FORD FOUNDATION
AMERICA’S CULTURAL TREASURES - SOUTH ARTS
museSalon Collaborative has been selected to support South Arts through 2025 to facilitate capacity-building and curriculum for 17 BIPOC-led and serving arts organizations in the South, the Southern Cultural Treasures (pictured above).
America’s Cultural Treasures is a two-pronged national and regional initiative to acknowledge and honor the diversity of artistic expression and excellence in America and provide critical funding to organizations that have made a significant impact on America’s cultural landscape, despite historically limited resources.
To date, the initiative has raised more than $276 million from more than 40 foundations and major donors. The national component consists of $81 million in funding from the Ford Foundation and five other donors: the Abrams Foundation, the Alice L. Walton Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Tom and Lisa Blumenthal, and Barbara and Amos Hostetter.
As the second component of America’s Cultural Treasures, numerous foundations drove fundraising and design for individually-tailored regional grantmaking initiatives, which the Ford Foundation seeded with an initial $35 million in support. The foundation partners span eight regions, and are: the Barr Foundation (Massachusetts), the Getty Foundation (Los Angeles), Heinz Endowments (Pittsburgh), Houston Endowment (Houston), the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Chicago), the Joyce Foundation (Chicago), the McKnight Foundation (Minnesota), the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation (Los Angeles), South Arts (U.S. South), the Terra Foundation for American Art (Chicago), and the William Penn Foundation (Philadelphia).
Learn more about the Southern Cultural Treasures
last year’s JUNETEENTH FESTIVAL 2022
We gathered a dozen Black-led organizations and artists together on the Atlanta BeltLine to celebrate Juneteenth.
Sponsors: Art on the Atlanta BeltLine, Alternate Roots, True Colors Theater, National Black Arts Festival
Participating Organizations: Atlanta Music Project, Low Country Capoeria Society, E. Period Productions.
Artists: Kebbi Williams, Salah Ananse, Okorie Johnson, Malesha Taylor, Sean Fahie, Charisse M. Williams
