Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support the 2007 Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute

Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute

to support planning for a series of week-long residency programs in small Minnesota communities

Community Weeks

to support the Community Weeks initiative

Symphony Orchestra Program

Black Orchestral Network

support of the Institute of Orchestral Conducting

Institute of Orchestral Conducting

to support Minnesota OperaWorks, a contemporary opera initiative

The Contemporary Opera Initiative "Minnesota OperaWorks"

to support the Eastman School of Music’s orchestral studies program

Center for Orchestral Studies

toward the start-up costs of its graduate program in Orchestral Performance

Graduate Program in Orchestral Performance

to support the National Orchestral Discovery Network, new music readings, and Orchestra Underground concerts

National Orchestral Discovery Network, New Music Readings, and Orchestra Underground Concerts

to assist a delegation of American university presidents to attend the sixth quinquennial general conference of the International Association in Moscow in 1975

International Association Conference

to support collaboration between the University of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota Press in the publication of research in various interdisciplinary fields of study

Publication and Research Collaboratives

to support a state-led, cross-institutional project to offer statewide college in prison opportunities in Minnesota

Higher Education in Prison State-wide Project

to support a Minnesota higher education study of college costs, affordability, and choices

College Costs Study

to support the project "Paying For College: Access, Affordability and Choice in Minnesota Higher Education"

Paying for College

to strengthen access to electronic library resources at small- and medium-sized colleges in Minnesota and the Dakotas

Electronic Library Resources

to assist the scholarly publication program of the University of Minnesota Press

University Press Program

to support an expansion of the Atlanta University Center/University of Minnesota honors program

Honors Program 

in renewed support of the scholarly publication program of University of Minnesota Press

to support a Just Futures Initiative project

Minnesota Transform: A Just University for Just Futures

to subsidize publication of humanities books and to encourage use of new technologies by the University of Minnesota Press

to support the continuation of a Global Issues Honors Consortium in collaboration with University of Minnesota at Morris, Dillard University and Tougaloo College

to support an ever-growing, interactive digital archive and remapping of Očhéti Šakówiŋ Oyáte placenames in Minnesota, North and South Dakota, and beyond

Remapping the Očhéti Šakówiŋ Oyáte: Orature as Deep Mapping

for use by the Association of College and Research Libraries toward costs of a project to collect data on libraries in historically black colleges and universities

Association of College and Research Libraries - Black College Library Data

to support the Women’s Academic Solidarity Association

Women's Academic Solidarity Association

to support the Women’s Academic Solidarity Association and its research program

in support of the International Association of Scholarly Publishers

International Association of Scholarly Publishers

to support costs associated with the American Economic Association Summer Program

American Economic Association Summer Program

to support a review of the Appalachian College Association Central Library

Appalachian College Association - Central Library Review

for use by the Appalachian College Association to provide professional opportunities for faculty members and to promote collaborative research between faculty members and students

Appalachian College Association - Faculty Scholars Program

to support a conducting workshop on choral/orchestral repertoire

Repertoire Workshop

to support capacity building for the Association for Heritage Preservation of the Americas

APOYOnline – Association for Heritage Preservation of the Americas

to support a pre-college training program for students from underrepresented communities:  $609,000 payable immediately and $350,000 to be matched one-to-one

Nashville Symphony Association - Accelerando

for development of programs in the arts and humanities on KSJN-FM

Public Radio Program

to support the strengthening of music-media programming

Music-Media Programming

to support a pilot training and internship program for Native American students interested in the museum profession

Training Native American Museum Professionals

toward transitional costs in the restructuring of the Association

One-Time Transitional Costs and Expansion of Washington-Based Staff

for use, in collaboration with the Association of Caribbean Historians, toward costs of establishing a series of translations of monographs in Caribbean history

Caribbean History Monographs - Joint Project with the Association of Caribbean Historians

to strengthen its artistic and administrative capacities

Opera Program

toward costs of improving specific aspects of its operations

to continue support for the Local Artist Ensemble and New Works Initiative

Local Artist Ensemble

to support the development and production of new American works

New Works Initiative

to support an ensemble of locally based artists and the creation and development of new work

Local Artist Ensemble and New Work

to support JSTOR membership of ten colleges in the association

JSTOR Access

to support artists Shana griffin and Tia Simone Gardner’s research for an August 2024 exhibition

A Nation Takes Place

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" 