Arkansas Museum Of Fine Arts

Arkansas Museum Of Fine Arts, also known as the Arkansas Arts Center, is a nonprofit art museum located in Little Rock, Arkansas. It was founded in 1960 and has a collection of over 14,000 works of art spanning from antiquity to the present day.

Through recent federal grant awards, Arkansas Museum Of Fine Arts has received funding to support staffing, collection stewardship, and exhibition planning activities. A $195,374 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2021 enabled the museum to retain five staff members, including a preparator, assistant registrars, an associate curator, and an exhibition designer, to oversee the conservation of the museum's collection, coordinate loans, and install exhibitions and public programs as the museum prepared for its reopening in newly renovated facilities in 2022. In 2020, the museum received a $671,842 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to conduct a complete inventory of its 15,000-object collection and rehouse two- and three-dimensional objects to ensure longevity and sustainability. Additionally, a $166,875 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2020 supported a collections inventory and database conversion project. These grants have allowed the museum to improve the stewardship, identification, organization, and interpretation of its collections, as well as enhance its exhibitions, educational programs, studio classes, and community engagement.