Connecticut

Congratulations to the Art Museum, University of Saint Joseph in West Hartford for receiving AAM accreditation! The Noah Webster House & West Hartford Historical Society received reaccreditation. Way to go!

Mystic Seaport Museum has announced an initiative to work toward eliminating single-use plastics on its 19-acre site on the Mystic River. The program is being developed and implemented through the leadership of a staff Sustainability Committee in collaboration with the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md. The Sustainability Committee at Mystic Seaport Museum began meeting in early 2018 at the direction of Steve White, president of Mystic Seaport Museum, who encouraged the committee to make recommendations for financially sustainable, positive changes to the museum's impact on the environment that also will inspire and energize the public to adopt similar practices. Moving forward, the museum will continue to investigate ways to reduce single-use plastic consumption, while keeping in mind that alternatives used must be ecofriendly, and will focus on making changes across the museum grounds to enable visitors to reduce plastic consumption and recycle more effectively. In conjunction with the museum's food-service partners Coastal Gourmet and Event Network, the following changes replacing single-use plastic products have been implemented:

Paper shopping bags instead of plastic
Nautical-themed reusable shopping bags made from 100-percent recycled plastic water bottles are available for purchase
Plant-based straws and pasta stir sticks/li>
Plastic lids and straws are available upon request only
To-go containers and serving ware have been switched to paper rather than plastic or foam
Catered events are using wooden utensils, and plant-based cups, or rented china, glasses, and cutlery.

Greenwich Historical Society's boldly reimagined campus, which opened in October, enables the Historical Society to welcome more visitors, exhibit more of its collections, enrich its education and preservation programs, and share with a wider audience the national significance of this pivotal New York City suburb that is the Gateway to New England. The campus is home to the circa 1730 National Historic Landmark Bush-Holley House, which was built as a home for prosperous merchants and later gained recognition as the site of one of America's earliest American Impressionist art colonies. Trailblazing Impressionists such as Childe Hassam, John Henry Twachtman, J. Alden Weir, and Elmer MacRae were part of the Cos Cob art colony that gathered at the Holley boarding house 1890-1920. A nationally accredited museum, with two state-of-the-art galleries, library and archives, cafe, museum store, and restored Impressionist-era gardens complete the new campus. The new building was designed by the award-winning historic preservation architectural firm David Scott Parker Architects.

Former Davison Art Center curator Richard "Dick" Field and current DAC curator Miya Tokumitsu discuss one of Jasper Johns' silkscreens titled Corpse and Mirror, 1976. (Photo by Olivia Drake)

Artist Jasper Johns donated 23 prints to the Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University in honor of former curator and author Richard "Dick" Field. The Jasper Johns donation joins the Davison Art Center's collection of more than 25,000 works of art.

Wethersfield Historical Society has announced that the Captain James Francis House at 120 Hartford Avenue, which has been in its care since 1969, will be offered for sale this spring. The house has been meticulously restored and maintained by the society and has been open to the public on an irregular basis for the past fifty years. Although the house was open seasonally for many years and was the site of some educational programming, visitation was sparse due to its location outside of the village center and the availability of similar house museums nearby. It is the hope of the Society that the house will once again become a home for a family who will value its architecture, history and its tree-lined property of over an acre. Smith-Harris House has returned to its previous name as the Brookside Farm Museum. Managed by the Brookside Farm Museum Commission and the Friends of Brookside Farm Museum, a variety of events are offered throughout the year that convey the family stories of the people who resided in the house and worked the farm. Rotating exhibits are also displayed to demonstrate agricultural history in Southeastern Connecticut.

Imagine Nation, A Museum Early Learning Center is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a $10,000.00 grant from the J. Walton Bissell Foundation. The grant will allow Imagine Nation to continue to expand community outreach efforts and advance its mission of developing inquisitive and imaginative lifelong learners by providing high quality, community-based hands-on learning opportunities to children and families in the Greater Hartford area.

The Mattatuck Museum, a key component of the cultural, social and educational life of the Waterbury community, announces an $8 million capital project committed to re-envisioning the museum. This project focuses on the expansion and renovation of the museum's historic building on the Green in downtown Waterbury, CT. Ann Beaha Architect's construction and renovation plan for the Mattatuck allows the museum to implement an exciting vision that includes two new educational studio spaces, allowing for an increase in school tours, family programs, and adult studio classes. It also includes a new elevator that is better equipped to accommodate large-scale, high quality traveling exhibitions; additional exhibition space; new preparatory and storage space for collections; expanded parking; and a more welcoming exterior that invites the community and visitors into the museum.

