Congratulations to our first 2019 Grantees! Visit our calendar to find an event near you.
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2019 Art Start Portrait ProjectArt Start$5,000Exhibit challenging the perception that youth impacted by adverse socioeconomic circumstances can only be seen as marginalized members of society. It allows these youth to see themselves—and be seen—as vibrant and valued members of our shared communities.ManhattanNYC
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ARISE - African History, Past to Present MusicSiren - Protectors of the Rainforest$5,000Discussion series on the origins and use of string instruments from Algeria, Mali, Kenya, Lesotho, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.BrooklynNYC
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A New York Minute In HistoryWAMC$5,000Podcast series about the history of New York and the unique tales of New Yorkers, tying historical stories, people, and places to larger statewide, national, and international historical events and eras.AlbanyCapital Region
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Finger Lakes Film Trail (FLFT)Wharton Studio Museum$5,000Program series on the history of motion picture innovation in New York State, held jointly by the Eastman House/Museum in Rochester, the Wharton Studio Museum in Ithaca, and the Case Research Laboratory in Auburn.IthacaSouthern Tier
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Modern Families: Public ConversationsArts Westchester$5,000Discussion and workshop examining the social history of alternative and underrepresented American families through analysis of film, photography, and performance.White PlainsMid-Hudson
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Yours, for the Oppressed: An Original Play about Albany Abolitionists Stephen and Harriet MyersBlack Theatre Troupe of Upstate New York$5,000A touring production about Albany abolitionists Harriet and Stephen Myers, and the struggles faced by Black Americans involved in the Underground Railroad.AlbanyCapital Region
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Mixed StatusArts Mid-Hudson$5,000Program series exploring the spaces people occupy between status categories -- undocumented, gender identity, race -- through cultural mediums like art, poetry, music, food, storytelling, and discussion.PougkeepsieMid-Hudson
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Cycling in the City ProgramsMuseum of the City of New York$5,000Exhibition tracing the bike’s transformation from sport of leisure to mode of urban transportation.ManhattanNYC
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Women’s Suffrage & Abolition in Western NY & Annual Program Series at Sonnenberg GardensSonnenberg Gardens & Mansion$5,000Discussion series on western New York's role in the women’s suffrage and abolition movements; everyday life along the Erie Canal; and the effects of climate change on local landscaping.CanandaiguaFinger Lakes
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Wilmington Whiteface Heritage FestivalWilmington Historical Society$3,200The Wilmington Historical Society presents the Wilmington Whiteface Heritage Festival to celebrate the rich history of the northern Adirondacks and generate conversation with a focus on area contributions to the success of the War of 1812 in America, early settlement, culture and progress in this mountainous region of New York State.WilmingtonNorth Country
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Celebrating Stonewall 50: NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project Walking Tours AppNYC LGBT Historic Sites Project$5,000Series of app-based, self-guided, experiences exploring the city’s LGBT place-based heritage and generating new, shared conversations.ManhattanNYC
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Walt Whitman Bicentennial CelebrationFort Greene Park Conservancy$5,000Events series celebrating America's poet laureate and his enduring influence in Brooklyn.BrooklynNYC
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Immigration and Heritage: Stories from There to HereWorld Awareness Children's Museum$4,500Discussion and workshop that uses oral history, art, and writing to share the immigration stories of diverse individuals and families.Glens FallsCapital Region
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Women's Day EventLily Dale Assembly$5,000Discussion series on various facets of the early women’s equal rights movement, including the lesser-known achievements of marginalized groups and community volunteer organizations.Lily DaleWestern New York
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Rhina Espaillat SymposiumSeven Stories Institute DBA Word Up Community Bookshop$5,000Washington Heights symposium on the work and life of Dominican-American writer Rhina Espaillat (b. 1932), one of the Dominican community’s most beloved and prolific - and oldest living - writers. Espaillat herself will close out the day’s events with a reading and discussion of her work.ManhattanNYC
