GRANTS IN PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Division of Public Programs
Division of Public Programs
Announced: July 2009
Chairman’s Special Awards
The 1968 Project
Minnesota Historical Society
St. Paul, MN
Award: Outright; $75,000.00
Minnesota Historical Society
St. Paul, MN
Award: Outright; $75,000.00
Planning for a traveling exhibition, a website, and associated programming on America in the 1960s.
An American Turning Point
VA Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission
Richmond, VA
Award: Outright; $950,000.00
VA Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission
Richmond, VA
Award: Outright; $950,000.00
Implementation of a traveling exhibition, a mobile gallery, a panel exhibition, a permanent online web exhibition, and related educational and public programs in observance of the Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War.
Interpreting America’s Historic Places
Planning Grants
New Deal Murals of San Francisco
Northern California Public Broadcasting, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
Award: Outright; $40,000.00
Northern California Public Broadcasting, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
Award: Outright; $40,000.00
Planning for a multimedia tour examining the history and legacy of San Francisco’s New Deal-era murals.
Interpreting Munroe Tavern as the “Museum of the British” in Lexington, MA
Lexington Historical Society
Lexington, MA
Award: Outright; $39,694.00
Lexington Historical Society
Lexington, MA
Award: Outright; $39,694.00
Planning for a new interpretation of Munroe Tavern as the “Museum of the British” to broaden the understanding of Lexington, Massachusetts, at the beginning of the Revolutionary War.
Brooklyn Navy Yard: Past, Present, and Future
Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp.
Brooklyn, NY
Award: Outright; $40,000.00
Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp.
Brooklyn, NY
Award: Outright; $40,000.00
Planning of an exhibition in a restored building of the historic Brooklyn Navy Yard that would present the Yard’s history and its influence on the growth of Brooklyn and New York City.
Implementation Grants
In Pursuit of Freedom
Brooklyn Historical Society
Brooklyn, NY
Award: Outright; $400,000.00
Brooklyn Historical Society
Brooklyn, NY
Award: Outright; $400,000.00
Implementation of a multifaceted program on the history of abolitionism in Brooklyn: including three exhibitions, permanent historic markers, walking tours, a website, and public programs.
America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations
Planning Grants
Seven Interactive Displays for the New Museum of the American West and
Southwest Museum of the American Indian
Autry National Center
Los Angeles, CA
Award: Outright; $40,000.00
Southwest Museum of the American Indian
Autry National Center
Los Angeles, CA
Award: Outright; $40,000.00
Planning of seven map-based digital displays about the convergence of cultures in the American West to be displayed throughout the galleries of the Autry National Center’s two museums.
Georgia Capitol History Project
Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
Award: Outright; $39,619.00
Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
Award: Outright; $39,619.00
Planning of digital multimedia tours interpreting the social and political history of the Georgia State Capitol and its grounds within regional and national contexts.
The World of the Bible: Exploring People, Places, and Passages
Society of Biblical Literature
Decatur, GA
Award: Outright; $40,000.00
Society of Biblical Literature
Decatur, GA
Award: Outright; $40,000.00
Planning for an interactive and multimedia website to bring scholarship concerning the Bible to general audiences.
American Art Web Collections Interpretation & Access project
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston, MA
Award: Outright; $40,000.00
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston, MA
Award: Outright; $40,000.00
Development of a new online interpretation and search framework for the Americas collection that will serve as an extensible model for all collection areas of the museum.
City at Sea: An Intrepid Interpretive Guide
Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $35,000.00
Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $35,000.00
Planning of long-term, multimedia exhibition elements about how the diverse crew of the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid lived and worked together and participated in world events from 1943 to 1969.
Museum Without Walls: Audio, an Innovative Interpretive Audio Program
for Public Art in Philadelphia
Fairmount Park Art Association
Philadelphia, PA
Award: Outright; $40,000.00
for Public Art in Philadelphia
Fairmount Park Art Association
Philadelphia, PA
Award: Outright; $40,000.00
Implementation of a series of multiplatform audio labels for 56 outdoor sculptures in Philadelphia.