The Connecticut Office of the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts announced a total of more than $1,107,000 in grants to state arts organizations. The Connecticut Arts Endowment Fund, administered by Connecticut Office of the Arts, announced 166 grants to state organizations to be applied toward programming, administrative or operational costs, capital projects, equipment or to build their own endowments.

Fairfield Museum and History Center - $39,640
Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme - $40,133
Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford - $32,440
Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury - $18,841
New Britain Museum of American Art - $14,491
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford - $40,237

Maine

The Brick Store Museum in Kennebunk received two grants to propel its strategic plan goals: a $5,000 grant from the Bauman Family Foundation supported the purchase of a 3D printer for the Museum to collaborate with Kennebunk High School. The project will produce a scale model of the town of Kennebunk in 1895, in which students design and print scale models of buildings as they existed in 1895. Additionally, the Museum received a $11,000 grant from the Mrs. James Sage Coburn Fund of the Hartford Foundation for operating support and funding for the creation of a family learning room and a brand-new podcast program at the Museum, launching in Spring 2019. The Brick Store Museum also recently completed a renovation of its first building to include a front entryway and welcome center on Main Street (the museum entrance was formerly at the back of the building). The renovations are a part of the Museum's larger 2019 Open Door Capital Campaign.

The Wendell Gilley Museum in Southwest Harbor is excited to announce its two most recent grant awards. The first, a generous grant from Maine Arts Commission, allowed the museum to start working on an online catalog of its collection. An important milestone for the museum, the catalog will help to better preserve and make use of the Gilley's collection, and will make it accessible to the public free of charge. The catalog is based on the open source Digital Archive platform, which was created by local developer George Soules and is used by a number of collecting non-profits on Mount Desert Island. The second grant, received from the Hattie A. & Fred C. Lynam Trust, is helping to create self-guided learning materials and hands-on art making kits.

The Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations are pleased to announce that Persis Ray has transferred 64 acres of land to the Trustees. The wooded land runs parallel and contiguous to the southern boundary of Woodlawn, the Trustees' current property and main holding, in the area known as Westwood Hills.

In October 2018, the Seal Cove Auto Museum launched a "Save Our Mechanics' Backs" campaign to purchase a four-post, two-level car lift in order to assist its retired volunteer mechanics in the process of repairing the cars in its collection. Donors from far and wide, sympathetic to the mechanics' plight, offered their support. With museum volunteer Julius Ridolfi's matching funds, a total of $6,555 was raised in just four weeks. In November the car lift was purchased, delivered, and set up, and was immediately put to use. First up on the lift was the Museum's 1921 Mercer, which had been plagued with engine trouble for many months. The extra funds raised will be used to purchase tools and equipment for the mechanics to use in the garage.

The Rufus Porter Museum in Bridgton is pleased to announce that it has received a $40,000 gift from the former National Museum of Decorative Painting in Atlanta, Georgia. After 36 years of operation with the purpose of collecting, preserving, and displaying the art of decorative painting, the National Museum of Decorative Painting made the difficult decision to close its doors in 2018. The funds will be used by the Rufus Porter Museum toward acquisitions and operational costs.

The Maine Office of Tourism (MOT) has just awarded over $46,000 in the latest round of Tourism Enterprise Grants, and the Abbe Museum is the recipient of $10,000 to support a range of tourism marketing efforts around our annual Indian Market. The Abbe Museum is also excited to announce two media sponsors: Maine Public (MPBN) & Native American Art Magazine.

Presque Isle Historical Society received a $1,000 grant from Maine Humanities Council with which to create a new exhibit around antique quilts from our collection. This will be the opening exhibit in the Spring at The Maysville Museum. The exhibit will also include poetry written by 8th grade students at Presque Isle Middle School inspired by the various quilts. Moreover, PIHS has recently received "Distinctive Destinations" designation for both the 1875 Vera Estey House Museum and the Maysville Museum. This designation comes from the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

The University of Maine Museum of Art will extend its free admission policy for the public this year thanks to a generous gift from Deighan Wealth Advisors. The museum, located in downtown Bangor, has been able to offer free admission for several years thanks to donors.

