July 2012 Awards List
America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations
Planning Grants
Jade: China's Immortal Stone
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Kansas City, MO
Award: Outright; $60,000
Planning for a traveling exhibition tracing the evolution of the meaning of jade in China from prehistoric times to the present.
The Armory Show at 100: The New Art Spirit Interpretive Website
New-York Historical Society
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $50,000
Planning for an interactive website about the 1913 Armory Show in New York and its significance in the cultural, political, and historical context of the period.
Crafting Freedom
Duke University
Durham, NC
Award: Outright; $60,000
Planning of two versions of a traveling exhibition that would present the biographies of 12 individuals to tell the history of African Americans in the antebellum South.
The Art of the Joseon Dynasty, 1392–1910
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, PA
Award: Outright; $60,000
Planning for a traveling exhibition, a scholarly catalog, and public and educational programs on the art and culture of the Joseon Dynasty in Korea.
The William Still Digital History Project
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Award: Outright; $60,000
Planning of an interactive website on the history of the Underground Railroad through the interpretation of William Still's document collection at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Implementation Grants
It's a Small World After All: Global Citizenship Education for the 21st Century
Prime Time Family Reading
New Orleans, LA
Award: Outright; $355,383
Implementation of a new library reading and discussion series for at-risk families in five states about why globalization requires a new universal empathy for humankind in today's citizens.
Maine in the Civil War: Making Connections though the Humanities and Digital History
Maine Humanities Council
Portland, ME
Award: Outright; $348,946
Implementation of a series of multiformat programs about the history and legacy of the Civil War in Maine.
Reinstallation of American Art at The Baltimore Museum of Art
Baltimore Museum of Art
Baltimore, MD
Award: Outright; $126,500 Match; $181,500
Implementation of the reinstallation of the galleries of American fine and decorative art.
Material Journeys: African Art in Motion
Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts
Minneapolis, MN
Award: Outright; $352,000
Implementation of a reinstallation of the museum's collection of African art, new interactive interpretive components, and public programs focusing on the social context of the art and the ways in which it reveals the exchange of ideas with other cultures.
Behind Closed Doors: Power and Privilege at Home in Spanish America
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Brooklyn, NY
Award: Outright; $311,129
Implementation of a traveling exhibition, a scholarly catalog, and online materials that explore the private life of creole and indigenous elites in Spanish colonial America and how identity, social status, and ambition were communicated by the art and luxury objects they chose to display in their homes.
Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations: A Study of Mixed-Heritage Families in Brooklyn
Brooklyn Historical Society
Brooklyn, NY
Award: Outright; $378,067
Implementation of a website, an oral history project, and public programs about individuals and families of mixed racial, ethnic, and cultural heritage and the place of "cultural hybridity" in United States history.
Cleveland Museum of Art's Exhibition: Wari: Lords of the Ancient Andes
Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, OH
Award: Outright; $352,000
Implementation of a traveling exhibition, a catalog, programs, and a website on the arts of the Wari, a major Andean civilization and the first empire in that region between AD 600 and 1000.
Renovation of the Lorraine Motel Permanent Exhibits
National Civil Rights Museum
Memphis, TN
Award: Outright; $352,000
Implementation of a new 14,500-square-foot permanent exhibition on the history of African American efforts to gain freedom and equality and the interpretation of the Lorraine Motel historic site at the National Civil Rights Museum.
America’s Media Makers
Supplement
Mission US
WNET.ORG
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $35,499
To support the production of two interactive historical games designed for classroom use on an electronic tablet.
Development Grants
Rising Voices/Hothaninpi
Language Conservancy
Bloomington, IN
Award: Outright; $60,000
Development of a 90-minute documentary film and website that examines Native American language loss and revival.
Adios Amor: The Search for Maria Moreno
Women Make Movies, Inc.
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $60,000
Development of a 60-minute documentary film and design of an accompanying website on Maria Moreno, a California labor activist who worked to organize migrant farm workers 50 years ago.
Production Grants
Hidden Kitchens World
Kitchen Sisters Productions
San Francisco, CA
Award: Outright; $150,000
Production of eight, seven-minute radio stories to air on NPR's "Morning Edition," an hour-long public radio broadcast special distributed to stations, a multimedia website, and a blog featuring scholars each exploring the complex relationships among food, culture, and society.
The Popular Romance Project Film and Website: Creating Community in a Mass Cultural World
Filmmakers Collaborative, Inc.
Waltham, MA
Award: Outright; $616,000
Production of a two-hour documentary about the romance novel community.
