PRINTMarch Council 2012 Awards List
America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations
Planning
Benton, Hollywood, and History
Museum Associates
Los Angeles, CA
Award: Outright; $40,000
Planning for a traveling exhibition, a catalog, and public programs on American artist Thomas Hart Benton and how his history paintings and narrative art were influenced by popular Hollywood film.
El Presidio de Santa Barbara State Historic Park Visitor Center Plan
Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation
Santa Barbara, CA
Award: Outright; $40,000
Planning for interpretive exhibitions and programs in a newly constructed visitor center about the history of Santa Barbara.
Shakespeare in His World--and Ours
Folger Shakespeare Library
Washington, DC
Award: Outright; $75,000
Planning for two traveling exhibitions, a catalog, a website, and public programs on William Shakespeare and the ways that his life and work have been re-imagined over time.
Impressions of a Lost World
Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association
Deerfield, MA
Award: Outright; $40,000
Planning for a website, mobile applications, hand-held digital and print tours, public programs, and educational materials about the early nineteenth-century discovery of dinosaur tracks in the Connecticut River Valley and the impact of this discovery on American thought and culture.
New Bedford: The Commercial and Industrial Evolution of an American Port City
New Bedford Whaling Museum
New Bedford, MA
Award: Outright; $40,000
Planning for a long-term exhibition, public programs, and educational materials on the history of commerce and industry in New Bedford, Massachusetts, following the decline of whaling, the city’s founding industry.
Reinterpreting a Late 19th-Century Collection for New Audiences and a New Century
Springfield Library and Museums Association
Springfield, MA
Award: Outright; $40,000
Planning for the reinstallation of its core collections to illustrate how this museum exemplifies Gilded Age America’s ideas about civic philanthropy and museums as engines of democratic education.
Between the Waters: Hobcaw Barony Website Planning Project
ETV Endowment of South Carolina
Spartanburg, SC
Award: Outright; $40,000
Planning for a website, a virtual tour, and educational materials about the history of Bernard Baruch’s rural estate in coastal South Carolina, its African American residents, and its legacy for regional land conservation.
Enduring Legacies of the Great Plains: The Paul Dyck Collection
Buffalo Bill Historical Center
Cody, WY
Award: Outright; $40,000
Planning for a traveling exhibition, a catalog, and programs on Plains Indian cultures as documented in a collection of materials from the pre-reservation and early reservation periods.
Implementation
Souls Seeking Safety: Interpreting the Underground Railroad Experience in Indiana
Indiana State Museum Foundation, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
Award: Outright; $300,000
Implementation of a long-term multimedia exhibition and docent training at an Underground Railroad site covering Quaker abolitionist and Free Labor economic resistance to slavery as well as first-person stories of fugitive African Americans.
Bandits & Heroes, Poets & Saints: Popular Art of the Northeast of Brazil
ConVida - Popular Arts of the Americas
Detroit, MI
Award: Outright; $300,000
Implementation of a traveling exhibition, a catalog, a website, and public programs on the folk art of the people of the Northeast region in Brazil whose culture is a unique blend of African, European, and Amerindian traditions.
The American Revolution on the Frontier
Missouri Historical Society
St. Louis, MO
Award: Outright; $400,000
Implementation of a traveling exhibition, a publication, a website, and programs on the unfolding of the American Revolution in the Midwest, especially its impact on the formation of cultural identities.
Nebraska Chautauqua: Free Land? 1862 and the Shaping of Modern America
Nebraska Humanities Council
Lincoln, NE
Award: Outright; $136,400 Match; $80,000
Implementation of a three-year Chautauqua program in seven rural Nebraska communities on issues connected to significant legislative acts that shaped the settlement of the region.
Civil War 150: Exploring the War and its Meaning Through the Words of Those Who Lived It
Literary Classics of the United States, Inc.
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $500,000
Implementation of a multiformat project that would encourage public exploration of the transformative impact and contested meanings of the Civil War through the words of a wide variety of first-hand participants.
Installation and Interpretation of the Carriage Museum’s “Streets of New York” and “Carriages for Sport and Pleasure”
Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages
Stony Brook, NY
Award: Outright; $286,014
Implementation of the reinstallation of two long-term exhibitions with audio tours about the social and economic history of horse-drawn transportation in New York City circa 1900.
Prohibition
National Constitution Center
Philadelphia, PA
Award: Outright; $400,000
Implementation of a multiformat project about the history of Prohibition in America.
Hidden Histories on America’s Front Lawn: mobile.mallhistory.us
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA
Award: Outright; $304,565
Implementation of a mobile tour and website on the history and culture of the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Moton 2011: The Permanent Exhibition, Phase II, Audio/Visual Components, Galleries II-VI
Robert R. Moton Museum Inc.
Farmville, VA
Award: Outright; $350,000
Implementation of multimedia components for a long-term exhibition about one African American high school’s struggle to achieve racial integration, which became part of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case “Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.”
America’s Media Makers
Development
American Reds: The Failed Revolution, 1920-1956
Catticus Corporation
Berkeley, CA
Award: Outright; $75,000
Development of a 90-minute film and website exploring the history of the rise and fall of the Communist Party, USA.
Journey to Normal: Women of War Come Home
Pittsburgh Film-makers, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
Award: Outright; $75,000
Development of a script for a 90-minute documentary film and interactive website featuring a searchable database of interviews with female U.S. veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, an online community discussion forum, and a story-sharing tool.
Action Speaks! Underappreciated Dates that Changed America
AS220
Providence, RI
Award: Outright; $75,000
Development of a multiformat expansion of an existing radio series that brings scholars and the public together via live, moderated public events, to discuss “underappreciated” events in American history.
Production
Across the Pacific
Filmmakers Collaborative, Inc.
Waltham, MA
Award: Outright; $600,000
Production of a two-hour documentary about the 1935 crossing of the Pacific Ocean in a Pan American Airways flying boat named the China Clipper.
The Constitution
Twin Cities Public Television, Inc.
St. Paul, MN
Award: Outright; $400,000
Production of a four-part, four-hour television series accompanied by a companion website, a digital engagement strategy, “PBS NewsHour’s” Student Reporting Labs in ten cities, and a series of high school debates developed, implemented, and webcast by the National Constitution Center.
Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America
Western New York Public Broadcasting Association
Buffalo, NY
Award: Outright; $500,000
Production of a 90-minute documentary film and an associated website exploring the life and career of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.
The Greatest Jubilee: American Music and the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair
API Arts and Outreach, Inc.
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $550,000
Production of a documentary film on the development of American music over the course of the 19th century that focuses on music performed at the 1893 Columbian Exposition.
NEH on the Road
The following organizations received $1,000 grants for ancillary public humanities programs to accompany NEH on the Road traveling exhibitions.
Carnaval
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
Champaign, IL
Farm Life
Brown County Historical Sociey, Inc.
Hiawata, KS
For All the World to See
Wyandotte County Historical Society and Museum
Bonner Springs, KS
Grass Roots
Dane G. Hansen Memorial Museum
Logan, KS
Wrapped in Pride
Fitchburg Art Museum
Fitchburg, MA
Going Places
Tunica Museum
Tunica, MS
Our Lives, Our Stories
Westminster College
Fulton, MO
Wild Land
Missouri Conservation Heritage Foundation
Kansas City, MO
Bison
City of Las Cruces
Las Cruces, NM
For All the World to See
City of Freeport
Freeport, TX
Grass Roots
Ellen Noel Art Museum of the Permian Basin
Odessa, TX
Going Places
Park City Historical Society and Museum
Park City, UT
Our Lives, Our Stories
Fort Caspar Museum Association
Casper, WY