The Bar Harbor Historical Society is scheduled to close the purchase of the former Maine Seacoast Mission building, a historic structure known as "La Rochelle" on West Street in Bar Harbor. The society plans to move its growing collections to the new location from a building it has outgrown on Bar Harbor's residential Ledgelawn Street.

Massachusetts

Congratulations to Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston for its nomination as a finalist for the National Medal for Museum and Library Service, presented each year by the IMLS. The National Medal for Museum and Library Service is the nation's highest honor for institutions that make significant and exceptional contributions to their communities. Since 1994, IMLS has presented the award to institutions that demonstrate extraordinary and innovative approaches to community service. The winner will be announced later this spring.

The Mass Cultural Council recently announced finalists for the 2019 Commonwealth Awards, which honor exceptional achievement in the arts, humanities, and sciences. Congratulations to the following individuals and institutions in the pool of finalists: Aquinnah Cultural Center, Lee Blake of the New Bedford Historical Society, Mass Audubon, Nina Zannieri of the Paul Revere House, and Provincetown Art Association & Museum.

The Gibson House Museum has been updating its interpretation with new, more relevant narratives exploring such issues as servant life, slavery, and sexuality. It is also in the process of creating a variety of specialty tours. The museum's interior has recently been refreshed with the installation of a new reproduction carpet woven on a historic mill in England.

The complete restoration of Mayflower is well underway thanks to a combined team from Plimoth Plantation and Mystic Seaport Museum! We're also restoring Mayflower's shallop with Lowell's Boat Shop in Amesbury, Massachusetts, where high school apprentices will work alongside experienced boatbuilders. Follow progress updates and help us complete fundraising for this historic work that will inspire and educate millions of visitors and students for years to come.

Made possible by generous support from the Henry Luce Foundation, the Fuller Craft Museum launched its new Digital Archive as a portal into the museum's Permanent Collection. With a few clicks, visitors can access images and information about a vast selection of objects from the collection. 2019 celebrates 50 years of Fuller bringing the arts to southern New England. This landmark year comes at a pivotal time for Fuller, as it expands its reach beyond the U.S. through an international partnership with the Plymouth College of Art and The Box in Plymouth, England; broadens perspectives and dialogue through a long-term commitment to socially relevant exhibitions that encourage discourse and understanding; and continues to offer educational opportunities that deepen access to the arts through hands-on learning experiences. Keep your eye out for our 50th Anniversary exhibition Striking Gold, coming this fall, many exciting events and lectures, and a culminating celebration of Fuller at 50 years.

deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum received a $150,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to support Visionary New England, an exhibition and catalogue opening in 2020, organized by Curator Sarah Montross. Visionary New England was chosen as one of a select slate of exhibitions determined by the Henry Luce Foundation's American Art Program to "exemplify the highest standards of scholarship and museum expertise in the field."

deCordova and The Trustees of Reservations have entered into an agreement intended to lead to the integration of the two organizations. The two organizations share overlapping purposes in seeking to connect people to special places of cultural and natural importance, and inspire unique experiences that improve quality of life. Residents in Lincoln approved plans to the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum under The Trustees's umbrella. Under the newly passed plan, the deCordova will remain a separate nonprofit, but the land will be managed by The Trustees, which oversees 116 properties in the state, including cultural institutions, houses and natural space. Both groups have said the integration will ensure the future financial stability of the sculpture park.

The Fitchburg Historical Society is announcing the sale of its original library building on Grove Street, as part of the full relocation of its headquarters to the historic Phoenix Building on Main Street. Fifty Grove Street was built in 1911, on land donated to the Fitchburg Historical Society by its founding president, James F.D. Garfield. The Fitchburg Historical Society purchased and renovated the former Fitchburg Mutual Fire Insurance Building in 2007, in order to create a larger, more visible library and museum space on Main Street. The Campaign for the Phoenix Building was led by Sally Dickinson, retired owner of Portals Marketing, and Eleanor Gilmartin, of Fitchburg. A major gift was later received from Jeanne Crocker and Bigelow Crocker, Jr. that funded a new elevator and full ADA accessibility; with additional funding from the Mass Cultural Council Cultural Facilities Fund. Exhibitions and operations were begun at the Phoenix Building in October 2012.

