University of Maryland, College Park (The Driskell Center)

The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora at the University of Maryland will document Professor Driskell's one-of-a-kind archive, assembled for more than six decades and consisting of an estimated 50,000 objects. IMLS funds will be used to hire an archivist and two graduate student interns, as well as a consulting archivist to guide the process. The archivist will develop procedures for inventorying and accessing the collection, supervise students in data entry, and write a manual of procedures to be used by the center's future students, archivists, and staff. Accessibility to the archives will be enhanced through an online program, thus increasing outreach and exchange of ideas with the surrounding community as researchers and arts professionals.