Carson City organizations among 27 Nevada Humanities 2018-2019 grant recipients

Nevada Humanities is pleased to announce that 27 grants totaling over $104,500 were awarded to fund humanities programs across Nevada, including four in Carson City area.

Sierra Nevada Forums, a program through Partnership Carson City, Nevada Neighbors through the Capitol City Arts Initiative, year-round jazz events through Mile High Jazz Band Association, and the Nevada Attorney General Historical Project and Exhibition are among the 2018-2019 grant recipients representing the Carson City area.

Annually Nevada Humanities offers grants of up to $5,000 to nonprofit organizations and government and tribal entities, such as libraries, museums, and schools, to fund public and educational programs in the humanities.

Major grant applicants requested and were awarded funds in a variety of amounts for projects that will take place across Nevada beginning July 1, 2018, through June 30, 2019.

Nevada Humanities funds projects that encourage community engagement and conversation. This may take the form of face-to-face dialogue, such as lectures, forums, and round-table discussions, or through programs that stimulate thought and reflection, such as media productions, film screenings, exhibitions, local history projects, and projects that explore local culture and Nevada’s diverse heritage and unique places.

“Our 2018 grant recipients truly reflect Nevada’s diverse communities that will benefit from these exciting and relevant humanities programs, events, and exhibits,” said Christina Barr, Executive Director of Nevada Humanities. “Through these grants, humanities programs are meeting real needs in communities across Nevada.”

2018 Nevada Humanities Grant Awards:
Capitol City Arts Initiative – $2,830 - Carson City
Nevada Neighbors No. 63 – 66: A signature lecture series, Nevada Neighbors, presents four talks annually by national, regional, and local scholars, curators, and artists on contemporary art practice in the West.

Mile High Jazz Band Association – $3,500 Carson City and Reno
World Percussion, Dixieland Jazz, and Jazz and Poetry events, 2018 Jazz & Beyond Music and Art Festival in Carson City, a “World Percussion Lecture-Performance with Chance Utter assisted by Andy Heglund, The Batamba Collective, and Lecture-Performance on Dixieland jazz in Virginia City and Reno,” and quarterly presentations combining poetry and big-band jazz.

Nevada Office of the Attorney General – $2,278.50 - Carson City
Nevada Attorney General Historical Project and Exhibition
To prepare and install a permanent exhibition of the photographs and biographies of Nevada’s 33 Attorneys General that will be on display in Carson City.

Partnership Carson City – $2,100 - Carson City
Sierra Nevada Forums: A series of public forums coordinated by a committee of volunteers with diverse expertise, education, and perspectives on a wide range of topics of interest.

Acting in Community Together in Organizing Northern Nevada – $3,500- Reno
Home Means Nevada Speakers’ Bureau
To develop a Speaker’s Bureau made up of homeless and under housed leaders who use their stories and experiences to raise awareness and invite community partners into greater civic engagement and community building.

Dam Short Film Society – $5,000 - Boulder City
Dam Short Film Festival
The Dam Short Film Festival, Nevada’s largest film festival, will present over 120 original, independent short films from all over the world. Held in the Boulder Theatre in historic Boulder City each February, the festival features parties, events, panels, special screenings, and more.

David J. Drakulich Foundation for Freedom of Expression – $2,016 - Reno
The Legend of 1000 Combat Paper Cranes
A series of tactile, educational, enlightening, workshops that teach the arts of papermaking and origami while facilitating community dialogue surrounding military service, reintegration, sacrifice, and war. The project culminates in a meaningful piece of public art.

Desert Space Foundation – $4,250 - Las Vegas
2019 Las Vegas Jewish Film Festival
The 18th annual presentation of eight to ten Jewish content narrative and documentary films with humanist themes narrated by scholars and filmmakers presented for the edification of our entire Nevada community.

DISCOVERY Children's Museum – $4,250 - Las Vegas
2018 Fall Cultural Programming
This programming incorporates a different cultural theme throughout the museum each month to give guests a greater understanding of their relationship to the world and Nevada’s history.

Henderson Libraries – $5,000 - Henderson
Henderson Libraries International Festival
Discover a world of arts and culture at Henderson Libraries during this yearlong celebration connecting Henderson’s cultural groups with the library resources and the community at large.

Holland Project – $4,250 - Reno
Sunland Discussion Series
Sunland is a collaborative, quarterly salon-style discussion series that explores various themes under an art, music, or culture umbrella.

KNPB Channel 5 Public Broadcasting – $4,250 - Reno
ARTEFFECTS: To produce a local arts program that highlights the work of the Northern Nevada arts community.

