Walker art center collections: expanding digital access and advancing demographic transparency [the walker art center will hire a curatorial fellow (collections), four full-time contract positions,…

The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota received a $341,182 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program (CFDA 45.149). The grant will fund the hiring of five collections and digitization staff positions and one curatorial position, as well as the purchase of digital photography equipment. This staffing and technical support will enable the digitization of over 6,000 archival objects from the Walker Art Center's special collections, spanning the early 20th century to present day. In addition, staff will enhance archival documentation to support expanded humanities research and public programming. The grant ensures the collections remain accessible to curators, scholars, and the public during the pandemic and beyond by increasing digitization efforts and archival research at the contemporary art museum.

Activities

  this grant funds five collections and digitization positions and one curatorial position as well as the purchase of digital photography equipment.  this staffing and technical improvements will & nbsp; allow the museum to digitize over 6,000 archival objects.  in addition, the staff will increase their archival documentation to support & nbsp; enhanced & nbsp; humanities-based research & nbsp; and public programming.&nbsp

Expected outcomes

'this grant would ensure that their collections are accessible to curators, scholars, and the public during the pandemic and in the future. In addition, increased documentation would allow for & nbsp; more thorough & nbsp; collections research.&nbsp

Intended beneficiaries

  scholars from across the country as well as the local museum-going public would benefit from these digitization and collections documentation efforts.&nbsp

Subrecipient activities

'the recipient does not intend to subaward funds. ]