Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support capacity building, continued public events programming, new academic programs, and research activities

African Futures Institute

to support program planning and activities for the establishment of an independent graduate school of architecture and public events platform in Accra, Ghana

to support South African universities to institute seminar series on themes of historical and contemporary scholarly and wider public significance

Seminar Series: Mapping African Futures

to support the museum as a recipient of the Art Museum Futures Fund

Art Museum Futures Fund

to support the Southern African Legal Information Institute

Southern African Legal Information Institute 

to support the creation of a Disability Community Technology Center that provides guidance for developing disabled-led technology and disability-forward technological futures through humanities-based scholarship and arts outreach

Just Disability Tech Futures

to support the travel of African Plants Initiative partners to the 2007 annual meeting

African Plants Initiative

to support the creation of a digital database of images and information on African plants

to support the creation of a coordinated digital database of images and information on African plants

to continue support of the development of a coordinated digital database of images and information on African plants

to support the Avery Research Center in African American History and Culture in collection processing, digitization, and outreach and engagement activities

Ethnic Studies Futures: Africana Studies and African American Studies

to support the coordination of meetings related to the African Plants Initiative

African Plants Initiative Meetings

to support the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History in collection processing, digitization, and community and outreach engagement activities

to support a Just Futures Initiative project

Pacific Northwest Just Futures Institute for Racial and Climate Justice

toward costs of a conference on Transatlantic slaving and the African diaspora, co-sponsored with Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute

Transatlantic Slaving and African Diaspora Conference

to support programs that educate faculty on the economic challenges facing liberal arts colleges and their effects on institutional decision-making

Institute on College Futures

to support the California African American Museum as a recipient of the Art Museum Futures Fund

to support the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center in collection processing, digitization, and the planning/development of a conservation lab

to support the Schomburg Center in collection enhancement activities, including digital infrastructure improvements and user engagement efforts

to support collection processing, digitization, and outreach and engagement activities for the Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection and other Black history-related holdings at the Chicago Public Library

for use by its South African Information Exchange

South African Information Exchange

to support the creation of a digital database of images and information on African plants by the National Herbarium

to support the African Mathematics Millennium Science Initiative

African Millennium Mathematics and Science Initiative

to support the development of a coordinated digital database of images and information on African plants

to support the second phase of a South African public policy education program

South African Public Policy Education 

to support a reading and research seminar on African history for scholars from sub-Saharan Africa, the Americas, and Europe

African History Seminar

to support meetings of African Plants Initiative partners in South Africa and Madagascar

Plants Initiative 

to support the development of a project that will coordinate the efforts of botanic gardens and herbaria in Africa, the US, and Europe to create a digital resource of information on the plant resources of Africa

Digital Resource of African Plants Initiative

to support general operations at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts

support of audio-visual program in connection with Museum's exhibition on African Sculpture

Audio-Visual Orientation Program - "African Sculpture"

to support a faculty cluster hire in art of Africa and the African diaspora

Faculty Cluster Hire in Art of Africa and the African Diaspora

Just Futures Initiative: Democratizing Racial Justice: Remembering Histories, Transforming Futures

to continue support for staffing Art School Futures strategic planning, leadership development and convenings, curriculum opportunities, and culminating reports

Art School Futures

Artists as Catalysts

Artists as Catalysts Navigation Image

Beyond Incarceration

A side profile of a Black poet who is wearing glasses and a hat with a feather hat pin.

Borderlands Cultures

In portrait orientation, an aerial view of a major highway running parallel to a large border wall set on a hilly landscape

Civic Engagement

A man in a brown jacket stands in front of blue bulletin board that is covered with papers and advertisements  

Evolving Higher Education

A vertical image of an Indigenous person who is sitting on a chair in front of a backdrop.

Expanding Public Knowledge

An interior room filled with audio and video equipment 

Monuments and Memory

A multicolored painted totem pole set in front of a foggy forest landscape

Multivocality

Five people stand together in a group photo. They are laughing and smiling.

Power of the Word

Five colorful neon signs hang on the wall with messages that include, "Freedom cannot wait," "Brown owned," and "America is for Dreamers."

Public Places‚ Public Stories

A group of Indigenous Maskoke people stand and sit in the wooden frame of a structure in a woods

Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

In a vertical image, a black leather vest is adorned with colorful pins across the front of it. Embroidery on the vest reads: "Felícitas "La Prieta" Méndez" 