NEH on the Road: Grass Roots

Recipient: Davis, Audrey Paulette (Alexandria, VA 22314 USA) in affiliation with Alexandria Black History Museum

Goal: Ancillary public humanities programs to accompany the NEH on the Road: Grass Roots traveling exhibition.

Grant: 201074 / MR-50066-10,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: NEH on the Road,   Year Awarded: 2010

Picturing America: A Webinar for the Field

Recipient: Cohen, Randy (Washington, DC 20005 USA) in affiliation with Americans for the Arts (Washington, DC 20712 USA)

Goal: The applicant requested a Chairman's grant of $30,000 to create a 90-minute webinar to support Picturing America within the broad national, regional, and local constituency of this 50-year-old organization. Tentatively scheduled for dissemination in spring 2009, the webinar will take advantage of publicity generated by the second round of Picturing America grant announcements. Participants will include a humanities scholar, classroom teacher who has participated in Picturing America, and local arts and humanities agency director. It will begin with remarks by Robert Lynch, president & CEO of Americans for the Arts, on the remarkable breadth of the Picturing America program and its strategic value in keeping the arts in public schools across the country. A noted scholar, Professor Curtis Carter of Marquette University, will discuss five Picturing America images that represent the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries and show how the art is used by history and social science teachers. He will elaborate on his in

Description: To create a 90-minute webinar to support Picturing America within the broad national, regional, and local constituency of this 50-year-old organization.

Grant: 197328 / BA-50026-09,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Picturing America,   Year Awarded: 2009

Picturing America in Atlanta

Recipient: Hooten, Lisa (Atlanta, GA 30309 USA) in affiliation with High Museum of Art

Goal: The applicant requested a Chairman's grant of $24,850 to run a two-day in-service workshop that focuses on the images and themes of Picturing America (PA), together with the PA Teachers Resource Book. The workshop, taking place in Spring 2009, will serve approximately 175 teachers and librarians from the Atlanta Public Schools, which have adopted PA system-wide. The teachers will be drawn from arts, humanities, and social studies fields, with the goal of advancing instruction in American history, civics, government, literature, and culture. The distinguished American collection of the High Museum of Art will receive attention for its relevance to the PA portfolio. However, the primary emphasis and the majority of time will be spent on actual PA reproductions and the Teachers Resource Book. The workshop presenters, who are well-established humanities scholars from Atlanta universities, will impart rich humanities content and background knowledge to participants. Training in basic visual analysis of art

Description: Teachers and librarians from the Atlanta Public school district will attend a Picturing America training institute in May 2009 at the high Museum of Art. Teachers will learn how to use the resource in their classroom. the course will be taught through lectures, group and individual lessons and gallery tours.

Grant: 196920 / BA-50023-09,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Picturing America,   Year Awarded: 2009

Picturing America Teacher Training

Recipient: Pressley, Sheila (San Francisco, CA 94118 USA) in affiliation with Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (San Francisco, CA 94121 USA)

Goal: The applicant requested a Chairman's grant of $24,750 to run a one-day teacher training program that focuses on the images and themes of Picturing America (PA), together with the PA Teachers Resource Book. The program, to take place in September 2009, will serve approximately 100 teachers from San Francisco public schools, which have adopted PA system-wide, and from other Bay-Area schools that have adopted PA. The teachers will be drawn from arts, humanities, and social studies fields, with the goal of advancing instruction in American history, civics, government, literature, and culture. The distinguished American collection of the de Young Museum will receive attention for its relevance to the PA portfolio; however, the primary emphasis and the majority of time will be spent on actual PA reproductions and the Teachers Resource Book. The program presenters, who are well-established humanities educators from UC Berkeley and other area universities, will impart rich humanities content and background know

Description: To run a one-day teacher training program that focuses on the images and themes of Picturing America (PA), together with the PA Teachers Resource Book.

Grant: 196921 / BA-50024-09,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Picturing America,   Year Awarded: 2009

Picturing America Teacher In-Service Workshop

Recipient: Russell, Marilyn M (Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA) in affiliation with Carnegie Institute Museum of Art

Goal: The applicant requested a Chairman's grant of $24,392 to run a one-day in-service workshop that focuses on the images and themes of Picturing America (PA), together with the PA Teachers Resource Book. The workshop, taking place in August 2009, will serve approximately 175 teachers and librarians from the Pittsburgh Public Schools, which have adopted PA system-wide. The teachers will be drawn from arts, humanities, and social studies fields, with the goal of advancing instruction in American history, civics, government, literature, and culture. The distinguished American collection of the Carnegie Museum will receive attention for its relevance to the PA portfolio (including a John Singer Sargent canvas included in PA). However, the primary emphasis and the majority of time will be spent on actual PA reproductions and the Teachers Resource Book. The workshop presenters, who are well-established humanities scholars, will impart rich humanities content and background knowledge to participants. Training i

Description: One day professional development in-service workshop for teams of Pittsburgh Public School arts, humanities and social studies teachers to develop strategies for incorporating the Picturing America project in district curriculum. Picturing America posters and materials will be used to foster visual art reception and analysis, encouraging students to express their own ideas and perspectives through the complementary critical and creative process of reading, writing, discussing, and art making.

