PUBLIC PROGRAMS GRANT AWARDS
Division of Public Programs
Announced: April 2000

PLANNING GRANTS

Blues: A Documentary History
New Images Productions, Berkeley, CA
OUTRIGHT: $30,000.00
TOTAL: $30,000.00
To support planning of three one-hour documentary films on the history of the blues, its musical character and meaning within the African American experience, and the universality of music.

I Will Be Heard: The Abolitionists and the Fight to End Slavery in America
Camera News, Inc/Third World Newsreel, New York, NY
OUTRIGHT: $30,000.00
TOTAL: $30,000.00
To support planning of a two-hour documentary film series on the history of abolitionists in America from 1830 to 1863.

Maggie Kuhn: Being Old in America
Women Make Movies, New York, NY
OUTRIGHT: $30,000.00
TOTAL: $30,000.00
To support planning of a 60-minute documentary film on the life and work of Maggie Kuhn, founder of the Gray Panthers.

Orozco: The Prometheus of Mexican Painting
Paradigm Productions, Berkeley, CA
OUTRIGHT: $29,750.00
TOTAL: $29,750.00
To support planning of a one-hour documentary film on Mexican muralist Jose Clemente Orozco and his contributions to modern art.

The Ganges
Independent Broadcasting Associates, Littleton, MA
OUTRIGHT: $30,000.00
TOTAL: $30,000.00
To support planning of a radio documentary series of two one-hour programs and ten 8 to 15-minutes features on the cultures, mythology, and ecology of the Ganges River basin.

DIGITAL PARALLEL PRODUCTION GRANTS

Crucible of the Millennium
New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
OUTRIGHT: $50,000.00
TOTAL: $50,000.00
To support the production of a digital-enhancement prototype for the television series Crucible of the Millennium.

Morning Sun Digital Enhanced Television Project
Long Bow Group, Brookline, MA
OUTRIGHT: $49,636.00
TOTAL: $49,636.00
To support prototype development of a digital enhanced television project about China’s Cultural Revolution, to be produced in conjunction with the NEH-funded, two-hour documentary film, Morning Sun.

Partners of the Heart
Saint Thomas Foundation, Nashville, TN
OUTRIGHT: $49,998.00
TOTAL: $49,998.00
To support the development of a prototype that would feature a media delivery platform for digital television and an interactive website including learning games for students and links to archival documents and film clips.

Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of the American Century
KCET-TV, Los Angeles, CA
OUTRIGHT: $50,000.00
TOTAL: $50,000.00
To support preparation of prototype digital elements for enhanced television, DVD-ROM, and interactive website projects to complement the television series Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of the American Century.

HUMANITIES PROJECTS IN MUSEUMS AND HISTORICAL ORGANIZATIONS CONSULTATION GRANTS

Boundary Lines: The World of the Rocky Mountain Front Range
Longmont Museum, Longmont, CO
OUTRIGHT: $10,000.00
TOTAL: $10,000.00
To support consultation to develop a permanent and traveling exhibition with public and in-school activities about the history, culture, natural history, and geography of the Front Range from prehistory to the present.

Bringing the Heavens to Earth: Cultural Astronomies Around the World
Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, Chicago, IL
OUTRIGHT: $40,000.00
TOTAL: $40,000.00
To support planning for a permanent exhibition and catalog on astronomical practices, architecture, and knowledge from various world cultures, past and present.

Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art and Culture in the Papuan Gulf
Dartmouth College, Hood Museum, Hanover, NH
OUTRIGHT: $30,000.00
TOTAL: $30,000.00
To support planning for a traveling exhibition, catalog, and public programs on the changing nature of art in the Papuan Gulf, located on New Guinea's south coast.

Eliot Porter: The Color of Wildness
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX
OUTRIGHT: $40,000.00
TOTAL: $40,000.00
To support planning for a major traveling exhibition, catalog, website, and related interpretive and educational programs on Eliot Porter's photography and its legacy.

Next Stop Vietnam
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
OUTRIGHT: $40,000.00
TOTAL: $40,000.00
To support planning for a traveling exhibition, accompanying book, website, national symposium, and other public and education programs exploring the impact and legacy of the Vietnam conflict on American life and culture.

