Expanding Humanities Programming Capacity at SAR

FAIN: CHA-295962-24

School for Advanced Research (Santa Fe, NM 87504-2188)
Helen M. Brooks (Project Director: May 2023 to present)

Relocation and storage of collections during construction as well as purchase of archival equipment and furnishings to benefit the Indian Arts Research Center at the School of Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

The School for Advanced Research (SAR) has achieved worldwide recognition for its advanced seminars and resident scholar programs in anthropology and related social sciences. SAR also works collaboratively with descendant communities to steward one of the nation’s finest collections of Native American art and cultural belongings from the Southwest at its Indian Arts Research Center (IARC). SAR has seen considerable growth in programming and has worked with multiple stakeholders to plan for the next chapter, with the intent to expand its humanities programming through a $45 million, five-year comprehensive fundraising campaign that addresses both immediate and long-term needs for financial health, program growth, and capital needs that include an expanded IARC facility. The NEH grant and matching funds focus on plans to safeguard and protect the IARC collections both during the construction period and in perpetuity after the project is completed.