Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Spring 2009 - (Page 4) LEH receives grants The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities is pleased to announce that it has received three important grants in support of its statewide humanities programming: • The Helis Foundation has presented the LEH a generous grant for $84,000 to purchase six artworks by the late John Scott, adding to the LEH’s growing collection. Thanks to this grant, the LEH now has 23 John Scott works in its collection on view at the Louisiana Humanities Center at Turners’ Hall. Last year, the Helis Foundation assisted the LEH in acquiring four Scott art works. • The Zemurray Foundation has contributed an extraordinary gift of $50,000 toward the LEH capital campaign. In addition, the Zemurray Foundation has renewed its support for the LEH with a $25,000 grant for the continuation of PRIME TIME bilingual family reading programs. • Capital One Bank has awarded the LEH a $10,000 grant in support of the LEH’s annual awards program that recognizes individuals and organizations that have made outstanding contributions to the humanities in Louisiana. The 2009 Humanist of the Year Awards Ceremony will take place March 21 at Houmas House in Darrow, La. Our grants support both popular and classical humanities. Since 1971, the LEH has invested more than $50 million in cultural programming throughout the state. I More than 4,120 elementary, middle and high school teachers from across Louisiana have attended LEH Teacher Institutes for Advanced Study, bringing back to their collective classrooms of 500,000 students new perspectives on humanities subjects ranging from the Harlem Renaissance to Chinese culture and history. I Louisiana history, Southern folktales, Southeastern Native American culture, and literature of the American West are four of the subjects currently covered in the LEH-funded reading program for adults: Readings in Literature and Culture. RELIC has enrolled 92,000 readers in 62 of Louisiana’s 64 parishes. I Louisiana Cultural Vistas quarterly magazine brings LEH grant projects to the printed page for 50,000 Louisianians. I PRIME TIME Family Reading Time, a unique LEH literacy program, brings at-risk families together with storytellers and scholars to improve literacy skills and to share new worlds through reading. Call 1 (800) 909-7990 or go to www.leh.org top: St. Charles Avenue streetcar; left: Mardi Gras Indian; below: Haynesville, La., circa 1900; right: the Louisiana State Capitol. Zydeco, 1988, painted steel/aluminum, 35.5”x17”, is among the art works by John Scott on view at the Louisiana Humanities Center at Turners’ Hall in New Orleans. 4 By logging on to www.leh.org, readers can now find Louisiana Cultural Vistas available on-line in its entirety in digital format, with each page of the print version vividly captured and easily accessible. The staff at Louisiana Cultural Vistas welcomes feedback from our Web readers. http://www.leh.org/ http://www.leh.org http://www.leh.org http://www.leh.org http://www.leh.org
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