Funding History
Office of the Provost, University of Minnesota
Sept. 2016 – June 2021
Project title: Rhizomes: Xicanx Art since 1848
Amount awarded and expended: $250,000 to Dr. Karen Mary Davalos
Outcomes: 1) Salary and fringe benefits for a postdoctoral associate who functioned as Project Director, Operations Manager, and/or Data Curator. 2) Dr. Sara Ramírez (postdoctoral associate 2017-2018) was hired as an assistant professor at Texas State University and Dr. Mary Thomas (postdoctoral associate 2018-2021) was hired full-time as Director of Programs at US Latinx Art Forum.
Grant-in-Aid of Research, Artistry and Scholarship, University of Minnesota
July 2017 – June 2018
Project title: Mexican American Art since 1848
Amount awarded and expended: $22,476 to Dr. Karen Mary Davalos
Outcomes: 1) Living wages for undergraduate interns. 2) Travel and accommodations to investigate 14 institutions and their collections, digitization priorities and technical infrastructure. 3) Established interest and partnerships with multiple institutions including the National Museum of Mexican Art (Chicago); National Hispanic Cultural Center (Albuquerque); Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC); International Center for the Arts of the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and University of California, Santa Barbara, Special Collections Library.
College of Liberal Arts, Office of the Dean, University of Minnesota
July 2018 – June 2021
Project title: Rhizomes of Mexican American Art since 1848
Amount awarded and expended: three years of salary and fringe at 25% time for ABD Graduate Research Assistant (approximately $12,500 each year).
Outcomes: 1) Salary and fringe benefits for graduate research assistant for Rhizomes Initiative. 2) Mentorship to support career development of the graduate assistants. The first graduate research assistant has completed the PhD and has been offered a tenure-track job. The second graduate research assistant is scheduled to complete the PhD in Dec. 2021.
Henry Luce Foundation, American Art Program
April 2019 – March 2020
Project title: Rhizomes of Mexican American Art since 1848
Amount Awarded and expended: $35,000 to University of Minnesota
Outcomes: 1) Supported travel and accommodation costs not permitted by NEH to gather federally-employed experts to determine culturally-informed search strategies. 2) Visualization of landscape analysis of libraries, archives and museums with relevant collections of Mexican American art.
NEH HCRR Foundations grant
May 2019 – April 2021
Project title: Rhizomes of Mexican American Art since 1848: On Online Portal
Amount Awarded and expended: $60,000 to University of Minnesota
Outcomes: 1) Co-creation of “Socio-Technical Protocol.” 2) Identification and development of culturally-informed controlled vocabularies, metadata, and search strategies. 3) Submission of new metadata to Getty Research Institute's Union List of Artist Names (ULAN).
NEH White Paper by Karen Mary Davalos and Constance Cortez, "Creating Sustainable Foundations for Rhizomes of Mexican American Art Since 1848"
ACLS Digital Extension Grant
June 2020 – Dec. 2021; extension 9/2022 due to pandemic
Project title: Generative Rhizomes: Extending Digital Discovery of Mexican American Art
Amount Awarded: $149,987 to University of Minnesota
Outcomes: 1) Software development of portal. 2) Testing and amplification of Rhizomes, including Employing and Amplifying Rhizomes (EAR) Fellows. 3) Demonstrations among diverse educators (K-16) who drafted lesson plans.
ACLS Digital Justice Development Grant
Oct. 2022 – March 2024
Project title: La cultura cura: Digital Equity and Justice for Mexican American Art Since 1848
Amount Awarded: $99,833 to University of Minnesota to support hiring of Grad. Research Assistant & access to community partners' collections.
Forthcoming outcomes: 1) Enhancement of portal & 2) preparation for new partnerships.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
July 2022 – June 2024
Project title: “Building Capacity: Discovery and Access to Mexican American Art Since 1848”
Amount Awarded: $150,000 to University of Minnesota to support salary & fringe benefits for postdoctoral associate.
Forthcoming outcomes: 1) Enhancement of portal's subject terms & 2) preparation for new partnerships.