Featured Grants

January 2012

Planning Grant Awarded to Vietnamese Mid-Autumn Festival at the Long Island Children’s Museum
From September 2012 through January 2013, the Long Island Children’s Museum will host a traveling exhibition exploring the culture and traditions of Viet Nam. To compliment this exhibition, the Long Island Children’s Museum is planning an ambitious slate of public programs to help visitors deepen their understanding of Vietnamese culture and encourage more participation from Long Islanders of Vietnamese and other Asian backgrounds. Council funds are being used to plan the centerpiece of this programming, a Mid-Autumn Children’s Festival or Tet Trung Thu, which will involve a range of educational and hands-on experiences for visitors.

Planning Grant Awarded to New York State Archives Partnership Trust Civil War Exhibition---AN IRREPRESIBLE CONFLICT: THE EMPIRE STATE AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
The Archives Partnership Trust and the New York State Museum have come together to develop a comprehensive exhibition exploring the multi-faceted role that New York State played in the Civil War. Through a Council planning grant, these organizations are working with a range of noted scholars to hone the exhibition’s major themes, create the exhibition script, and select key objects to tell the story of New York and the Civil War.

We want to hear from you. Contact the Council at any time with questions or to discuss your project: grants@nyhumanities.org or 212-233-1131