(Washington) – Today Congressman John B. Larson announced that the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art has been awarded a $300,000 competitive grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support the museum's traveling exhibition, Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861–2008. The grant will fund exhibition costs, including a fully illustrated scholarly catalogue co-published with Yale University Press, as well as associated educational programming for museum visitors.
"Whether they are helping facilitate the first congressional arts competition or sharing their work across the country, the Wadsworth Atheneum is nationally recognized for their efforts to support the arts," said Congressman Larson. "I am pleased to see the Wadsworth Atheneum receive this funding and congratulate everyone involved in making this competitive grant a reality."
"All of us at the Wadsworth Atheneum are grateful to the NEH for this crucial and most generous support", said Robin Jaffee Frank, Chief Curator and Krieble Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture at the Wadsworth Atheneum, and exhibition curator. "The extraordinary works of art in this exhibition will bring to life the excitement of Coney Island, which occupies not only a strip of sand in Brooklyn, but also a singular place in the American imagination."
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