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LEH receives Getty grant to help museums recover from hurricanes The Getty Foundation of Los Angeles has awarded the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (LEH) and Louisiana Association of Museums (LAM) a two-year $80,000 “Roadmap to Recovery” grant to help provide services and programs for Louisiana museums struggling to recover from hurricanes Katrina and Rita. In the months immediately following these devastating storms of 2005, it became clear that museums located in urban neighborhoods and at rural crossroads throughout South Louisiana suffered such devastating losses — physical, financial, personnel and constituency — that it was difficult if not impossible to gauge them. In response, the LEH and LAM commissioned in 2006 an indepth survey of museums affected by the storms to determine their immediate needs and how they could best be served to reduce the likelihood of such catastrophic damage in the future. The $80,000 grant from The Getty Foundation and the $480,000 in matching funds and services from the LEH and LAM will be used over two years to provide professional development workshops for museum staff, especially in areas of emergency preparedness and security, preservation and conservation of museum collections, and museum staff care and development. To provide follow-up training and information, LAM will develop a “mentor web chat program” to give workshop participants continued on-line access to museum professionals who will serve as ongoing mentors. Getty Foundation support was provided through the Getty’s Fund for New Orleans, established to help revitalize cultural organizations in the New Orleans region following Hurricane Katrina. To date, the Foundation has awarded 14 grants totaling more than $2 million to support conservation surveys and transition planning for arts organizations in the region. The Foundation is part of the J. Paul Getty Trust, an international cultural and philanthropic institution devoted to the visual arts. Louisiana museums and museum staff interested in participating in these Getty-sponsored programs should contact LAM director Genny Nadler Thomas in Baton Rouge at (225) 383-6800 or email: genny@louisianamuseums.org, or LEH grants director Walker Lasiter in New Orleans at (504) 620-2631 or lasiter@leh.org At the Our grants support both popular and classical humanities. Since 1971, the LEH has invested more than $43.5 million in cultural programming throughout the state. More than 3,900 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. 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 87,000 readers in 62 parishes. Louisiana Cultural Vistas quarterly magazine brings LEH grant projects to the printed page for 50,000 Louisianians. 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. photos, from top: painting by Clementine Hunter, courtesy of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art; antique locket depicting Gov. William C.C. Claiborne, courtesy of Louisiana State Museum; Desire Streetcar, courtesy of The Historic New Orleans Collection; Mardi Gras Indian by Syndey Byrd. View Louisiana Cultural Vistas online at www.leh.org 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 on-line readers. 4 LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES\Summer 2008 http://www.leh.org http://www.leh.org http://www.leh.org

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Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 Contents Friends Editor’s Column Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities George Rodrigue’s Louisiana: Cajuns, Blue Dogs & Beyond Katrina The Historic New Orleans Collection After The Flood Faubourg Marigny: The Creole “Suburb” Preserving New Orleans Jazz, One Generation at a Time: Conversation & Music with Tom Sancton Louisiana Foodways Louisiana Architecture Baton Rouge Photographs, 1863-1910 Jazz Notes The Ogden Museum of Southern Art Louisiana Association of Museums Nature of the “Beast” Louisiana State Museum Bookstand Sound Advice Forum

Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008

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