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2026 Research and Creative Activity Report

Section 06 of 14

Arts and Humanities Awards $5,000 to $49,999

14 investigators · July 1, 2025 – June 30, 2026

Active awards, July 1, 2025 – June 30, 2026 · * indicates new in 2025–2026

Active awards, July 1, 2025–June 30, 2026
* Indicates new in 2025–2026

C

Campbell-Levy, Leslie

International Quilt Museum

Nebraska Arts Council International Quilt Museum Basic Support Grant

$23,304Nebraska Arts Council07/01/2026 - 06/30/2027

D

Dotan, Beth

College of Arts and Sciences

2025 NE Stories Enhancements and Educational Expansions

$6,600Humanities Nebraska04/14/2025 - 05/31/2026

Sharing Primary Sources in the Nebraska Stories of Humanities Collection

$25,000Illinois State University06/01/2025 - 05/31/2026

Ducey, Mary Ellen

University Libraries

Mari Sandoz Digital Archive Planning

$34,200Mari Sandoz Heritage Society10/01/2023 - 12/31/2028

E

Engen-Wedin, Nancy

Lied Center for Performing Arts

*REZA's Edge of Illusion

$5,000Mid-America Arts Alliance10/01/2025 - 04/18/2026

J

Jacobs, Margaret

Center for Great Plains Studies

The Land Returns: A Reconciliation Rising Film

$35,000The Cotyledon Fund05/30/2023 - 06/30/2026

The Land Returns Film

$7,000Humanities Nebraska09/22/2023 - 06/30/2026

*Great Plains Futures: 50th-Anniversary Conference of the Center for Great Plains Studies

$6,905Humanities Nebraska09/24/2025 - 04/30/2026

K

Kim, Jinku

Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts

*Dream Warriors: An Indigenous Hip-Hop Story through Art and Media

$5,629Nebraska Arts Council07/01/2025 - 06/30/2027

S

Seger-Franklin, Casey J.

Center for Great Plains Studies

Improved Housing and Digitization of the Dwight and John Kirsch Collection at the Great Plains Art Museum

$25,000Institute of Museum and Library Services09/01/2024 - 08/31/2026

Stroud, Natalie

Lied Center for Performing Arts

*Jazz in June 2026

$5,000Lincoln Community Foundation05/01/2026 - 04/30/2027

W

Weller, Susan

University of Nebraska State Museum

*BISON: Extending Impact

$8,500Humanities Nebraska09/24/2025 - 07/15/2026

Museum After School

$5,000Smithsonian Institution11/08/2024 - 11/07/2025

Williams, Sandra

Art, Art History and Design

*Amber Arts: Art and Transformative Action

$5,212Nebraska Arts Council07/01/2025 - 06/30/2027