UA Little Rock awarded $80K NEH grant to develop educational materials on Joe Jonas' iconic mural

(December 4, 2024)

University of Arkansas Little Rock News

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock has received a nearly $80,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to create a curriculum and digital education tools centered around Joe Jones’ 1935 mural, “The Struggle in the South.”

“It is such an honor to know that we have received a competitive grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities,” said Dr. Marta Cieslak, director of UA Little Rock Downtown and principal investigator on the grant. “The project centers on the history encapsulated in Jones’s mural, focusing mostly on Arkansas during the 1920s and 1930s. Too many people in Arkansas don’t know the mural exists, and we’re happy to have this opportunity to make the mural more accessible to the public.”