American Women’s History Initiative awards pool funds for 2025
The Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum has announced the recipients of the 2025 American Women’s History Initiative Pool (AWHIP) fund awards. Each of these outstanding projects support Our Shared Future 250 and further the Smithsonian’s mission to research, share, and amplify the histories of American women and demonstrate the inclusion of women’s stories as fundamental to the American story.
Image credit: SAAM Installation photographs, 2023, by Albert Ting, Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Please join us in congratulating the following recipients:
National Museum of the American Indian
Native Knowledge 360°: American Revolution
Resources: Developing two Native Knowledge 360° web-based learning resources and the printing and production of a classroom poster centered around Native communities and Native women from the American Revolution for middle school classrooms.
National Portrait Gallery
National Portrait Gallery x Teen Museum Council: Developing Programming for the Teen Audience
Supporting the Teen Museum Council as they engage in the work of curating and developing digital exhibitions and programming that will feature the contributions of women to the frontier and an examination of the shifting role of teenagers as the concept of adolescence evolves in American culture.
National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute
Picture a Conservation Biologist: An Interactive Journey through the Colorful History of Women in Conservation Biology Science
Restoring the lost history of women in early Conservation Biology with tailored outputs for specific audiences including a scholarly article, educational videos, and a new installation.
Office of Communications and External Affairs
Sidedoor Podcast: Episodes featuring CHSDM + NPM
Researching, developing, and producing two 30-minute Sidedoor podcast episodes bringing awareness to the stories of Susan Kare, a legendary designer known for her work at Apple, and the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, which was the only all-Black, all-female unit of the U.S. Army during World War II.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Mediated Memoriam: Women Artists Memorializing through Media Art
Curating and presenting an exhibition debuting three newly acquired works by three groundbreaking women artists (Beryl Korot, Barbara Hammer, and Coco Fusco) who use moving images to explore memory, loss, and history in deeply personal and political ways.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Grandma Moses: A Good Day’s Work
Supporting the exhibition and catalogue examining Grandma Moses’ underrecognized use of creativity, hope, and unity to shape a good life and better future through the unparalleled collection of 89 artworks and related ephemera.
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
Adelia Sarah Gates, ‘Flower Painter at Fifty’ 150 years ago versus today
Recovering the life and times of botanical artist Adelia Sarah Gates through oral history interviews that will be preserved, transcribed, and made available online.
Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Services
We Are the Story
Supporting the national traveling exhibition We Are the Story, which features the textile artistry of 30 artists, 28 of whom are women of color, and looks at the complexity of the human experience—its power, its struggle, its triumphs—through the prism of the Black journey in America.
Thank you to everyone who submitted proposals. If you have questions or would like to know more about the application process, email sawhm-awhipool@si.edu
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Posted: 30 April 2025