Las Vegas Natural History Museum – $4,250 - Las Vegas
Preserving Nevada’s Heritage
The Museum will continue the important preservation work in its curation project of approximately 1,000,000 archaeological objects collected in southern Nevada known as the Southern Nevada Archaeological Collection.

National Atomic Testing Museum – $1,037 - Las Vegas
Professional filming of National Atomic Test Museum Distinguished Lecture Series
To videotape and edit four specific humanities-related NATM lectures to documents and provide access for free viewing on the museum’s web page.

National Automobile Museum – $4,250 - Reno
The 1900s: Around the World Against All Odds
The project is the Museum’s 16th History Symposium with 15 hours of programming featuring national and local scholars, authors, and living history performers.

Neon Museum – $5,000 - Las Vegas
My Las Vegas!
An interactive, bilingual storytelling program conducted as an educational outreach to three local Title I elementary schools in the neighborhoods surrounding the Neon Museum, during Hispanic Heritage month.

Nevada Center for Civic Engagement – $5,000 - Reno and Las Vegas
We the People: The Citizen & the Constitution
Professional Development Education Trainings in Washoe County and Clark County for teachers to develop an active learning and innovative approach to meeting the Nevada Academic Content Standards for Social Studies and Literacy.

Nevada State College – $3,500 - Henderson
The Artist at Work
A series of events and panels with artists and arts administrators related to but not limited to: what art-making as work looks like, the role of the artist in the workforce, STEAM initiatives, art as social justice, and the arts as a driver of economic development and tourism.

North American Basque Organization – $4,250 – Reno
Udaleke 2018
Two-week Basque culture camp for kids between the ages of 10-15 organized this year in cooperation with the Reno Zazpiak Bat Basque Club.

Northern Nevada Literacy Council - $5,000 – Reno
Grounded in Nevada: Learning English with Place-based Resources
Northern Nevada Literacy Council is requesting funding to produce supplemental curriculum that highlights Nevada’s history and diverse cultures for foreign-born adult learners who are in the English as a Second Language classes.

Project REAL – $4,250 - Las Vegas
The Government, Your Rights, & You
Provide students information on constitutional rights through a play that illustrates why knowing their rights is important and something they need to prioritize as they enter into adulthood.

Reno Philharmonic Association – $4,250 - Reno
Reno Phil 50th Anniversary Exhibition
The Reno Phil is partnering with the Nevada Historical Society to present an exhibition of the Reno Phil’s 50-year history.

The Clark County Public Education Foundation – $3,500 - Clark County
The Public Education Foundation Community Art Gallery
Paintings, drawings, photographs, sculpture and digital images from Clark County art students and teachers are featured in the Community Art Gallery. A team of student interns are mentored in best art practices, are responsible for matting and framing the work in the gallery, exhibition inventory and installation methods, writing artist statements, and marketing.

University Nevada Las Vegas, Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute – $5,000 - Las Vegas
Black Mountain Institute Emerging Writers Series 2018-2019
Brings four acclaimed early-career writers (two poets and two fiction writers) for events at both UNR and UNLV, including public readings and craft talks.

University of Nevada Las Vegas Libraries, Special Collections – $5,000 - Las Vegas
Remembering 1 October
An oral history project of the tragic shooting at the Route 91 Festival on the Las Vegas Strip collecting stories from concert attendees, first responders, memorial site monitors, volunteers who donated blood, funeral home workers, mental health professionals, and many others who want to share their experiences surrounding any aspect of this event.

University Nevada Reno, English Department – $2,000 - Reno
8th Annual Summer Youth Writing Program
Students will work with UNR faculty and students from the UNR Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing. Guest speakers, all of them practicing/publishing writers, will also provide presentations about their diverse fields of work and provide lessons. The final project is a public reading of student work on UNR Campus.

Western Folklife Center – $5,000 - Elko
2019 National Cowboy Poetry Gathering Keynote Address and Journalism Forums
The Western Folklife Center in partnership with Great Basin College will present four or five talks and discussions by multiple humanities speakers during the 35th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering.

Additionally, mini-grant applications requesting $1,000 or less may be submitted to Nevada Humanities at any time, at least 10 weeks before the proposed project date. Mini-grant funds, while available, are on are on a first-come, first-serve basis; grant guidelines are available on the Nevada Humanities website: nevadahumanities.org.

About Nevada Humanities:
Nevada Humanities is one of 56 independent, nonprofit state and territorial humanities councils affiliated with the National Endowment for the Humanities. With offices in Reno and Las Vegas, Nevada Humanities creates public programs and supports public projects statewide that define the Nevada experience and facilitate the exploration of issues that matter to Nevadans and their communities. For more information about Nevada Humanities, call 702-800-4760 or visit nevadahumanities.org.