Kauffman Museum has received a grant to help offset financial hardship due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Humanities Kansas announced an award for $9,775 given as part of the SHARP Recovery Grant program.

SHARP Recovery Grants support Kansas cultural organizations that provide humanities programming and are facing financial hardship due to the coronavirus.

Kauffman Museum received a grant from Humanities Kansas to present “Words of a Feather,” Saturday, Sept. 4, starting at 9:30 a.m. at the museum’s front door.

The museum’s usual first-Saturday bird walk will be a special one for September, featuring poetry along with the birds, and two guest presenters.

Florence Schloneger and Pauline Sharp will share family stories related to land ownership, economics, education and identity, Sunday, Jan. 10 at 3 p.m. via Zoom and Facebook Live.

In 2018, Schloneger, North Newton, a retired Mennonite pastor, did something that no landowner in Kansas had apparently done before.

She gave something back to the Kanza people (also known as the Kaw Nation) after generations of broken and renegotiated treaties between them and the U.S. government.

This is the last week to see the special exhibit at Kauffman Museum (through Sunday, Jan. 17).

The museum has partnered with Humanities Kansas to bring the Smithsonian Institution's traveling exhibit to the local area.

Kauffman Museum has built on the photographs, hands-on activities and audio and video clips provided by the Smithsonian in the “Crossroads: Change in Rural America” to tell the history and culture of local rural life and to spark conversations using its own companion exhibit, “Of Land and People: Our Community at the Crossroads of Change.”