Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support the creation of a permanent outdoor space featuring original artworks designed to promote healing, truth-telling, and cultural preservation for Alaska Native peoples

Ngíisdla (Healing Garden Project)

General Operating Support

to support a master artist apprenticeship program

Artist-in-Residence Program

to support Indigenous programming for social change and community healing

The Utuqqanaatmiñ (“From Our Elders”) Project

to support planning for a research center for the study, practice, and scholarship of contemporary Native arts 

Native Arts Research Center Planning Grant

to continue support for the implementation of the Research Center for Contemporary Native Arts

Research Center for Contemporary Native Arts Implementation Grant

to renew support for dissertation completion fellowships for Native Alaskan scholars and others committed to the advancement of indigenous Alaskan history and culture

Native Alaskan Dissertation Completion Fellowships

to support capacity building and activation of the new Center for Native Arts and Cultures

Center for Native Arts and Cultures

to support the Native Hawaiian Cultural Heritage Network

Native Hawaiian Cultural Heritage Network

to continue support for the Native Hawaiian Cultural Heritage Network

to support general operations at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts

Art Museum Futures Fund

to support new curriculum and pedagogy in the teaching of Native American and Indigenous Studies

Indigenous Liberal Studies Program

to educate new faculty members about rural Alaska

Rural Alaska - Faculty

to support Muloma Heritage Center and Diaspora Kitchens’ site development; construction of teaching kitchens; and increased organizational capacity, including culinary and food scholar residencies to lead food programming

Muloma Heritage Center and Diaspora Kitchens 

to support efforts to strengthen the fields of Native and Indigenous studies through the Center for the Native Nations

California Center for Native Nations

to support the purchase and implementation of a new integrated library system

Migration to the Millennium - Integrated Library System

to continue support for expanded archaeological and historical research, a community center, and public programming for The Christiansborg Archaeological Heritage Project

Osu Castle-Christiansborg Archaeological Heritage Project

to continue support for the Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies Research with an expanded focus on Native student recruitment and the creation of a national network of Native American and Indigenous studies programs

Center for Native American and Indigenous Research Phase II

to support development of Native American and Indigenous language teaching pedagogies and digital resources

Native American Language Center

toward costs of the Alaska Environmental Planning Project

Alaska Environmental Planning Project

to support organizational capacity, training, and a regranting program for cultural heritage projects in sub-Saharan Africa

Heritage Management Project Africa

to support the strengthening of Native American and Indigenous Studies initiatives

Native American and Indigenous Studies Center

to support dissertation completion fellowships for Native Alaskan scholars and others committed to the advancement of indigenous Alaskan history and culture

Mellon Dissertation Fellowship Program

to support training of a cohort of emerging leaders for Native American cultural institutions

Native American Fellowships

to support the transfer of core staff and programs from Heritage Preservation, Inc

Heritage Preservation

to support Latinx heritage and historic preservation networks, organizational capacity, programming and advocacy, and an expanded digital humanities project

Latinos in Heritage Conservation

toward completion of its natural-heritage inventory of the United States

Natural Heritage Inventory

to support response efforts for the recovery of damaged cultural heritage resulting from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita

Hurricane Katrina Response

to support object-based art history graduate education, and to incorporate the study of Native American art into the Department of the History of Art

Native American and Object-centered Curriculum Development in the History of Art

to support a study of the characteristics of commercial/not-for-profit collaborations in the digitization and dissemination of cultural heritage materials

Cultural Heritage Materials

Native American Fellowship Program - Phase 2

to provide additional professional staff for its State Natural Heritage Program

State Natural Heritage Programs

to support The Blackivists in community-based archives work centered on Black lives in Chicago

"Diamond in the Back”: Excavating Chicago’s Black Cultural and Material Heritage

to support the development of Native/Indigenous studies

Native/Indigenous Studies Development

to support the Puerto Rico Architectural Heritage Archive

Puerto Rico Architectural Heritage Archive

toward the costs of further developing and applying techniques used in its State Natural Heritage Program

State Natural Heritage Program

to support curatorial capacity for the Native American collections, as well as research support for the permanent collection

Native American Art Curatorial Capacity Building

to continue development of the State Natural Heritage Program, and to help establish it as a continuing central part of the Conservancy

The Puerto Rico Architectural Heritage Archive

to support an investigation of needs for teaching with digital cultural heritage materials during the COVID-19 pandemic

Teaching with Cultural Heritage Online

for use by its Center for Reading and Language Studies for research on the effectiveness of Classroom, Inc.

Center for Reading & Language Skills - Classroom Inc. Research

to support a permanent exhibition at the Alliance Chapel, a traveling exhibition, student research, and public programming

The Alliance Heritage Center

for use by its Center for Reading and Language Studies for research on Classroom Inc., an educational intervention that uses computer simulations

to support strategic planning and design for community and cultural heritage spaces at the Old Barracks property in Christiansted, St. Croix

Old Barracks Rehabilitation Project

to establish the Center for Global Indigenous Cultures and a major in Native American and Indigenous studies

Institute for Native American and Indigenous Studies

to support undergraduate research and graduate school preparation in Native American studies

Native Narratives

to support capacity building and artistic programs

Native Theatre in the Twin Cities

to support capacity building for the Association for Heritage Preservation of the Americas

APOYOnline – Association for Heritage Preservation of the Americas

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" 