NewsA Historic House & Art Museum Goes Digital
Learn how the Hermitage Museum & Gardens is adapting to COVID-19 with the help of a Virginia Humanities CARES Act grant.
NewsFrom Farm-Based Learning to the Virtual Landscape
Arcadia Food Inc. is using a CARES Act grant to provide good food, good health, and warm human connections to under resourced communities in northern Virginia.
NewsVirginia Humanities Announces Thirty-Two New Grants
Virginia Humanities announces $235,800 in recent grants to nonprofit organizations in support of public humanities programs for audiences throughout the commonwealth and beyond. The Virginia Humanities Grant Program helps communities …
NewsMeet Elsabé Dixon
As Executive Director of the Danville Museum of Fine Arts & History (DMFAH), Elsabé Dixon is currently overseeing a $10,000 grant from Virginia Humanities supporting production of a new orientation film for the museum.
NewsAnnouncing $599K in CARES Act Grants
Today, Virginia Humanities announced $599,500 in grants to 110 museums, libraries, historical societies, and other cultural nonprofit organizations across the state. The grants, part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and …
NewsPeanut Documentary to Air on Virginia Public Media
A Virginia Humanities funded documentary is scheduled to air on Virginia Public Media PBS stations on April 30 at 9PM. The film, Invisible Thread: The Story of Peanuts in Western Tidewater, …
NewsNow Accepting Applications for CARES Act Emergency Funds
Virginia Humanities is now accepting applications from museums, historic sites, and other humanities-based nonprofit organizations affected by the COVID-19 health crisis to cover emergency operating expenses. Approximately $591,000 will be …
NewsVirginia Humanities to Award CARES Act Funds to Virginia Nonprofits in Need
With more than $500,000 in emergency funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), we will be providing grants to museums, historic sites, and cultural institutions across Virginia affected by the …
NewsHumanities Needs Survey
As part of the federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has received crisis funding to support the work of humanities organizations and scholars. …
NewsOpen Grant Deadline Extended to April 24
Notice to Prospective Grant Applicants: We recognize that the Coronavirus presents significant challenges, both personal and work-related, to all our prospective grant applicants. While much has changed in all our lives as a result of the Coronavirus, we have decided to keep the application deadline and review schedule for the spring 2020 Open Grant cycle the same.
NewsNew Short Film Tells the Story of Virginia’s Maggie Lena Walker
Unladylike is a series of twenty-six multimedia films honoring the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage. Launched in March during Women’s History Month and continuing through August 26 2020, each ten-minute …
EventFrom the Front Porch to the Front Lines
As part of Radford University’s 75th anniversary commemoration of WWII, Wednesday February 26, 2020, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m., Kathleen Ingoldsby and Melinda Wagner will discuss the Floyd Story Center’s oral …