Historic Deerfield, Inc., announces the purchase of the property at 43A Old Main Street, Deerfield, Massachusetts. The house, built during the 1760s, and known during the late 19th century as "Elmstead," was then the home of the artist James Wells Champney (1843-1903) and his family. The Creelman family were the owners since 1984. The purchase of the property is an important addition to the portfolio of properties owned by the museum on Old Main Street. The preservation and protection of the authentic, historic buildings that remain on Old Main Street is central to the mission of Historic Deerfield. The museum's last significant purchase of property on the Street was the purchase of the Moors House, located at 103 Old Main Street, in 1991.

Boston Children's Museum has unveiled its new logo, a simplified symbol of a child that emphasizes the power of active play and learning to empower children. The 105 year-old Boston institution has had eight logos since its founding in 1913. The most recent logo was introduced in 2003, prior to a major renovation and expansion of the Museum in 2007, steady growth in attendance, and the award of the National Medal for Museum and Library Service in 2013. The logo was created by the Museum's Creative Director, Karin Hansen, and will be implemented on signage, business, digital, and other printed communications over the next several months.

Old North Church & Historic Site announces its first-ever exhibition, Piece-ful Voices, in partnership with the New England Quilt Museum. Located in Patriots Corner, a new rotating gallery space in the historic Clough House on the back of the Old North property, this exhibit features quilts created to honor post-9/11 fallen soldiers in the style of the U.S. Sanitary Commission quilts made by Northern women during the American Civil War. Piece-ful Voices kicks off a year-long exploration of what community and courage mean today through Old North's exhibitions and programming.

Lexington Historical Society will open a new archives and collections addition in 2019. Designed to blend into the landscape as a barn-style building, the building only looks old. Inside it's a state-of-art, fitting repository for Lexington's unique physical legacy. The goals of this new addition are to provide space for the growing volume of the town's non-governmental historic records, to create a safe and professional environment for Society staff and volunteers, and to provide an accessible and welcoming facility for Lexington residents and visitors from around the world.

Discovery Museum and Middlesex Savings Bank announced that their long-running community support relationship has expanded to include a $100,000 investment in the new Discovery Museum, which opened in March, 2018. Middlesex Savings Bank is the main sponsor of the museum's Community Gallery, a 1,200sf exhibit space designed to host an ongoing series of rotating exhibits and community events. Velocity Engineering Lab, a hands-on, interactive exhibit using balls and ramps, opened on January 12, replacing the Bricks, Sticks & Arches building exhibit that had been in the space since the museum's opening. The gallery is named the Middlesex Savings Bank Community Gallery. Furthermore, the Discovery Museum received a $5,000 grant from the Foundation of MetroWest's Youth in Philanthropy program to support Especially for Me program. Especially for Me provides free events for families with children with an autism spectrum disorder, who are deaf or hard of hearing, or are blind or visually impaired.

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has awarded the Davis Museum at Wellesley College a $75,000 grant to fund a September 2019 exhibition, Home's Horizons by Nigeria-born multimedia artist Fatimah Tuggar. The grant money will also go to putting together a catalogue of her work, as well as support a new artwork, Deep Blue Wells, created specifically for The Davis Museum exhibit.

As the Martha's Vineyard Museum puts the finishing touches inside the renovated former Marine Hospital - now slated to open in March - more developments are occurring outside the building's restored 1895 facade. With the recent acquisition of a house at 174 Skiff Avenue, the museum now owns three properties surrounding the main campus, noticeably increasing its footprint in the small Vineyard Haven neighborhood overlooking the Lagoon Pond. The purchase of the Skiff property was made possible by an anonymous donor family.

The Museum of Russian Icons (MoRI) is honored to have been selected by The British Museum to host their online catalogue for Byzantine and Greek icons, featuring 32 historically significant works created between the 13th and 19th centuries. The catalogue (www.museumofrussianicons.org/british-museum-catalogue/) features photos and object entries generated directly from the collection database, reflecting the most current research and study of these important works. This prestigious partnership is the result of a long-term relationship which started in 2010 with the collaborative exhibition Saints and Dragons: Icons from Byzantium to Russia, that featured works from the British Museum’s and MoRI's collections; a show that traveled to the Chrysler Museum of Art in Virginia in 2015.

