Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support the launch of an Asian American music initiative

Asian American Music Initiative

to continue support for community and artist-informed programming

Community-Informed Arts Programming

to support capacity building and related community-informed arts programming

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

Asian Conservation

to support planning for the reinstallation of the Asian and Islamic collections

Asian and Islamic Collections

to support rethinking Asian American issues on campus in a global, diasporic, and collaborative framework through community-engaged, public-facing scholarship and teaching through the Global Asias Initiative

Global Asias Initiative: Reframing Asian American Studies and Asian Studies at UMBC 

to continue support for the reinstallation of the museum's Asian and Islamic Galleries

Asian and Islamic Collections - Phase II

to support the Tennessee Arts & Humanities Initiative

Tennessee Arts & Humanities Initiative

to support a pilot initiative aimed at strengthening and redirecting the evolving field of Asian studies

Rethinking Asian Studies in a Global Context

for computerization of the Bibliography of Asian Studies

Bibliography of Asian Studies

for policy research on Asian Pacific immigrants in the United States

Asian Pacific Immigrants

to support the planning of an initiative for the textual analysis of East Asian literature

East Asian Studies Macroscope

for programs bringing humanistic approaches to the understanding of contemporary Asian issues

Asian Issues

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

Asian Paintings Conservation Center

to support the Integrated Arts Research Initiative

Integrated Arts Research Initiative

to continue support for the Puerto Rico Arts Initiative

Puerto Rico Arts Initiative

to support the publication of scholarly monographs in the humanities, in collaboration with the University of California and the University of Chicago

Monographs Initiative - South Asian Studies 

for use of The Asia Society, Inc., of New York City, in support of its Asian Literature Program

Asian Literature Program

to support planning for an Asian Paintings Conservation Center

Asian Conservation Center Planning

to support the development of an Asian studies program

Asian Studies 

to support an interdisciplinary leadership training initiative that will use the arts to develop antiracism practices

Antiracism Arts Initiative (AAI)

to support the increased capacity for presenters in Southern US states to program modern dance and ballet through the Dance Touring Initiative

Dance Touring Initiative

to continue support for the undergraduate education of refugee students in Bangladesh, including Rohingya and Afghan women


Supporting Refugee Students to Achieve Academic Success through the Humanities and Arts

to support the undergraduate education of refugee students in Bangladesh, including Rohingya and Afghan women

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

Museum Anthropology - Asian Collections

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

Reinstallation of the Asian Wing

to continue support for the Integrated Arts Research Initiative

Integrated Arts Research Initiative Phase 2

to support a working group for South Asian experimental dance artists

South Asian Experimental Dance Artists

to support the Knowledge Generation and Sharing initiative

Knowledge Generation and Sharing initiative

toward maintaining the strengths of its programs in East Asian Studies

East Asian Studies

toward maintaining the strengths of its programs in Southeast Asian Studies

Southeast Asian Studies

to increase its library resources in support of East Asian studies

East Asian Library

to support a series of faculty study and travel seminars in India, Thailand, Indonesia, and Japan

Faculty Enhancement Program - Deepening Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts

toward maintaining the strengths of its programs in South Asian Studies

to support continued work on the selection, documentation, and digitization of images of Asian art and architecture to be incorporated in ARTstor’s Image Gallery

Southeast Asian Art

to support a pilot curriculum-based arts initiative at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

Krannert Center - Pilot Curriculum - Based Arts Initiative

in support of planning activities for improved organization and access to major collections of South Asian manuscript materials in United States libraries

South Asian Manuscripts

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" 