Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support educational programming, improvements in archival infrastructure, and the renovation of the Blue Bird Inn

Reimagining The Blue Bird Inn

to support the needs of the community-based archive

Support for Community-Based Archives

matching endowment for research and publication at the Detroit Institute of Arts

Art Museum Publication Program [Detroit Institute Arts]

to support the completion of the Detroit Arab-American Study

Detroit Arab-American Study

to continue development of the State Natural Heritage Program, and to help establish it as a continuing central part of the Conservancy

State Natural Heritage Programs

to support research in historical sound archives

Historical Sound Archives

to support a new residency program for sound artists

Sound Art Residencies

to support organizational development for the record label BMOP/sound

Organizational Development - BMOP/sound

to continue support for responsive engagement with the citizens of Detroit and pathways initiatives for musicians from underrepresented communities

Social Progress Initiative and African American Fellowship program

to support improving access to the Goldin collection in the Marr Sound Archives

Cataloging the Marr Sound Archives

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

What does PURPLE sound like?

to support a bachelor’s degree program for incarcerated women

Freedom Education Project Puget Sound

to continue support for a residency program for sound artists

Sound Art and Experimental Music Residency Program

to support experiments in optical methods of recovering sound from mechanical audio recordings

Audio Preservation [Sound Recovery from Mechanical Recordings]

toward the purchase of sound and lighting equipment at the Theatre's Muse Cultural Center

Sound and Lighting Equipment for Muse Cultural Center

to assist this arts council in purchasing lighting and sound equipment for use in community art programs

Lighting and Sound Equipment for Community Art Programs

to support the development and presentation of contemporary operas in main-stage and neighborhood venues

Artistic Initiatives

for development of ways to increase earned and contributed income

Regional Opera Program

to support the presentation of contemporary operas in community-based settings 

Opera of Our Time

to continue support for the Opera of our Time Initiative

toward support of its Ecosystem Research Program

Ecosystems Research

for use toward a program of ecological research

Ecological Research

toward support of its revolving Land Preservation Fund

Land Preservation Fund

toward completion of its natural-heritage inventory of the United States

Natural Heritage Inventory

toward the costs of further developing and applying techniques used in its State Natural Heritage Program

State Natural Heritage Program

Pennsylvania Chapter-Research Program

toward costs of a workshop to explore collaboration with museums and other systematics research institutions

Systematics Research Institutions Collaboration

to provide additional professional staff for its State Natural Heritage Program

Disaster Recovery Relief Fund

to support organizational development and activities aimed at the alignment of college admissions practices with educational principles

College Admissions Practices

to provide partial support for the salary, benefits, and equipment needs of a second conservation scientist while matching funds are raised to endow the existing senior scientist position

Conservation Scientist Endowment

to endow the position of senior conservation scientist, and to support the purchase of essential scientific equipment

matching endowment in support of its conservation department

Art Museum Program

for an advanced conservation apprentice training program

Advanced Conservation Training

to support the "Grand Bargain" that will enable the museum to hold its collections for the public in perpetuity

Perpetual Ownership of Assets

to establish a permanent endowment in support of curatorial research and travel and a program for visiting curatorial specialists

Curatorial Research and Visiting Scholar Endowment

to support the maintenance of monuments in the northern half of Central Park, including the monument to replace the removed monument to J. Marion Sims

Central Park Statue Maintenance

matching endowment to establish the Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellowship and the Curatorship of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

AWMF Curatorial Endowment and Curatorial Fellowships - Phase I

to establish three postdoctoral Mellon Curatorial Fellowships

AWMF Curatorial Endowment and Curatorial Fellowships - Phase II

for use by the University Archives in developing appraisal guidelines for scientific and technological materials

Urban Universities Program

to strengthen the liberal arts curriculum and faculty in its College of Arts and Sciences

Curriculum and Faculty

to support leadership training for senior and midlevel staff

Leadership Training

supplemental award for permanent endowment

Symphony Orchestra Program

to endow the Social Progress Initiative and related community engagement work

Social Progress Initiative

to support multidisciplinary artist residencies

Artist Residencies

to support artistic and new media initiatives

New Media and Artistic Initiatives

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" 