NEH on the Road

06/25/2021

These images from the opening event for the exhibition Away from Home: American Indian Boarding School Stories are great. Thank you to the Seneca people for taking part in welcoming this exhibition. It is now on view at the Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science & Art in Scranton, PA.

06/23/2021

Jacob Riis is featured in the recent issue of Smithsonian Magazine. The article talks about his work, including on what's believed to be the first U.S. case in which a journalist, none other than Jacob Riis, helped free an imprisoned man.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/sensational-murder-case-wrongful-conviction-jacob-riis-180977955/

Our exhibition Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives is on view now at National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library.

The role of famed social reformer Jacob Riis in overturning the verdict prefigured today's calls for restorative justice

06/21/2021

Our exhibition Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lived is on view now at the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

https://ncsml.org

At the turn of the twentieth century, New York City was the epicenter of America’s thriving economy but spawned the worst slums on earth. Danish-born Jacob A. Riis emigrated to America at the age of twenty, and after four years of living in poverty, he started a successful career as a newspaper journalist for the New York Tribune and the Evening Star. Riis worked at night as a police reporter, often seeing the less polished side of New York City, the new home to many immigrants from throughout Europe.

With the development of flash powder, he was able to illuminate nighttime images of those living and working in alleyways, tenements, and sweat shops, among other squalid places in the city. His interests in writing about “how the other half lived” grew, and over his lifetime Riis wrote many books about the urban poor that included his photographs.

Read more at https://bit.ly/3q4Wo1u and see
"Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives" at NCSML until August 11, 2021.

06/19/2021

Now on view at the Muzeo in Anaheim, California—For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights. The exhibition examines the role that visual culture played in shaping and transforming the struggle for racial equality in America from the late 1940s to the mid-1970s.

Examining the role visual culture played in shaping and transforming the struggle for racial equality in America from the late 1940s to the mid-1970s.

06/16/2021

Dive deeper into this opportunity from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Mellon continues to distribute additional funds to help shore up struggling arts and cultural organizations and higher learning institutions.

06/14/2021

This Wednesday, the Muzeo in Anaheim reopens with our exhibition For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights.

https://muzeo.org/current-exhibitions/

06/11/2021

Thank you to National Endowment for the Humanities and National Endowment for the Arts.

We are a lifeline for museums, archives, theaters, symphonies, historic sites, libraries, colleges, universities, music festivals and dance companies.

06/08/2021

Since 2004 NEH on the Road exhibitions have traveled to 252 distinct communities, large and small, and reached more than 2.4 million visitors at 275 venues across the country.

Wow! That's taking the humanities across the country!

06/06/2021

New resource shared by the National Endowment for the Humanities.