Cayó del Cielo, Chalma, México, 1989, Graciela Iturbide

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has announced the gift of the Estate of David Rockefeller from the Collection of David and Peggy Rockefeller-an acquisition comprising 52 works of art by Native American artists and works representing Native American culture. The MFA has acquired an important group of 37 photographs by Graciela Iturbide (born 1942, Mexico City), one of the most influential photographers active in Latin America today and considered one of Mexico's greatest living artists. The rare, vintage prints and select recent works span Iturbide's entire career, which has focused on capturing and understanding the beauty, rituals, challenges and contradictions of her native country. The acquisition comprises 35 photographs purchased by the museum and two donated by the artist-all of which will be on view in Graciela Iturbide's Mexico, a major exhibition of her work, opening at the MFA in January 2019 and accompanied by an illustrated catalogue produced by MFA Publications. They have also announced the acquisition of the Howard Greenberg Collection of Photographs, funded by a major gift from the Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Charitable Trust. Carefully assembled over more than three decades, the collection comprises 447 photographs by 191 artists, including rare prints of modernist masterpieces and mid-20th-century classics. Social history and the human experience form an important thread of the collection, presented through documentary photography and photojournalism. Major works from between the wars in Europe, among others, also trace the evolution of photography as an art form. The acquisition substantially enriches the MFA's collection, introducing a significant number of works by more than 80 major photographers not previously represented in the museum's holdings.

New Hampshire

The American Independence Museum in Exeter has received a $80,000 grant award from the NH Land and Community Heritage Investment Program (LCHIP) to support the rehabilitation of the Ladd-Gilman House (c.1721). Home of the State Treasurer for New Hampshire and State Treasury from 1785 to 1789, the Ladd-Gilman House also served as home of the Granite State's first Governor beginning in 1800. The complete scope of the project includes archaeology, perimeter excavation and regrading, foundation repointing, replacement of a modern stone retaining wall, restoration of rotten sills and the addition of storm doors.

The Wright Museum of World War II received a generous grant from The Montrone Family to enable the Wolfeboro museum to host the national traveling exhibition, Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and World War II. The exhibit was developed by the National Museum of American History and adapted for travel by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. The national tour received Federal support from the Asian Pacific American Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, the Terasaki Family Foundation, and C. L. Ehn & Ginger Lew. Righting a Wrong will be shown at the Wright Museum from May 1 - July 7, 2019. The Wright Museum also celebrates its 25th anniversary this year.

The Warner Historical Society is celebrating its 50th Anniversary this year.

The Currier Museum of Art is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.

After a three-year closure, the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College in Hanover reopens this weekend. The new Hood Museum boasts a bigger building and updated exhibits that reflect the museum's dedication to "art that expresses social concern," says museum director John Stomberg. The $50 million redesign, by New York City architecture duo Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, increases the building's floor size by 50 percent to 62,400 square feet, just shy of the size of Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art.

Rhode Island

The Friends of Hearthside announces that Lincoln's Moffett Mill has been awarded a $47,150 grant from The Champlin Foundation for the restoration of the windows of the historic wooden mill along Great Road. This relic from the early Industrial Revolution was built in 1812 by George Olney and closed around 1900 by the last owners, the Moffett family. The 3-story wooden building was last restored in the 1990s. Additionally, in December, the Friends of Hearthside received a generous donation of a significant number of artifacts and antique furnishings from antique dealer Mr. and Mrs. Fred Reinhardt. Among their gifts was a 15-passenger van, making it possible to safely transport visitors to the Mill, which is only accessible by shuttle as it sits right on the road at a dangerous curve. As part of the Great Road Heritage Campus, the Moffett Mill is managed as a museum by the Friends volunteer organization and opened during Hearthside Museum's special events. It is owned by the Town of Lincoln.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Brown University's Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology a $5 million grant to catalogue and prepare for the anticipated move of nearly 1 million ethnographic objects, archaeological specimens and images that illustrate and document human cultures and societies from across the globe. The funds will enable the museum to create an accurate inventory of its diverse holdings, which are currently housed in Bristol in anticipation of a move to a to-be-determined future home near the University's campus in Providence. The relocation would unite the museum's collections in one city, boost public access to its collections and create new opportunities for scholarship in anthropology, Native American and indigenous studies and other academic disciplines at Brown.