Uptown Downtown Digital Interpretation Planning Project
Hunter Museum of American Art
Chattanooga, TN
Award: Outright; $38,750.00
Hunter Museum of American Art
Chattanooga, TN
Award: Outright; $38,750.00
Development of a digital interpretation plan for the Hunter Museum of Art’s Uptown Downtown gallery.
Norman Bel Geddes: American Designer
University of Texas, Austin
Austin, TX
Award: Outright; $39,609.00
University of Texas, Austin
Austin, TX
Award: Outright; $39,609.00
Planning of an exhibition on how American culture and lifestyle have been shaped and influenced by the theatrical and industrial designer Norman Bel Geddes (1893–1958).
Implementation Grants
Bali: Art, Ritual, Performance
Asian Art Museum
San Francisco, CA
Award: Outright; $0.00 Match; $400,000.00
Asian Art Museum
San Francisco, CA
Award: Outright; $0.00 Match; $400,000.00
Implementation of a traveling exhibition, a catalog, a website, and public and educational programs on the arts of Bali.
Designing Tomorrow: America’s World’s Fairs of the 1930s
National Building Museum
Washington, DC
Award: Outright; $380,000.00
National Building Museum
Washington, DC
Award: Outright; $380,000.00
Implementation of a traveling exhibition exploring how the modern architectural and industrial design displayed at the 1930s world’s fairs articulated a unique American modernism and laid the groundwork for post-World War II consumerism.
For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Baltimore, MD
Award: Outright; $400,000.00
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Baltimore, MD
Award: Outright; $400,000.00
Implementation of a traveling exhibition with a catalog, a website, and public and school programs about how photographs and media images were used to influence attitudes toward racial equality and African American culture during the fight to achieve civil rights.
Native Voices: New England Tribal Families
Boston Children’s Museum
Boston, MA
Award: Outright; $0.00 Match; $375,000.00
Boston Children’s Museum
Boston, MA
Award: Outright; $0.00 Match; $375,000.00
Implementation of a traveling exhibition for children ages five to twelve and their families about cultural continuity and contemporary Native American life in New England.
Dogon Now: Masks in Motion
Museum for African Art
Long Island City, NY
Award: Outright; $350,000.00
Museum for African Art
Long Island City, NY
Award: Outright; $350,000.00
Implementation of a traveling exhibition and a publication on the art and masquerades of the Dogon people of Mali.
Emily Dickinson’s Flowers at The New York Botanical Garden
New York Botanical Garden
Bronx, NY
Award: Outright; $400,000.00
New York Botanical Garden
Bronx, NY
Award: Outright; $400,000.00
Implementation of outdoor and indoor exhibitions, and public and educational programs, exploring the importance of plants as a source of inspiration for noted American poet Emily Dickinson.
Lincoln and New York
New-York Historical Society
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $400,000.00
New-York Historical Society
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $400,000.00
Implementation of a large interpretive traveling exhibition, a website, a smaller traveling nine-panel exhibition that would circulate nationwide, a catalog, and public educational programs on Lincoln and his relationship to New York City.
The Amazing Circus Poster/Strobridge Lithography Company: 1879–1939
Cincinnati Art Museum
Cincinnati, OH
Award: Outright; $350,000.00
Cincinnati Art Museum
Cincinnati, OH
Award: Outright; $350,000.00
Implementation of a traveling exhibition, a catalog, a website, educational materials, and public programs that explore the cultural significance of the circus poster during its golden age in America.
America’s Media Makers
Development Grants
Across the Pacific
Filmmakers Collaborative, Inc.
Waltham, MA
Award: Outright; $65,000.00
Filmmakers Collaborative, Inc.
Waltham, MA
Award: Outright; $65,000.00
Development of a two-hour documentary about one of the great milestones in the history of flight: the 1935 crossing of the Pacific Ocean in a Pan American Airways flying boat called the China Clipper.
