Professors Petrouchka Moïse and Fredo Rivera Secure $350K Grant for "Haitian Art Digital Crossroads" Project
Petrouchka Moïse, assistant professor and Cultural & Community-based Digital Curator in the Grinnell College Libraries, and Fredo Rivera '06, assistant professor of Art History, have been awarded a $350,000 grant from the Humanities Collections and Reference Resources program of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The grant will support their project, "Haitian Art Digital Crossroads," which aims to digitize over a thousand Haitian artworks held at several sites in Haiti and the United States and incorporate them into a multilingual database.
"We are thrilled to have this opportunity to share the richness and diversity of Haitian art with a wider audience and to make it accessible to scholars and researchers around the world," said Moïse.
"This project represents a unique collaboration between scholars, artists, and students from Haiti and the United States. Our goal is to create a comprehensive database that reflects the complexity and richness of Haitian art, taking into account cultural nuances, artistic practices and materials, Kreyol linguistics, and the Haitian art market," said Rivera.
The grant builds upon previous funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Council of Library and Information Resources. In addition to collaboration with Grinnell College library personnel and museum professionals and artists in the US and Haiti, the project will involve Grinnell undergraduates in creating the database.
About the NEH
National Endowment for the Humanities: Created in 1965 as an independent federal agency, the National Endowment for the Humanities supports research and learning in history, literature, philosophy, and other areas of the humanities by funding selected, peer-reviewed proposals from around the nation. Additional information about the National Endowment for the Humanities and its grant programs is available at www.neh.gov.
