Artstor President James Shulman Joins Mellon Foundation as Senior Fellow in Residence
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation today announced that James Shulman will join the Foundation as a senior fellow in residence, starting on May 16, 2016.
Shulman will work with Earl Lewis and Mariët Westermann, president and vice president of the Foundation, respectively, on topics of strategic importance. Among his projects, Shulman will write about high-impact philanthropy, the future of liberal arts colleges, and how digital technologies can support institutional imperatives to be inclusive and effective.
Shulman has served as the founding president of Artstor, a non-profit organization that makes more than two million images in the arts, architecture, and the humanities available to nearly 2,000 colleges, universities, and schools around the world, democratizing access to the world's cultural heritage. Artstor recently joined ITHAKA, the non-profit organization initially funded by the Mellon Foundation and several other philanthropies, that serves as a home to JSTOR, Portico, and Ithaka S&R...