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Humanities Texas Awards More than $110,000 to Fifteen Texas Nonprofits
December 9, 2007
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AUSTIN–Today Humanities Texas announced grants totaling $110,534 to fifteen cultural and educational organizations throughout Texas for the development and production of diverse public humanities projects.
The City of Austin received $7,986 for a series of public lectures exploring the history and cultural practices of Native Americans indigenous to Texas.
Texas Folklife Resources (Austin) received $10,000 for “The South Texas Project,” a multifaceted initiative that includes public oral history and radio documentary workshops and the preparation of brief radio documentaries exploring border history and culture.
Upstart Inc. (Bastrop) received $3,950 for “A Jewel in the Town: The Life and Work of Jewell E. Hodges,” a video documentary profiling a ninety-year-old community and education activist living in Bastrop.
The University of Texas at Brownsville received $15,000 to digitize and publish online a series of recorded interviews with notable individuals with strong links with the Rio Grande Valley.
West Texas A&M University (Canyon) received $4,262 for a one-day storytelling program that includes lectures, a workshop and a public concert by Tim Tingle, an award-winning author and storyteller and enrolled member of the Choctaw nation.
The Writer’s Garret (Dallas) received $10,240 supporting the 2008 season of “The Writers Studio,” an acclaimed radio series that provides an intimate look into the lives and work of writers of international prominence.
The University of North Texas (Denton) received $6,000 for a two-day interdisciplinary teacher institute exploring recent scholarship on Hispanic art since 1737.
La Mujer Obrera (El Paso) received $3,000 for “The Bracero Project,” an exhibit featuring photographs and documents chronicling the experiences of individuals who participated in the Bracero program.
The El Paso County Historical Commission received $5,000 to produce a ten-minute video documenting the 2005 renovation of the Magoffin Home, one of El Paso’s historic landmarks.
El Paso Community College received $7,996 for “Crossroad Identities: Intersecting Borders through Language and Literature,” a series of public presentations and workshops that address various aspects of border literary culture.
The Amon Carter Museum (Fort Worth) received $15,000 for “Intimate Modernism,” an exhibit that will feature paintings, watercolors and prints by artists of the Fort Worth Circle in the 1940s.
The Houston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America received $5,100 for “A Near East Mosaic,” a series of public programs exploring the history and culture of the Near East.
The San Jacinto Battleground Association (Houston) received $5,000 for its annual public symposium examining topics related to the Battle of San Jacinto.
The Rockdale Chamber of Commerce received $5,000 for the “Tejas Art and Book Festival,” a two-day cultural festival that will feature exhibits by local artists, musical performances and presentations by Texas authors including Elizabeth Crook, James Haley, Ben Saenz and Don Graham.
The University of the Incarnate Word (San Antonio) received $7,000 for an oral history project exploring the role of the church in the Chicano Movement in Texas in the late sixties and early seventies.
The state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Humanities Texas has provided more than 1,800 grants to nonprofit organizations throughout the state over the past three decades.
Humanities Texas grants support a wide range of humanities programs, including lectures, oral history projects, museum exhibitions, teacher institutes, interactive projects and documentaries.
Applications for the spring major grants cycle are due on March 15, 2008.
For more information about the Humanities Texas grants program, please contact Eric Lupfer at (512) 440-1991 or elupfer@humanitiestexas.org. Grant guidelines and applications are available at http://www.humanitiestexas.org.