Grant: 196919 / BA-50022-09,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Picturing America,   Year Awarded: 2009

Picturing America Curriculum

Recipient: Burrell, Jane (Los Angeles, CA 90036 USA) in affiliation with Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Goal: The applicant requested a Chairman's grant of $20,955 to run a one-day teacher training workshop that focuses on the images and themes of Picturing America (PA), together with the PA Teachers Resource Book. The workshop, to take place in Summer 2009, will serve approximately 100 teachers from Los Angeles Unified School District and the Burbank School District, both of which have adopted PA system-wide. The teachers will be drawn from arts, humanities, and social studies fields, with the goal of advancing instruction in American history, civics, government, literature, and culture. The distinguished American collection of the Los Angeles County Museum will receive attention for its relevance to the PA portfolio; however, the primary emphasis and the majority of time will be spent on actual PA reproductions and the Teachers Resource Book. The workshop presenters, who are well-established humanities educators from UC Santa Barbara and Stanford University, will impart rich humanities content and background kno

Description: LACMA will present a one-day workshop for teachers in the Los Angeles Unified and Burbank school districts that have adopted "Picturing America" curriculum. Presented by two art historians, the workshop will explore objects that relate to art from Colonial period to 1950. Themes will focus on Leadership, Freedom & Equality, Democracy, Courage, Landscapes, or Creativity and Ingenuity. Two gallery sessions with museum educators using works in LACMA's American Art Collection will round out the workshop by facilitating discussions and explorations of the themes.

Grant: 196918 / BA-50021-09,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Picturing America,   Year Awarded: 2009

Picturing America Workshop

Recipient: Blake, Kathryn (Phoenix, AZ 85004 USA) in affiliation with Phoenix Art Museum

Goal: The applicant requested a Chairman's grant of $16,000 to run a one-day seminar that focuses on the images and themes of Picturing America (PA), together with the PA Teachers Resource Book. The seminar will take place on June 11, 2009 and it will serve approximately 125 teachers and librarians from Arizona schools, particularly from Phoenix, which has adopted PA system-wide. The teachers will be drawn from arts, humanities, and social studies fields, with the goal of advancing instruction in American history, civics, government, literature, and culture. The collections of the Phoenix Art Museum and the nearby Heard Museum will receive attention for their relevance to the PA portfolio, particularly in Native American art works. However, the primary emphasis and the majority of time will be spent on actual PA reproductions and the Teachers Resource Book. The seminar presenters will be drawn from humanities scholars in Phoenix-area universities, who will impart rich humanities content and background knowle

Description: One day seminar targeting 125 classroom teachers, educators, and librarians throughout Arizona to encourage and support implementation of the National Endowment for the Humanities Picturing America image set.

Grant: 197152 / BA-50025-09,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Picturing America,   Year Awarded: 2009

Picturing America

Recipient: Castle, Lainie (Chicago, IL 60611 USA) in affiliation with American Library Association

Grant: 189962 / BA-50004-08,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Picturing America,   Year Awarded: 2008

Picturing America Education Initiative

Recipient: Lind, Ted (Newark, NJ 07102 USA) in affiliation with Newark Museum (Newark, NJ 07101 USA)

Description: The Newark Museum will offer a demonstration model program for educators that utilizes the NEH Picturing America curriculum as a resource.

Grant: 192440 / BA-50007-08,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Picturing America,   Year Awarded: 2008

Picturing America Teachers' Workshop

Recipient: Maxedon, Guy (Bloomington, IN 47405 USA) in affiliation with Indiana University, Bloomington

Description: Three-day teachers' workshop training educators with the Picturing America resources.

Grant: 192444 / BA-50010-08,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Picturing America,   Year Awarded: 2008

Spirit Into Shape: Contemporary Italian Sculpture

Recipient: Colby, Carl (Washington, DC 20009 USA) in affiliation with Meridian International Center

Grant: 189442 / MI-50111-07,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Museums Implementation,   Year Awarded: 2007

Endowment for Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art

Recipient: Scott, Deborah Emont (Kansas City, MO 64111 USA) in affiliation with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO 64119 USA)

Goal: Endowment for the position of Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art as well as related expenses for research travel and conservation.

