Re: [ctls-l] National Endowment for the Humanities Art Award for schools & public libraries

[Soy, Sue]

All,

 

The Austin Public Library applied for this grant and has received it! 

 

We will be placing these wonderful prints in the Faulk Central Library
and the Spicewood Springs Branch Library when they arrive in the Fall. 

 

We have placed articles alerting teachers to the opportunity to prepare
curriculum over the summer months through the Austin Independent School
District social studies teacher's newsletter and in the ACCESS to
Learning, Inc. newsletter going out this month to teachers and other
cultural heritage institutions in our area. We will continue to alert
our teachers (and thank our Federal Legislators) to this opportunity to
bring American History to life through art. At the Art Institute,
co-sponsored by ACCESS to Learning, Inc. , held Sunday and Monday at the
Blanton Art Museum in Austin, art teachers from around the CTLS area
were also alerted to the fact that the Austin Public Library has
received this grant. We want this effort to succeed for all of us! In
addition, the social studies curriculum department at AISD examined the
on-line Picturing America Teacher Resource Guide for me and pronounced
it as "excellent."

 

This program is promoted by Loraine Roy, current President of the
American Library Association and Austin, Texas, resident. I can also
help anyone who needs help with this grant opportunity. 

Best, Sue

Susan K. Soy, CA, Library Grants and Records Manager,
Austin Public Library P.O. Box 2287 Austin, TX 78768-2287
Phone: 974-7388 Fax: 512-974-7516 



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Of Laurie Mahaffey
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Cc: 'Phyllis Trautner'
Subject: [ctls-l] National Endowment for the Humanities Art Award
forschools & public libraries

 

I ran across this program from the NEH today while looking at their
website. They have given art reproductions to over 26,000 schools &
libraries across the US and are gearing up for another round of grant
applications in August. Related instructional materials are included;
the art is grouped around themes such as Democracy, Courage, Landscapes,
etc. Many are well-known and loved works of American art.

 

Parochial schools and consortia of home schools may apply.  If your town
has a local school of this type that never seems to be able to qualify
for anything, this is their big chance. Please pass the info along to
them; you may make a friend for life! ;-)

 

The website is: www.PicturingAmerica.neh.gov
  and the press release is below.
A few CTLS libraries and several public schools in our system have
gotten grants in the first round. Why not your library next time?

 

Please let me know if you need help with the grant application.

Laurie

 

Laurie Mahaffey, Deputy Director

Central Texas Library System, Inc.

1005 West 41st Street

Austin, Texas 78756

www.ctls.net

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

512-583-0704 x18

800-252-4431 x18

 

26,320 Schools and Public Libraries to Receive NEH's Picturing America
Awards Free Education Initiative Brings Great American Art Directly to
Classrooms and Libraries 

WASHINGTON (June 2, 2008)-Today the National Endowment for the
Humanities (NEH) announced that 26,320 schools and public libraries
across the nation will receive Picturing America, a free initiative that
helps teach American history and culture by bringing some of the
country's great art directly to classrooms and libraries. Information on
specific local recipient schools and public libraries is available on
the Picturing America Web site
 . 

Awardees will receive 40 large, high-quality reproductions of great
American art and a comprehensive teachers resource book to facilitate
the use of the works of art in core subjects. Delivery of these
materials is scheduled for August 2008. Additional education resources
are also available through the Picturing America
  Web site. 

"Thanks to an unprecedented number of educators, librarians, and
citizens who applied during the first application period, I'm proud to
announce that over 26,000 schools and public libraries across our nation
will receive Picturing America this fall," said NEH Chairman Bruce Cole.


"Works of art are more than mere ornaments for the elite; they are
primary documents of a civilization. A written record or a textbook
tells you one thing-but art reveals something else. Our students and
citizens deserve to see American art that shows us where we have come
from, what we have endured, and where we are headed," continued Chairman
Cole. 

