Fractured Atlas

National Black Cultural Information Trust

Founded in 2002, Fractured Atlas is an arts service organization with the goal of empowering the arts community with techniques and methods that are scalable and sustainable, such as technology and educational resources. Its project, the National Black Cultural Information Trust (NBCIT) uses communications, media, and cultural storytelling to share information and resources that correct and challenge cultural misinformation and disinformation surrounding reparations, racial and ethnic identity, anti-Blackness, and other false narratives that harm Black communities. Its work aims to uplift the collective survival and freedom of Black communities through trainings, dissemination of educational tools, and webinars. This award provides flexible support to NBCIT.

Fractured Atlas is a national organization that supports the arts and culture community through a variety of programs and services. The award supports Down for the Count: Black in 2020, a conference that will bring together a group of interdisciplinary experts to explore how artificial intelligence and related technologies might impact Black people during the 2020 census and U.S. election cycle.

Sustain Arts

Fractured Atlas, Inc. is a national organization that supports the arts and culture community through a variety of programs and services including: fiscal sponsorship, insurance, technology, advocacy, and research. Sustain Arts is a fiscally-sponsored project of Fractured Atlas. Sustain Arts is a regionally-focused, web-based data-visualization program that uses data sets from sources such as the U.S. Census and the National Endowment of the Arts Survey of Public Participation in the Arts to provide information to arts and culture organizations about their potential audience and the funding landscape. The web-based program creates a common understanding among the arts and culture sector about what types of organizations are located in which neighborhoods or areas; analyzes links among funding sources, demographic groups, and cultural participation; and prompts conversations about data collection among arts and culture institutions.
This award supports the public launch of the platform, ongoing technology maintenance and improvements, renewing data sets, and communications and engagement related to the platform

Fractured Atlas, Inc. is a national organization that supports the arts and culture community through a variety of programs and services including: fiscal sponsorship, insurance, technology, advocacy, and research. In recent years it has developed its expertise in creating technology solutions to common challenges such as ticketing, donor management, and finding performance space. This grant funds the research and planning phase of developing open data standards for arts data, which will improve the field’s operating efficiency, technical capabilities, ability to access what is often already public information, and overall resilience. This grant is the first step in what we expect will be a multi-phased project, leading eventually to a common arts calendar for Chicago and other information resources for the City based on a system of integrated arts data.