Recent Grants
The Georgia Humanities Council has recently awarded the following grants.
2012 | 2011
Grants Awarded in 2012
Atlanta
2012 Atlanta Jewish Film Festival
American Jewish Committee
$2,000
Georgia Legislative Black Caucus: Remembering our Legends and Honoring our Torchbearers
Azalea City Chapter/The Links
$2,000
Black Women Film Festival: Julie Dash Lecture
Black Women Film Network
$2,000
W.E.B. Dubois Major Works: Clark Atlanta University Open Seminar Series
Clark Atlanta University
$2,000
Living History Program: Through the Eyes of a Friend
Georgia Commission on the Holocaust
$1,705
Southern Writers Onstage
Georgia State University Research Foundation
$1,957
Dr. U. B. Phillips: A LaGrange Native Shapes America’s Understanding of Slavery
Historic Chattahoochee Commission
$1,750
Faith, Freedom, and Foreign Policy
Martin Luther King, Jr. International Chapel at Morehouse College
$2,000
Rabbit Tales: Ethics and the Arts Seminar on the Adaptation of Br’er Rabbit Stories
The Atlanta Opera
$1,275
Grits, Greens, and Griots
Truly Living Well Center for National Urban Agriculture
$2,000
Augusta
Saving the Voices from Augusta’s Past
Augusta State University
$2,000
Sic Semper Tyrannis
Augusta State University
$1,974
Remembering the Past, Participating in the Present, and Ensuring the Future of the Laney-Walker Boulevard Corridor
Eta Theta Zeta Foundation/Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Paine College
$2,000
Athens
Finding our Common Values - Past, Present and Future - through Film and Discussion
Athens Jewish Film Festival
$2,000
Brunswick
The American Civil War: Still Relevant, Still Decisive
Gould Memorial Library/College of Coastal Georgia
$2,000
Cave Spring
Fairview Heritage Play: A Place of Pride and Dignity
Fairview/E. S. Brown Heritage Corporation
$1,900
Columbus
February House: A Celebration of Carson McCuller’s 95th Birthday
Columbus State University
$1,763
Dalton
2012 Civil War in the Western Theater Colloquium “Georgians go to War: 1862”
The Bandy Heritage Center for NW Georgia/Dalton State College
$2,000
Darien
Glynn County Coastal Community College of Georgia Ethnic Festival
McIntosh County Shouters
$2,000
Kennesaw
Center for Accountable Leaders
Kennesaw State University
$2,000
Lithonia
Redressing the Stone: the Lithonia Story
DeKalb Lawyers Association Community and Education Fund
$2,000
Macon
Asking About “Ask Your Mama”
Friends of the Douglass Theatre Complex
$2,000
Madison
A Conversation with Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Madison
Madison Morgan Cultural Center
$2,000
Savannah
2012 Preservation Lecture Series
Historic Savannah Foundation
$2,000
23rd Annual Savannah Black Heritage Festival
Savannah State University
$2,000
Toccoa
Oral Histories: Tugaloo Corridor
Tugaloo Corridor/ Stephens County Foundation
$1,500
Thomaston
Lost Language and Stories of Glenwood Cemetery
Upson Historical Society
$1,681
Tifton
Bring Shakespeare to Tifton
Tifton-Tift County Public Library
$2,000
Waleska
Etowah Valley Iron: Making and the Coming of the Civil War
Reinhardt University
$2,000
Valdosta
Azalea International Folk Fair: Georgia’s Official International Festival
Valdosta Asian Cultural Association
$2,000
Dimensions of Personal Politics in the Deep South: Georgia Women Review Their Lives
Valdosta State University/Department of History
$2,000
Zebulon
Lightning Strikes Twice: Legal and Illegal Whiskey Production in the South
Pike Historic Preservation, Inc.
$1,800
