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2004 Grant Recipients
Humanities Council awards grants totaling $103,716
The Nebraska Humanities Council (NHC) recently awarded a $17,483 grant to the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial and Educational Foundation in Red Cloud for “The Cather Foundation: 50 Years of Preservation, Education and Celebration,” a series of programs during 2005 at the newly restored Red Cloud Opera House. The project includes Nebraska’s first “One State, One Book” program, in which citizens statewide will read and discuss Cather’s novel “My Antonia.”
In all, the NHC recently announced 18 grants totaling $103,716. Other grant recipients and the amount of each grant:
Nebraskans for Public Television, Lincoln, $16,000 toward production of a 30-minute documentary biography of Edward and John Creighton, pioneer Omaha businessmen and philanthropists. The program will air statewide on the Nebraska ETV Network in August 2005.
The Institute for Holocaust Education, Omaha, $15,229 to help teachers address issues of the Holocaust. Warren Marcus of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., will speak at the Nebraska/Iowa Social Studies Conference in October and conduct in-services with institute staff at schools in the Kearney, Scottsbluff and Neligh areas.
Omanisa Wacipi, North Platte, $12,500 for a series of educational programs in conjunction with the Omanisa Wacipi Pow Wow Oct. 22-24 at Mid-Plains Community College in North Platte. Programs will cover such topics as Native American spirituality, the meaning of dance, the meaning of the drum, the language, bead-working and storytelling.
Lincoln Arts Council, Lincoln, $7,061 for “Lincoln’s New Americans,” a series of four 15-minute TV programs exploring the culture that new populations bring to the city. The programs will focus on traditional arts and will be narrated with historical perspective by folklorist Roger Welsch.
Kearney Area Storytelling Festival, Kearney, $6,000 for “Winter Tales: the Healing Art of Storytelling,” a series of programs next January that will take storytelling performances and workshops to various audiences, including area schools, the Youth Rehabilitation and Training Center, the retired seniors community, preschoolers and families.
Nebraska StoryArts, Omaha, $6,000 for the 2005 Nebraska Storytelling Festival and “In Our Own Voices,” a storytelling camp for Westside Community Schools students grades 4-9. The camp will be June 6-10, and the festival runs through June 12.
Malaika Foundation, Lincoln, $5,550 for “Opening Your Classrooms to the World: A Global Education Institute for Nebraska Teachers.” The four-day institute in summer 2005 aims to help teachers understand how to infuse international and intercultural perspectives into classes.
John G. Neihardt Foundation, Bancroft, $3,602 for the 2005 Neihardt Spring Conference, to be held April 30 in Bancroft. Neihardt’s legacy as a journalist is the theme of the conference, which will feature five noted journalists and authors of the Midwest who acknowledge Neihardt’s influence.
MMMBC Development Corporation Inc., Omaha, $3,150 for “Harlem Nights: A Tribute to the Harlem Renaissance,” which includes an interactive workshop at Omaha North High School on the history, literature, art, music and language developed during the Harlem Renaissance and an event Dec. 10 at the Double Tree Hotel featuring a musical tribute and an historical overview.
Nebraska Secretary of State’s Office, Lincoln, $1,893 for “Nebraska and the World: New Millennium Relationships,” a daylong symposium next February in Lincoln that will bring together policy makers and community business leaders to discuss Nebraska’s future in global affairs.
ArtSpirit, Lincoln, $1,530 for “The Fever,” a chautauqua-like tour of 10 Nebraska state colleges and universities Oct. 1-15, with statewide community visits through Dec. 15. The program centers on Wallace Shawn’s 1990 play, a one-character exploration of the values and attitudes that underlie Western culture and affect our conduct and reception worldwide.
Nebraska Statewide Independent Living Council, Lincoln, $1,500 for “Empowering Nebraskans: Discover the Disability Vote,” a conference Sept. 3 in Omaha to provide a historical overview of the civic involvement of people with disabilities, educate community leaders and increase involvement.
Nebraska Foundation for Children’s Vision, Lincoln, $1,500 toward the purchase of 1,200 copies of the children’s book “Arthur’s Eyes” to be distributed to children who participated in library outreach programs during July in Omaha, Lincoln, Norfolk and Kearney.
Nebraska Foundation for the Preservation of Oral History, Lincoln, $1,500 to help develop production and processing guidelines for oral history materials so that they meet criteria for acquisition by the Nebraska State Historical Society.
Genoa U.S. Indian School Foundation, Genoa, $1,368 for a school reunion Aug. 14-15, featuring traditional food, crafts and dancing and the presentation of the first annual Genoa school scholarship.
Beatrice Area Arts Council, Beatrice, $1,000 for workshops and a concert by the Welsh band Crasdant Sept. 29 in Wymore and Sept. 30 in Beatrice.
Language, Literature and Communication Arts Department, Chadron State College, $850 for the first Mari Sandoz Festival, Oct. 15 in Chadron. The purpose of the festival is to celebrate the life and works of Sandoz and introduce young authors to the art of writing, living history and oral history.
