- $670,200
State Humanities Program
Recipient: Nakadate, Neil (Ames, IA 50011 USA) in affiliation with Humanities Iowa (Iowa City, IA 52242-5000 USA)
Grant: 199964 / SO-50361-10, Category: Humanities, Division: Federal/State Partnership, Program: State Programs (SO), Year Awarded: 2010 - $5,291
Collections Conservation Assessment at Luther College Library
Recipient: Landsman, Chad William (Decorah, IA 52101 USA) in affiliation with Luther College
Goal: A preservation assessment of one archival and four artifact collections housed in the college's Preus Library. They include 3,900 linear feet of archival materials (documents, photographs, and recorded sound); a fine and folk arts collection of 1,500 objects, including Norwegian-American art; and more than one million Native American ethnographic and archaeological artifacts.
Description: The NEH Preservation Assistance Grant will support a comprehensive, conservation assessment survey of the Fine Arts, Archives, Ethnographic and Archaeological Collections stored in the basement of Preus Library on the campus of Luther College. This grant would allow us to bring a conservator from Midwest Art Conservation Center to assess the current state of our collections and their storage environment with the intent of providing us with a list of recommendations for stabilizing and preserving our collections. This assessment will then be used to develop a plan for addressing the most pressing needs of the collections and identifying resources for the purchase equipment or other future preservation activities.
Grant: 199566 / PG-50822-10, Category: Archival Management and Conservation, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Preservation Assistance Grants, Year Awarded: 2010 - $184,463
Ritual and Ceremony from Late-Medieval Europe to Early America
Recipient: Sponsler, Claire (Iowa City, IA 52242-1492 USA) in affiliation with Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC 20003 USA)
Goal: A five-week college and university teacher institute for twenty participants, offering a comparative study of ritual and ceremony in local, national, and transatlantic contexts from 1300 to 1700.
Description: This five-week institute for college faculty offers a comparative study of ritual and ceremony across the related cultures of Europe and America from 1300 to 1700. It builds on anthropological theories of the ubiquitous role of ritual and ceremony and the impact of that work in performance studies. Testing assumptions about influence and exchange among national traditions and local contexts, it seeks a new understanding of the processes and effects of cultural hybridity and assimilation. Its distinguished international faculty represents the fields of literature, history, art history, and music in national traditions and periods of study. Each will introduce case studies drawn from the Folger collections and their own research, illuminated by current scholarship, and opening up larger interpretative issues. Participants will examine lines of continuity and change. They will collaborate on a web project and discuss ways to revise courses.
Grant: 197420 / EH-50198-09, Category: Renaissance Studies, Division: Education Programs, Program: Institutes for College and University Teachers, Year Awarded: 2009 - $99,520
Exploring Ethnicity, Diversity, and Identity
Recipient: Rossi, Christopher R (Iowa City, IA 52242-5000 USA) in affiliation with Humanities Iowa
Goal: To support a variety of council-conducted projects and to award grants, with a particular emphasis on projects that examine the relevance of cultural and ethnic diversity in Iowan life and in the formation of civic identity on the local, regional and national levels.
Description: Humanities Iowa proposes to administer Council-conducted programs and to make re-grants to Iowan nonprofits. Applicants for WE THE PEOPLE funding will be encouraged to design programs and projects that capture both the heritage and contemporary concerns of Iowans, especially in rural areas. Of special interest are projects that explore how cultural and ethnic diversity informs and challenges our collective ideas of identity, particularly our identity as Americans and Iowans.
Grant: 197602 / BC-50467-09, Category: Humanities, Division: Federal/State Partnership, Program: Grants for State Humanities Councils, Year Awarded: 2009 - $30,000
Emergency Flood Assistance
Recipient: Semel, Jay M (Iowa City, IA 52242 USA) in affiliation with University of Iowa
Description: The University of Iowa lost its Museum of Art building to the epic Flood of 2008. It may be 5-10 years before it can be replaced. The University is urgently renovating a ballroom to house the most important pieces of the collection. The new space (and an intense publicity campaign) will draw back 35,000 visitors who normally visit the Museum in a year. The new space will allow countless undergraduate and graduate students in all disciplines to continue to view the collection as part of their course work. The work plan for renovation is ambitious and urgent. Work begins in February 2009 with a completion date of August 2009. Total cost of the renovation will be $1.1 million. FEMA will assist with 90% of the costs, leaving $110,000. Funding for shelving, lighting, and humidifiers totaling $30,000 is requested toward this UI portion of the renovation.
Grant: 196824 / PW-50495-09, Category: Museum Studies or Historic Preservation, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources, Year Awarded: 2009 - $24,950
Enduring Values: Gilgamesh to Frankenstein
Recipient: Freeman, Philip (Decorah, IA 52101 USA) in affiliation with Luther College
Goal: The preparation and teaching of an undergraduate seminar addressing questions of friendship, love, and human dignity.
