The NYSCA/GHHN Conservation Treatment Grant Program is made possible with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of The Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation has provided additional dedicated support for projects in NYC, Nassau, and Suffolk counties. 

Support of up to $7,500 is available for conservation treatment of paintings, works on paper (including individual drawings, watercolors, prints, or photographs), textiles (including costumes, domestic textiles, and upholstery), furniture, frames, sculpture, historical, ethnographic, and decorative objects.

We believe the objects an organization chooses to conserve tells a story of what is valued. Our funding priorities value objects and stories that tell a more inclusive narrative of New York State. Therefore, CTG will strongly encourage requests for support of objects involving historically marginalized and underrepresented communities.

For more information on the grant program and application process, including informational videos, please click on the button below. Have a question about your object or the grant process? Sign up for our office hours - we'd be delighted to speak with you! Click on the calendar to find a day/time that works for you.

The Greenway recently made several updates to its Conservancy Trail Grants Program, including a new category of Disaster Recovery and Reconstruction. This category will allow applications for repairs to complete destruction of trail sections due to natural disaster, flooding events, or more severe cases of man-made causes.

The National Heritage Area Heritage Development Grant Program also increased the maximum award amount to $7,500 and staff time is now eligible to be reimbursed, but only if that staff time is for the direct development of programming or interpretation, as identified in the grant application. Applications will be accepted particularly focused on creating virtual tours and programming. 

The Greenway and National Heritage Area hopes these new grant guidelines will allow more opportunities for helping communities and organizations throughout the Hudson Valley to achieve their goals.

The 2022 grant application deadlines  are September 2 and November 4.

Application Deadline is June 15!

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Questions? Contact 

Kristin Herron, Arts Program Director, NYSCA: 212.459.8825 or kristin.herron@arts.ny.gov

Resilience strategies require rethinking long-held approaches to establish more flexible, inclusive, and responsive frameworks that better align with external realities.

Five New York State museums will get the chance to work through the steps of the Playbook with guidance from three resilience leaders: Anne W. Ackerson, Gail Anderson and Dina A. Bailey.

The 2022 Cohort will start August 17, 2022, and meet once a month, for nine months, via Zoom. 

Each museum will commit two staff members to work with the Resilience Team to explore strategies and guiding principles of five primary goals relating to diversity, equity and inclusion; community value and impactful role; retooling financial strategies and building agile leadership.

We are pleased to welcome Betsy Bradley (Historic Hudson Valley), Ran Yan (Lewis Latimer House Museum), and David Osborn (St. Paul's Church National Historic Site) to the GHHN Board! 

Innovative, accessible, and inclusive history research and education have never been more relevant than in our current moment. History has a critical role to play in leadership, decision-making, policy, civics education, justice work, and community life. Yet, historians and educators face an increasingly challenging landscape in which politicians and pundits seek to limit open discourse and critical interrogation of many aspects of the past. The conference theme— “History Fights Back”—tackles this situation head on, creating spaces for lively discussion and dialogue on the ways in which historians and educators of all backgrounds can make their voices heard and stand up for well-researched and inclusive historical narratives. 

The New York State History and Education Conference has five guiding objectives:  

• Encourage collaboration across the history community (and beyond) 
• Connect K-12 educators and history professionals and provide resources for teaching the complex history of New York State, the nation, and the world 
• Imagine a more diverse and inclusive history of New York State 
• Deliberately amplify Indigenous voices 
• Challenge traditional conference structures to be livelier and more welcoming

We welcome proposals from all history practitioners and educators that address the diverse history of New York State. We especially welcome proposals that feature Indigenous histories and voices. 

We are particularly interested in proposals that connect K-12 educators with historians working in a variety of settings, such as museums, historic sites, and colleges and universities. Proposals that highlight primary resources and digital projects are encouraged. 

Proposals are due by July 15, 2022.

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Nominations are due Friday, June 17, 4:00 p.m. EST

More info and a submission link at: preservenys.org/excellence-awards

Initiatives relating to social justice, civil rights, sustainability, and affordable housing are especially encouraged.

Image: 2021 Award winner, the restored Carroll Street building in Elmira illuminated at night. Photo by Molly Cagwin

The Preservation League of New York State's annual Excellence Awards program allows us to shine a light on the people who are using historic preservation to make all of our lives better — through exemplary restoration projects, indispensable publications, individual action, and organizational distinction.

Recipients of the Excellence Award represent the very best of what the League stands for and supports in historic preservation. They exemplify best practices in the field and demonstrate how preservation is integral to building stronger neighborhoods, boosting local economies, tackling the affordable housing crisis, mitigating climate change, opening our eyes to overlooked history, and saving the places that are special to all of us. Our shared cultural heritage grounds us and unites us. The Excellence Awards celebrate those who work so hard to protect that shared heritage.