RISD Museum gets $1 million grant

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $1 million grant to the RISD Museum of Art in Providence to create an endowment to support a three-year postdoctoral curatorial fellowship in the Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, the museum announced last week. The grant aims to increase academic use of the 26,000-works collection, housed in the Minskoff Center at the RISD Museum’s new Chace Center, by faculty and students at Brown and RISD.

Photo of RISD’s Minskoff Center by Warren Jagger, 2008.