Description: The Luther College course Enduring Questions: From Gilgamesh to Frankenstein, is an exploration of crucial questions through the careful reading of key works from some of the greatest minds in human history. This seminar course will ask what is the nature of love and friendship, and what do we mean by human dignity? Students will read The Epic of Gilgamesh, the Antigone of Socrates, several Platonic dialogues, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Dante???s Inferno, Machiavelli???s The Prince, Shakespeare???s King Lear, Swift???s Gulliver???s Travels, Mary Wollstonecraft???s A Vindication of the Rights of Women, and Mary Shelley???s Frankenstein. The readings will be supplemented by attendance at local artistic and dramatic events and by the study of material artifacts in museums.
Grant: 196743 / AQ-50118-09, Category: Classics, Division: Education Programs, Program: Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants, Year Awarded: 2009 - $1,000
NEH on the Road: Farm Life
Recipient: Thies, Diana Lynne (Iowa Falls, IA 50126 USA) in affiliation with Scenic City Civic Foundation (Iowa Falls, IA USA)
Goal: Ancillary public humanities programs to accompany the NEH on the Road: Farm Life traveling exhibition.
Grant: 199942 / MR-50064-09, Category: Humanities, Division: Public Programs, Program: NEH on the Road, Year Awarded: 2009 - $99,520
Exploring Ethnicity, Diversity, and Identity
Recipient: Rossi, Christopher R (Iowa City, IA 52242-5000 USA) in affiliation with Humanities Iowa
Goal: Council-conducted programs that examine the relevance of cultural and ethnic diversity in Iowan life and the formation of civic identity on the local, regional and national levels.
Description: Humanities Iowa proposes to administer Council-conducted programs and to make re-grants to Iowan nonprofits. Applicants for WE THE PEOPLE funding will be encouraged to design programs and projects that capture both the heritage and contemporary concerns of Iowans, especially in rural areas. Of special interest are projects that explore how cultural and ethnic diversity informs and challenges our collective ideas of identity, particularly our identity as Americans and Iowans.
Grant: 192155 / BC-50408-08, Category: Humanities, Division: Federal/State Partnership, Program: Grants for State Humanities Councils, Year Awarded: 2008 - $20,000
The Salvage of Flood-affected Humanities-Related Materials from the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library
Recipient: Muhlena, David P (Marion, IA 52302 USA) in affiliation with National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library (Cedar Rapids, IA 52404 USA)
Grant: 194185 / PW-50181-08, Category: American History, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources, Year Awarded: 2008 - $20,000
Flood Assistance for the African American Museum of Iowa
Recipient: Kuecker, Susan E (Cedar Rapids, IA 52406 USA) in affiliation with African American Heritage Foundation of Iowa
Grant: 194186 / PW-50182-08, Category: American History, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources, Year Awarded: 2008 - $20,000
Clean-up of Collection Storage and Preparation Spaces and Replacement of Destroyed Storage Shelving and Supplies
Recipient: Pitts, Terence R (Cedar Rapids, IA 52401 USA) in affiliation with Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
Grant: 194578 / PW-50484-08, Category: Archival Management and Conservation, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources, Year Awarded: 2008 - $14,741
NEH Chairman's Emergency Grant: Flood Recovery for 1876 Coralville Schoolhouse
Recipient: Magalhaes, Shaner (Coralville, IA 52241 USA) in affiliation with Johnson County Historical Society
Description: During the floods in the Midwest in June 2008, the 1876 Coraville Schoolhouse managed and interpreted by the Johnson County Historical Society sustained significant water damage. In particular, approximately 50 cubic feet of rare books, county records, and archival materials were affected. This grant will provide funding for transportation and temporary storage of materials, stabilization/freezing, drying, cleaning, deodorizing, and disinfecting. In effect, the project will be to restore these collections to pre-flood condition and make them available again for research and display.
Grant: 194592 / PW-50487-08, Category: American History, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources, Year Awarded: 2008 - $7,990
Disaster Recovery Assistance for the Fort Des Moines Museum
Recipient: Nolte, Joseph (Des Moines, IA 50315 USA) in affiliation with Fort Des Moines Museum and Education Center
Description: This grant will allow the Fort Des Moines Museum to remediate mold and collection damage to historic buildings and collections due to the recent severe weather in Iowa.
Grant: 194234 / PW-50184-08, Category: American History, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources, Year Awarded: 2008 - $5,000
Conservation Assessment of Sculpture and Tribal Arts Collections
Recipient: Wood, Rose Marie (Des Moines, IA 50312 USA) in affiliation with Des Moines Art Center
Goal: A conservation assessment of the center's sculpture and tribal arts collections that would provide guidance for treatment, storage, and care of these materials. Sculptures in the collection include works by Richard Serra, Lee Bontecou, Charles Joseph Biederman, and Louise Bourgeois.
Description: The Des Moines Art Center respectfully requests $5,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support a comprehensive detailed conservation survey of the Art Center's sculpture and tribal works collection. Donna Haberman, senior objects conservator from the Midwest Art Conservation Center, has agreed to work onsite to evaluate our entire sculpture and tribal works collections. We will concentrate on the 68 sculptures and 75 tribal works added to our collections since 1991, however, all 215 sculptures and 112 tribal works will be surveyed.
