Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture

The Afro-American Cultural Center will build institutional capacity by upgrading its current infrastructure as it transitions to a new facility in downtown Charlotte. The new facility will be known as the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts and Culture. Current staff members will be afforded the opportunity to participate in skill-building professional development programs. The museum will create the new positions of staff curator/collections manager and director of operations/facilities manager to help facilitate the move into the larger facility and implement programs and exhibits. The services of a consulting curator will assist with collections care and exhibition. The ambitious project also includes the enhancement of the museum's Web site and the establishment of an internship program through a new partnership with Johnson C. Smith University to result in a digitization plan for the museum's collections.