Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to develop a national clearing house for the collection and dissemination of information about careers particularly aimed at women of traditional college age

Women's Program

general support of the organization which assists educated women desirous of combining family responsibilities and outside employment

General Support

to help expand its Library and Information Center on women and work

Library and Information Center

Library and Information Technology Services

Expansion and Modernizing of Library Information Services

to support artistic expansion and exploration for Emily Johnson/Catalyst

Emily Johnson/Catalyst

to support a bubble residency for Emily Johnson/Catalyst

Emily Johnson / Catalyst Bubble Residency

to continue support for the Catalyst program, to advance equitable and inclusive practices in American orchestras

Catalyst Fund

The Catalyst Initiative

to continue support for the Catalyst Initiative

to continue support for Emily Johnson/Catalyst and the Build and Reworld Now Initiative

Build and Reworld Now: Catalyst Operating Grant 2024-2025

for support of Theatre, Inc. (Phoenix Theatre), New York

Theatre Inc.

to support Samora Pinderhughes and The Healing Project

The Healing Project

to support artistic expansion and exploration for DANCE IQUAIL!

Dance for Social Change

Empowerment Avenue

to support organizational capacity and implementation of the Mexicali Biennial as part of the Borderlands Culture Fund

Borderlands Culture: The Mexicali Biennial

to support community engagement residencies and the creation of artwork for What does PURPLE sound like?

What does PURPLE sound like?

to support a food and community-centering, social practice project by the People’s Kitchen Collective

People's Kitchen Collective

Maniobra Music Cohort

to support Anna Deavere Smith’s Pipeline: Girls project

Pipeline: Girls

to support the expansion of Migratuse Ataraxia through long-term, community-focused dance residencies in Columbia, SC, Montgomery, AL, and Harpersville, AL

Migratuse Reimagined

to support esperanza spalding's residency program 

PRISMID SANCTUARY Residencies

Seeding Residencies: RAIR 2.0

to support Justen Leroy's Lay Me Down in Praise

Justen Leroy, Lay Me Down in Praise

to support the PROTOTYPE: Opera/Theatre/Now Festival

PROTOTYPE

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

to support a creative “bubble” residency for Kinetic Light

Kinetic Light Bubble Residency

to support artistic expansion and exploration for Pioneer Winter Collective

Pioneer Winter Collective: Allied Bodies

to support visionary artists in their desire to combine a long-enduring art form and experimental technologies into contemporary narratives on behalf of a broadly diverse public

Uplifting the Voices of Opera Artists

to support artistic expansion and exploration for the feath3r theory

You Cannot Cover the Sun with Mud

to support capacity for artist-founded residency serving the creative global majority

Reimagined Residency

to support Hope Boykin's dance project honoring the legacy of Shirley Caesar and early administrative infrastructure for HopeBoykinDance

Hope Boykin & Shirley Caesar Project

to support artistic expansion and exploration for nora chipaumire and company chipaumire

nora chipaumire - Infrastructure, Independence, Sustainability

to support staff capacity, convening support, and documentation

Art, Living Culture and Art Justice

to support the End of Isolation docu-series

The End of Isolation

to support the National Partnership Project

NAATCO National Partnership Project

to support theatre programs, organizational capacity, and space improvements at the Andre Cailloux Center for Performing Arts & Cultural Justice

We Will Dream: New Works Festival at the Andre Cailloux Center for Performing Arts and Cultural Justice 

to support two think tanks to establish the initial grounding of the space, and work with Will Rawls to determine the ongoing advisory structure as well as his role at the organization in the long-term

Will Rawls, Artist as Leader

for use by its Center for Reading and Language Studies for research on the effectiveness of Classroom, Inc.

Center for Reading & Language Skills - Classroom Inc. Research

for use by its Center for Reading and Language Studies for research on Classroom Inc., an educational intervention that uses computer simulations

to support Zealous's storytelling initiatives

Zealous Inc.

in support of a computer-based course for high-school students in literacy and problem-solving skills

Classroom, Inc.

to support the Re-Site initiative including historian and artist stipends and public programming

Re-Site

for use by its Center for Reading and Language Studies for research on Classroom Inc., an educational innovation that uses computer simulations to increase high school students’ literacy and to introduce them to work-related activities

Beth Morrison Projects Inc - Capacity Building

to support capacity building and programming for Azul Arena

Azul Arena

to support a book edited by artist Jeffrey Gibson featuring the work of contemporary Indigenous artists

An Indigenous Present 

Intersectional Studies

to support Rennie Harris's company and curriculum, to broaden public understanding of hip-hop aesthetics and street dance culture

Building a Legacy of Street Dance

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" 