Pacific Odyssey: Art, Culture, and the Peopling of Oceania
Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Santa Ana, CA
OUTRIGHT: $40,000.00
TOTAL: $40,000.00
To support planning for a permanent exhibition, supplementary traveling exhibition, symposium, monograph, educational outreach, and public programming on the art and cultures of Southeast Asia and Oceania.

Painted Prints: Renaissance & Baroque Hand-Colored Engravings, Etchings, and Woodcuts
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
OUTRIGHT: $33,575.00 MATCH: $5,000
TOTAL: $38,575.00
To support planning for a traveling exhibition, publication, public programs, video, and website about the commissioning, creating, marketing, and subjects of Renaissance and Baroque prints.

SPECIAL PROJECTS

Special Projects Grants support the planning, implementation, or production of projects in the humanities designed to reach non-traditional audiences or to reach audiences in new ways, such as through interactive multimedia.

PLANNING GRANTS

Place Matters Website: Creating Online Dialogues about Historical and Cultural Landscapes
City Lore: NY Center for Urban Folk Culture, New York, NY
OUTRIGHT: $50,000.00
TOTAL: $50,000.00
To support planning for a website to identify sites for historic preservation and explore the significance of place in the cultural landscape.

Virtual Historic Savannah Project
Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, GA
OUTRIGHT: $49,836.00
TOTAL: $49,836.00
To support planning and production of a prototype for a website on the social, economic, and urban history of Savannah's historic district.

HUMANITIES PROJECTS IN LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES PLANNING GRANTS

Bard of the People: John Steinbeck and His World
Mercantile Library, New York, NY
O UTRIGHT: $38,613.00
TOTAL: $38,613.00
To support planning of public programs, electronic exhibitions, and curricular materials based on the literary work of American writer John Steinbeck.

SMALL GRANTS TO LIBRARIES

The following libraries were awarded grants of $1,000 to participate in the traveling exhibition project The Great Experiment: George Washington and the American Republic and to host related public humanities programming.

Library, City, and State

Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor, MI

Beardstown Public Library, Beardstown, IL

Brigham City Library, Brigham City, UT

Brunswick-Glynn Regional Library, Brunswick, GA

Central Arkansas Library System, Little Rock, AR

Delaware County District Library, Delaware, OH

Desmond-Fish Library, Garrison, NY

Elgin Public Library, Elgin, IA

Forsyth County Public Library, Winston-Salem, NC

Guilderland Public Library, Guilderland, NY

Illinois State University, Springfield, IL

Jefferson Parish Library, Metairie, LA

Lincoln Public Library, Lincoln, NH

Linebaugh Public Library, Murfreesboro, TN

Loudonville Public Library, Loudonville, OH

Loudoun County Public Library, Leesburg, VA

Mansfield/Richland County Public Library, Mansfield, OH

Martinsburg-Berkeley County Public Library, Martinsburg, WV

McMillan Memorial Library, Wisconsin Rapids, WI

Miami-Dade Public Library, Miami, FL

Middletown Thrall Library, Middletown, NY

Montgomery County Library, Germantown, MD

Morris County Library, Whippany, NJ

Morton-James Public Library, Nebraska City, NE

New Brunswick Public Library, New Brunswick, NJ

Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh, NY

Newport News Public Library System, Newport News, VA

North Suburban Library, Loves Park, IL

Roosevelt University Library, Chicago, IL

San Antonio Public Library, San Antonio, TX

San Diego Public Library, San Diego, CA

Sheppard Memorial Library, Greenville, NC

Southwest State University, Marshall, MN

St. Louis Public Library, St. Louis, MO

The Library of Hattiesburg, Petal and Forrest County, Hattiesburg, MS

Thomas Ford Memorial Library, Western Springs, IL

Tilden Public Library, Tilden, NE

Upshur County Public Library, Buckhannon, WV

White Plains Public Library, White Plains, NY

Williamsburg Regional Library, Williamsburg, VA