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.
NewsLegendary Ingramettes new album Take a Look in the Book is a “celestial outpouring of gospel goodness”
The new album from The Legendary Ingramettes is called Take a Look in the Book and it is getting stellar reviews: NPR’s Sunday Edition: The Power of Gospel during Crisis …
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NewsResources for Artists Affected by Covid 19
Helpful Links for artists and musicians who have lost income because of the Covid 19 pandemic.
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NewsVirginia Black Public History Summer Institute
Due to COVID-19 restrictions, this program has been postponed until 2021. Please send questions to: SummerInstitute@Virginia.edu Announcement The Virginia Black Public History Summer Institute (Summer Institute) is an intensive twelve-week …
News2020 Festival of the Book Canceled
It is with heavy hearts that we write to let you know that we have made the difficult decision to cancel the 2020 Virginia Festival of the Book.
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 …
NewsVirginia Humanities Announces Twenty-Seven New Grants
Virginia Humanities announces $185,650 in recent grants to twenty-seven nonprofit organizations in support of public humanities programs serving communities across the Commonwealth. Since 1974, the Virginia Humanities Grants Program has …
NewsVirginia Festival of the Book Announces 2020 Schedule
More than 120 Free Programs in March, for All Ages and Reading Interests January 15, 2020—Charlottesville, Va.—The Virginia Festival of the Book—a program of Virginia Humanities, celebrating its 26th year …
NewsBackStory, the American History Podcast, ends Production in 2020
Charlottesville, VA— After more than three hundred episodes that have reached millions of listeners over the last twelve years, BackStory, the American history podcast produced by Virginia Humanities, will record its final episode …
NewsJobs at Virginia Humanities
Virginia Humanities seeks a part-time Receptionist, an Associate Producer for With Good Reason, a Corporate and Foundation Relations Manager, and an editor for our Encyclopedia Virginia.
NewsVA Festival of the Book Announces 2020 Line-up and Headliners
Featuring Hundreds of Acclaimed Speakers, Including NAACP Image Award Winners, Newbery Medalists, National Book Award Recipients, Internationally-Renowned Scholars, and Many More November 14, 2019—Charlottesville, Va.—A program of Virginia Humanities, the …
NewsAnnouncing the Rosel Schewel Fund
Update 8/27/2020: Because we can no longer meet in person in large groups, the Women and Democracy event planned for October 2020 will now be virtual. To commemorate the passage …
NewsIn Gratitude: Roddy Moore
The Virginia Folklife Program at Virginia Humanities would like to express our deep gratitude to Roddy Moore, recently retired director of the Blue Ridge Institute and Museum at Ferrum College …
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NewsAnnouncing the Inaugural Betsy S. Barton Teacher of the Year
Virginia Humanities’ Encyclopedia Virginia announces the inaugural presentation of the Betsy S. Barton Teacher of the Year Award at the 53rd Annual Virginia Conference for Social Studies Educators in Williamsburg, …
