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DIVISION OF PUBLIC PROGRAMS AWARDS LIST JULY COUNCIL 2015

Museums, Libraries, and Cultural Planning for a traveling exhibition, a catalog, and Organizations public programs on the art of blacksmithing in sub-Saharian Africa from 500 BC to the present. Planning Grants Implementation Grants American Indian Boarding Schools: PMA Collection Reinstallation History and Legacy, Transition in Portland Museum of Art American Indian Boarding Schools Portland, ME Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ Award: Outright; $400,000.00 Award: Outright; $60,445.00 Implementation of a reinstallation of all the Planning for the reinterpretation and expansion museum’s collections of fine and decorative art. of a permanent exhibition, two traveling exhibitions, and a catalog that would examine the experience of Native American youth in boarding Iolani Palace Exhibits Implementation and tribal schools from the nineteenth century to Friends of Iolani Palace the present. Honolulu, HI Award: Outright; $400,000.00 Native Women Artists Implementation of a group of new permanent Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts exhibitions, including interactive experiences, Minneapolis, MN within the Iolani Palace of 1882. Award: Outright; $61,603.00 Match; $13,397.00 Reading Deeply in Community Planning for a traveling exhibition, a catalog, a People and Stories Gente Y Cuentos Inc. symposium, and public programs on Native Trenton, NJ American women artists from prehistory to the Award: Outright; $408,378.00 present. Implementation of bilingual reading and discussion programs at ten library sites across the Planning for New Eyes on Alice Austen: country conducting 320 programs. Redefining the Museum's Interpretation Friends of Alice Austen House, Inc. How Medicine Became Modern: A Staten Island, NY Humanities Perspective Award: Outright; $35,000.00 Case Western Reserve University Planning for the reinterpretation of the Staten Cleveland, OH Island home of early twentieth-century Award: Outright; $399,735.00 photographer Alice Austen (1866–1952), an Implementation of a digital wall to allow visitors expanded website, and related educational to interact with images of historic artifacts programming. marking transformative moments in American medical history. Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths Chester County: A Place in Time Regents of the University of California, Los Chester County Historical Society Angeles West Chester, PA Los Angeles, CA Award: Outright; $400,000.00 Award: Outright; $75,000.00 Installation of a permanent exhibition on the history of Chester County, Pennsylvania, using a story driven approach to highlight the role of area residents in shaping their community and the and a website to disseminate workshop findings nation. to the broader museum field.

A Guest in the Home Media Projects Thomas Cole Historic House Catskill, NY Development Grants Award: Outright; $400,000.00 Match; $60,000.00 Lives in Vengeance: The True Story of the Implementation of a new permanent exhibition on the first floor of artist Thomas Cole’s house Searchers Cedar Grove, an immersive multimedia International Documentary Association experience, resources on the website, and in- Los Angeles, CA house AV programs. Award: Outright; $60,000.00 Development of a 90-minute documentary about American Impressionists in the American the making of the classic 1956 film, The Searchers, and the historical events that inspired Garden: A Garden-wide Humanities it. Exhibition on American Impressionism New York Botanical Garden Bronx, NY Production Grants Award: Outright; $460,000.00 Implementation of a traveling exhibition, a Hank Jones: Last Man Playing website, an app, a scholarly symposium, and New York Foundation for the Arts public programming on American impressionist Brooklyn, NY painting and its relation to gardens. Award: Outright; $389,900.00 Production of a film chronicling the social and Mission US: No Turning Back cultural impact of jazz composer Hank Jones. WNET New York, NY MR. SOUL! Ellis Haizlip and the Birth of Award: Outright; $400,000.00 Black Power TV Implementation of an online, interactive game to Women Make Movies, Inc. provide an experiential understanding of life New York, NY under Jim Crow and the vital role of ordinary Award: Outright; $550,000.00 citizens in the civil rights movement. Production of a 90-minute television documentary and an interactive website about Mexican Modernism, 1910–1950 the first national television show on black culture, Philadelphia Museum of Art SOUL! (1968–1973) and a biography of its Philadelphia, PA producer and host Ellis Haizlip. Award: Outright; $400,000.00 Implementation of a traveling exhibition, an The World in Words (TWIW) on PRI's The accompanying website, and public programming World exploring the varieties and meaning of modern Public Radio International, Inc. (PRI) art in Mexico from 1910 to 1950. Minneapolis, MN Award: Outright; $148,169.00 New York at Its Core Production of 27 short radio segments and 27 Museum of the City of New York related podcasts on the relationship between New York, NY language and topics that include politics, Award: Outright; $400,000.00 democracy, cultural preservation, and society. Implementation of a permanent exhibition and public programs on New York City’s 400-year Stalin history and the challenges it faces moving into Twin Cities Public Television, Inc. the future. St. Paul, MN Award: Outright; $600,000.00 Cooperative Agreements Production of a two-hour documentary exploring the complex life and legacy of Joseph Stalin. Museums and Digital Storytelling Lower East Side Tenement Museum Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin New York, NY Center for Independent Documentary, Inc. Award: Outright; $100,000 Sharon, MA A three-day professional development workshop Award: Outright; $600,000.00 on best practices for using digital storytelling to Production of a 60-minute documentary film and convey humanities content in museum settings website on Ursula K. Le Guin, a writer whose work transformed science fiction and American literature.

NEH on the Road

The following organizations received $1,000 grants for ancillary public humanities programs to accompany NEH on the Road traveling exhibitions.

Spirited, Prohibition in America Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum Wichita, KS

House and Home West Baton Rouge Museum Port Allen, LA

House and Home County of Bell Belton, TX

Power of Children City of Fort Morgan Fort Morgan, CO

Our Lives, Our Stories Upcountry History Museum Greenville, SC

For All the World to See County of New Hanover Wilmington, NC

Spirited, Prohibition in America City of Ontario Ontario, CA

Wild Land Wayland Baptist University, Inc. Plainview, TX

Wild Land Texarkana Regional Arts and Humanities Council Texarkana, TX