Awards List, Division of Public Programs, July 2015 Council
Awards List
March Council 2018
Public Humanities Grants
Planning
Once Divided, Reunited: Atlanta BeltLine Transforms Historic Railroad Barriers to Modern-Day Connectors
Atlanta BeltLine, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
Award: Outright; $52,532
Planning for historic site interpretation of Atlanta’s railroad corridor, including exhibitions,
public programs, and trail signage.
Regeneration: Black Cinema 1900–1970
Academy Foundation
Los Angeles, CA
Award: Outright; $75,000
Development of a traveling exhibition, digital and educational content, and public programs
exploring the role of African Americans in the American film industry.
Permanent Installation of Medieval Arms & Armor
Worcester Art Museum
Worcester, MA
Award: Outright; $40,000
Planning for a long-term exhibition of the museum’s arms and armor collection.
The History and Cultural Impact of Video Games: A New Gallery at The Strong
The Strong Museum
Rochester, NY
Award: Outright; $75,000
Planning of a permanent gallery exploring the history and impact of video games on popular culture, learning, and American leisure.
Planning Carnegie Museum of Natural History's "Egypt on the Nile"
Carnegie Institute
Pittsburgh, PA
Award: Outright; $35,204
Planning for the reinterpretation of the museum’s Egyptian collection that would explore the intersection of human and natural histories in ancient Egypt.
Sacred Landscapes: Visions of Nature and Myth in Ancient Rome
San Antonio Museum of Art
San Antonio, TX
Award: Outright; $15,000
Match; $20,000
Planning for an exhibition examining the depictions of landscapes in ancient Roman art
and society.
Implementation
Idaho: The Land and Its People
Idaho State Historical Society
Boise, ID
Award: Match; $400,000
Implementation of a permanent exhibition on the role of Native Americans in the history and culture of Idaho.
The Last Empresses of China
Peabody Essex Museum
Salem, MA
Award: Outright; $200,000
Implementation of the installation of a 10,000-square-foot-exhibition exploring the role of empresses in China’s Qing Dynasty (1644–1912).
Delta Blues Museum: The Story of America's Music
Delta Blues Museum
Clarksdale, MS
Award: Outright; $360,000
Match; $100,000
Implementation of a 9,000-square-foot exhibition, public programs, and curriculum materials exploring the history and influence of American Blues music and its connection to the
Mississippi Delta.
Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow
New-York Historical Society
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $400,000
Implementation of a national touring exhibition, educational programing, and a website
exploring citizenship and Jim Crow laws in the post-emancipation era.
Slavery at Jefferson's Monticello: Paradox of Liberty
Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc.
Charlottesville, VA
Award: Outright; $300,000
Implementation of traveling and panel exhibitions exploring the complicated role of slavery in our national founding and the experiences of enslaved people at Monticello.
The American Creed Community Conversations Initiative
Citizen Film, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
Award: Outright; $245,000
Implementation of a public screening and discussion program on shared American ideals as addressed in the PBS documentary film American Creed.
Great Stories Club: Reading and Discussion for At-Risk Youth
American Library Association
Chicago, IL
Award: Outright; $397,255
Implementation of a nationwide series of humanities-focused reading and discussion programs for at-risk youth dealing with themes of empathy, heroism, and marginalization.
Lift Every Voice: Why African American Poetry Matters Today
Library of America
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $369,000
Production of an anthology of African American poetry and an accompanying series of
reading and discussion programs.
Media Programs
Production
José Lezama Lima: Letters to Eloísa
Latino Public Broadcasting
Burbank, CA
Award: Outright; $450,000
Production of a sixty-minute documentary about the Cuban writer José Lezama Lima (1910–76).
Changing State: Black Diplomats, Civil Rights, and the Cold War
Women in Film & Video, Inc.
Washington, DC
Award: Outright; $450,000
Production of a one-hour documentary about
three African American men who broke the color line at the U.S. State Department in the years following World War II.
American Masters—Mae West: I'm No Angel
WNET
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $500,000
Production of a documentary film about the writer and actress Mae West (1893–1980).
The History of Now
Radio Diaries
Brooklyn, NY
Award: Outright; $250,000
Match; $100,000
Production of eighteen radio documentaries for broadcast and online distribution, exploring a wide range of events in U.S. history.
Classroom Connections
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
Award: Outright; $460,000
Production of fifty-two radio episodes accompanied by an educational outreach campaign.
NEH on the Road
The following organizations received $1,000 grants for ancillary public humanities programs to accompany NEH on the Road traveling exhibitions.
House and Home
Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts
Florence, AL
For All the World to See
City of Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Spirited: Prohibition in America
Lyman Allyn Art Museum
New London, CT
Bandits and Heroes
University of Hawaii, West Oahu
Kapolei, HI
Jacob Riis
Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum
Wichita, KS
House and Home
Ypsilanti District Library
Ypsilanti, MI
Power of Children
County of Barry, Michigan
Hastings, MI
Jacob Riis
Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center
Fremont, OH
Spirited: Prohibition in America
Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center, Inc.
Enid, OK
Coney Island
Foundation for the Reading Public Museum
Reading, PA
Power of Children
Upcountry History Museum
Greenville, SC
Coney Island
County of Brown, Wisconsin
Green Bay, WI