Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support the long-serving curator of African art

Curator of African Art

to support two postdoctoral curatorial fellowships in African American art

Curatorial Fellowships

to establish an endowment to strengthen the curricular role of the Spencer Museum of Art's collections and programs

College and University Art Museum Program Phase II: Endowment

to establish a permanent endowment to strengthen the educational role of the museum’s collections and programs

College and University Art Museum Program Phase I: Endowment

to increase the Museum's permanent endowment for existing curatorial and conservation fellowships

Fellowships Endowment

to establish a permanent endowment for the Senior Curatorship of Costume and Textiles; to establish a permanent endowment for the Associate Curatorship of Arms and Armor; and to support the Associate Curatorship of Arms and Armor while endowment funds are raised

Curatorial Endowment

to establish an endowment to strengthen the curricular role of the Ackland Museum of Art's collections and programs

matching endowment in support of its conservation program

Conservation Endowment

matching endowment to strengthen the educational role of the Hood Museum of Art’s collections and programs

College Art Museum Endowment Challenge Phase I: Endowment

matching endowment for use by its museum to strengthen the educational role of collections and programs

to support the organization of archival materials and creation of oral histories about the Colored Masonic Temple in Birmingham, Alabama

Masonic Temple Birmingham

General Endowment

matching endowment in support of its conservation department

Conservation Endowment - Fellows

to establish a permanent endowment in support of one Senior Conservatorship and three post-graduate conservation fellowships and to support publication and presentation projects directly related to conservation

Conservation Endowment 

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

Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo

to support an endowment for the position of research scientist, and to support the purchase of essential scientific equipment

Conservation Scientist Endowment

to support a Photograph Conservatorship endowment and a Paper Conservatorship endowment, for the hire of a Photograph Conservator; and $200,000 in spendable funds

to strengthen the permanent endowment for scholarly publications

Scholarly Publications - Endowment

to establish a permanent endowment for the conservation department, to support partially the salaries and benefits of the director of conservation and the associate conservator while matching funds are being raised

to establish an endowment in support of the museum's curator of Native arts position, of which $2,000,000 is to be matched one-to-one over approximately three years; and $250,000 in spendable funds, for use over approximately 64 months, to support a curatorial fellowship in Native American art

Native Arts Curator Endowment

to support the endowment of the position of Senior Curator of European Painting and Sculpture

European Curator Endowment

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

Art Museum Futures Fund

to endow permanently the position of curatorial chair in Chinese art and to support the position of assistant or associate curator of Chinese art while matching funds are raised

to establish an endowment to strengthen the curricular role of the Museum's collections and programs

for use by the Spencer Museum of Art to strengthen the educational role of its collections and programs

College and University Art Museum Program Phase I: Spendable

to create and endow two midlevel curatorial positions and to support a senior curatorship of Japanese and Korean art

to endow the position of curator of ancient art

Curatorial Endowment - Ancient Art

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

Art  Museum Research Libraries 

to support an endowment to strengthen the educational role of the Davis Museum and Cultural Center's collections and programs

to strengthen the academic role of the Smart Museum of Art's collections and programs

to establish an endowment to strengthen the curricular role of the Allen Memorial Art Museum's collections and programs

matching endowment for two senior curatorial positions and to establish two Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellowships

Curatorial Endowment and Curatorial Fellowships - Phase I

Art Museum Program

to support an endowment to strengthen the educational role of collections and programs

to establish a permanent endowment for the position of senior scientist

Senior Scientist Endowment

Artists as Catalysts

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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" 