The Milwaukee Art Museum will undertake a $830,830 project grant awarded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301) to digitally image 3,000 works from its permanent collection for online access. Prioritizing artwork by artists of color, women, and those conveying narratives of marginalized communities, the Museum will make these collection images available on its website by August 2024. This initiative aims to inform the...
The Denver Art Museum will receive $620,045 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program to implement environmental improvements and collections rehousing activities. Specifically, the museum will install new storage screens for large two-dimensional artworks, inventory, move, and rehouse works in the collection with the assistance of two part-time collection assistants. The museum will also work with a fine art shipper to relocate works...
The Baltimore Museum of Art will implement hybrid virtual and in-person K-4 educational programs through a $106,597 Institute of Museum and Library Services Project Grant awarded November 1, 2021 through the National Leadership Grants program. Specifically, the Museum will provide its Close Encounters and Literacy Through the Arts programs, historically facilitated in-person, to Baltimore City and County students in hybrid virtual and in-person formats as schools recover from the COVID-19...
The Denver Art Museum received a $395,283 project grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to implement critical environmental improvements in its storage area. Funded under the Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301), the 13-month project will install 40 new storage screens for oversized, two-dimensional artworks impacting the museum's Asian, Indigenous, Latin American, Modern and Contemporary, and Photography collections. Work will include pre-move inventory tasks,...
The Art Museum of Southeast Texas received a $116,489 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) federal grant program. The grant will fund the continuation of a multi-year project to photograph and digitize the museum's permanent art collection. Building on previous IMLS grants, this final phase will result in the photography of an additional 200 two-dimensional artworks from the museum's collection. Museum staff, working...
This $679,469 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program will support the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art's preparation for a move to a new downtown Memphis riverfront facility. Key activities include: Safely packing, relocating, and reinstalling over 10,000 art objects from the museum's collection. This effort will utilize custom boxes and crates, and involve the museum's registrars, art handlers, and contract fine art...
The New Orleans Museum of Art will use a $100,000 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' National Leadership Grants program to hire a Digital Assets Manager. With a completion date of October 31, 2022, the award will support efforts to expand public access to the museum's permanent collection through digital tools and resources. The Digital Assets Manager will resolve the museum's backlog of pre-pandemic digital processing work and substantially increase the...
The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland will produce a long-term exhibition and related programming featuring approximately 550 artworks from its Asian and Islamic art collections under a $890,385 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The Walters will rotate objects in the exhibition, many of which have not been on display for generations, and incorporate work by living, contemporary artists. Educational programs and in-gallery experiences will...
The Peale Center for Baltimore History and Architecture will implement a paid apprenticeship program utilizing $500,700 in funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301). The 10-month program seeks to recruit up to 36 young people from low-income Baltimore families to receive essential life and professional skills training to pursue careers in museum exhibition installation, art handling, historic preservation, and related...
The Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati, Ohio will receive $343,540 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301) to fully digitize and make accessible its permanent collections online from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2025. Museum staff will work with a contracted photographer and art handlers to photograph 558 objects and update records for 790 objects in its collections of European and American paintings and sculpture,...