The Rhode Island Historical Society announced that it has received a $7,000 grant from the Heritage Harbor Foundation to launch the implementation of a Trusted Digital Repository (TDR), which is both a software and a service providing reliable, long-term access to managed digital resources for an organization's community. The first batch of digital material the RIHS plans to place in the TDR will include recently digitized film footage of the 1968 Black Student Walkout at Brown University, as well as other Civil Rights-related footage the organization has digitized for a National Park Service grant awarded last year to the RIHS, the Rhode Island Black Heritage Society, and the Rhode Island Historic Preservation & Heritage Commission. Digital photos of many other museum objects will also be uploaded - images of furniture, silver, toys and dolls, musical instruments, weapons, clocks, china, and more selected from the RIHS's 25,000-plus museum objects. The grant will allow the RIHS to participate in national and international systems of digital repositories, as well as "discovery" networks like the Digital Public Library of America. These systems are responsible for long-term access to the world's social, cultural, and intellectual heritage in digital form.

The Henry Luce Foundation has awarded the RISD Museum a grant of $310,000 to support the planning and implementation of the Museum's 2019 exhibition Gorham Silver: Designing Brilliance 1850-1970, along with its corresponding programming, the exhibition publication, and the appointment of the Henry Luce Foundation Curatorial Fellow, to assist the Decorative Arts and Design Department in these efforts. Furthermore, the Getty Foundation's Paper Project initiative has awarded the RISD Museum $100,000 to support an exhibition and accompanying catalogue of European master drawings slotted to open in Fall 2021.

The RISD Museum is pleased to announce a generous anonymous $500,000 gift has concluded the $4.5 million fundraising efforts to support extensive renovations to the Museum's original historic building, one of five buildings that make up the current site of the RISD Museum. Additional significant funders to the project include Rhode Island State Council on the Arts' (RISCA) State Cultural Facilities Grant program, The Champlin Foundation, the estate of David Rockefeller, Ida Ballou Littlefield Memorial Trust, and members of the RISD Museum's Board of Governors and Fine Arts Committee. As the RISD Museum's oldest building, it will be a significant moment in the Museum's history to fully reopen and utilize these original galleries upon completion of this project-expected in late 2019. The building comprised the entirety of the RISD Museum upon its opening in 1896. Originally commissioned by Jesse Metcalf in honor of his wife, Helen Metcalf, the founder of RISD and the RISD Museum, the galleries will now be known as the Helen and Jesse Metcalf Galleries. The renovation also includes the Lucy Truman Aldrich Porcelain Gallery, built in 1910, which serves as a showcase for the Museum's extensive collection of European ceramics.

Vermont

Currently on view from now until August 11, 2019, 50/50: Collecting for the Middlebury College Museum of Art celebrates the growth of the permanent collection. This exhibit features fifty works-one from each year back to 1968-which chronicle the growth and evolution of the collection. These works range from the 17th century painting of Saint Sebastian by Bartolomeo Bassante, purchased in 1968, to a nineteenth-century Kongo Power Figure, acquired last year, and on view for the first time in this exhibit. Other works in the exhibit include one of the first photographs of the moon, created in 1851 by Boston photographer John Adams Whipple; a Faberge frame from 1910, given to Middlebury by descendants of Czar Nicholas II; Edward Hopper's 1938 watercolor Vermont Sugar House; and Kara Walker's portfolio Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), 2005. The exhibit is also timed to coincide with the publication of the first Handbook of the Collection, which will be available in June 2019.

New England

Congratulations to the following New England museums who received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts:

Providence Children's Museum, RI - $30,000
Art Works-Design: To support the Creativity Initiative, a new program that engages local designers and artists to create immersive, hands-on design exhibits and educational programming for youth.
Fitchburg Art Museum, MA - $25,000
Art Works-Museums: To support the exhibition Fire and Light: Otto Piene's Groton 1983-2014 and an accompanying catalogue.
deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum, MA - $35,000
Art Works-Museums: To support the exhibition and catalogue, Visionary New England.
New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center, MA - $20,000
Art Works-Folk & Traditional Arts: To support a year-long series of presentations, exhibits, and artist residencies celebrating the expressive culture of New Bedford's maritime community.