National Endowment for the Humanities Awards $30.9 Million to 188 Humanities Projects

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) will distribute $30.9 million to 188 humanities projects in forty-five states and the District of Columbia as part of its latest grant cycle. NEH chairman Jon Parrish Peede announced the awardees at a press conference held at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which will receive a matching grant of up to $750,000 in support of the overhaul of its campus. An additional $48 million was awarded to fifty-five state, territorial, and jurisdictional humanities councils.

In addition to the O’Keeffe Museum, grants were awarded to Harvard University for the development of a pilot database and visualization tools that will allow users to search a large collection of paintings by pigment; research projects on Dutch Golden Age painter Maria van Oosterwyck (1630–1693) and Navajo art and artists; the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego for a major expansion; the St. Louis Holocaust Museum & Learning Center for the construction of education and community engagement areas; the University of Delaware for its art conservation program; and several rural cultural institutions across Alaska for emergency preparedness training to help protect heritage collections against fire, flooding, and other natural disasters.