2016 Grants Awarded
We had an excellent slate of submissions this year for grants, and we appreciate all of you who took the time out to apply and the committee members who were charged with the difficult task of choosing the winners.
Institutional Grant Winners:
Geary County Historical Society – Exhibit Soundscape Project
GCHS will use the grant to purchase portable speakers and accessories to play historic soundscapes. These soundscapes – such as horses’ hooves, automobiles, trains and conversation in a Main Street exhibit – will enhance permanent and temporary exhibits and allow for use in educational programming and special events as well. (Award not pictured.)
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Annette LeZotte, Kauffman Museum
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Kauffman Museum – Kids Make Memories
A special exhibit, Memory Matters: Works by Gesine Janzen, provides the backdrop for the Kauffman Museum’s grant program entitled “Kids Make Memories.” It will provide an opportunity for a hands-on activity that will encourage children to use materials and a template to develop their own memory installation. There will be questions to prompt dialog between the children and their caregivers and the final products will be able to be posted in a virtual gallery online.
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Mary Ann Sachse Brown, Leavenworth County Historical Society
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Leavenworth County Historical Society – Archival Preservation of the Phillips Negative Collection
Archival envelopes and boxes will be purchased by LCHS to house nearly 2,000 glass plate negatives recently acquired by the museum from the original Everhard Glass Plate Negative Collection. The Everhard collection contained negatives from four early Leavenworth photographers and showcased the first century of Kansas’ first city, and these represent some of the oldest and finest work in the collection, which will join the 28,000 other glass plate negatives already in the museum’s holdings.
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Margaret Parker, Rock Creek Valley Historical Society
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Rock Creek Valley Historical Society – Textile Preservation Project
RCVHS will use the grant to rehouse their textile collection in archival boxes with proper identification tags and purchase hangers and stockinette tubing to use in exhibitions. The museum’s textile collection spans from the late 1800s through the 1950s, and includes quilts, hats, adult and children’s clothing, military uniforms, doilies, wedding dresses, etc., as well as crocheted, tatted and embroidered pieces.
