The retention of two Humanities Positions and the development of new humanities programming: "Still I Rise, The Black Experience at Reynolda"

FAIN: ZPP-283711-22

Reynolda House Museum of American Art (Winston-Salem, NC 27106-5117)
Amber Albert (Project Director: May 2021 to July 2024)

A series of programs related to a museum exhibition examining race and art at a North Carolina country estate and museum.

Reynolda House seeks $78,110 in funding for the retention of two existing full-time positions who will undertake a new outreach initiative informed by an archival exhibition, Still I Rise: The Black Experience at Reynolda. The exhibit will examine the lives of the Black men and women, including nationally-recognized artists, who shaped Reynolda as it evolved from a Jim Crow-era working estate into a nonprofit American art museum. Reynolda offers an exceptional opportunity to interpret American art because of its physical location in (and across) a Jim Crow era country estate, ca. 1917. The Black artists featured in Reynolda’s archives performed in spaces that (mere decades before) were closed to them, unless employed by the white Reynolds family. The same can be said of works of art by Black artists displayed daily in the historic house, now museum. This initiative supports the museum’s mission to create a deeper understanding of American culture for diverse audiences by using Reynolda