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Implementation of a traveling exhibition, a catalog, and public programs about the history and global significance of cochineal, an insect-based dye source whose origins date to the pre-Columbian Americas.

"The Red That Colored the World" is a museum exhibition that combines new research and original scholarship to explore the history and widespread use in art of cochineal, an insect-based dye source for the color red whose origins and use date to the pre-Columbian Americas. The exhibition will be on view at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico, from May 17 to September 6, 2015, followed by its display at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, California, from November 21, 2015 to March 21, 2016.

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Project fields:
Art History and Criticism

Program:
America's Historical and Cultural Organizations: Implementation Grants

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$400,000 (approved)
$400,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
5/1/2015 – 9/30/2015

The purchase of storage equipment, improvement of lighting and climate control, and the rehousing of 68,000 folk art objects from North and South America, Africa, and Asia.

The Museum of International Folk Art seeks funding to reorganize and rehouse in upgraded storage more than half of its sizable collection of over 130,000 objects representing more than 100 different countries. Dating primarily from the nineteenth century to the present, the collections range from wood carvings, ceramics, metal, and works on paper to objects made from found and recycled industrial materials. The project increases access to the collection both physically and electronically and ensures its preservation for future use. The collection offers a significant resource for scholars in the humanities and is used to develop interpretive exhibitions with interactive components for the public and school groups visiting the museum.

Project fields:
Archival Management and Conservation

Program:
Stabilization Grants

Division:
Preservation and Access

Totals:
$700,000 (approved)
$700,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/2006 – 6/30/2009

Implementation of a traveling exhibition, catalog, symposium, website, and other educational and public programs interpreting the history and use of mayolica pottery in Mexico and Spain.

Project fields:
Folklore and Folklife

Program:
Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$232,552 (approved)
$232,552 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/2002 – 6/30/2005

A preservation assessment of books, periodicals, photographs, and audio recordings that document Hispanic culture of the southwestern United States and around the world.

Project fields:
Archival Management and Conservation

Program:
Preservation/Access Projects

Division:
Preservation and Access

Totals:
$5,000 (approved)
$5,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
9/1/2000 – 12/31/2002

To support planning for an exhibition, publications, and educational and public programs on majolica china in the context of Hispano history and culture.

Project fields:
Art History and Criticism

Program:
Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$39,300 (approved)
$39,300 (awarded)

Grant period:
4/1/1999 – 6/30/2001

A traveling exhibition on the changing social meaning and dynamics of the carnival festival, based on case studies from nine communities in Europe and the Americas.

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$175,000 (approved)
$175,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/1999 – 12/31/2004

To plan a traveling exhibition, a catalog, and public programs on the material and expressive arts of the transnational community of Tibetan refugees.

Project fields:
Folklore and Folklife

Program:
Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$40,700 (approved)
$40,700 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/1995 – 12/31/1996

To support a traveling exhibition and programs that examine the art of "folk recycling," the vernacular transformation of manufactured products into hand-made objects of beauty and utility.

Project fields:
Folklore and Folklife

Program:
Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$300,000 (approved)
$300,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/1994 – 12/31/1997

To support the purchase of metal storage cabinets and the reorganization of storage space in the folk art museum to protect and preserve the textiles and ethnographic materials.

Project fields:
Folklore and Folklife

Program:
National Heritage Preservation Projects

Division:
Preservation and Access

Totals:
$130,000 (approved)
$130,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/1992 – 6/30/1994

To support a traveling exhibition on Turkish folk art.

Project fields:
Folklore and Folklife

Program:
Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$100,000 (approved)
$100,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/1989 – 9/30/1991

To support an exhibition that explores the culture of Hispanic New Mexico in historical perspective.

Project fields:
Folklore and Folklife

Program:
Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$300,000 (approved)
$300,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/1988 – 9/30/1989

To support planning for a permanent exhibition on Hispanic culture in the Southwest from colonial times to the present.

Project fields:
Folklore and Folklife

Program:
Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$41,980 (approved)
$41,980 (awarded)

Grant period:
1/1/1987 – 12/31/1987

To support implementation of an exhibition, catalogue, and educational programson the Mexican mask from the period of the Spanish conquest to the present.

Project fields:
Folklore and Folklife

Program:
Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$228,268 (approved)
$228,268 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/1987 – 12/31/1988

To plan a major exhibition on Mexican masquerade emphasizing the history of masking and costume from the Spanish conquest to the present day.

Project fields:
Anthropology; Folklore and Folklife

Program:
Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$40,000 (approved)
$40,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
1/1/1986 – 6/30/1987

To study the relationship between communal social organization and aesthetic expressiveness in an openfield village, Braunton, in Devonshire, England. The folklore of a communal village where cooperative forms of work are extended to clustered habitations and unfenced fields. An understanding of how Braunton1s folklore is affected by their special social purposes will be enhanced by comparison with folklore of neighboring, non-communal villages.

Project fields:
Folklore and Folklife

Program:
Summer Stipends

Division:
Research Programs

Totals:
$2,500 (approved)
$2,500 (awarded)

Grant period:
5/1/1978 – 7/31/1978