Baltimore Museum of Art Receives $150K Grant To Reimagine Museum Structure

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The Baltimore Museum of Art connected Monday received a $150,000 assistance from the The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a multi-year probe task to reconsider the operation and enactment of the museum.

Known arsenic the Mellon Initiative, the task volition survey artists and assemblage leaders astir the successes of the BMA and however the depository could amended service the community. The extremity is to see “what signifier a depository would instrumentality if an instauration was reconceived from scratch,” the BMA said successful a release.

Keondra Prier, who antecedently worked astatine the Brooklyn Museum and Walters Art Museum, is serving arsenic the Mellon Initiative Project Manager and volition beryllium supported by an eight-member steering committee.

In outpouring 2022, the depository volition invitation the nationalist to a multi-day lawsuit to “collectively ideate caller organization models,” according to a quality release.

CBS Baltimore Staff