The art of both Mary Nimmo Moran and the Fowler women was rooted in scientific principles, which elementary school students have had the opportunity to engage with thanks to a Dorothy C. Radgowski Learning Through Women’s Achievement in the Arts grant from the National Trust. Available exclusively to sites in the HAHS network, the grant supports the creation of new STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math) educational programming for K-5 students. The grant was established in 2022 as a partnership between HAHS and the Where Women Made History program, which seeks to elevate women’s stories and increase gender representation in preservation practices.
The East Hampton Historical Society, which operates what is formally known as the Thomas and Mary Nimmo Moran Studio, used the one-time $17,925 grant to design and implement a hands-on, interdisciplinary, place-based program called “Artistic Identities: Using STEAM, History, and Artmaking to Understand Gender, Race, and Class.” Inspired by the restoration of the Fowler home, Steve Long, executive director of the East Hampton Historical Society, says the organization viewed the grant as “an opportunity to connect the creativity that Mary Nimmo Moran was expressing with the creativity the women of the Fowler family were expressing.”
