Mellon Foundation Supports African, Latin American and Native American Collections Research at Princeton
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Princeton University a grant of $300,000 to support three years of specialist research in targeted areas of the collections as part of the Art Museum’s multiyear Collections Discovery Initiative.
The grant allows the Museum to develop deep collections data for three rich but understudied areas of the Museum’s collections – African, Latin American and Native American art.
The resulting information – including subject tagging, artist biographies and/or culture group backgrounds, geo-references, exhibition histories, bibliographies, contexts and purposes of objects and links to related concepts and artworks – will be documented and published online for greatly improved discovery by scholars, educators, students, visitors and global audiences via the Museum’s website...