Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support core operations through the New York Theater Program

New York Theater Program

to provide general operating support, as part of the New York Theater Program

to support the breakdance community in developing sustainable creative careers in the arts and advocacy for an inclusive narrative of hip-hop history

Honoring Breakdancing in Hip-Hop

to support the programs of the American Dance Festival

Connecticut College: Theater Component, Project: Music and Dance, Total Theater - American Dance Festival

to continue support for the Master Artists Residency program with additional funding for Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Ideas Festival

Master Artists in Communities: Ideas Festival

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Jonathan Fenderson

New Directions Fellowship: Project Noise: NYC Public Housing, Neoliberalism & the Ascent of Hip-Hop America

to support capacity building for a festival celebrating classical musicians of African descent

Gateways Festival

to continue support for a festival celebrating contributions of African American orchestral and chamber musicians and its first tour to New York City

to support the Compassionate Borders Festival and Symposium

Compassionate Borders Festival and Symposium

for development of ways to increase earned and contributed income

Short-Season Theatre/Dance Program

to support the Southern Writers’ Project

National Theater Program

to support artistic initiatives and organizational development

Spring for Music Orchestra Festival

Southern Writers Project [National Theater Program]

to develop and extend its artistic activity

Seasonal Theatre/Dance Program

to support the activities of The Coalition of Professional Non-Profit Theaters

The Coalition of Professional Non-Profit Theaters

to support the Improvise! festival and conference exploring improvisation and the orchestra

Improvise! Festival

to strengthen specific aspects of the institution, within a selective program to assist 18 American theaters

Theater Program

toward costs of the Lincoln Center Festival

Summer Festival

Obsidian Theatre Festival

to support the Orchestra’s American Music Festival

American Music Festival

to support its 2005 youth company summer play festival

Summer Play Festival

2004 Dance Festival

to support its festival for emerging composers

Emerging Composers Festival

to support the American Music Festival and related composer activities

to support planning for the Illuminating Islam festival

Illuminating Islam Festival 

Lincoln Center Festival

to support the 2005 International Hispanic Theatre Festival

International Hispanic Theatre Festival

to support the For Freedoms Festival, a national conference and partner convention

For Freedoms Festival 2020

to support local and international artist fees and logistics for the Ubumuntu Arts Festival and organizational development

Ubumuntu Arts Festival 

Fall for Dance Festival

to support the King Boston Embrace Ideas Festival in 2022 and 2023

King Boston Embrace Ideas Festival

to support the 2005 Fall for Dance Festival

to support Prototype, an annual contemporary opera music-theater festival

Contemporary Music - Theatre and Opera Festival

to support the incoming president and artistic director’s vision

Expansive Vision for Gateways Music Festival

to strengthen specific aspects of the theater within a selective program to assist American theaters

to endow and support the Fall for Dance Festival

Fall for Dance Festival Endowment

to support editing of video documentation from the John Cage Centennial Festival

John Cage Festival Video Documentation

to support activities in the LuEsther Lab

Artists as Catalysts

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Beyond Incarceration

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Borderlands Cultures

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Civic Engagement

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Evolving Higher Education

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Expanding Public Knowledge

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Monuments and Memory

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Multivocality

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Power of the Word

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Public Places‚ Public Stories

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Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

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