Overview

• Grants go to the Amistad Research Center, California State University Los Angeles, Clark Atlanta University, Emory University, Lincoln University (PA), the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum, and Visual AIDS.
• This round lifts total Black Visual Arts Archives funding to $2.6 million since the 2022 pilot.
• The foundation enlisted archivist and consultant Dominique Luster to help grantees launch their projects.
• Emory’s award funds a three-year processing archivist focused on photographer Jim Alexander, who will also record an oral history.
• Outcomes from the pilot phase are slated for presentation at the Society of American Archivists conference in Anaheim on August 24–27, with prior grantee outputs including a digital zine and a virtual-reality archival research game.