Digitizing and sharing the art of the national hispanic cultural center (new mexico) [the national hispanic cultural center, university of minnesota, and university of texas RIO grande valley seek…

The National Hispanic Cultural Center Foundation, University of Minnesota, and University of Texas Rio Grande Valley will collaborate on a three-year, $700,000 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize and provide open access to Mexican American art and archival materials. Funded under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program, which supports preserving and providing intellectual access to humanities resources, approximately 3,400 works of art and 16 linear feet of archives from the National Hispanic Cultural Center's art museum will be digitized. The digitized collections will be published on the Center's website and the Rhizomes of Mexican American Art Since 1848 aggregating portal, implementing culturally informed metadata to enhance discovery of related holdings across institutions. This will foster a sustainable network for digital collections of Mexican American art and strengthen humanities scholarship on American art, history and culture. The project began July 1, 2022 and is scheduled to conclude by June 30, 2025.

Digitizing and sharing the art of the national hispanic cultural center (new mexico) [the national hispanic cultural center, university of minnesota, and university of texas RIO grande valley seek an NEH hcrr implementation grant to undertake a three-year collaboration to digitize, describe, and make accessible a large concentration of mexican american art and related documents. Building on UMN?S successful foundations grant, we propose to digitize 3,400 works of art and 16 linear feet of archival materials from the center?S art museum. The nominated materials will be published to the center?S website and the open-source, aggregating portal, rhizomes of mexican american art since 1848, which implements culturally-informed descriptors, metadata, and search strategies discovered under the foundations grant. Rhizomes will link relevant holdings from the nation?S libraries, archives, and museums, thereby fostering a sustainable network for digital collections of mexican-american art and enhancing how humanities scholars think about american art, history, and culture.]