Broadening Access to Digital Archives through Public Programming

FAIN: GA-276414-20

Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum (Long Island City, NY 11106-4926)
Dakin Hart (Project Director: May 2020 to March 2022)

The retention of four staff to make the Mumseum’s digital archive more accessible and develop six humanities-based “Digital Features.”

The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum seeks to activate its Isamu Noguchi Archive, a comprehensive digital resource that was made available for free online in 2019, through new public programming. Working with humanities scholars, the Museum’s curatorial staff will develop and publish Digital Features that highlight aspects of Isamu Noguchi’s work and legacy, while bringing together the full range of materials available in its Archive. Associated lectures will also be presented as Archive Deep Dives, ensuring the Features, and by extension the Archive, will reach a public audience, creating and promoting new scholarship while broadening access to a vast database of 60,000 items touching on a wide swath of 20th century art history, criticism, politics, history, and culture.