Wyoming Humanities is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 Wyoming Crossroads Grants, a statewide initiative designed to support public humanities projects that explore Wyoming’s identity, sense of community, connection to the land, persistence, and ability to manage change. This year, ten organizations across Wyoming have been awarded funding to bring creative and impactful programs, exhibitions, and projects to communities statewide.
The Crossroads Grants program is an integral part of Wyoming Humanities’ ongoing efforts to promote the exploration of human experience and shared stories. The grants will fund projects across four categories: Programming, Publications, Preservation, and Digital Media.
2025 Crossroads Grant Award Recipients:
- Wyoming Historical Society – For a live-action Oregon Trail game featuring early Wyoming travelers’ and settler’s real stories. Participants 21 and up will enjoy immersive, hands-on experiences as they learn the real history behind the nostalgic computer game.
- Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation – For screenings of a documentary featuring Apsáalooke and Japanese American youth.
- Jackson Hole Writers – For a statewide Literary Map of Wyoming to serve as a reference for authors, readers, and literature enthusiasts.
- Native Memory Project – For a project to support two documentary shorts celebrating the indigenous stories and experiences related to the buffalo and the sagebrush.
- History Jackson Hole – For hands-on workshops to complement an upcoming traveling Cowboy Trades Association Exhibition.
- Arts & Humanities | Trapper Creek Workshop & Lecture Series – For an exploration of the relationship between agriculture and conservation through a series of lectures and workshops in Shell, Wyoming.
- Relative Theatrics – For humanities-focused discussions hosted by a topic-appropriate scholar following four live theatre performances during the 2025 season of Relative Theatrics.
- Crazy Woman Creek Press – For a mini-tour featuring author and photographer Penny Wollin, who will discuss her book Descendants of Light: American Photographers of Jewish Ancestry.
- TVGals, Inc. – For the documentary GENERATION WARRIOR, which features youth on the Wind River Reservation as they harmonize modernity and cultural tradition.
- Alliance for Historic Wyoming – For a series of events and programs celebrating the historic Lincoln Highway, the first cross-country highway that runs through southern Wyoming.
About Wyoming Humanities:
Wyoming Humanities is a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering the exploration of human experiences and ideas throughout Wyoming. As the state’s affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, it supports the creative and cultural economy by providing grants to nonprofit organizations and developing customized programs tailored to community needs. Founded in 1970, Wyoming Humanities works to promote critical thinking, cultural awareness, civic engagement, and lifelong learning. Through outreach initiatives, the organization strengthens Wyoming’s communities and enhances the quality of life by inviting diverse narratives that honor differences and explore shared values.
For more information about Wyoming Humanities and the Crossroads Grant program, please visit thinkwy.org.
Media Contact:
Chloé Flagg, Director of Grants & Programs
Phone: 307-851-5937
Email: chloe@thinkwy.org
Website: www.thinkwy.org