Savannah College of Art and Design, Inc. (SCAD Museum of Art)

The Savannah College of Art and Design Museum will use grant funds to purchase and rehouse its 350-item painting collection in a rehabilitated 1853 historic annex connected to the museum. (Both structures are original components of the National Historic Landmark Central of the Georgia Railroad complex, the only surviving antebellum railroad complex in the country.) The collections include sixteenth to twentieth century British and American portrait paintings by Van Dyck, Lely, Gainsborough, Reynolds, and Hogarth, as well as African American art from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including paintings by Duncanson, Bannister, Aaron Douglas, Jacob Lawrence (Genesis Creation Series), and Romare Bearden. The new storage facility will make the collection more available to the public and the campus community. Online communications, press releases, and articles will also measure success in reaching the campus and wider communities.