{"id":13074,"date":"2025-08-21T04:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T04:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/13074\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T04:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T04:07:08","slug":"getty-grants-2-6-m-to-black-visual-arts-archives-across-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/13074\/","title":{"rendered":"Getty Grants $2.6 M. to Black Visual Arts Archives Across the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Getty Foundation<\/a> has awarded $1.5 million in grants<\/a> to seven libraries, museums, and universities across the United States as part of its ongoing Black Visual Arts Archives<\/a> program.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis year\u2019s recipients are the Amistad Research Center in New Orleans, California State University Los Angeles, Clark Atlanta University, Emory University in Atlanta, Lincoln University of Pennsylvania, the Smithsonian\u2019s Anacostia Community Museum in Washington D.C., and Visual AIDS in New York. To assist with this year\u2019s projects, Getty partnered with Dominique Luster, an archivist and consultant who specializes in Black archives.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThis new round brings the Getty\u2019s total funding for the initiative $2.6 million, with it having previously awarded grants in 2022, as part of a pilot program, to the Anacostia, the Chicago Public Library, Fisk University in Nashville, the New York Public Library, and Temple University in Philadelphia. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe multi-year initiative aims to increase access to archival collections, particularly those with information about work created by Black artists. The program provides archivists with more opportunities to organize, catalog, and digitize these materials and a chance to bring together often difficult to research or disparate records, some of which may have not yet been processed. (Grant application inquiries are accepted on an ongoing basis.)<\/p>\n

\n\tEmory\u2019s grant, for example, will allow for the university to hire a dedicated processing archivist for a period of three years to focus on the work of photographer Jim Alexander, who will also create an oral history as part of the project to \u201coffer important context to his images and legacy,\u201d N\u2019Kosi Oates, Emory\u2019s curator of African American collections, told ARTnews. \u201cWe value the opportunity to help keep this revered Atlanta documentary photographer\u2019s collection an active resource for education, research, and community engagement.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFrom the initial processing and digitization of archival records, several accompanying projects, like exhibitions and programming, have emerged from this research. The New York Public Library, for example, used Getty funds to create a digital zine that presents the history of art exhibitions curated by its library, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Temple University has been working on a virtual reality game that simulates the process of archival researching as players learn about historic exhibitions organized by the the Pyramid Club, which was at one time Philadelphia\u2019s only Black-owned art gallery and social club. <\/p>\n

\n\tPresentations of the results from the program\u2019s first iteration will be presented during the annual Society of American Archivists conference in Anaheim, California, which runs August 24\u201327.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Getty\u2019s commitment to funding the Black Visual Arts Archives program also comes at a time when initiatives such as these have been under attack by the current presidential administration. It is also one of several efforts started by the Getty that supports Black cultural heritage, including Conserving Black Modernism, African American Historic Places Los Angeles, African American Art History Initiative, and its joint acquisition of the archive of 20th-century architect Paul R. Williams.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe need a fuller understanding of the influence of Black artists, architects, and cultural institutions to tell a more complete history of American art and culture, and we can work towards achieving this by investing in Black archives,\u201d Miguel de Baca, senior program officer at the Getty Foundation, said in a statement. \u201cBlack Visual Arts Archives delivers critical support to make these archives and the stories of creativity, resiliency, and community they hold more accessible to researchers and the general public.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Getty Foundation has awarded $1.5 million in grants to seven libraries, museums, and universities across the United…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[12284,365,362,363,364,366,18,117,12285,12286,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-13074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-archives","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-artsdesign","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-getty-foundation","17":"tag-grants","18":"tag-ie","19":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}