Core Programs and Projects
2021-2024
Fieldwork
The first official directory of Black professionals was published in 1983. Museums are revisiting the directory to determine the whereabouts of directory participants.
Basic Needs: Build a searchable database of those individuals and institutions. Identify and apply for a research grant.
Goals: Document the history of the first association for African American museum professionals—AAMA
Continue research of the history of Black museums throughout the state with a concentration on those counties with significant Black populations.
Basic Needs: Build a searchable database of those individuals and institutions. Identify and apply for a research grant.
Goals: Document the comprehensive history of Georgia'S Black Museums and communities
Pictured: Savannah State University
Research and identify African Countries with museums established and maintained by African people.
Basic Needs: Build a searchable database of those institutions and individuals. Build a study collection of information for support of museum studies programs. Identify and apply for a planning grant.
Goals: Document the history of the first association for African museum professionals.
Research and identify the museum associations in the Caribbean and throughout the Diaspora and the professionals associated with those organizations.
Basic Needs: Build a searchable database of those institutions and individuals. Build a study collection of information for support of museum studies programs. Identify and apply for a planning grant.
Goals: Document the history of the first association for African museum professionals.
Pictured: The Bob Marley Museum, Kingston, Jamaica
Document the current relationship of museums and museum studies programs on the campuses of HBCU’s
Basic Needs: Build a searchable database of those institutions and individuals. Build a study collection of information for support of museum studies programs. Identify and apply for a planning grant.
Dr. Harold Cureau’s Research Revisited
This collection details the 1970s & 80s on the sustainability of art galleries and museums at HBCUs.
Goals: Present project proposal, budget, and timeline to the original funder of Cureau’s research—The Ford Foundation.
Seek funding to revisit the earlier scholarship of Dr. Cureau.
Pictured: The Amistatd Research Center
Document the current relationship of museums and museum studies programs on the campuses of HBCU’s
Basic Needs: Build a searchable database of those institutions and individuals. Build a study collection of information for support of museum studies programs. Identify and apply for a planning grant.
Dr. Harold Cureau’s Research Revisited
This collection details the 1970s & 80s on the sustainability of art galleries and museums at HBCUs.
Goals: Present project proposal, budget, and timeline to the original funder of Cureau’s research—The Ford Foundation.
Seek funding to revisit the earlier scholarship of Dr. Cureau.
Pictured: The Amistatd Research Center
