For Immediate Release Media Contact: Cherie Hill, Communications Manager, chill@calhum.org
California Humanities is proud to announce that sixteen public humanities grantees will receive a total of $76,789 in funding through the Humanities for All Quick Grant program this fall. Among the range of topics covered in this cycle of awards, prominent themes include responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, women’s histories, poetry and literary arts projects, and community history and cultural preservation.
The grants of up to $5,000 support small-scale locally initiated public humanities projects and enable organizations to share untold stories and histories. Here are some project examples: In response to the pandemic, the University of California Irvine’s “PrisonPandemic in the Community” project will amplify the digital media archive of thousands of calls and narrated letters collected from people incarcerated in California’s prisons during the pandemic. “Building Community: The Broadway Neighborhood” by the Santa Monica Historical Society Inc. will focus on an area in Santa Monica that, from the 1920s to 1960s, was home to thriving businesses, cultural ventures, social services, and faith-based institutions established and operated by the city’s African American residents. In Palo Alto, “The Art of Disability Culture” will feature work in a wide range of media by artists with disabilities from the Bay Area and beyond.
“The perseverance we are seeing from humanities-based institutions and collaborators is outstanding,” shares California Humanities President & CEO Julie Fry. “Despite numerous challenges, these organizations continue to support ongoing dialogue and projects that are essential to our society and understanding of each other. We are delighted to award funding to this group of grantees.”
The California Humanities’ Quick Grant program is a branch of the Humanities for All grant line. The grants supply funding for small-scale local public humanities activities that take place within a year.
About California Humanities: California Humanities, a nonprofit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities, promotes the humanities—focused on ideas, dialogue and learning—as relevant, meaningful ways to understand the human condition and connect people to each other in order to help strengthen California. California Humanities has provided grants and programs across the state since 1975. To learn more, visit calhum.org, or like and follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
