Furious Flower and JMU Libraries Receive Mellon Grant for Archive Digitization

Description

A generous $150,000 planning grant to James Madison University from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will allow the University’s College of Arts and Letters and the JMU Libraries to learn, grow and deepen their partnership. Through a joint “Flowerings Project,” centered around the digital future of the Furious Flower Poetry Center, the collaborators will develop and disseminate a new model for integrated library and educational technologies support of a living, academic center for the arts with digital archives, research and performance components.

Web Presence

https://www.jmu.edu/news/2020/02/17-grant.shtml

Involvement

Involves Faculty, Involves Staff

Scope

JMU Campus Scope

Date

February, 2020

Frequency

Recurring Event (Occurs on a regular basis but not continual)

Existing Center/Institute/Program

yes

Type of Partner

Other

Primary Focus of Program

Arts and Culture

Begin Date

2-2020

Areas of Engagement

Community Engagement, Engaged Learning

Format

Program, Award

On/Off campus

On campus

Academic Level of Engagement

Department