles, CA
Award: $10,000
Consultation with scholars and media professionals to develop a television series about the Latin American revolutions of independence.
Andrew Jackson: America at the Crossroads
KCET-TV
Los Angeles, CA
Award: $10,000
Consultation with scholars to develop a three-hour documentary film on the life and times of Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States.
Prince Among Slaves
Unity Productions Foundation
Santa Cruz, CA
Award: $9,997
Consultation to integrate humanities content and themes into a documentary film on Abd Al-Rahman (1762-1831), an African prince who became enslaved in Mississippi for 40 years before gaining his freedom and returning to Africa.
Buried in Alabama
Image Film and Video, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
Award: $10,000
Consultation for a 90-minute documentary film examining the historical significance of convict leasing in the South in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Identity Crisis: The Life and Times of Erik H. Erikson
Kindling Group
Chicago, IL
Award: $10,000
Consultation for a one-hour documentary film on the life and work of Erik Erikson.
The Hayloft Gang: The Story of the National Barn Dance
Media Working Group
Covington, KY
Award: $9,964
Consultation for a one-hour documentary film about the National Barn Dance, a pioneering radio program that originated in Chicago and was broadcast nationally on NBC from 1924 to 1960.
Voices of the Mississippi Movement
Minnesota Public Radio
St. Paul, MN
Award: $9,950
Consultation with scholars to develop radio programs on the history of the Civil Rights movement in Mississippi during the 1950s and 1960s.
The Last Homestead
Nebraskans for Public Television, Inc.
Lincoln, NE
Award: $10,000
Consultation for a film project that compares the experiences of early homesteaders on the Great Plains with those of contemporary homesteaders in Alaska.
The Last Conquistador
New York Foundation for the Arts
New York, NY
Award: $10,000
Consultation activities for a proposed one-hour documentary film about the life and historical legacy of Juan de Onate, the first European explorer to establish permanent colonies in North America.
Quakers in America
Independent Production Fund
New York, NY
Award: $10,000
Consultation with scholars to develop a multi-part television documentary series exploring the history of the Quakers in America and their contribution to the nation's government and culture.
In Our Own Image: Black Photographers from 1840 to the Present
Camera News, Inc./Third World Newsreel
New York, NY
Award: $10,000
Consultation for a four-hour documentary television series on the history of African American photographers and their subjects from the invention of photography to the present.
The Revolution in Indian Country, 1775-1783
New York Foundation for the Arts
New York, NY
Award: $10,000
Consultation with filmmakers and scholars on a one-hour television documentary about the Native American struggle to maintain sovereignty and independence during the American Revolution.
RADIO DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION GRANTS
Lost & Found Food: Stories of Land, Kitchen, & Community
Kitchen Sisters Productions
San Francisco, CA
Award: $59,660
Development of a radio series and production of a pilot segment exploring the role and symbolism of food in the history of American culture and society.
StoryLines America: A Radio Literary Partnership Exploring Our Regional Literature: Part IV: New England
American Library Association
Chicago, IL
Award: $249,972
Production of 13, 60-minute regional literature call-in radio programs for on-air and web broadcast in partnership with libraries in New England.
PRI's Studio 360: American Icons Project
Public Radio International
Minneapolis, MN
Award: $60,000
Development of "American Icons," a special series for broadcast within Public Radio International's Studio 360.
Afropop Worldwide
World Music Productions
Brooklyn, NY
Award: $150,000
Production of 26 original programs that focus on the culture and music of Africa and the African Diaspora.
New Voices on the Journey: The Lewis and Clark Expedition
Lewis and Clark College
Portland, OR
Award: $315,000
Creation and distribution of a 13-part series of humanities-based radio programs and a DVD about the Lewis and Clark expedition and its influence on American national identity.
SPECIAL PROJECTS
CONSULTATION GRANTS
The Life and Legacy of Paul Laurence Dunbar
Ohio University
Athens, OH
Award: $10,000
Consultation with scholars and programming experts to plan a variety of events and programs exploring poet Paul Laurence Dunbar's place in American letters.
Reynolds Center for Virginia Business History Program
Virginia Historical Society
Richmond, VA
Award: $7,464
Consultation with historians, an archivist, and public programming experts to devise an interpretive plan for the new business history center.
IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS
Teen Chicago
Chicago Historical Society
Chicago, IL
Award: $300,000
Implementation of a three-year oral history project bringing teens together with scholars to develop public programming, a website, an exhibition, and publications exploring the experience of growing up in Chicago in the 20th century.
Speaking of Rivers: Taking Poetry to the People
University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc.
Lawrence, KS
Award: $224,959
Implementation of poetry and book discussion programs and a website examining the writings and legacy of Langston Hughes at 20 sites in nine states and the District of Columbia.
Changed Lives: Lewis and Clark Meet the West
Missouri Humanities Council
St. Louis, MO
Award: $300,000
Implementation of a four-event series of public programs in 85 rural communities in four states exploring the Lewis and Clark expedition.
The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Online Edition
University of Nebraska, Board of Regents
Lincoln, NE
Award: $222,177
Implementation of a website with the full searchable text of The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, edited by Gary Moulton, in addition to related texts, images, and recorded readings.
From Sea to Shining Sea: American Expansion and Cultural Change, 1790-1850
Great Plains Chautauqua Society, Inc.
Bismarck, ND
Award: $195,000 OR, $105,000 Match
Implementation of a week-long series of public programs centering around living history presentations in each of 30 communities spanning five states over a period of three years.