Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

toward early planning costs of exhibitions and publications relating to the permanent collection of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts

Exhibitions/Publications

to invite distinguished visiting curators, and to create a new permanent curatorship

Museum Program 

to support a new position of chief conservator

Chief Conservator

to support the programmatic expansion of the new Ignite/Arts Dallas initiative

Ignite/Arts Dallas

to support the Ignite/Arts Dallas initiative

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

Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo

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

Art Museum Futures Fund

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

Art  Museum Research Libraries 

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

Art Museum Image Consortium

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

The Future of Dallas Black Dance Theatre

to support collaborative programs to provide object-centered research and curatorial training to art history graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia Museum of Art/University of Pennsylvania Collaboration

for use by the Art Museum Library Consortium toward costs of the retrospective conversion of bibliographic records

Art Museum Library Consortium

to support a program to introduce Chinese museum professionals to American museum practices

Training of Chinese Museum Professionals

to provide a pilot program to introduce Chinese museum professionals to American museum practices

to support a pilot program to introduce Chinese museum professionals to American museum practices

to continue support for a program to introduce Chinese museum professionals to American museum practices

Training of Chinese Museum Professionals 

to support a fellowship as part of the pilot initiative to train Chinese museum professionals

to support a pilot initiative to train Chinese museum professionals

matching endowment in support of its conservation program

Art Museum Program

to support the development of Resources for Academic Art Museum Professionals (RAAMP)

Resources for Academic Art Museum Professionals

to continue support for the Museum Research Consortium, a program of curatorial fellowships, object-driven research, and seminars focused on the museum's collections, in partnership with five regional graduate programs in art history

Museum Research Consortium Renewal

matching endowment for research and publication at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Art Museum Publication Program

to support a final renewal for the Museum Research Consortium, an object-based training program in partnership with five regional graduate programs in art history

matching endowment in support of the Museum's conservation department

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" 