South Side Home Movie Project Receives Grant from the Getty Foundation to activate essential documents of the history of Black art in the US

The South Side Home Movie Project is delighted to receive a grant from the Getty Foundation through its Black Visual Art Archives initiative. This multi-year program increases access to archival collections across the country that hold important historical records related to works created by Black artists.

The Black Visual Art Archives grant provide archivists with wider capacity to organize, catalogue, and digitize materials, as well as activate archives through creative projects like exhibitions, programming, and more. The Getty grant will allow SSHMP to explore a deep thematic dive into Black cultural history and artistic practices across Chicago's South Side.

“Deep in the ethos of this project has always been to give greater visibility to personal archives, rather than isolating materials
— Jacqueline Stewart | Founder of South Side Home Movie Project

Fellow Grantees include: Afro Charities, Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Morgan State University, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, South Side Community Art Center, and the David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland.

Read the full press release from the Getty Foundation

[A yet unidentified woman inspects film in Ramon Williams’s studio(around 1946), from the South Side Home Movie Project’s Ramon Williams Collection]