Support for COVID-Affected Curatorial and Collections Staff at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts

FAIN: ZPA-283295-22

Arkansas Arts Center (Little Rock, AR 72203-2137)
Brian Lang (Project Director: May 2021 to October 2025)

The retention of five staff members to engage in collection stewardship activities while planning and implementing inaugural exhibits at the museum’s newly renovated building.   

The Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (AMFA) requests salary and fringe support for five curatorial and collections staff members most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. In May 2022, our museum will reopen to the public after 2.5 years of major renovations and expansions to our facilities. These five employees perform our core work in the humanities, and over this coming year, they will plan and implement our exhibitions and public programs, care for our 14,000-object art collection, send works out for conservation, coordinate incoming and outgoing loans, and carry out other duties that advance the study and stewardship of art at the AMFA. Having already experienced furloughs and disruptions to their work in 2020, these employees remain vulnerable to ongoing COVID-related pressure on our operating budget. NEH support for this group of our humanities staff will help us sustain ourselves as an organization as we prepare for our reopening and first year of operations in our new facilities.