University of Oregon (Museum of Art, Univ. of Oregon)

The University of Oregon's Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) will purchase and install equipment to rehouse 156 flat art works in their collection that are too large for conventional storage. The works will also be photographed and added to JSMA's searchable online database of more than 5,000 works. These works are important assets to the collection that highlight America's diverse heritage, traditions, and history, and reinforce the relevance of the arts as an important element of modern American life and culture, and are used by the museum to support teaching, exhibition programming, and outreach. They are currently underutilized due to storage difficulties. The improved storage conditions will allow JSMA to: 1) properly store these art works, 2) more safely access and retrieve these materials for class visits, academic research, and gallery exhibitions, and 3) photograph, catalog, and publish the images for worldwide access via the museum's searchable online database.