A paid non -bredged internship to train the next generation of museum professionals. A program to inform professionals in collections about climate feud. Archaeological research on two former Indian boarding school sites.
These are just a few of the projects that have received subsidies from the National Donation for Humanities (NEH) in JanuaryBefore the Trump administration, the Ministry of Government Efficiency (Doge) of Elon Musk enabled to bring an ax to the cultural financing agency. Now the fate of these initiatives is in the balance, while the NEH subsidy sends termination messages to organizations, including libraries, museums and archives in the United States.
The museum of the city of New York in Manhattan received a NEH subsidy of $ 100,000 yesterday, April 2, The face of democracy change: Shirley Chishholm at 100 Exhibition and related programs – including a school curriculum about the first black woman chosen in the congress, developed in collaboration with the show.
“The immediate termination of your subsidy is necessary to protect the interests of the federal government, including its tax priorities” Hyperallergic.
It is unclear at this stage how many organizations have received the notifications, but a senior NEH officer told NPR Today millions of dollars were canceled in previously award -winning subsidies for the period 2021-2025. The official, who is not mentioned by NPR Because he is not authorized to speak publicly about internal matters, it is quoted that “no upcoming prices” will be made in the tax year of 2025.
The West End Museum In Boston, yesterday was informed of the termination of the NEH subsidy of $ 25,000, announced in January, to pursue LGBTQ+ presence and activism in the historic neighborhood. The origin of the museum date from the relocation of residents from the ethnically diverse West End through the so -called “urban renewal” programs of the 1950s.
“Our organization was founded by people whose houses were seized and destroyed with the help of federal financing,” said executive director Sebastian A. Belfanti told Hyperallergic. “That meant that winning federal support was mainly useful for the first time last year, and losing it has meaning that goes beyond its economic effects.”
The news of cutting subsidies – and of possible NEH staff reductions from 70 to 80 percent, as reported by the New York Times Yesterday – arrives less than a month after the forced resignation of former NEH chairman Shelly C. Lowe. The first Indian and second woman to lead the agency was asked to take off “in the direction of President Trump,” a NEH spokesperson confirmed at the time. The NEH has not yet responded HyperallergicThe most recent request for comment.
The NEH has awarded more than $ 6 billion in financing since it was founded in 1965, together with his sister agency, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). In the aftermath of Trump’s anti-transmates and action against diversity, shares and inclusion initiatives for organizations that received federal financing, the latter was examined for updating the subsidy guidelines to meet the president’s orders. The NEA dropped the new subsidy requirement after the American Civil Liberties Union has sued the agency in a federal court of Rhode Island.
