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African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund announces $3.8 million in 2023 grants to preserve 40 historic sites

2023-06-13T17:43:00-04:00

The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund has announced $3.8 million in 2023 grant funding to protect and preserve 40 sites representing African American history. Established in 2017, the Action Fund, which has raised more than $95 million, is the largest U.S. fund dedicated to preserving historic African American sites.

Since its inception, the Action Fund has received a total of 5,638 funding proposals requesting $655 million. The program has been able to support 242 grantee projects through its investment of $20 million.

2023 grant site: Morgan State University’s Jenkins Hall in Baltimore, Maryland. Photo: Troy Pumphrey Jr., image courtesy National Trust for Historic Preservation.

“The Action Fund’s investment in and celebration of 40 historic African American places illustrates our belief that historic preservation plays an important role in American society,” said Brent Leggs, African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund exe...

Justin Garrett Moore is proposing a 'Department of Care' for NYC

2021-10-29T12:41:00-04:00

The Department of Care should be designed to break through bureaucratic silos. Caring for public space will require multiple agencies to invest time and resources, and to work collaboratively with local stakeholders who know their communities best. This means having everyone at the table: from the Departments of Transportation, Sanitation, and Health to the Parks Department and the city’s Economic Development Corporation to Small Business Services and Cultural Affairs.

Mayor de Blasio appears to have reneged on his police 2020 commitment to taking $1 billion out of the annual NYPD budget. Justin Garrett Moore, who left the city's Public Design Commission in December and was appointed to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts by President Biden this year, has been a leading figure in the push for design justice initiatives in New York.

#CareNotCops
What if cities instead had billions in funding for a Department of Care? What if NYC had a $6 billion annual budget for the better care for our people, our places, and our planet?
— Justin Garrett Moore (@jgmoore) June 8, 2020

"What if cities instead had billions in funding for a Department of Care? What if NYC had a $6 billion annual budget for the better care for our people, our places, and our planet?" Moore stated on Twitter. He added that his concept was influenced by political theorist Joan Tronto's definition of care that first appeared in her seminal 1993 text Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for ...

Marina Tabassum, Justin Garrett Moore among 2021 American Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award Winners

2021-04-16T13:45:00-04:00

The American Academy of Arts and Letters awards Marina, Tabassum, Justin Garrett Moore, Julie Eizenberg and Hank Koning, Dwayne Oyler and Jenny Wu, and Ersele Kripa and Stephen Mueller as the 2021 architecture award winners.

The jury chair Anabelle Selldorf and fellow jury members, including Steven Holl, Toshiko Mori, Thom Mayne, and Billie Tsien, selected this year's winners from a group of 32 nominated individuals and practices. The Academy awards four cash prizes that will provide further funding for each architect and designer in their efforts to pursue the realms of creative exploration within architecture.

Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize

Award Details: A prize of $20,000 is awarded to an architect of any nationality who has made a significant contribution to architecture as an art.

Marina Tabassum: She is the founding principal of Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA) located in Dhaka, Bangladesh...

Justin Garrett Moore to join Mellon Foundation to "widen the range of complex public storytelling"

2020-12-03T14:01:00-05:00

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation today announced Justin Garrett Moore as the inaugural program officer for its new Humanities in Place program area. He will join the Foundation on December 16, 2020.

According to the Foundation, the Humanities in Place program "seeks to bring a variety of histories and voices into public, media, museum, and memorial spaces, widening the range of complex public storytelling." Moore will lead the effort, also partnering with the Foundation's president to shape and lead the Foundation's Monuments Project, which is a five year, $250 million commitment to reshape the US's commemorative landscape.

"Justin’s design and planning work is generous, creative, and geared toward impact. His work has resulted in truly transformative public spaces," said Mellon Foundation President Elizabeth Alexander in a statement. "He is an innovative, collaborative designer and educator who prioritizes the power of public design to help solve major challenges. I look forward to...