Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support capacity building for member organizations of the Cultural Reforestation project in Oakland

The Oakland Cultural Reforestation Project

to support capacity building for BlacSpace Cooperative as part of the Cultural Reforestation project in Oakland

to support the construction and furnishing of a new Black Box Theater at the historic New Granada building, the restoration of the marquee, and three years of support for public performing arts programming, including program staff and artist fees, with a focus on Black/African American heritage and culture

New Granada Square Black Box Theater 

to support capacity building and programs that seed the creative community in Baltimore

Black Creative Empowerment in Baltimore

to support organizational capacity and development for a community-focused project honoring the legacy of John Coltrane

John Coltrane House Museum and Cultural Arts Center

to support restoration work at the Mine Wars Museum and capital improvements and expanded programming at the West Edge Factory including a new black box theater and artist residency program

Mine Wars Museum and WestEdge Black Box Theater Project

to continue support for the transfer of San Diego Community College District students in the humanities to the University of California at San Diego, and assure their successful completion of the BA degree

Community College-University Partnerships

toward costs of establishing its programming department and to implement the Performing Arts Community Subsidy

Special Non-Profit Initiatives [Programming Department and Performing Arts Community Subsidy]

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 support the transfer of San Diego Community College District students in the humanities to the University of California at San Diego, and assure their successful completion of the BA degree

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

to support People's Media Record in the development of a shared repository infrastructure for the preservation of, and access to, community-based audiovisual media

Preservation of A/V Community-based Archives - Phase II

to support infrastructure capacity building for community-led archiving and audiovisual preservation

Preservation of Audiovisual Community-Based Archives

to support community-based archives in historic black towns and settlements

Community Archives of Historic Black Towns and Settlements

to support research and community engagement in the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor

Culture and Community at the Penn Center National Historic Landmark District

to support organizational development and capacity building for Women of Color in the Arts

Women of Color in the Arts

to support business planning for an organization that will maintain a registry of researchers for the purpose of disambiguating personal names

Business Development of the Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID)

toward equipment at the new Jamaica Arts Center

New Jamaica Arts Center

to support a professional training and development hub for Black theatre artists and technicians and to produce six plays by Indiana Black playwrights

District Theatre Project

in support of its program of managerial, entrepreneurial, and small-business development

Small Business Development

toward costs of its small-business development programs in Slovakia

EEP - Small Business Development Programs - Slovakia and the Czech Republic

to support program for devdopment of financial aid from the business community for its member colleges

Developing Business Community Financial Aid

to support organizational capacity, visioning and planning, and community engagement to develop a public monument in Portland’s Jade District

Jade District Canton Grill Monument

toward costs of its small-business and urban-development activities in Slovakia

EEP - Small Business Development

to sustain its research and development fund for programs in the arts and humanities

Public TV - Research and Development

to establish a research and development fund to encourage and assist programs in the arts and humanities

Research and Development Fund

to support the integration of business and the liberal arts and the establishment of a unified library and information services division

Senior President: Business and the Liberal Arts and Library and Information Services

to support the creation of A Monument to Listening, a new commemorative public artwork and landscape in Tom Lee Park, and related public programming

A Monument to Listening 

toward costs of programs to advance business training and development in Eastern Europe

EEP - Business Training 

to support  expanded community food, culture and arts  programmatic initiatives, increased staff, and renovation of food production space

Universe City

to support administrative and artistic infrastructure for the Era Footwork Collective

Expanding the Footprint of Chicago Footwork

for a business-and-marketing development program in Hungary to be conducted in cooperation with SPEDD, Inc

EEP - Business & Economic Development - Hungary

to support the UBUNTU Festival's online arts and humanities content, and a recital by Pretty Yende

UBUNTU: Music and Arts of South Africa Festival

for a business-and-marketing development program in Hungary to be conducted in cooperation with the Talent Foundation

to support interpretation planning, construction costs, public programming, and organizational capacity

Memorializing Historic Bethel Baptist Church and Its Role In The Modern Civil Rights Movement 

to support community-centered programming and capacity building

Community-Centered Programming

Faculty/Curriculum Development

to support planning and implementation of a new revenue management structure and changes to a subscription based business model

New Business Management Structure

to continue support for Sustainable Little Tokyo and a community curatorial fellowship program

Sustainable Little Tokyo and Community Curatorial Fellowship

to support capacity building for digital preservation infrastructure, staff, and collection maintenance

District Six Museum Archives and Memory Project

in support of small-business counseling and entrepreneurial training in Poland

EEP - Small-business Counseling and Entrepreneurial Training - Poland

to support cultural strategist placements within the City of Oakland government

Oakland Fund for Public Innovation

to support the creation of Rapid City Indian Boarding School Project’s Wakȟáŋyeža Wičhákiksuyapi Memorial

Rapid City Indian Boarding School Lands Project

to support the development of a new, large-scale music-theater piece exploring the real life of John Birch

Collaborative Production Development

to support Movement, an immigrant musician led platform for the amplification and celebration of immigrant music and stories

Celebrating Immigrant Musical Development and History

to support community engagement opportunities that integrate the arts into the university community and beyond

Community Engagement in the Arts and Arts Education

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" 