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About
Special Projects
Special projects
supported by the Minnesota Humanities Center provide opportunities
for Minnesotans to participate in public humanities activities.
The Humanities Center partners with national institutions such as
the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Library of Congress,
the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Smithsonian Institution
to provide these humanities rich public programs to Minnesotans.
Smithsonian
Institution/Museum on Main Street traveling exhibits
NOW ACCEPTING PROPOSALS FOR HOST SITES
The Minnesota Humanities Center will - for the fifth consecutive
year - provide logistical and financial support for communities
across Minnesota to participate in the Smithsonian Institution's
Museum on Main Street program. Beginning in the fall of 2009, the
Minnesota Humanities Center will partner with six communities in
Greater Minnesota to host a new Museum on Main Street exhibit, Between
Fences.
- Read
more about the exhibit
- View the
request for proposals (RFP)
- View a template
for the proposal (.doc
or .pdf)
- Apply
now
- DEADLINE:
June 16, 2008
Cultural
competency programs
Educators who work in urban schools need to understand the impact
living in transition, in poverty, and with stereotypes has on the
cultural and educational lives of many children in their classes.
In late 2007, the Humanities Center will offer two seminars designed
specifically for K-8 educators who teach American Indian and Somali
and East African immigrant and refugee students. Click
to continue reading about cultural competency programs.
Customized
workshops
In
addition to its regular programming, the Humanities Center can develop
customized training to meet the needs of schools and school districts.
Click to continue
reading about this option.
Iron
Range NEH summer institutes
A
recipient of one of 26 We the People 2008 Landmarks of American
History and Culture grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities,
the Minnesota Humanities Center will receive $149,000 to conduct
"Building America: Minnesota's Iron Range, U.S. Industrialization,
and the Creation of a World Power" in Summer 2008. Read
more about this opportunity.
Poet
laureate
As a result of legislation passed in the 2007 session, the Minnesota
Humanities Center was charged with creating a process for naming
a poet laureate for the State of Minnesota.
Robert Bly was named the state's poet laureate in February 2008.
Read
the announcement, or read about the nominating
process.
Authors
in Communities
Authors
in Communities
is a partnership
program with the National Endowment for the Arts designed to increase
access to literary excellence throughout Minnesota through sponsoring
an author tour in selected communities in 2007. Click
to continue reading about Authors in Communities.
Letters
About Literature
Sponsored
locally by the Minnesota Humanities Center and nationally by the
Center for the Book in the Library of Congress in partnership with
Target, the contest asks students to write a letter to an author,
past or present, describing how that author’s work changed
the student’s view of the world or of himself/herself. Read
more.
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