Georgia Humanities Awards $78,191 in Community Grants
Georgia Humanities awarded $78,191 in grants to 12 educational and cultural organizations through its Spring 2026 grant cycle, selected from 39 applications requesting more than $250,000 in funding.
Grant recipients are located in 12 communities and congressional districts, producing free public programming for Georgians statewide.
Several funded projects are part of Georgia Humanities’ America250 initiative, which supports public humanities programming that explores the ideals and legacies of the American Revolution—its aspirations and contradictions, its struggles and consequences, and the questions it continues to raise as the nation marks its 250th anniversary.
The full list of Spring 2026 grant recipients is below.
Georgia Humanities grants are funded through the Georgia Department of Economic Development and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Company 1433 Project
Okefenokee Swamp Park | Waycross (District 1) | $7,500
This project brings to life the story of Civilian Conservation Corps Company 1433 through community conversations, interpretive talks, and a community archiving day. Free and accessible statewide, it opens dialogue on race, labor, and conservation.
Making a Home, Building a Nation
University of West Georgia | Carrollton (District 3) | $7,500
A June event celebrating the coinciding anniversaries of America and Carroll County brings people together through historic materials, community scanning stations, genealogical and property research, and commemorative activities.
Doraville Art & Cultural Festival
Doraville Art Inc. | Doraville (District 4) | $7,500
The Doraville Art and Cultural Festival celebrates the American story through the lens of one of Georgia’s most diverse cities. Performances, art, and craft traditions drawn from Doraville’s many cultures raise the question of what belonging, citizenship, and community mean in America today.
How Hip Hop Made Atlanta
Museum of Design Atlanta | Atlanta (District 5) | $7,500
Led by Dr. Regina N. Bradley, this three-part public humanities series examines how hip-hop shaped Atlanta’s civic identity and national influence. History, lyrical analysis, and dialogue trace how local culture reshaped American narratives.
America: Through the Lens
SignifyTV | [City] (District 6) | $7,500
This educational workshop for students highlights how Georgia and American history have been told through cinematography for 250 years, offering hands-on experience and showing how cinematic storytelling gives voice to underrepresented communities.
Talking Tech Series
Mimms Museum of Technology and Art | Roswell (District 7) | $7,500
The Mimms Museum of Technology and Art presents Talking Tech, a lecture and discussion series exploring how technological innovation has shaped American identity, civic values, and culture through a Georgia-centered lens.
Strategies of Resistance
Georgia College & State University | Milledgeville (District 8) | $7,000
Led by Dr. Tiya Miles, this project explores the lives of Georgia’s enslaved and freed African Americans, highlighting their resilience, resistance, and pursuit of freedom through an emphasis on hope, agency, and the power of voice and self-determination.
Sweet Sorghum In the Mountains
Chestatee-Chattahoochee Resource Conservation and Development Council (RC&D) | Demorest (District 9) | $7,500
A video, Sweet Sorghum in the Mountains, along with a photography exhibit and reception, showcases the cultural significance of sorghum to North Georgia. Free workshops in White and Union counties engage students and the public, with multiple agencies and four counties involved.
Life in the 1880s
Historic Athens Welcome Center | Athens (District 10) | $7,500
This expansion of an ongoing living history program about life in the early 1800s adds Muscogee (Creek) and Cherokee cultures, along with the traditions, lived experiences, and cultures of the enslaved, through engaging hands-on activities.
Unsettled Liberty: Cherokees, Revolution, and Survival
Funk Heritage Center | Waleska (District 11) | $2,500
This free public program examines Cherokee diplomacy, conflict, survival, and cultural continuity during the American Revolution. Four lectures, discussion, and cultural demonstrations ask what liberty and sovereignty meant on Cherokee ground.
Savannah, Istanbul, & Paris
Georgia Southern University | Statesboro (District 12) | $1,190.50
This exhibition presents selected objects and documents from the Coombs Family Collection, recently donated to the Georgia Southern University Museum, exploring Georgia’s early 20th-century global ties through the experiences of James and Edith Coombs in Ottoman Turkey and Europe (1919–1925).
Redefining “We”
Clayton County Library System | Jonesboro (District 13) | $7,500
Redefining “We” invites communities to examine the evolving meaning of democracy, nationalism, and belonging in the US, creating space for honest, intergenerational conversations about who shapes the American story and who is included in it.
