Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support a new visual and performing arts curriculum

Johnson C. Smith University Arts

to support the University’s information literacy institute

Information Literacy Institute

to develop a strategic technology planning initiative to enhance the University’s capacity to offer technology mediated instruction

Institution Building - Strategic Instructional Technology Plan

to support two libraries serving private, historically black colleges and universities

Libraries

to support the planning of a new arts curriculum

Arts Curriculum

to strengthen faculty and curricula in the arts and humanities

Black Colleges Program

Information Literacy Program

matching endowment for a Fund for Faculty and Curriculum Renewal in the arts and sciences

to support enhancement of the information literacy program

Information Literacy Enhancement

to support information literacy and digitization programs

Strategic Planning II

to support strengthening selected aspects of its programs

Institution Building - Strategic Planning

in support of faculty development and enhancement of the institution's general capacity to make more efficient use of its human resources

Institution Building - Interdisciplinary Studies II

to support a project to enhance the quality of interdisciplinary courses and the general capacity for more efficient use of human and financial resources

Institution Building - Interdisciplinary Studies I

to support career development initiatives for early-career faculty

Early Career Faculty Development Program

to support the expansion of the visual and performing arts curricula

Curriculum Expansion in the Arts

to support a suite of activities to expand the area and cultural studies programs

Strengthening Area and Cultural Studies

to support HBCU presidents’ efforts to recruit and retain new faculty members

Presidential Faculty Career Enhancement Fund

to support planning for and piloting of recruitment activities for the institution’s new arts curriculum

Recruitment and Retention - Visual and Performing Arts

to support the expansion of the interdisciplinary studies program

Teaching, Learning, and Solving Problems in the Interdisciplinary Humanities

to support enrollment stabilization efforts and emergency student needs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Emergency Student Support in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

to support a collaborative program that would strengthen academic libraries in collaboration with Johnson C. Smith University, Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, Inc., and Occidental, Saint Augustine’s Swarthmore, and Wellesley Colleges

Recruiting to the Library Profession III  

to support the Visiting Scholars Program at the James Weldon Johnson Institute

James Weldon Johnson Institute

to support a visiting scholars program in the James Weldon Johnson Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies

Johnson Institute Visiting Scholars Program

to support renewal of the Visiting Scholars Program at the James Weldon Johnson Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies

to support the surveying and cataloging of materials in the Sophia Smith Collection of Women’s History

Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History

to provide tie-off support for a program of visiting scholars and dissertation-completing graduate students at the James Weldon Johnson Institute

James Weldon Johnson Institute (Tie-Off)

to support artistic expansion and exploration for Emily Johnson/Catalyst

Emily Johnson/Catalyst

to support a bubble residency for Emily Johnson/Catalyst

Emily Johnson / Catalyst Bubble Residency

for use by the Smith College Museum of Art to strengthen the educational role of its collections and programs

College and University Art Museum Program Phase I: Spendable

toward editorial costs of the Papers of George Catlett Marshall

Papers of George C. Marshall

to support the archival collection at the David C. Driskell Center for the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, and a monument to the late artist and art historian

Critical Collections and Monument to David C. Driskell

to support programs of ecosystems research and training

Ecosystems Research and Training [Johnson]

to support ecological research and training

Ecosystems Research and Training - Johnson - Chile

to support the restoration of James Weldon Johnson's historic writing cabin, preservation planning for the site, and research

Writing Cabin Restoration 

to support the implementation of an online archive for Contemporary And

C& Cyclopedia

in support of a visiting fellowship in anthropological demography

Anthropological Demography Fellowships - Smith

New Directions Fellowship (Smith)

for use by its art museum to enhance the educational role of the collections and programs

to establish an endowment to strengthen the curricular role of the Museum's collections and programs

College and University Art Museum Program Phase II: Endowment

to support a program of ecological research and training

Ecosystems Research - Smith/Wagner

Research Bridges South Africa [Smith]

to support a pilot study to explore the relationship between linguistic variation in a large corpus of early modern English texts and the development of genres of printed discourse

Visualizing English Print from c.1470 to 1800 

to support the research initiative Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives in a Global Age

C-MAP Postdoctoral Fellowships

to support ongoing scholarly activities by a former New Directions Fellowship recipient

New Directions Post-Fellowship Award (Smith)

to support further development of software and techniques for analysis of the relationship between linguistic variation in a large corpus of early modern English texts and the development of genres of printed discourse

Visualizing English Print from c 1470 to 1800 - Phase II

to develop a pilot program for future exchange initiatives between American liberal arts colleges and the University of Cape Town and other South African universities, in collaboration with Wellesley College

Exchange Initiatives 

to support a pilot residency program for artists at New York University

Artists Without Borders

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" 