Getty’s Black Visual Arts Archives receives additional $1.8m in funding

The Getty Foundation awarded an additional $1.8 million to its Black Visual Arts Archives initiative, which supports processing, digitizing, preserving, and activating archival collections related to Black artists and visual arts history in the United States. Launched in 2022 and directed by senior program officer Miguel de Baca, the program’s total funding now stands at $4.5 million across 20 awards, representing its third cohort. Grantees include Afro Charities (Baltimore), the Auburn Avenue Research Library (Atlanta), Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Charles H. Wright Museum (Detroit), Morgan State University, the South Side Community Art Center (Chicago), the University of Chicago’s South Side Home Movie Project (SSHMP), and the David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland. SSHMP reported discovering April 1968 footage showing the original Wall of Respect mural in the background during unrest after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, while Afro Charities will use support to expand access to 133 years of historic Afro newspaper archives.

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