Picturing America has received broad-based national support from federal
agencies, the arts community, and educators, among others. The U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Head Start; the
Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS); and the National Park
Service (NPS) partnered with the N

[ctls-l] National Endowment for the Humanities Art Award for schools & public libraries

[Laurie Mahaffey]

I ran across this program from the NEH today while looking at their website.
They have given art reproductions to over 26,000 schools & libraries across
the US and are gearing up for another round of grant applications in August.
Related instructional materials are included; the art is grouped around
themes such as Democracy, Courage, Landscapes, etc. Many are well-known and
loved works of American art.

 

Parochial schools and consortia of home schools may apply.  If your town has
a local school of this type that never seems to be able to qualify for
anything, this is their big chance. Please pass the info along to them; you
may make a friend for life! ;-)

 

The website is: www.PicturingAmerica.neh.gov
  and the press release is below. A
few CTLS libraries and several public schools in our system have gotten
grants in the first round. Why not your library next time?

 

Please let me know if you need help with the grant application.

Laurie

 

Laurie Mahaffey, Deputy Director

Central Texas Library System, Inc.

1005 West 41st Street

Austin, Texas 78756

www.ctls.net

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

512-583-0704 x18

800-252-4431 x18

 

26,320 Schools and Public Libraries to Receive NEH's Picturing America
Awards Free Education Initiative Brings Great American Art Directly to
Classrooms and Libraries 

WASHINGTON (June 2, 2008)-Today the National Endowment for the Humanities
(NEH) announced that 26,320 schools and public libraries across the nation
will receive Picturing America, a free initiative that helps teach American
history and culture by bringing some of the country's great art directly to
classrooms and libraries. Information on specific local recipient schools
and public libraries is available on the Picturing America Web
  site. 

Awardees will receive 40 large, high-quality reproductions of great American
art and a comprehensive teachers resource book to facilitate the use of the
works of art in core subjects. Delivery of these materials is scheduled for
August 2008. Additional education resources are also available through the
Picturing America   Web site. 

"Thanks to an unprecedented number of educators, librarians, and citizens
who applied during the first application period, I'm proud to announce that
over 26,000 schools and public libraries across our nation will receive
Picturing America this fall," said NEH Chairman Bruce Cole. 

"Works of art are more than mere ornaments for the elite; they are primary
documents of a civilization. A written record or a textbook tells you one
thing-but art reveals something else. Our students and citizens deserve to
see American art that shows us where we have come from, what we have
endured, and where we are headed," continued Chairman Cole. 

Picturing America has received broad-based national support from federal
agencies, the arts community, and educators, among others. The U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Head Start; the
Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS); and the National Park
Service (NPS) partnered with the NEH and have been instrumental in expanding
the reach of the program. The American Library Association (ALA) is working
in cooperation with the NEH to provide Picturing America to schools and
public libraries, nationwide. 

"Picturing America's goal of introducing representative art works into
classrooms is certainly one to encourage," said Pulitzer prize-winning
American author, John Updike who recently presented NEH's 37th annual
Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities. "The Endowment's selection and the
commentaries seem to me quite brilliant." 

Schools currently participating in a nationwide Picturing America pilot
program have been tremendously receptive to the initiative. Educators have
even testified before Congress on behalf of Picturing America and its
educational impact on their schools. 

"The Picturing America grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
has truly enriched our lives," said Katrine Watkins, Librarian at Shaler
Area Intermediate School in Glenshaw, Pa., at a recent Congressional hearing
in Washington. "Valuable as the Picturing America posters are to teaching
our curriculum, however, perhaps their greatest worth is their limitless
potential to teach us all-students, staff, and parents-about ourselves." 

>From Jan. 7 through April 15, 2008, 26,320 schools and public libraries in
all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and five U.S. territories
successfully applied to receive Picturing America in the program's first
nationwide application period. A complete list of recipient schools and
public libraries in cities and states across the country is available on the
Picturing America Web site:
http://picturingamerica.neh.gov/public_awards.php. 

The NEH will offer Picturing America to more schools and libraries through a
future enrollment opportunity beginn