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Document Type:
Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number:
20091007-AP
Opportunity Category:
Discretionary
Posted Date:
May 26, 2009
Creation Date:
May 26, 2009
Original Closing Date for Applications:
Oct 07, 2009
Current Closing Date for Applications:
Oct 07, 2009
Archive Date:
Nov 06, 2009
Funding Instrument Type:
Grant
Category of Funding Activity:
Humanities (see "Cultural Affairs" in CFDA)
Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards:
30
Estimated Total Program Funding:
Award Ceiling:
$75,000
Award Floor:
$0
CFDA Number(s):
45.163
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Promotion of the Humanities_Professional Development
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:
No
Eligible Applicants
State governments
County governments
City or township governments
Special district governments
Independent school districts
Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
Private institutions of higher education
Additional Information on Eligibility:
Agency Name
National Endowment for the Humanities
Description
Building on the national distribution of Picturing America, the National Endowment for the Humanities invites proposals for local and regional projects that foster collaboration between K-12 educators and humanities scholars to encourage engagement with the rich resources of American art to tell America’s story. The Picturing America School Collaboration Projects grant opportunity is designed to help teachers and librarians whose schools display the Picturing America images form connections with courses in the core curriculum. These projects will be grounded in the great works of art included in Picturing America, which is part of the Endowment’s We the People program. Information aboutPicturing America, including the Picturing America Teachers Resource Book, can be found by visiting the Picturing America Web site. The images in Picturing America reflect a variety of media spanning several centuries, ranging from the work of early American Indian artists to painters such as Mary Cassatt and Jacob Lawrence, from photographers such as Dorothea Lange to architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright. These images will help students better understand America’s diverse people and places and connect them to our nation’s travails and triumphs. This history is reflected in the themes of Picturing America: Leadership, Freedom and Equality, Democracy, Courage, Landscape, and Creativity and Ingenuity.
Goals of the Picturing America School Collaboration Projects grants are:
to strengthen understanding of the connections between great works of American art and significant events, themes, and topics in the American experience;
to encourage local and regional collaboration between K-12 educators and humanities experts who can bring appropriate knowledge to the integration of American artworks in core subjects;
to foster discussion of how to use the Picturing America images among K-12 educators within a locality or region; and
to provide access to rich scholarly resources and primary materials that support teaching.
In order to provide a forum for exploring and deepening students’ understanding of art, American history, government, social studies, literature, language arts, civics, and other core subjects, funded projects should
support one or more conferences of one or two days each;
accommodate at each conference twenty-four to one hundred (or more) participants, all of whom would have access to the Picturing America portfolio; and
provide opportunities for participants to engage with scholars, museum and library professionals, and other experts.
Successful proposals for local and regional projects will present a conference schedule of plenary and concurrent sessions in engaging formats that provide opportunities for participants to
observe or demonstrate models for teaching American art, history, and culture with the Picturing America portfolio and accompanying Teachers Resource Book; and
explore the curricular value of Picturing America for core subjects (for example, using images in the teaching of history or literature as a powerful investigative tool, a stimulus to Socratic inquiry, or a catalyst to improve student writing).
If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement
electronically, please contact:
Picturing America School Collaboration Projects
Division of Education Programs
National Endowment for the Humanities
Room 302
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20506
202-606-8500
education@neh.gov
Synopsis Modification History
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