Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

The Museum of Fine Arts of Houston will undertake a collection management project for the museum's internationally-renowned Adolpho Leirner Collection of Brazilian Constructive Art and associated archival management activities to preserve provide access to the collection. This project will support much needed research, documentation, and dissemination efforts connected with nearly 100 objects in the museum's Latin American permanent collection and related primary source documents. Project activities include: conducting curatorial research on collection objects, incorporating this research into the museum's collection management database, cross-referencing and pairing research on the objects with over 1,600 documents from the museum's archival holdings on Brazilian art, and digitally cataloging and processing this information for inclusion across multiple free online platforms. The project will benefit scholars, college students, artists, professional peers, librarians, and teachers worldwide. Completed object records and linked documents will address the urgent need to both preserve and provide access to objects, primary documents, and archival materials related to Latin American and Latino visual arts.