GRANTS IN PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Division of Public Programs
Division of Public Programs
Announced: July 2008
Chairman’s Special Awards
Lincoln in New York
New-York Historical Society
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $75,000.00
New-York Historical Society
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $75,000.00
Planning for a temporary exhibition, a catalog, a website on Abraham Lincoln and his relationship to New York City, and a traveling nine-panel exhibition that would circulate nationwide.
American Art and the East
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $750,000.00 Match; $250,000.00
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $750,000.00 Match; $250,000.00
Implementation of a traveling exhibition, a catalog, a website, a symposium, and related educational and public programs examining the impact of Asian art, literature, and philosophy on American art from 1860 to 1970.
American Experience: Freedom Riders
WGBH Educational Foundation
Boston, MA
Award: Outright; $1,000,000.00
WGBH Educational Foundation
Boston, MA
Award: Outright; $1,000,000.00
Production of a multiplatform media project on the Freedom Riders, the hundreds of Civil Rights activists who challenged segregation in interstate transport in the American South during the spring and summer of 1961.
Interpreting America’s Historic Places
Planning Grants
Putting Portsmouth on the Map:
Cultural Center, Historic Trail, and Heritage Tourism
University of New Hampshire, Durham
Durham, NH
Award: Outright; $40,000.00
University of New Hampshire, Durham
Durham, NH
Award: Outright; $40,000.00
Planning of a permanent exhibition of the city’s history for a new cultural center, enhancements to the Black Heritage Trail, creation of a new Footsteps of Washington Trail, and a website to include downloadable maps, podcasts, and other pertinent tour materials.
Adapting Billings Farm & Museum as a Heritage Gateway Destination: A Comprehensive Exhibit and Program Plan
Billings Farm & Museum
Woodstock, VT
Award: Outright; $40,000.00
Billings Farm & Museum
Woodstock, VT
Award: Outright; $40,000.00
Planning for reinstallation of a permanent exhibition at Historic Billings Farm and development of accompanying public and educational programs and audio tours interpreting Vermont’s rural heritage.
Connecting People and Land Through the Legacy of Aldo Leopold
Aldo Leopold Foundation
Baraboo, WI
Award: Outright; $45,000.00
Aldo Leopold Foundation
Baraboo, WI
Award: Outright; $45,000.00
Planning to develop a new interpretation of the Aldo Leopold Shack and Farm, home of a key figure in the 20th-century conservation movement.
Implementation Grants
Rotchev House Museum Exhibit at Fort Ross, California
Fort Ross Interpretive Association
Jenner, CA
Award: Outright; $114,049.00
Fort Ross Interpretive Association
Jenner, CA
Award: Outright; $114,049.00
Production of exhibits, displays, a walking tour, a museum panel, and a website tour for the Rotchev House Museum, home of the last manager of the Russian-America Company in California.
Audio Tour Implementation
Hancock Shaker Village, Inc.
Pittsfield, MA
Award: Outright; $168,703.00
Hancock Shaker Village, Inc.
Pittsfield, MA
Award: Outright; $168,703.00
Implementation of a new audio and podcast tour of the Hancock Shaker Village’s 1,200-acre site.
Creating Holyoke: Immigrants’ and Migrants’ Search for Community
Wistariahurst Museum / City of Holyoke
Holyoke, MA
Award: Outright; $399,950.00
Wistariahurst Museum / City of Holyoke
Holyoke, MA
Award: Outright; $399,950.00
Implementation of a citywide project that tells the story of immigration to Holyoke, Massachusetts, through separate interpretive exhibitions at three museums, complemented by public programming, heritage tours, a teacher institute, and a website.
America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations
Planning Grants
Becoming Arizona: A Cyberpedia Project
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ
Award: Outright; $39,999.00
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ
Award: Outright; $39,999.00
Planning for an online encyclopedia of Arizona history and culture.
Chosen Food: Adaptation, Identity, and Debate in American Jewish Foodways
Jewish Museum of Maryland
Baltimore, MD
Award: Outright; $40,000.00
Jewish Museum of Maryland
Baltimore, MD
Award: Outright; $40,000.00
Planning for a traveling exhibition, a catalog, a website, and educational and public programs examining Jewish foodways as expressions of tradition and adaptation.
For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Baltimore, MD
Award: Outright; $40,000.00
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Baltimore, MD
Award: Outright; $40,000.00
Planning for a traveling exhibition, a catalog, a film festival, a website, and related educational and public programs exploring how visual images shaped and transformed the fight for civil rights in the U.S.
