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The Anacostia Community Museum falls under the purview of the Smithsonian Institute, but funding opportunities still must be acted upon swiftly, said Tykia Warden, the development director at the museum located in Southeast Washington, D.C. /Photo by Bernadette Dare
Black Museums Fight for Funding Association President Scolds Those Offering ‘Negro Money’ By Stacy M. Brown WI Contributing Writer Prior to a house fire five years ago that destroyed much of her heralded assemblage of 19thand 20th-century paintings, which included pieces by Edward Mitchell Bannister, Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden,
Peggy Cooper Cafritz reportedly owned one of the largest private collections of African and African-American art in the world. Today, the Northwest Washington, D.C., arts patron said she’s concerned about the future of black museums and she hopes that public and private donors will step up to the plate.
“Hopefully, Congress, the Senate and the administration would see what the needs are for our African-American museums and do something about it,” said Cafritz, 67. “I think art funding has been cut all across the board and obviously it affects black museums more than others.” Cafritz said it’s more import-
ant than ever for her and other private donors to ramp up their offerings, even though she cautioned that the pockets of African-American benefactors aren’t as deep as other groups. Significant funding has continued to elude black museums and officials throughout the industry said the search for fund-
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ing reveals an age-old problem. “We’ve been screaming very loud for 20 years that the major funding sources are ignoring us or giving us what we call, ‘Negro money,’” said Sam Black, president of the Association of African American Museums in Northeast Washington. “Negro
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