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Urban Bush Women Inc., doing business as Urban Bush Women, was awarded a $430,500 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Save America's Treasures federal grant program (CFDA 15.929). The funding will support efforts from October 1, 2022 through December 31, 2025 to improve the management, preservation, and accessibility of Urban Bush Women's archival collections documenting the work of choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and the organization from 1984 to...

This $150,000 Digital Humanities Advancement Grant, awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities under CFDA 45.169, supports Phase 4 of the Urban Archive's Collections Management and Engagement Program (CMEP). The project aims to enhance Urban Archive's award-winning digital infrastructure, which provides a location-based digital platform and collections-management system for a network of cultural organizations across New York State and beyond. The funding will be used to consolidate...

This federal Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), under the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian (LB21) program (CFDA 45.313), will provide $135,934 to Columbia University to convene a two-day forum for 15-20 Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) archives and special collections curators. The forum aims to enhance professional development, inclusivity, and ethical stewardship of collections in this often-overlooked part of the library and archives...

The federal Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Save America's Treasures program provides $294,532 to Chromadiverse, Inc. to preserve, digitize, and make publicly accessible the Margaret Elizabeth "Marbeth" Schnare photography collection of the Dance Theatre of Harlem. The 3-year project (10/1/2024 - 9/30/2027) will inventory, transport, digitize, and rehouse the collection of 6,000 photographs and 100 documents, and develop a...

This $149,999 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) supports the "Making the Digital Dance" project at the University of Alabama. The project aims to develop digital infrastructure and tools to increase access to archival dance information across four existing digital performing arts archives. Key project activities include: Prototyping a dance data commons based on the Wikidata integration model to...

The Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation will receive $978,876 through a Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Save America's Treasures program to make archival materials from Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater accessible for restaging. The Foundation will catalog and digitize technical information needed to restage ballets, collect and analyze dramaturgical content and rights information for each work, and develop "dance capsules" comprising this collected...

The Weeksville Society will use this $703,414 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museum Grants for African American History and Culture (CFDA 45.309) program to complete a comprehensive collections inventory and increase public access to the Weeksville Heritage Center's collections documenting the history of Weeksville, one of the largest free Black communities in pre-Civil War America. Key project activities include cataloging unprocessed collection items,...

This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program, provides $260,952 to the Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation to continue the Alvin Ailey Choreographic Legacy Project. The Project will historically preserve choreography from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater repertory for restaging by professional dance companies and universities through cataloging production notes, performance histories, and...

This $500,000 National Endowment for the Humanities project grant funds the creation of a new digital imaging studio and staff positions at the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The studio and staff will expand the Library's digitized collections of African American, African, and African Diasporic materials. Specifically, the grant supports the establishment of a satellite digital imaging unit and the hiring of two full-time positions to increase the...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $305,343 Project Grant to the Internet Archive under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to develop a comprehensive reference resource of key art history and humanities collections published online. Working in partnership with the New York Art Resources Consortium, consisting of the Frick Art Reference Library, Museum of Modern Art, and Brooklyn Museum, the Internet Archive will create a...