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Walt Whitman in Coney IslandParachute Literary Arts$5,000Day-long festival celebrating Walt Whitman's 2019 bicentennial in Coney Island, featuring poet Urayoán Noel, the Worker Writers School, Stephanie Gray, Barbara Henry, multilingual readings of Walt Whitman, and original songs inspired by Leaves of Grass from the Bushwick Book Club.BrooklynNYC
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The Art of Inclusion - Helping Museums Interpret Difficult HistoriesInternational Coalition of Sites of Conscience$5,000Discussion series on the role of memorialization of indigenous peoples in New York State.ManhattanNYC
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Stonewall 50 at New-York Historical: Exhibition ProgramsNew-York Historical Society$5,000Suite of programs to foster inter-generational engagement with and deeper exploration of the forthcoming exhibition’s timely themes and messages.ManhattanNYC
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KAD Audio TourKaufman Arts District Foundation$5,000Audio tour on the past, present, and future of Astoria that combines archival materials with the stories of current residents.AstoriaNYC
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Walt Whitman @ 200: Inviting America’s Voices To SingWalt Whitman Birthplace Association$5,000Walt’s America was new and full of possibilities as an inclusive and diverse country which required, in Walt’s view, democratic participation of all individuals. With our 2019 Series, “Walt Whitman @ 200: Inviting America’s Voices To Sing,” we seek to activate voices across cultures, generations, locations, and talents. The performers project their voices through their various arts, and the audience contributes their voices through a dialogue to explore the concepts of “America’s Voices, Democracy, and Nationalism.”Huntington Station, NYLong Island
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The Oral History Project FY19 Public ProgrammingNew Art Publications dba BOMB Magazine$5,000Oral History Project documenting and preserving the life stories and artistic practices of New York City’s African Diasporic visual artists.BrooklynNYC
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Stonewall: 50 Years Out Exhibit and Public ProgrammingRochester Public Library$4,187Program series connected to the themes in Stonewall: 50 Years Out, an exhibition commemorating the anniversary of the uprising that sparked the gay liberation movement and exploring the history of Rochester’s LGBTQ+ communities.RochesterFinger Lakes
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BAKE-OFF Community Playwriting SeriesHudson Valley Shakespeare Festival$5,000Community playwriting series in partnership with six Hudson Valley libraries and the Putnam County Historian, with the goal of connecting to our community through writing, theatre-making, and local history.Cold SpringMid-Hudson
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'The Remnant of Those Nations’: Honoring the Legacy of Chief Hendrick Aupaumut and Mohican-Munsee HeritageHuguenot Historical Society$5,000Program series honoring the life and legacy of Mohican chief and Revolutionary War hero Hendrick Aupaumut.New PaltzMid-Hudson
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Women of Influence: Each Block a StoryNative Roots Artists Guild$5,000A collaborative quilt created by 47 Native American women artists from New York, paying tribute to women in their respective communities who exemplify resiliency.SalamancaMohawk Valley
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Documenting The Modern School, Part IITeachers College Columbia University$5,000Documentary history of Harlem's independent and progressive Modern School, founded by J. Rosamund Johnson’s daughter Mildred Johnson Edwards.ManhattanNYC
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Chickens!Saratoga County Historical Society/Brookside Museum$2,840Exhibition on the economic and cultural dimensions of the poultry industry in Saratoga County and rural New York more generally.Ballston SpaCapital Region
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The Adirondacks and the Great WarEssex County Historical Society/Adirondack History Museum$5,000Traveling kiosk exhibit on WWI and the Adirondacks, exploring how the Great War affected area residents and communities through their stories and photographs.ElizabethtownNorth Country
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Chinatown Movements: Past, Present, FuturesChina Residencies$5,000Intergenerational and multilingual program series highlighting historic and contemporary movements focused on labor, housing, and LGBTQ justice in Manhattan’s Chinatown.BrooklynNYC
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Cultur(Ed): Engaging with WNY’s past at the McKendry SiteUniversity at Buffalo Archaeological Survey$5,000Community archaeology dig that encourages the cross-cultural conversation around the history of Western New York by bringing together professional and amateur archaeologists, and bringing archaeology to underrepresented minorities.IrvingWestern New York
