Award to support the museum’s contribution to the cost of the feasibility study 2023 (2 years)

Founded in 1961, the museum is a Chicago community institution and the first non-profit museum dedicated to the collection, documentation, preservation, study, and dissemination of the history and culture of Africans and African Americans in the United States. With this award, the museum and the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago jointly commission a study to assess the feasibility of creating a Chicago Archival Education Center (CAEC) in the Washington Park community area on Chicago’s South Side. The vision of the CAEC is to house and exhibit several Chicago-related archives, including a portion of the Johnson Publishing Company Archive and its iconic magazines, Ebony and Jet. This award supports it’s contribution to the cost of the feasibility study.