Description: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art requests $500,000 in support from the National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant program to help establish an endowment for the position of Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art. This important post has been vacant since 2001, but the Museum plans to hire a new curator in May 2006. The collection contains 945 objects, including sculptures in stone and bronze, manuscripts, and textiles. It includes works from the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain religions, from the first century B.C.E. to the 19th century C.E., from the areas covered by modern India, Pakistan, Nepal and Tibet, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Myanmar, and Thailand. The new curator will serve as a catalyst for the use of the collection of South and Southeast Asian Art, by re-thinking, re-interpreting, and re-presenting the collection and working with colleagues to embed our collection in the humanities teaching in the region. He or she will strengthen the humanities activity of the Museum by researching and publishing this important collection, organizing exhibitions and scholarly symposia related to it, giving public lectures, and teaching college and university students in the classroom and the Museum. Income from the $2 Million endowment created by the $500,000 grant and $1.5 Million match will pay for the curator's salary and benefits, and will contribute towards research travel and assistance, staffing, and conservation of objects.

Grant: 176412 / CH-50246-06,   Division: Challenge Grants,   Program: Challenge Grants,   Year Awarded: 2006

Munootash: Baskets and Community in Southern New England

Recipient: Cook, Stephen (Mashantucket, CT 06338 USA) in affiliation with Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center (Mashantucket, CT 06339 USA)

Goal: Consultation to develop humanities themes for a traveling exhibition of Native American baskets made in southern New England from the early 19th century to the 20th century.

Grant: 179895 / MC-50013-06,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Museums Consultation,   Year Awarded: 2006

Audubon: Drawn from Nature

Recipient: Hott, Lawrence R (Haydenville, MA 01039 USA) in affiliation with Educational Broadcasting Corporation (New York, NY 10001 USA)

Goal: Production of a one-hour documentary film on John James Audubon (1785-1851), the first great American painter of wildlife.

Grant: 175894 / GN-50495-05,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Media, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 2005

Reinstallation of Permanent Galleries of East Asian Art

Recipient: Sung, Hou-mei (Cincinnati, OH 45202 USA) in affiliation with Cincinnati Art Museum

Goal: Planning for the reinstallation of the museum’s permanent collections of East Asian art, tracing the history of East Asian cultures from the Neolithic period to the present.

Grant: 168295 / GM-50170-04,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 2004

Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya

Recipient: Berrin, Kathleen J (San Francisco, CA 94121 USA) in affiliation with Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Goal: Implementation of a traveling exhibition, a publication, and interpretive programs examining the artistic world in the royal courts of ancient Maya city states during the Late Classic Period (A.D. 600-800) with particular attention to the court of Palenque in Mexico.

Grant: 165235 / GM-50106-03,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 2003

The Modern West: American Landscapes, 1895-1955

Recipient: Neff, Emily Ballew (Houston, TX 77005-1803 USA) in affiliation with Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Houston, TX 77265 USA)

Goal: Planning for the first major traveling exhibition and accompanying public programs exploring the role of the American West in the development of American modernist art.

Grant: 163069 / GM-50042-03,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 2003

To the Honor and Glory of God: The Art of the Missions in Northern New Spain, 1600-1850

Recipient: Komanecky, Michael K (Dayton, OH 45405-4700 USA) in affiliation with Dayton Art Institute (Dayton, OH 45401 USA)

Goal: Consultation to plan a traveling exhibition that would examine paintings, sculpture, liturgical items, architecture, and other mission art within the religious and historical context of the colonial period.

Grant: 163033 / GM-50019-03,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 2003

Exploring the Art of the Ancient Americas: An Innovative Permanent Collection Installation

Recipient: Kalis, Andrea S (Orlando, FL 32803 USA) in affiliation with Orlando Museum of Art

Goal: Consultation to plan an interpretation for a new permanent exhibition of Pre-Columbian art.

Grant: 163065 / GM-50038-03,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 2003

Views from the Women's Quarters: Chinese Women Artists from the Yuan Through the Ching Dynasties

Recipient: Robinson, James J (Indianapolis, IN 46208-0000 USA) in affiliation with Indianapolis Museum of Art (Indianapolis, IN 46208 USA)

Goal: To support the implementation of a traveling exhibition, catalogue, and educa- tional programs focusing on the aesthetic contributions and cultural milieu of Chinese women painters from the 14th through the early 20th centuries.

Grant: 155472 / GM-23451-87,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 1987