Enchanted Isle: The Story of Martha’s Vineyard: Land, Sea, and People
Martha’s Vineyard Historical Society
Edgartown, MA
Award: Outright;$39,903.00
Martha’s Vineyard Historical Society
Edgartown, MA
Award: Outright;$39,903.00
Planning for a permanent exhibition and related educational and public programs exploring how the history and culture of Martha’s Vineyard was shaped by its island location.
An American Turning Point: The Civil War in Virginia
VA Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission
Richmond, VA
Award: Outright; $40,000.00
VA Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission
Richmond, VA
Award: Outright; $40,000.00
Planning for a traveling exhibition, a smaller mobile museum version, and a low-security exhibit, on the Civil War events in Virginia as representative of the larger national experience.
Implementation Grants
The Indians of the Midwest
Newberry Library
Chicago, IL
Award: Outright; $399,990.00
Newberry Library
Chicago, IL
Award: Outright; $399,990.00
Implementation of an interactive website on the cultures and history of the Indian tribes of the Midwest and on the changes and issues they have faced over time.
Humanities at the Heart of Health Care for Veterans
Maine Humanities Council
Portland, ME
Award: Outright; $399,508.00
Maine Humanities Council
Portland, ME
Award: Outright; $399,508.00
Implementation of a reading and discussion series with venue staff training workshops using humanities literature to improve staff understanding of patients at 15 Veterans Administration hospitals in 10 states.
Laura Jernegan: Girl on a Whaleship
Martha’s Vineyard Historical Society
Edgartown, MA
Award: Outright; $208,550.00
Martha’s Vineyard Historical Society
Edgartown, MA
Award: Outright; $208,550.00
Implementation of a virtual exhibition for family audiences about the social and economic history of New England whaling, using as its centerpiece a shipboard journal written by a child during a voyage in 1868–71.
Page and Stage: Theatre, Tradition, and Culture in America
Aquila Theatre Company Inc.
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $292,585.00
Aquila Theatre Company Inc.
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $292,585.00
Implementation of a series of reading and performance discussion programs in seven states and a website about how the themes of classical Greek and Roman drama continue to resonate today across a variety of racial and ethnic subcultures.
Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War Panel Exhibition
National Constitution Center
Philadelphia, PA
Award: Outright; $271,910.00
National Constitution Center
Philadelphia, PA
Award: Outright; $271,910.00
Implementation of a traveling panel exhibition about how Abraham Lincoln used constitutional tools to preserve the union and end slavery, which will tour 25 public libraries in collaboration with the American Library Association.
S’abadeb (The Gifts): Pacific Coast Salish Art and Artists
Seattle Art Museum
Seattle, WA
Award: Outright; $400,000.00
Seattle Art Museum
Seattle, WA
Award: Outright; $400,000.00
Implementation of a traveling exhibit and a companion website on the art and culture of the coastal Salish people.
America’s Media Makers
Development Grants
Ordered Liberty
GWETA, Inc.
Washington, DC
Award: Outright; $75,000.00
GWETA, Inc.
Washington, DC
Award: Outright; $75,000.00
Development of a two-hour film that would examine the history of the conservative movement in 20th-century America.
Lorraine Hansberry Documentary Project
Filmmakers Collaborative
Waltham, MA
Award: Outright; $75,000.00
Filmmakers Collaborative
Waltham, MA
Award: Outright; $75,000.00
Development of a 90-minute documentary, a website, and curriculum materials exploring the life, work, and times of African American playwright and activist Lorraine Hansberry (1930–65).
The Zionist Idea
New York Foundation for the Arts
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $53,500.00
New York Foundation for the Arts
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $53,500.00
Development of a two-hour documentary exploring the modern ideology of Zionism, an accompanying website, a study guide, and a companion book.
Production Grants
Postcards From Buster
WGBH Educational Foundation
Boston, MA
Award: Outright; $800,000.00
WGBH Educational Foundation
Boston, MA
Award: Outright; $800,000.00
Production of three half-hour episodes on the history and culture of India, Kenya, and Chile for Postcards from Buster, a television series for children six to eight years old; in addition, support of material on six countries for the Arthur website and the Arthur’s World exhibit at the Boston Children’s Museum.
Speaking of Faith: Biographical Series
Minnesota Public Radio
St. Paul, MN
Award: Outright; $79,554.00
Minnesota Public Radio
St. Paul, MN
Award: Outright; $79,554.00
Production of a one-hour radio program, together with a companion website, on Tatanka Iyotanka (Sitting Bull), and development of six treatments profiling significant figures in the history of religious thought around the world.
