Challenge Grant

Recipient: Sharps, Ronald L (Washington, DC 20004 USA) in affiliation with African American Museums Association (Washington, DC 20560 USA)

Goal: To start a development program and establish an endowment to support operationsof the only professional association devoted to improving professional stan- dards and providing technical assistance to museums and related institutions which focus on African-American culture.

Grant: 141530 / CO-20596-86,   Category: Humanities,   Division: Challenge Grants,   Program: Professional Organizations & Societies (Challenge),   Year Awarded: 1986

Afro-American Studies and Museum Education: Using Current Scholarship to Improve the Interpretation of Collections

Recipient: Sharps, Ronald L (Washington, DC 20004 USA) in affiliation with African American Museums Association (Washington, DC 20560 USA)

Goal: To support the planning of workshops for museum personnel on recent scholarshipin Afro-American studies and museum education in order to improve the interpre-tation of collections.

Grant: 155389 / GM-23205-86,   Category: African History,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 1986

African Americans and the U.S. Constitution: How It ChainedUs; How It Freed Us

Recipient: Childs, Adrienne (Washington, DC 20004 USA) in affiliation with African American Museums Association (Washington, DC 20560 USA)

Goal: To support the planning of a program for black museums in the United States on the history of Afro-Americans and the Constitution.

Grant: 132050 / GB-20077-86,   Category: American History,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Bicentennial Projects,   Year Awarded: 1986

Afro-American Migration from Field to Factory (1915-1940)

Recipient: Crew, Spencer R (Columbia, MD 21044-3803 USA) in affiliation with African American Museums Association (Washington, DC 20560 USA)

Goal: To support a traveling exhibition, catalogue, and educational resource kits about the migration of southern rural blacks to northern urban areas and the resulting social, economic, and cultural changes.

Grant: 155338 / GM-22707-85,   Category: Afro-American Studies,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 1985

Interpretative Skills Workshops on the Effective Use of Research and Scholarship in Museum Exhibitions

Recipient: Austin, Joy Ford (Washington, DC 20001 USA) in affiliation with African American Museums Association (Washington, DC 20560 USA)

Goal: To support interpretive skills workshops for museum personnel on the use of collections and research in the development of interpretive exhibitions for the general public.

Grant: 134346 / GM-22572-85,   Category: Museum Studies or Historic Preservation,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 1985

Idea and Visualization: Interpretive Skills Workshops for Museums

Recipient: Austin, Joy Ford (Washington, DC 20001 USA) in affiliation with African American Museums Association (Washington, DC 20560 USA)

Goal: To support implementation of a series of regional interpretation skills workshops to be held in Minneapolis and Washington, D.C., on the theme: "Idea and Visualization: The Need for Balance."

Grant: 134024 / GM-20948-83,   Category: Museum Studies or Historic Preservation,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 1983

Strengthening Humanities Programs in African-American Museums

Recipient: Austin, Joy Ford (Washington, DC 20001 USA) in affiliation with African American Museums Association (Washington, DC 20560 USA)

Goal: To support an intensive self-study of six African-American museums to determineways that these and other Association members can strengthen their public humanities programs.

Grant: 134000 / GM-20825-82,   Category: Interdisciplinary,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 1982

Regional Interpretation Skills Workshops

Recipient: Austin, Joy Ford (Washington, DC 20001 USA) in affiliation with African American Museums Association (Washington, DC 20560 USA)

Goal: To support implementation of two regional interpretation skills workshops in Atlanta, Georgia and New York City focusing on the topic, "Idea and Visualization: The Need for Balance in Didactic Exhibitions" and offering ways to interpret material culture effectively using humanities disciplines.

Grant: 133965 / GM-20723-82,   Category: Humanities,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 1982

Strengthening Humanities Programs in African-American Museums

Recipient: Austin, Joy Ford (Washington, DC 20001 USA) in affiliation with African American Museums Association (Washington, DC 20560 USA)

Goal: To support planning to strengthen public programming at African-American Museums through an intensive self-study of member organizations of the African American Museums Associations; and through cooperation and dissemination of information on public programs among members.

Grant: 133921 / GM-*2144-81,   Category: Afro-American Studies,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 1981

Staff Development

Recipient: Austin, Joy Ford (Washington, DC 20001 USA) in affiliation with African American Museums Association (Washington, DC 20560 USA)

Goal: To support study of humanities programs in Black museums across the country andto prepare a series of articles and long-range plans for member organizations of the African American Museums Association.

Grant: 133780 / GM-*1513-81,   Category: Literature,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 1981