The Getty Foundation has awarded $2.6 million to 12 libraries, museums, and universities to preserve and expand access to Black visual arts archives. The funding supports digitization, cataloging, and activation of artist papers, photographs, recordings, and exhibition histories.
Washington, DC’s Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum received $310,000 to organize records from 13 exhibitions, process 50 audio/video recordings, and conduct oral histories, making the city’s Black artistic heritage more accessible. Other 2025 grantees include institutions in New Orleans, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Pennsylvania, and New York.
The initiative emphasizes both preservation and public engagement, with outcomes from earlier pilot projects to be showcased at the Society of American Archivists conference in August 2025.
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