October 2021 C&RL News443 G r a n t s & A c q u i s i t i o n sAnn-Christe Galloway Ed. note: Send your grants and acquisitions to Ann- Christe Galloway, production editor, C&RL News, at email: agalloway@ala.org. The George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida (UF) received a grant award from the National Endowment for the Humani- ties (NEH) to expand newspaper digitization ef- forts and continue participating in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). This is the fifth NDNP award the libraries have received since 2013, bringing the combined project total to nearly $1.5 million. The NEH award will fund the Ethnic Florida & U.S. Caribbean Re- gion Digital Newspa- per Project, building on work from previ- ous project phases. During the eight- year period from 2013 to 2021, more than 400,000 pages of historical newspapers published in Florida, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands were digitized and made publicly available online. Over the next two years, the UF project team will continue to collaborate with partners at the University of the Virgin Islands libraries to digitize an additional 100,000 pages from news- papers published between 1800 to 1963. Selected content will include ethnic newspapers published in Florida and the Panama Canal Zone newspa- pers, and newspapers from the U.S. Virgin Is- lands. The project will run from September 2021 to August 2023. All digitized content will be text- searchable and freely accessible in the University of Florida Digital Collections (www.ufdc.ufl. edu/ufndnp) and Chronicling America (https:// chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/), a site created and maintained by the Library of Congress for the National Digital Newspaper Program. The Amistad Research Center (Amistad), in partnership with the Rivers Institute of Contempo- rary Art and Thought (Rivers), has received an award of $500,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Founda- tion to support artist archival research residencies at Amistad and the development of new work that circulates material history. Beginning in August 2021 and ending in December 2023, the co-organized artist re- search residencies will welcome five interna- tional artists to New Orleans research. American-born art- ist and 2020 Mohn Award recipient Kan- dis Williams uses col- lage, performance, writing, publishing, and curation in her artistic practice. She explores and decon- structs critical theory around race, nationalism, au- thority, and eroticism. Founder of Cinémathèque de Tanger, Moroccan-French artist Yto Barrada is recognized for her multidisciplinary investigations into cultural phenomena and historical narratives. British artist Helen Cammock probes social histories through film, photography, print, text, song, and performance to question mainstream historical nar- ratives around blackness, womanhood, wealth, pow- er, poverty, and vulnerability. Alia Farid, a Kuwaiti- Puerto Rican visual artist, works at the intersection of art and architecture to give visibility to narratives that are obscured by hegemonic power. American collage artist Troy Montes-Michie works in assem- blage and juxtaposition to engage Black conscious- ness, the Latinx experience, immigration, and queerness to subvert dominant narratives by placing past and present in confrontation. Additional infor- mation about the collaborating institutions can be found at Amistad Research Center at https://www. amistadresearchcenter.org/ and the Rivers Institute of Contemporary Art and Thought at https:// riversinstitute.org/. An image of work by Alia Farid from the Amistad Research Center. mailto:agalloway%40ala.org?subject= http://www.ufdc.ufl.edu/ufndnp http://www.ufdc.ufl.edu/ufndnp https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ https://www.amistadresearchcenter.org/ https://www.amistadresearchcenter.org/ https://riversinstitute.org/ https://riversinstitute.org/