Humanities Council awards grants totaling $44,581
The Nebraska Humanities Council (NHC) recently awarded a $9,050 grant to the Friends of Lewis and Clark Bicentennial for the Corps of Discovery Festival at Fort Atkinson July 31-Aug. 3. Activities will include living-history presentations, interactive workshops and such Lewis and Clark scholars as James Ronda, Mary Gunderson and Gary Moulton. The festival is one of only 15 National Signature Events chosen by the National Lewis and Clark Coordinating Council, and the only one in Nebraska.
In all, the NHC recently announced eight major grants totaling $44,581. Other grant recipients and the amount of each grant:
TRACES, a Des Moines, Iowa, nonprofit, $9,232 for “Behind Barbed Wire: Midwest POWs in Nazi Germany,” a mobile history museum that will tour selected cities throughout Nebraska between Nov. 1 and Christmas. It will feature artwork by and interviews of Midwestern POWs captured in Nazi Germany.
Board of Regents, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, $8,202 for “Commemorating the Sesquicentennial of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854,” a series of three lectures, a panel discussion and a question-and-answer session Sept. 20, Oct. 4, Oct. 25, Nov. 8 and Dec. 31 in the Warner Chamber at the State Capitol in Lincoln.
El Museo Latino, Omaha, $5,310 for a lecture series by scholars and artists during exhibitions scheduled June through December: “The World of Leo Matiz: Photographs of Frida Kahlo;” “El Ojo Fino: Tres Generaciones de Fotografas Mexicanas” (The Exquisite Eye: Three Generations of Mexican Women Photographers); and “Fidencio Duran: Paintings, Serigraphs and Drawings.”
State of Nebraska, Lincoln, $5,185 for “World Day on the Mall,” a Sept. 9 celebration of Lincoln diversity featuring presentations, workshops, entertainment, food and information booths in the State Office Building and on Centennial Mall. The purpose is to help state employees connect with the people they serve in the community.
Nebraska Shakespeare Festival, Omaha, $3,000 for a series of 6 p.m. pre-show seminars before each of the productions of “Shakespeare on the Green” in June and July at Elmwood Park, 60th and Dodge streets; and for “Shakespeare Unbound,” a series of in-school residencies and after-school workshops with high-school English students, teachers and parents.
McCook Community College, McCook, $2,717 for “Wind on the Buffalo Grass Young Writers’ Enrichment Camp,” May 31-June 5 at the college. The five-day boarding camp is to provide an opportunity for middle-school students to explore the history of southwest Nebraska and deepen their understanding of Native American and pioneer influences on our culture.
Homestead National Monument of America, Beatrice, $1,885 for Homestead Days 2004, a community event commemorating the Homestead Act of 1862, from June 18-20 at Homestead National Monument of America. American Indian contributions to the success and survival of pioneer are explored during this year’s event.
Humanities Council awards grants totaling $12,606
The Nebraska Humanities Council (NHC) recently awarded a $1,412 grant to the Museum of Nebraska Art in Kearney for “Audubon and the Birds of America,” a Feb. 28 lecture by Ron Tyler, noted Audubon authority. The presentation focuses on the royal octavo edition of “The Birds of America,” which is among the museum’s holdings. The lecture is timed to coincide with the beginning of the spring crane migration throughout central Nebraska.
In all, the NHC recently announced 10 mini grants totaling $12,606. Other grant recipients and the amount of each grant:
Social Action Committee of the Lincoln Unitarian Church, Lincoln, $1,500 for the 2004 Winter Lecture Series, “National Identity and Global Citizenship.” The series features weekly lectures at the Unitarian church every Sunday evening through March 21.
Nebraska Shakespeare Festival, Omaha., $1,500 for “Shakespeare Unbound,” a series of one-day and five-day, after-school workshops with high school English students in Omaha, Bellevue, Millard, Hastings and Cozad. The workshops continue through May 7.
City of Lincoln, $1,500 for the Mayor’s Abraham Lincoln Celebration, Feb. 15 in Lincoln. Among the day’s events were living history presentations by Fritz Klein as Abraham Lincoln and Joyce Browning as Mary (Todd) Lincoln.
St. Andrew’s United Methodist Church, Omaha, $1,500 for the Omaha Gospel Music Workshop Conference Jan. 26-31 in Omaha. The workshop lectures and discussion sessions had the theme “Historical Music Ministries.”
Board of Regents, University of Nebraska at Omaha, $1,375 for a keynote speaker, discussion and screening of the films of acclaimed African-American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux on Feb. 4-6 at UNO.
University of Nebraska Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Lincoln, $1,335 for a Feb. 12 public lecture and round-table discussion with visiting scholar Martin Paulous, an ambassador of the Czech Republic.
Mayhew Cabin and Historical Village, Nebraska City, $1,120 for presentations February through April for area middle schools, high schools and community organizations, dealing with Southeast Nebraska’s role in the Civil War-era “underground railroad” for runaway slaves.
Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, $864 for creative writing and workshop sessions by Nebraska State Poet Bill Kloefkorn at the museum and area schools from Feb. 12 through April 1.
Nebraskans for Public Television Inc., Lincoln, $500 for “Diversity Dialogue: Forty Years After the Dream,” a statewide televised citizen discussion Feb. 16-29 on the progress since Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech.
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