Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support a new permanent exhibit, postdoctoral fellowship, and other programs

The Lower East Side Tenement Museum

toward costs of organizing the Museum's archives

Archive Project

to support the institution following losses incurred as a result of the events of September 11, 2001

Disaster Recovery Relief Fund

General Support

to support of the International Children's Center which coordinates a variety of programs primarily for the children of United Nations diplomatic personnel, Secretariat staff members and children of the neighborhood

general support

support of its college-level educational programs at the Museum's Art Resources Center in Manhattan's Lower East Side

College-Level Educational Programs

to support organizational capacity and planning for the preservation and renovation of the center

South Side Community Art Center

to support the construction of Wakáŋ Tipi Center, a Dakota environmental interpretative and cultural facility, and related staffing and exhibition costs

Wakan Tipi Mounds Lower Phalen Creek

to support a two-part initiative to advance the field of photograph conservation in Russia in collaboration with the American Friends of The State Hermitage Museum

State Hermitage Museum Collaboration

support of the programs of Boys Brotherhood, a Lower East Side boys' club

Regular Annual

to support the ancient Near East gallery reinstallation project

Reinstallation of the Ancient Near Eastern Galleries

general support of the programs of Boys Brotherhood, a Lower East Side boys' club

for support of its summer camp program for boys from the Lower East Side of New York

Summer Camp Program

to support planning and capacity building as a result of its selection as an anchor organization at the new performing arts facility to be constructed at the former World Trade Center site

Lower Manhattan Redevelopment Project

New Directions Fellowship (Lower)

to support the next phase of the Middle East Photograph Preservation Initiative, in collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Getty Conservation Institute, and the Arab Image Foundation

Middle East Photograph Preservation Initiative

to support research on several aspects of the debate over race and diversity in higher education

Analysis of Supply Side of Minority Admissions 

to support the needs of the community-based archive

Support for Community-Based Archives

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

New Directions Post-Fellowship Award (Lower)

to support a developmental and production initiative for dance artists

Dance Residencies

to support the Extended Life dance residency program

Extended Life Residency Program

to support a final round of support for the Extended Life Residency Program

for the general support of St. Marks Clinic which provides free medical, dental and psychological services to young people of the Lower East Side area in New York City

General support

to support the Extended Life Dance Residency Program

Extended Life Dance Residency Program

to support planning for work with the Creative and Independent Producers Alliance

Planning for Creative and Independent Producers Alliance

East European Program

East-West Seminars

in support of its East Central Europe Project

East European Initiatives

matching endowment for advanced research and training on East Asia

East Asian Studies

matching endowment for advanced research and training on East-Asia

toward maintaining the strengths of its programs in East Asian Studies

to increase its library resources in support of East Asian studies

East Asian Library

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" 