Black and white antique photo on a factory with smoke stacks along a river
Collection Engagement Grant
2021 Awardees

Learn about the projects funded by the Collections Engagement Grant in 2021.

Harriett Richards Harwood, American, The Pumpkin and the Cauliflower (Still Life), oil on canvas, 1892
Collections Engagement Grant

This award provides University faculty at any level of their career with funding for innovative, interdisciplinary scholarship and creative projects using primary source materials from the Utah Museum of Fine Arts and the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Special Collections, following the theme of “Landscape, Land Art, and the American West.”

Robert Smithson (American, 1938–1973), Spiral Jetty, 1970, Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, Utah, black basalt rock, salt crystals, earth, and water, 1,500 ft. long and approximately 15 ft. wide. © Holt/Smithson Foundation and Dia Art Foundation, licensed by VAGA, New York.
Landscape, Land Art and the American West

 

A Joint Research and Scholarly Engagement Initiative of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts and the J. Willard Marriott Library revolutionizing how the two institutions work together, capitalizing on both the Museum’s and Library’s substantial collections with the goal of transforming the U into a global resource hub for scholars studying the West.

Four people on the shores of the Great Salt Lake walking away from the camera
Fellowship in Collections Engagement (FICE)
Grants for 2019/20

Five projects have been selected for FY2019-2020 that promise to foster innovative, interdisciplinary, collections-based scholarship and creativity while highlighting the strengths of the UMFA’s and Marriott Library’s collections.

IMLS Intern with goggles
Generous Grant Protects Metal Objects

 

The UMFA’s collections team recently wrapped up a three-year project to assess, document, and treat metal objects in urgent need of attention.