How the Catskills Changed America
New York Foundation for the Arts
Brooklyn, NY
Award: Outright; $60,000.00
New York Foundation for the Arts
Brooklyn, NY
Award: Outright; $60,000.00
Scripting of a two-hour documentary film examining the history of the Catskill region from 1800 to the present.
Thomas Day, American
Apprend Foundation
Durham, NC
Award: Outright; $65,000.00
Apprend Foundation
Durham, NC
Award: Outright; $65,000.00
Development of a script for a 90-minute documentary on the life of Thomas Day and the history of 19th-century free blacks in the South.
Production Grants
Lost Treasure Hunt
San Francisco Film Society
San Francisco, CA
Award: Outright; $390,220.00
San Francisco Film Society
San Francisco, CA
Award: Outright; $390,220.00
Production of a 30-minute pilot television program, “Christopher Columbus: The Mystery of the Santa Maria,” and an accompanying interactive website. This would be the first program of a 13-part series entitled “The Lost Treasure Hunt.”
Butterfly: The Art and Life of James McNeill Whistler
Film Odyssey, Inc.
Washington, DC
Award: Outright; $625,000.00 Match; $100,000.00
Film Odyssey, Inc.
Washington, DC
Award: Outright; $625,000.00 Match; $100,000.00
Production of a one-hour critical biography on the art and life of American artist James McNeill Whistler.
American Experience: Panama Canal
WGBH Educational Foundation
Boston, MA
Award: Outright; $300,000.00 Match; $150,000.00
WGBH Educational Foundation
Boston, MA
Award: Outright; $300,000.00 Match; $150,000.00
Production of a two-hour documentary on the history of the construction of the Panama Canal for PBS’s American Experience.
The Big Show in Bololand
Filmmakers Collaborative, Inc.
Waltham, MA
Award: Outright; $600,000.00
Filmmakers Collaborative, Inc.
Waltham, MA
Award: Outright; $600,000.00
Production of a 60-minute film and an accompanying website about the efforts of the American Relief Administration to combat starvation in the new Soviet Union from 1921 to 1923.
America, Whaling, and the World
City Lore: NY Center for Urban Folk Culture
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $725,000.00
City Lore: NY Center for Urban Folk Culture
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $725,000.00
Production of a two-hour documentary exploring the history, culture, and significance of the American whaling industry from 1620 to 1924.
To Tell the Truth
Moving Image
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $725,000.00
Moving Image
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $725,000.00
Production of a six-hour documentary series tracing the history of the nonfiction film, from the beginnings of cinema to the present.
Radio Shakespeare: His Work, His World, & Our World
CultureWorks, Ltd.
Philadelphia, PA
Award: Outright; $260,000.00
CultureWorks, Ltd.
Philadelphia, PA
Award: Outright; $260,000.00
Production of six, one-hour radio programs that examine the enduring resonance of Shakespeare’s work and issues in current Shakespeare scholarship.
NEH on the Road
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: Lee and Grant
MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History Little Rock, AR
NEH on the Road: Farm Life
Eatonton-Putnam Arts Foundation, Inc. Eatonton, GA
NEH on the Road: Wrapped in Pride
Freeport Art Museum Freeport, IL
NEH on the Road: Farm Life
Scenic City Civic Foundation Iowa Falls, IA
NEH on the Road: Heroes of the Sky
Cottonwood County Historical Society Windom, MN
NEH on the Road: Farm Life
Tunica Museum Tunica, MS |
NEH on the Road: Carnaval
El Museo Latino Omaha, NE
NEH on the Road: Lee and Grant
Capital University Columbus, OH
NEH on the Road: Grass Roots
Southeastern Oklahoma State University Durant, OK
NEH on the Road: Going Places
Museum of the Gulf Coast Port Arthur, TX
NEH on the Road: Carnaval
Piedmont Arts Association Martinsville, VA
NEH on the Road: Wrapped in Pride
Chippewa Valley Museum Eau Claire, WI |