Seattle, 28 November 2012
The Burke Museum of Seattle will be able to support Native artists and arts organisations thanks to the generosity of the Margaret A. Cargill Foundation. The Burke Museum announced “Connections to Culture- Ressources for Native Art and Artists” as a new programme of the Bill Holm Center for the study of Northwest Coast Art.
Connections to culture will allow an expansion of the Bill Holm Center’s research grants program, which facilitates Native artist’s study of the arts and cultures of their ancestors. The grants will enable artists to study objects and archives in the Burke Museum’s collections, travel to other museums and pass their knowledge on through workshops held at the Burke Museum or other Native art organisation as well as in Native communities. Connections to Culture will also allow the Burke Museum to serve as a hub for the dissemination of this information, and create new digital resources that represent the breadth and depth of Pacific Northwest art traditions.
Burke Museum Executive Director Julie K. Stein said : “This extraordinary investment by the Margaret A. Cargill Foundation builds on that legacy, and will help make the Bill Holm Center’s resources available to many, many more artists and members of our community. “