Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

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

Art Museum Futures Fund

to support the reinstallation and reinterpretation of the museum's permanent collection

Reinstallation Implementation

to support planning for the reinstallation and reinterpretation of the museum's permanent collection

Reinstallation Planning

to endow the position of chief conservator and to support research, travel, and the purchase of essential equipment

Conservation Endowment

General Operating Support

toward the establishment of a curatorial position with responsibility for the Museum's permanent collections

Museum Program

to support an initiative aimed at engaging artists in the documentation, conservation, and installation of their works in the museum's collection

The Artist Initiative

to establish the Asian Paintings Conservation Center at the Seattle Asian Art Museum

Asian Paintings Conservation Center

to support a curatorial position with specialization in Latinx art as part of Advancing Latinx Art in Museums

Advancing Latinx Art at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

toward early planning costs of exhibitions and publications relating to its permanent collection

Exhibitions/Publications

toward costs of producing a conservation training film

Conservation Training Film

to support a series of symposia on the changing state of the American orchestra

Meet Up San Francisco - Talking About American Orchestras

to support the institutional priorities of Katherine Luber, director of the San Antonio Museum of Art

New Directors' Initiatives

to support the transfer of humanities students from Foothill De-Anza Community College District to the University of San Francisco, as well as faculty collaborations on curriculum and pedagogy

Community College-University Partnerships

to continue support for the transfer of humanities students from Foothill De-Anza Community College District to the University of San Francisco, as well as faculty collaborations on curriculum and pedagogy

to endow the position of senior conservator of Asian art and support an associate conservator of Chinese paintings

Asian Conservation

for use by the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) in support of its further planning and development

Art Museum Image Consortium

to develop national systems for preservation of dance materials

Dance Archives

for a project with the Harvard Theatre and Dance Collection, the New York Public Library Dance Collection, and the Library of Congress to plan the formation of a national coalition of dance repositories

Dance Heritage Coalition

toward the costs of its efforts to document and preserve dance

Dance Documentation

to extend its efforts related to the documentation and preservation of dance

Dance Archive

to complete a national catalogue of dance materials

Dance Company Special Initiative

to establish the National Dance Heritage Coalition and to initiate programs in collaboration with the Harvard Theatre and Dance Collection, the New York Public Library Dance Collection, and the Library of Congress

to improve its efforts in documenting and preserving dance

Dance Preservation

to assist in the construction of the Institute's new studio building

New Studio Building

to support planning for an Asian Paintings Conservation Center

Asian Conservation Center Planning

to support the Pulse Check: Accountability and Activation of Future SF Monuments initiative

Pulse Check: Accountability and Activation of Future SF Monuments

to support planning for reinstallation of the museum’s Asian Collections

Reinstallation of the Asian Wing

to support conservation, digitization, research, engagement, and planning related to the school’s monumental public Diego Rivera fresco

Critical Collections

Faculty/Curriculum Development

to support the launch of an Asian American music initiative

Asian American Music Initiative

to support travel to assess the damage to the collections at the Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo

Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo

matching endowment for research and publication at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Art Museum Publication Program

To support three initiatives:  Keeping Score, an Internet radio station, an adult amateur orchestra, and chamber music activities

Artistic Initiatives

to support the development and production of new opera and capacity building

Artistic Initiatives and Organizational Development

to support a curator of the Asian collections and an emerging curatorial fellowships program

Museum Anthropology - Asian Collections

to support the director of public programs and senior curator positions as part of the Leadership in Art Museums Initiative

Leadership in Art Museums

to support a study of how four museum art research libraries might coordinate and centralize their core activities

Art  Museum Research Libraries 

matching endowment in support of its conservation program

Art Museum Program

to support Friends of Harvey Milk Plaza's organizational capacity and planning for Harvey Milk Plaza

Friends of Harvey Milk Plaza

to support artist residencies, commissions, and related audience development initiatives

Artistic Initiatives and Audience Development

Productions of New Commissions and a Major Revival

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" 