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<\/p>\nArt Fund, the UK\u2019s national charity for art, is giving a total of over \u00a31.2m to 29 museums and galleries as part of its Reimagine\u00a0programme aimed at boosting \u201cinnovative collections work in museums and galleries across the UK\u201d, according to a statement.<\/p>\n
Launched in 2020 in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Reimagine\u00a0was \u201cdeveloped to address the most urgent challenges facing UK museums\u201d an Art Fund statement says. The third funding round, announced today, is backed by the London-based Kirby Laing Foundation, Art Fund members and supporters of Art Fund’s Expanding Horizons appeal.<\/p>\n
Art Fund recipients include the Horniman Museum and Gardens in south London, which has been awarded\u00a0\u00a349,992\u00a0to pilot a community-led stewardship model focused on collecting and conserving ancestral remains.\u00a0The initiative, Repair: Community Stewardship Model for Care and Treatment of Ancestral Remains, introduces culturally specific care and documentation protocols. <\/p>\n
Gordon Seabright, the chief executive of the Horniman, says in a statement:\u00a0\u201cThis funding enables the next phase of our work\u2014putting our revised human remains policy into community-led practice, and creating a model of shared stewardship we hope will be adopted by other museums.\u201d The museum says that its human remains policy, which came into force in April,\u00a0\u201caspires to centre social and reparative justice, in response to historic and ongoing colonial injustice\u201d.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Newham Council in London has been awarded \u00a339,165 for Inspired Art: Madge Gill, a three-year project which will deepen research into the late UK medium and healer who died in 1961. Gill, who was self-taught, drew female faces, checkerboard patterns and architectural spaces, mainly in ink. The project will \u201cplace Madge Gill\u2019s work on permanent display, establish artist residencies, community programmes and new resources that support wellbeing and cultural engagement at Newham Heritage Centre\u201d, the statement says.<\/p>\n
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A drawing by Madge Gill \u00a9 Newham Heritage Service<\/p>\n
The Museum of Chelmsford in Essex has been awarded \u00a346,190 for Your Voice, Our Collection, a\u00a0volunteer programme for people living with dementia culminating in an exhibition of Chelmsford\u2019s top 50 artefacts.<\/p>\n
Other recipients include the Chatsworth House Trust (\u00a350,000), which will use the funding to explore a new model for provenance research; the Science Museum Group, which has been given \u00a350,000 for a project aimed at preserving digital heritage; and the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, which has been awarded \u00a347,500 for Reimagining Ceremony and Welcome which promises to \u201cembed ceremony and ritual into museum practice\u201d.<\/p>\n
In addition, Art Fund will provide \u00a3100,000 funding as \u201cmicro-grants\u201d to help smaller organisations awarded through the developmental bodies Northern Ireland Museums Council, Museums Galleries Scotland and Museum Development England.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jenny Waldman, Art Fund’s director, says in a statement: \u201cFrom acquisitions and commissions to vital collections work, we\u2019re proud to support organisations of all sizes in every corner of the country.\u201d Over the past five years, Reimagine\u00a0has supported more than 245 museums and galleries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Art Fund, the UK\u2019s national charity for art, is giving a total of over \u00a31.2m to 29 museums…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[104253,307,304,15697,305,306,308,93,1446,61,60,4540,8541,104254],"class_list":{"0":"post-195311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-art-fund","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-arts-funding","12":"tag-artsanddesign","13":"tag-artsdesign","14":"tag-design","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-funding","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-museums","20":"tag-museums-heritage","21":"tag-the-art-fund"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}