Congratulations to 27 organizations across the state that have been awarded Action Grants. Grantees—non-profit cultural organizations that carry out Humanities New York’s mission of making the humanities accessible to all—make use of funds through the realization of public programs such as exhibits, panels, and workshops. A big thanks to all those who applied!
Take a look at the full list of the 2024 warm-weather grantees, and watch this space for grantee-hosted events happening near you.
Central New York
Oneida Community Mansion House
Oneida Ltd: More Than a Silverware Company
Project Director: Thomas Guiler
Amount Awarded: $10,000
Everson Museum of Art
Making Art Work: Works Progress Administration Prints (1935 – 1942)
Project Director: Steffi Chappell
Amount Awarded: $6,500
Finger Lakes
Kitchen Theatre Company
Kitchen Table Talks: Connecting the Arts to Today’s Culture
Project Director: Emily Jackson
Amount Awarded: $6,500
South Central Regional Library Council
The Road to Freedom in South Central New York State
Project Director: Claire Lovell
Amount Awarded: $7,200
The Plimpton Foundation
The North American Indigenous Songbook
Project Director: Timothy Long
Amount Awarded: $10,000
Genesee Valley Council On the Arts
The Redemption Center: Restoring our Relationship with the Environment
Project Director: Glenn McClure
Amount Awarded: $10,000
Mid-Hudson
Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival
HVSF’s BAKE-OFF Community Playwriting Series
Project Director: Sean McNall
Amount Awarded: $6,500
Putnam History Museum
Deepening Connections: Phase 2 of the PHM’s Indigenous Peoples in Putnam County Exhibition and Programming
Project Director: Cassie Ward
Amount Awarded: $10,000
New York City
Parachute Literary Arts
The Coney Island Poetry Map
Project Director: Amanda Deutch
Amount Awarded: $10,000
Cayena Press
2024 Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration
Project Director: Raynelda Calderon
Amount Awarded: $6,500
Lewis H. Latimer Fund
Black Historic Sites in Conversation
Project Director: Ran Yan
Amount Awarded: $10,000
The National Jazz Museum in Harlem
Harlem Speaks: Women in Jazz
Project Director: Ryan Maloney
Amount Awarded: $10,000
Notch Theatre Company
Gen U
Project Director: Ashley Teague
Amount Awarded: $10,000
Poetry Society of America
PSA Seminar and Lecture Series
Project Director: Matt Brogan
Amount Awarded: $10,000
Fund for the City of New York
The Historian & The Activist: Intergenerational Conversations Exploring Cross-Cultural LGBTQ Identities in the Historic New York City Landscape
Project Director: Ken Lustbader
Amount Awarded: $6,740
Friends of Alice Austen House
Archiving Activism: The Lesbian Avengers Speaker Series
Project Director: Victoria Munro
Amount Awarded: $6,500
The New York Botanical Garden
NYBG Herbarium + Community Gardens Initiative
Project Director: Lucas Mertehikian
Amount Awarded: $9,996
Mercantile Library Association
The Center for Fiction On America Series
Project Director: Melanie Mcnair
Amount Awarded: $9,996
Triple Canopy
Only the Music Can Speak for the Music
Project Director: Alexander Provan
Amount Awarded: $10,000
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Im/migration, American Identity and Ideals
Project Director: Kathryn Lloyd
Amount Awarded: $10,000
Voices of a People’s History of the United States
The People Speak and Sing! 10th Anniversary
Project Director: Anna Strout
Amount Awarded: $10,000
Educational Alliance
14Y: Downtown Jewish Culture and Ideas Series
Project Director: Alexis Offen
Amount Awarded: $10,000
North Country
North Country Childrens Museum
Mohawk Music Interactive
Project Director: Sharon Williams
Amount Awarded: $10,000
John Brown Lives!
Harriet Tubman and The Beacon of Hope
Project Director: Shawndel Fraser
Amount Awarded: $9,900
Western New York
Shake on the Lake
Shake on the Lake Summer Tour 2024: Henry V
Project Director: Joshua Rice
Amount Awarded: $10,000
Explore Buffalo
Doors Open Buffalo 2024
Project Director: Suzanne Ernst
Amount Awarded: $10,000
Western New York Library Resources Council
Renewed or Ruined? The Urban Renewal Experience in New York State
Project Director: Heidi Zeimer
Amount Awarded: $7,750
