NEH Grant Opportunity

The National Endowment for the Humanities is offering grants of up to
$75,000 for conferences that help teachers form connections between
Picturing America images and courses in the core curriculum.

Deadline: October 7, 2010

For more information about Picturing America School Collaboration
Projects, please visit http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/PASCP.html.

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Program Details

American colleges, universities, associations, libraries, museums, and
other non-profit organizations are encouraged to design conferences that
help teachers who have already received the Picturing America images form
connections with courses in the core curriculum.

Goals of the Picturing America School Collaboration Projects grants are:

- to strengthen understanding of the connections between great works of
American art and significant events, themes, and topics in the American
experience;
- to encourage local and regional collaboration between K-12 educators and
humanities experts who can bring appropriate knowledge to the integration
of American artworks in core subjects;
- to foster discussion of how to use the Picturing America images among
K-12 teachers within a locality or region; and
- to provide access to rich scholarly resources and primary materials that
support teaching.

Funded projects should

- support one or more conferences of one or two days each;
- accommodate at each conference thirty to one hundred (or more)
participants, all of whom already have access to the Picturing America
portfolio; and
- provide opportunities for participants to engage with scholars, museum
and library professionals, and other experts.