Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

Alonzo King LINES Ballet Legacy Project

to support a creative “bubble” residency

Alonzo King LINES Ballet Bubble Residency

to support artistic expansion and exploration

The Future of Ballet

to establish new faculty lines in the humanities

Institutional Excellence Initiatives - Faculty Lines

to support the activities of the memory lab at King County Library System

Support for Public Library Memory Labs: King County Library System

for use by the Hartford Ballet School to enhance the effectiveness of teaching classical ballet through curricular, faculty, and administrative development

Ballet Training

to enhance training in classical ballet through curricular, faculty, and administrative development

Ballet Training Program

to establish an artistic director's discretionary fund at the Eliot Feld Ballet

Ballet Program

to establish an artistic director's discretionary fund at the American Ballet Theatre

for use by the Ballet School to enhance the effectiveness of teaching classical ballet through curricular, faculty, or administrative development

Ballet Program - Training

for use by its Ballet School to enhance the effectiveness of teaching classical ballet through curricular, faculty, or administrative development

to enhance the effectiveness of teaching classical ballet through curricular, faculty, and administrative development

to assist the Eliot Feld Ballet in developing ways to increase earned and contributed income

to assist the American Ballet Theatre in developing ways to increase earned and contributed income

to support commissioning of new work for American Ballet Theatre, in collaboration with Boston Ballet, Houston Ballet, and San Francisco Ballet

Repertory Companies - Ballet Choreographer Development 

to commission new choreographic work, including fresh adaptations of existing pieces, for the repertoire of the Feld Ballet

to commission new choreographic work, including fresh adaptations of existing pieces, for the repertoire of the American Ballet Theatre

to establish an artistic director's discretionary fund at the New York City Ballet

to establish an artistic director's discretionary fund at the Joffrey Ballet

for use by Ballet Hispanico of New York to enhance the effectiveness of teaching classical ballet through curricular, faculty, or administrative development

to enhance the effectiveness of teaching classical ballet through curricular, faculty, or administrative development

to support the Martin Luther King, Jr. Collection

The Morehouse King Collection

to support an expanded company that will explore new community connections and practices for ballet

An Expanded Miami City Ballet - Beyond Miami

to support the King Boston Embrace Ideas Festival in 2022 and 2023

King Boston Embrace Ideas Festival

toward support of the publication costs of The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr .

Martin Luther King Jr. Papers

to support improving scholarly access to collections of the papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. Collection

Martin Luther King Jr. Collection II

to support planning for a collaborative cataloging project with Robert W.Woodruff Library to develop a cross-searchable catalog of the Martin Luther King, Jr. collections

to support an archivist and curator to manage and handle the books and papers of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Archives

to support improving scholarly access to the Morehouse College King Collection

Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Collection

to commission new choreographic work, including fresh adaptations of existing pieces, for its repertoire

for development of ways to increase earned and contributed income

Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Collection II

to support supplementary software development and documentation for the collaborative cataloging of the Martin Luther King, Jr. collection

Software Programmer for Martin Luther King Jr. Collection

to support a software programmer to enhance the open source application used for cataloging the Martin Luther King, Jr. collections

to support access to records from a database of documents held by the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute

Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute

to enhance the effectiveness of teaching classical ballet through curricular faculty, and administrative development

Artists as Catalysts

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Beyond Incarceration

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Borderlands Cultures

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Civic Engagement

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Evolving Higher Education

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Expanding Public Knowledge

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Monuments and Memory

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Multivocality

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Power of the Word

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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" 