Mexic-Arte Museum

Preserving and Utilizing the Mexic-arte Museum Collection Ii ? a More Perfect Union: Exploring the Chicano/latinx Story in America [mexic-arte Museum Requests $200,000 for Partial Salary Support for a Project That Will Digitize Approximately 1500 Latinx Artworks, Utilizing Materials to Produce Online Exhibitions and Humanities Programs Based on the Ongoing Struggles, Experiences and Aspirations of Cross-generational Latinx/chicanx Communities. This Project Will Educate and Engage the Public by Informing and Amplifying the Chicano Movimiento and Civil Rights Movement in Central Texas in Preparation for the 250TH Anniversary of America, a More Perfect Union: Exploring America?s Story.] [purpose: to Digitize latinx Artworks and Use these Digitized materials to Produce Online Exhibitions and Humanities Programs Based on the Ongoing Struggles, Experiences, and Aspirations of Cross-generational Latinx/chicanx Communities  Activities to Be Performed: the Digitization of 1,500 of the Museum?s Artworks, as Well as the Creation of Two In-person Exhibitions. the First Exhibition Will Focus on the Influence of three Major Historical Events in Mexico on Mexican American Iconography. the Second Exhibition Will have Artists Reflect On the ongoing Struggles, experiences, and Aspirations of the Chicanx Communities in Central Texas.   Expected Outcomes: the Preservation of Latinx/chicanx Works of Art, as Well as the Dispersion of Educational Resources about These Communities.  Intended Beneficiaries: the Local Latinx/chicanx Communities, as Well as Those Looking to Become More Educated on the Culture and History of These Groups.  Subrecipient Activities:  this Project Does Not Intend to Issue Any Subawards. ]