Humanities Montana gets emergency donation

Humanities Montana gets emergency donation

MISSOULA — Humanities Montana will receive an immediate $200,000 grant to help it stay in operation after the Trump administration in early April cut the National Endowment for the Humanities funds that were its main financial backing to provide arts…

UNL faculty, students respond to sweeping DOGE cuts to humanities grants

On Wednesday April 2, Andrew Jewell, co-director for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, sat in his office and opened an email from the university’s grants office. Attached was a letter from Michael McDonald, the…

Creative Capital: How Tucson’s arts sector is weathering a turbulent era

As federal funding cuts and policy shifts ripple across the U.S., many arts and cultural organizations are bracing for – or already feeling – the fallout…

Humanities Montana gets private emergency donation after DOGE cuts

The state humanities council that brings arts programs to rural Montana will get $200,000, with potential for more, but has still been forced to cut jobs.

Virginia Humanities will move forward despite federal funding cuts, but 'there's going to be a lot of pain'

In 2022, Jordy Yager received a Virginia Humanities Public Fellowship to support his final year of research and writing for “Toward a Lineage of Self,” a permanent exhibition at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center that traces the history of Charlottesville’’s Black neighborhoods. The project includes a digital interactive map to guide people through 120 place-based stories and images that document the families that settled in t…