Grant: 189429 / PG-50432-08, Category: Archival Management and Conservation, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Preservation Assistance Grants, Year Awarded: 2008 - $4,966
Developing a Long-Range Plan for the Care of the Humanities Collection at the German American Heritage Center
Recipient: Blevins, Scharlott (Davenport, IA 52802-1410 USA) in affiliation with German American Heritage Center, Inc.
Goal: A general preservation assessment and development of a long-range plan for the care of letters, naturalization papers, passports, photographs, audiotapes, books, and artifacts documenting German immigration and settlement in the area of Davenport, Iowa, from 1795 to the present.
Description: The German American Heritage Center seeks to develop a long range plan for the care of its growing humanities collection. This collection includes thousands of books, photographs, personal artifacts, business/organization artifacts and archival and historic documents that record and reflect how thousands of German citizens left their homeland, settled as immigrants in Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois, and contributed to the development of American culture. The German immigrant experience is an integral part of the history and fabric of life in this region. The Center is located in a renovated historic immigrant hotel that was built on the banks of the Mississippi River. The Center seeks to document this heritage. The preservation and exhibition of this collection will enrich knowledge of this immigrant experience for current and future generations.
Grant: 189268 / PG-50271-08, Category: Museum Studies or Historic Preservation, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Preservation Assistance Grants, Year Awarded: 2008 - $4,000
Removal and Storage of Flood-Damaged Barton Theatre Organ
Recipient: Montague, Paul R (Swisher, IA 52338 USA) in affiliation with Cedar Rapids Barton, Inc. (Cedar Rapids, IA USA)
Grant: 194187 / PW-50183-08, Category: American History, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources, Year Awarded: 2008 - $2,500
Pride and Passion: The African American Baseball Experience - A Traveling Exhibition to Libraries
Recipient: Greufe, Carolyn (Des Moines, IA 50317 USA) in affiliation with Public Library of Des Moines (Des Moines, IA 50308 USA)
Description: The 1,000-square-foot panel exhibition examines baseball as a reflection of race relations in the United States, asking how baseball has shaped, and been shaped by, national identity and culture. Photographs, broadsides, team rosters, scorecards, and other baseball memorabilia would tell the story of black participation in baseball, from the integrated amateur leagues of the nineteenth century and the creation of the segregated Negro Leagues in the Jim Crow era to Jackie Robinson's now-famous breaking of the color barrier in 1947.
Grant: 192392 / LT-50058-08, Category: American History, Division: Public Programs, Program: Small Grants to Libraries: Pride and Passion, Year Awarded: 2008 - $2,500
John Adams Unbound: A Traveling Exhibition to Libraries
Recipient: Frazer, Claudia (Des Moines, IA 50311-4505 USA) in affiliation with Drake University (Des Moines, IA 50311 USA)
Description: Cowles Library at Drake University is interested in planning a variety of programming opportunities associated with the ???John Adams Unbound??? traveling exhibit. In order to capture wide audiences, it is our intent to appeal to broad range of ages and interests. For this reason we are collaborating with the Des Moines Community Schools, the Des Moines Public Library, Humanities Iowa, Drake???s own Ray Society and the Drake University Legal Clinic to provide multiple programming options, ranging from panel presentations to lectures to book club discussions to tours. Within the library facility, we have a large Reading Room (2800 square feet) that can accommodate group presentations and events. Three years ago, the Library was successful in hosting a large traveling exhibit sponsored by the National Holocaust Museum.
Grant: 192406 / LS-50132-08, Category: American History, Division: Public Programs, Program: Small Grants to Libraries: John Adams Unbound, Year Awarded: 2008 - $576,990
State Humanities Program
Recipient: Nakadate, Neil (Ames, IA 50011 USA) in affiliation with Humanities Iowa (Iowa City, IA 52242-5000 USA)
Grant: 184531 / SO-50192-07, Category: Humanities, Division: Federal/State Partnership, Program: State Programs (SO), Year Awarded: 2007 - $169,586
Multiple Perspectives on the Holocaust
Recipient: Hervey, Norma J (Decorah, IA 52101 USA) in affiliation with Luther College
Goal: A five-week summer institute for thirty high school teachers on the complex history and continuing relevance of the Holocaust, to be held in Washington, D.C., Berlin, Prague, Karkow, and other locations.
Description: The goals of this Institute will be to grasp the complex history that made the Holocaust possible and the ongoing impact of the tragedy. Our objective is to provide direct learning experience at sites that differ from each other with staff whose work is to support teaching and research that will contribute to the education of teachers, communities, and pupils. The anticipated outcome is a network to mentor high school teachers in order to develop vital programs to address contemporary and future issues. Participants will experience and work with exhibits, collections and archives and share the experiences of a remakable literature and the scholars who create it. The Institute offers life and professional enhancement to participants and to a wider circle of teachers and pupils, spreading challenges and seeking answers to the most significant human dilemmas.
Grant: 187107 / ES-50201-07, Category: History, Division: Education Programs, Program: Institutes for School Teachers, Year Awarded: 2007 - Endowment for the humanities grants to state IA; items 1-21 of 254 with a total funding of $1,963,217.