Professor Harmanşah secures new NEH Grant Climate Smart Humanities Organizations
The grant will support environmental justice programs and facilities planning for Gallery 400 and Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
Professor Ömür Harmanşah (Director of the School of Art & Art History and Associate Professor in Art History) secured a $180K grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, announced in UIC Today and the College of Architecture, Design and the Arts website. This new grant is called Climate Smart Humanities Organizations offered for the first time.
The grant will support environmental justice initiatives and programs in the School and also support Gallery 400 and the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum to be made environmentally resilient with zero emissions in their facilities. The two-year facilities planning grant, Climate Smart Humanities Organizations, also is supporting a group exhibition at Galley 400, “Earthly Visions: Inside the Climate Crisis,” which runs through Dec. 16th, 2023. The grant is part of a larger NEH initiative focusing on sustainable climate initiatives.
Ömür Harmanşah is the principal investigator on the grant. UIC is one of only six institutions to receive the award, which was issued for the first time in August.