Afropop Worldwide's Hip Deep
World Music Productions
Brooklyn, NY
Award: Outright; $175,000
Production of nine new radio and web episodes, re-editing and rebroadcasting six previously produced programs, migration of current website to new more accessible website, and the implementation of a new dissemination and syndication strategy for the "Hip Deep" series.
Gene Smith and The Jazz Loft
WNYC Radio
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $704,000
Production of a 90-minute documentary about photographer W. Eugene (Gene) Smith and the history of jazz in New York during the 1950s.
The Audio History Project
Radio Diaries
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $200,000 Match; $150,000
Production of a series of 12 historical documentaries ranging in length from 13 to 23 minutes to be broadcast on NPR's "All Things Considered" and a companion website.
The Pilgrims
City Lore: NY Center for Urban Folk Culture
New York, NY
Award: Outright; $704,000
Production of a two-hour film and companion website exploring the political, economic, religious, and historical forces that led to the formation and migration of the Pilgrims and the first decade of their colony in New England.
August Wilson: The Ground On Which I Stand
WQED
Pittsburgh, PA
Award: Outright; $704,000
Production of a 90-minute television documentary about the life and work of playwright August Wilson (1945–2005).
Small Grants to Libraries
The following libraries received $2,500 to participate in the nationwide program America's Music: A Film History of Our Popular Music from Blues to Bluegrass to Broadway.
Birmingham Public Library
Birmingham, AL
Tuscaloosa Public Library
Tuscaloosa, AL
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ
NorthWest Arkansas Community College
Bentonville, AR
Fayetteville Public Library
Fayetteville, AR
Oceanside Public Library
Oceanside, CA
San Diego Public Library
San Diego, CA
City of San Jose, Library Department
San Jose, CA
Garfield County Library
Rifle, CO
Fairfield University
Fairfield, CT
Broward Public Library Foundation
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Miami Dade College North Campus
Miami, FL
Orange County Library System
Orlando, FL
Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System
Atlanta, GA
Eastern Illinois University
Charleston, IL
Moline Public Library
Moline, IL
Illinois State University
Normal, IL
Oak Park Public Library
Oak Park, IL
Indiana State Museum Foundation, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
Muncie Public Library
Muncie, IN
Public Library of Des Moines
Des Moines, IA
Kansas City Kansas Junior College
Kansas City, KS
Western Kentucky University Research Foundation
Bowling Green, KY
Southeastern Louisiana University
Hammond, LA
Town of Camden
Camden, ME
Ann Arbor District Library
Ann Arbor, MI
Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, MS
University of Missouri, Columbia
Columbia, MO
Kansas City Public Library
Kansas City, MO
Missouri State University, Springfield
Springfield, MO
Omaha Public Library
Omaha, NE
Hamilton College
Clinton, NY
Sachem Public Library
Holbrook, NY
Poughkeepsie Public Library District
Poughkeepsie, NY
The ArtsCenter, Inc.
Carrboro, NC, NC
North Regional Library
Raleigh, NC
Owens State Community College
Perrysburg, OH
Warren-Trumbull County Public Library
Warren, OH
Otterbein College
Westerville, OH
Montgomery County Community College
Blue Bell, PA
Lower Macungie Library
Macungie, PA
Siouxland Libraries
Sioux Falls, SD
City of Memphis, Memphis Public Library & Information Center
Memphis, TN
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN
City of Austin
Austin, TX
Museum of the Gulf Coast
Port Arthur, TX
Bristol Public Library Foundation
Bristol, VA
Newport News Public Library System
Newport News, VA
Lawrence University
Appleton, WI
Laramie County Library System
Cheyenne, WY
NEH on the Road
The following organizations received $1,000 grants for ancillary public humanities programs to accompany NEH on the Road traveling exhibitions.
Wild Land
Sonoma County Museum
Santa Rosa, CA
Grass Roots
Yost Art Gallery
Highland, KS
For All the World to See
Terrebonne Parish Library
Houma, LA
Our Lives, Our Stories
West Baton Rouge Museum
Port Allen, LA
Our Lives, Our Stories
History Museum of East Otter Tail County
Perham, MN
Grass Roots
University of Mississippi, Main Campus
University, MS
Carnaval
Love's Jazz & Arts Center
Omaha, NE
Going Places
Main Street Beatrice
Beatrice, NE
Wild Land
Keene State College
Keene, NH
Wild Land
St. Bonaventure University
St. Bonaventure, NY
Farm Life
Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center, Inc.
Enid, OK
Bison
High Desert Museum
Bend, OR
Carnaval
Brigham City Museum and Gallery
Brigham City, UT