Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support core operations during the COVID-19 pandemic

Emergency Support for District Six Museum

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

District Six Museum Archives and Memory Project

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 planning of the New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium

New York Six Consortium 

to support continuing collaborative efforts of the New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium in the areas of library collections, information technology, and faculty development

to support planning for the collaborative work of the "New York Six" consortium, comprised of Hamilton, Hobart and William Smith, Skidmore and Union Colleges, and Colgate and St. Lawrence Universities

New York Six Consortium

to support the Claiborne Cultural Innovation District component of the Storia Project and related arts and cultural heritage programming

Claiborne Cultural Innovation District

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

for a cooperative faculty and curriculum development program in six Virginia colleges

Co-op Program for Six Virginia Colleges

to support continuing collaborative efforts of the New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium in the areas of globalization and language learning (in collaboration with Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Union College, and Colgate and St. Lawrence Universities)

New York Six Consortium - International Initiative

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

Art Museum Futures Fund

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

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

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

Art Museum Image Consortium

in support of the proposed public television series "Museum Profiles"

Museum Profiles

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

Museum of Broken Windows

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 strengthen curatorial research functions and publications

Museum Program

matching endowment for research and publication at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Art Museum Publication Program

to establish a photograph conservation department at the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia

Photograph Conservation - State Hermitage Museum

to support a digitization pilot project focused on the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation Collection

Digitizing and Providing Digital Access to the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation Collection for Exhibitions and Programming at the Black Panther Party Museum

matching endowment in support of its conservation program

Art Museum Program

matching endowment in support of research and publication of substantial scholarly quality at the Guggenheim Museum

for curatorial development and exhibitions related to the permanent collection

to support art and history programming at the Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum for visitors with dementia and their care partners

Stories Within

matching endowment for research and publication of substantial scholarly quality

to support capacity building for the Returning Artists Guild

The Returning Artists Guild

to support the development of the Chinati Foundation Archives

Chinati Foundation archives

to support community engagement, planning, inventory, and preservation

W.E.B. Du Bois Museum 

to support change capital, as part of the Foundation’s Comprehensive Organizational Health 

Comprehensive Organizational Health Initiative 

to support the development of the Obama Presidential Center Museum collection and plans for the museum's inaugural art installations

Obama Presidential Center Museum collection and art plan

to support the conservation and preservation of the Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum

Conservation and Preservation of the Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum

in support of the research-and-development phase of a public-television series on art museums

Art Museum Series

to support the establishment of a repository for contemporary art knowledge production on the continent and the development of a Pan-African Museum Fellowship

Africa Resource Centre and Pan-African Museum Fellowship

to support historic preservation and conservation work at the W.E.B. Du Bois Centre in Accra, Ghana as well as organizational development and capacity building

W.E.B. Du Bois House and Museum

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

Exhibitions/Publications

to support the Obama Presidential Center Museum’s plans for art programming

Obama Presidential Center Museum

support of Sports Foundation, Inc., which sponsors recreational programs for youth, educational guidance and job training

Exclusive Support of Sports Foundation

toward costs of participation in the National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools, and Teaching's project "Diversity and Excellence in Public Education"

National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools, and Teaching

to assist the Brooklyn Children's Museum to equip its new museum building

New Museum Equipment

to support a collections manager position as part of the Leadership in Art Museums Initiative

Leadership in Art Museums

matching grant for the Hagley Library to promote access to and use of its collections

Hagley Museum and Library

to support the reinstallation and reinterpretation of the museum's permanent collection

Reinstallation Implementation

to support planning for the reinstallation and reinterpretation of the museum's permanent collection

Reinstallation Planning

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" 