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The Big Read
An initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) offered in partnership with IMLS and in cooperation with Arts Midwest, The Big Read was designed to restore reading to the center of American culture. The program offered grants to organizations in local communities to engage citizens in the reading of literature by exploring and discussing a single book within their communities. The NEA inaugurated The Big Read as a pilot project in 2006 with ten communities featuring four books. The Big Read continues to expand to include more communities in the U.S., programming in four countries abroad, and over twenty additional book selections. By 2009, approximately 500 communities in the U.S. will have hosted a Big Read since the program's 2007 national launch.
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Picturing America
IMLS partnered with the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the American Library Association for the NEH's Picturing America program. This initiative brings masterpieces of American art into libraries and classrooms nationwide to help teach American history, social studies, history, writing, literature, geography, civics, and other subjects.
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Preserve America
Preserve America is a White House initiative that encourages and supports community efforts to preserve and enjoy our priceless cultural and natural heritage. The goals of the initiative include a greater shared knowledge about the nation’s past, strengthened regional identities and local pride, increased local participation in preserving the country’s cultural and natural heritage assets, and support for the economic vitality of our communities.
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Save America's Treasures
Administered by the National Park Service in collaboration with the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, Save America’s Treasures involves other federal agency partners, including the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The National Trust for Historic Preservation has been the program’s principal private partner since its inception.
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Vogel 50x50
The Vogel 50x50 Web site brings together 2,500 contemporary artworks that were distributed throughout the nation as part of The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States gift. Receiving institutions have published their works on the site, and more are continuously being added. IMLS supported this joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the National Gallery of Art, with the additional support of the National Endowment for the Arts.
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