WNYC Radio’s The Jazz Loft Project
WNYC Radio
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $100,000.00
WNYC Radio
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $100,000.00
Production of two one-hour radio programs, 10 shorter modules (8 to 14 minutes each) and digital components on the history and culture of jazz in New York during the 1950s and 1960s.
Small Grants to Libraries
The following libraries received $2,500 to participate in the nationwide program John Adams Unbound: A Traveling Exhibition to Libraries.
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Bevill State Community College
Jasper, AL
Benicia Public Library
Benicia, CA
Aurora Public Library
Aurora, CO
Colorado State University—Pueblo
Pueblo, CO
Florida Atlantic University Libraries
Boca Raton, FL
Oakton Community College
Des Plaines, IL
Illinois State University, Milner Library
Normal, IL
Drake University
Des Moines, IA
Thomas Crane Public Library
Quincy, MA
Loutit District Library
Grand Haven, MI |
Kansas City Public Library
Kansas City, MO
New Brunswick Free Public Library
New Brunswick, NJ
SUNY Research Foundation, Brockport
Brockport, NY
Sachem Public Library
Holbrook, NY
Minerva Public Library
Minerva, OH
Multnomah County Library
Portland, OR
Watertown Regional Library
Watertown, SD
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN
Nashville Public Library
Nashville, TN
Martinsburg-Berkeley County Public Library
Martinsburg, WV |
The following libraries received $2,500 to participate in the nationwide program Pride and Passion: The African American Baseball Experience—A Traveling Exhibition to Libraries.
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Huntsville-Madison County Public Library
Huntsville, AL
San Jose Public Library
San Jose, CA
Daytona Beach Community College
Daytona Beach, FL
DeKalb Library Foundation
Decatur, GA
Oak Park Public Library
Oak Park, IL
Public Library of Des Moines
Des Moines, IA
Fort Scott Community College Endowment Association
Fort Scott, KS
Louisville Free Public Library
Louisville, KY
Ouachita Parish Public Library
Monroe, LA
Enoch Pratt Free Library
Baltimore, MD
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Amherst, MA
Albion District Library
Albion, MI |
Detroit Public Library
Detroit, MI
Rolling Hills Consolidated Library
St. Joseph, MO
Omaha Public Library
Omaha, NE
Ocean County Library
Toms River, NJ
New York Public Library
New York, NY
Poughkeepsie Public Library District
Poughkeepsie, NY
Bladen County Public Library
Elizabethtown, NC
Holly Springs Branch Library
Holly Springs, NC
Pennsylvania State University,
Main Campus University Park, PA
Spartanburg County Public Libraries
Spartanburg, SC
North Harris Montgomery Community College District
The Woodlands, TX
Milwaukee Public Library
Milwaukee, WI
Natrona County Public Library
Casper, WY |
NEH on the Road
NEH on the Road Phase Three
Extension Proposal
Mid-America Arts Alliance
Kansas City, MO
Award: Outright; $2,383,693.00
Extension Proposal
Mid-America Arts Alliance
Kansas City, MO
Award: Outright; $2,383,693.00
Extension of a cooperative agreement which will result in a full complement of 10 circulating exhibitions for the NEH on the Road Program through 2012.
The following organizations received $1,000 grants for ancillary public humanities programs to accompany NEH on the Road traveling exhibitions.
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NEH on the Road: Farm Life
City of Dublin Dublin, CA
NEH on the Road: Asian Games
Kansas City, Kansas Public Library—West Wyandotte Branch Kansas City, KS
NEH on the Road: Farm Life
National Agricultural Center and Hall of Fame Bonner Springs, KS
NEH on the Road: Wrapped in Pride
Lafayette Natural History Museum & Planetarium Foundation Lafayette, LA
NEH on the Road: Heroes of the Sky
Tunica Museum Tunica, MS
NEH on the Road: Grass Roots
Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art Shawnee, OK |
NEH on the Road: Carnaval
Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History Bryan, TX
NEH on the Road: Going Places
Old Red Museum of Dallas County History & Culture Dallas, TX
NEH on the Road: Going Places
Petroleum Museum Midland, TX
NEH on the Road: Wrapped in Pride
University of Richmond Richmond, VA
NEH on the Road: Heroes of the Sky
Uinta County Museum Evanston, WY |
Picturing America
Picturing America On-screen and Online
Educational Broadcasting Corporation
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $200,000.00
Educational Broadcasting Corporation
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $200,000.00
Production of 20 three- to five-minute video segments, together with a website, exploring the masterworks of American art featured in the NEH initiative Picturing America.