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Dominguez & CruzEverson Museum of Art$5,000Program series on Hispanic and Latino community life in Central New York, with a focus on immigration, cultural diversity, and cross-cultural engagement.SyracuseCentral New York
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Burned OverEast Bend Films$1,500Along the Erie Canal, at the beginning of America’s history, the nation’s culture was being codified. Burned Over is a feature-length documentary about the fascinating and influential period of religious fervor and political activism that swept over western New York in the middle of the 19th Century that changed our identity forever.BrooklynNYC
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Stories Behind the StorefrontsLyons Heritage Society$1,500Historical pictures of commercial buildings within the National Register of Historical Sites in Lyons, New York along with pictures of the merchants and employees who worked in them, will be presented and displayed in the windows of those buildings still standing or those that replaced them.LyonsFinger Lakes
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I Can Breathe: Critical Race Theory, Access and SurvivalOpen Doors$1,500Inspired by Eric Garner’s last words, “I Can’t Breathe!” this professional development training seeks to affirm life and the ways people of color continue to thrive despite systemic inequity. The training will provide OPEN DOORS members and support team with humanities expertise and a framework to research, brainstorm, and build knowledge together.ManhattanNYC
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Reclaiming the Hall: Amplifying Community Voices at the Hall of FameBronx Community College Archives$1,500BCC faculty and an advisory board of humanities scholars will plan an art and community event at America’s first Hall of Fame that will use art, music, dance, and performance to explore inclusion, diversity, and bias in defining Great Americans.The BronxNYC
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Mosaic Literary ConferenceLiterary Freedom Project$1,500The Mosaic Literary Conference presents creative ways for keeping books and reading valuable sources of knowledge and creativity that help incorporate literature into existing curricula to explore course work focused on cultures and social studies.The BronxNYC
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Community is Ageless: Embracing Our Feelings About Aging in Contemporary SocietyGlen Cove SAGE Foundation$1,500City-wide, intergenerational, round table conversations on perceptions of growing old in our community and how the humanities can be used to direct positive change on both an individual and institutional level.Glen CoveLong Island
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Textile DayThe Jefferson Historical Society$500Textile Day will be an interactive experience of rural New York textile production with Hallie Bond as keynote speaker, presenting her program Material Remains. Members of the community will bring heirloom textiles in for display; local fiber artists will demonstrate their craft and offer examples for sale.JeffersonCapital Region
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GrimmNazmo Dance Collective$500Grimm is an engaging performance and panel discussion that combines folklore and dance to address current social issues.ManhattanNYC
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Identifying and Protecting Cultural Stone LandscapesOverlook Mountain Center$500Doug Harris from Narragansett Tribal Preservation Office and consultant for the United Southern and Eastern Tribes will show us why it's important to know how to identify, protect and preserve these important resources of cultural significance.WoodstockMid-Hudson
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Earl Dotter Photography Exhibit, A Life’s Work: 50 Year Chronicle of Work in the USANorthEast New York Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health$500Photographer Earl Dotter’s 50-year career documents the nature of work in the U.S.: for many workers this is often in dangerous conditions. From the Appalachian coal fields to the emerging nanotechnology industry, from construction to health care, and from our nation's farms to the rescue and recovery work of emergency responders on Ground Zero, Earl's compelling photographs personalize the dignity and dangers of work in America.AlbanyCapital Region
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Women's Quiltmaking: A Centennial and Early LegacyNorthern Onondaga Public Library at Cicero$500We will partner with the Central New York Library Resource Council to bring Hallie Bond, the Director of the Kelly Adirondack Center, she offers a curated collection of textiles from the middle 19th to 20th Century by women in the Adirondack Region.CiceroCentral New York
