James A. Michener
Art Museum

Doylestown, PA

Received $5,000

To fund an educators’ open house and public program, a panel discussion, film screenings, teacher's workshop, and educational materials and supplies related to Jim Henson’s Fantastic World.

Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History
and Culture

Baltimore, MD

Received $5,000

To fund three days of public programming related to 381 Days: The Montgomery Bus Boycott Story.

West Baton Rouge Museum

Port Allen, LA

Received $5,000

To fund outreach to area middle and high schools and a cultural day for the community related to Becoming American: Teenagers and Immigration. 

Newcomb Art Gallery
of Tulane University

New Orleans, LA

Received $5,000

To fund a guest speaker lecture, film series, print workshop, educator workshop, panel presentation, and gallery presentation related to American Letterpress: The Art of Hatch Show Print.

Mississippi Museum of Art

Jackson, MS

Received $5,000

To fund the creation and use of hand puppets as tour docents and as educational accompaniments for children and adults as they tour the exhibition. This request would also fund a puppet stage which will be used in conjunction with Jim Henson’s Fantastic World.

Piedmont Arts Association

Martinsville, VA

Received $5,000

To fund the transformation of a ½-acre of the Piedmont’s property into a community garden which will feature flowers, herbs, and plants. Support will also go to educational outreach and marketing of programming related to Transitions: Photographs by Robert Creamer.

Kennesaw Museum Foundation Affiliate Venue - Southern Museum
of Civil War &
Locomotive History

Kennesaw, GA

Received $5,000

To fund programming that would incorporate hands-on experiences with living history demonstrations, cooperative programming with nearby Native American historic sites, and public viewings of the extended version of the exhibit film The Power of Words: Native Languages as Weapons of War. This programming will complement Native Words, Native Warriors.

Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture

Seattle, WA

Received $5,000

To fund the collaboration with Antarctic researchers at the University of Washington to augment Wondrous Cold: An Antarctic Journey with displays and information on UW scientists’ Antarctic research, a hands-on polar-research camp display, a day of public science lectures and activities, and a special evening event for college freshmen.

New Americans Museum

San Diego, CA

Received $5,000

To fund the launching of the Filipino-American Oral and History Project which will complement SINGGALOT (The Ties That Bind): Filippinos in America, from Colonial Subjects to Citizens.

Sonnenberg Gardens & Mansion State Historic Park

Canandaigua, NY

Received $5,000

To fund bus transportation for local students, an educational souvenir for 500 students, savings bonds for essay contest winners, and an opening night speaker to complement The White House Garden.

Delaware Art Museum

Wilmington, DE

Received $3,500

To fund a family day to complement the exhibition Ancestry & Innovation: African American Art from the American Folk Art Museum.

Spartanburg County
Public Libraries

Spartanburg, SC

Received $2,850

To fund a lecture given by the daughter of a Navajo Code Talker and to fund a showing of a movie.

Durham Museum

Omaha, NE

Received $2,500

To fund bus transportation for local students to view American Letterpress: The Art of Hatch Show Print.

The University of Washington Libraries

Seattle, WA

Received $2,500

To fund bus transportation for local students to view SINGGALOT (The Ties That Bind): Filippinos in America, from Colonial Subjects
to Citizens.