GRANTS
By Thomas Bryant, Grants Director
Albert Murray in Mobile (100th centenary of his birth); Johnson Jones Hooper in Valley; Helen Keller in Florence/ Tuscumbia; and Sonia Sanchez in Birmingham and Huntsville. Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham Big Read: Collected Works The Power of Place: The Mobileof Emily Dickenson Tensaw Delta as Literary Inspiration at Historic Blakely Park. From Birmingham-area initiative left: Blakely Assistant Director Mike promoting innovative Bunn and Authors Sue Brannon community programming Walker and Watt Key. designed around a single book. Offered Humanities grants including performance, in conjunction with discussion with the awarded across students and families, and the National Big Read, organized by the National teacher workshops. Alabama Endowment for the Arts. In the September 2015 grant round, AHF received $108,188 in major grant requests and awarded $50,253. AHF received $13,631 in mini grant requests and awarded $9,131. All total, in 2015 AHF awarded over $150,376 to deserving humanities projects throughout the state.
Major Grant Awards Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Montgomery Comedy of Errors School Tour Tour of Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors to Birmingham-area schools, 8
Alabama Holocaust Education Center, Birmingham Teaching the Complexities of the Holocaust Series of one-day, scholarled workshops for middle and high school teachers in Huntsville, Birmingham, Troy, and Livingston. Alabama Writers’ Hall of Fame, Montgomery Alabama Writers’ Hall of Fame Speaker Series Series of four scholarled discussion programs highlighting AWHOF inductees in four cities:
Friends of the Alabama Archives, Montgomery Food for Thought 2016 Monthly brownbag lecture series at the Alabama Department of Archives and History. Scholars will present on a broad range of Alabama-related topics. Alabama Contemporary Art Center, Mobile On the Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama Scholar-led public discussion of the history and legacy of the Civil Rights Movement
Mosaic • Spring 2016 • alabamahumanities.org