Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to establish and support an office of Coordinator of Research Activities at the Huntington Library

Endowment

to support the cataloging of unprocessed manuscript collections in the Huntington Library

Improving Access to California Historical Collections 

matching endowment in support of its conservation department

Library Conservation

to support staff training and development initiatives at the library

Training and Professional Development 

toward costs of improving the care and management of library collections

Specialized Research Centers/Libraries

to support the new position of chief conservator for the art collection

Conservation Capacity

to establish "The Andrew W. Mellon Fund," the income to be used to facilitate use of the Library's collections by qualified scholars

to support the position of senior paintings conservator

Senior Paintings Conservator

to establish three postdoctoral Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellowships

Curatorial Fellowships - Phase I 

matching grant to promote access to and use of its collections

Fellowship Program

to support a Mellon Seminar in Interpretation

Dissertation Seminars 

to support the endowment of a distinguished fellowship in 19th-century American history

Distinguished Fellowship

toward costs of postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities

Postdoctoral Fellowships - Humanities

matching endowment in support of core functions

Independent Research Libraries Program

toward costs of collecting data on the finances of independent research libraries

Independent Research Libraries - Financial Data

to support specific initiatives to strengthen the care of and improve access to research collections

Strengthening Care and Access to Research Collections

to support postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities and humanistic social sciences (in collaboration with Henry E. Huntington Library & Art Gallery)

Postdoctoral Fellowships 

to support summer training institutes in vernacular paleography in collaboration with the Folger Shakespeare Library, Getty Research Institute, Henry E. Huntington Library & Art Gallery, and Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin

Paleography Consortium 

to support summer institutes for training in paleography in collaboration with the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Getty Research Institute, the Henry E. Huntington Library & Art Gallery, and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin

David E. Finley Fellowships

fellowships for training of museum curators

to support the selection, documentation, and digitization of images for ArtSTOR’s Image Gallery

ARTstor Image Gallery 

to support the development of an undergraduate program in visual culture with The Huntington Library

What the Eye Beholds: The Caltech-Huntington Library Joint Program in Visual Culture

in support of the Conservation Department and the library

for support of library acquisition program

Library Acquisition Program

for use by the Yale University Art Gallery in support of its art-conservation program

Yale University Art Gallery

to support further development of the e-codices digital library of medieval manuscripts

E-codices: Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland - Production Phase

to support the Progreso Community Gallery

Progreso Community Gallery

to support the selection, documentation, and digitization of images for ARTstor’s Image Gallery

to support the production of digitized images to be included in ARTstor’s Image Gallery

to support activities aimed at strengthening scholarship in art history

Art History Centers - Phase III

to support the incorporation of digitized images into ArtSTOR’s Image Gallery

ARTstor Image Gallery Collections 

to support activities to strengthen scholarship in art history at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts

Art History Centers - Phase I

Art History Centers - Phase II

as permanent endowment to be matched over five years by $45,000,000, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Gallery's opening, with the intention of helping the Gallery to secure several of its most important programs in perpetuity and catalyzing major support from other donors

75th Anniversary Endowment

to support a planning process that involves community engagement and arts programming for the Henry O. Tanner House

Henry Ossawa Tanner House

Henry Street Children's School

matching endowment for research and publication

Art Museum Publication Program

toward costs of editing the papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe

Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe

support of library acquisition program in connection with establishment of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts

Center for the Advanced Study of the Visual Arts

to support a curator of Native American art position as part of the Leadership in Art Museums Initiative

Leadership in Art Museums

toward completion of the Gallery's building program

Gallery's Building Program

toward completion of the Gallery's East Building program

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

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" 