Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

matching endowment for research and publication at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Art Museum Publication Program

in support of curatorial development and research related to the Museum's permanent collections

Museum Program

matching endowment in support of its conservation department

Art Museum Program

to continue support for an undergraduate fellowship program aimed at diversifying curatorial cohorts in American art museums, in partnership with the Art Institute of Chicago, the High Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Mellon Undergraduate Curatorial Fellowship

to support two three-year postdoctoral research fellowships in science at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Conservation Science Fellowships

to support the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s conservation and restoration of the Watts Towers

Watts Towers Conservation Project and Related Programming

to support the development of  approximately18 virtual monuments projects across Los Angeles County

Erecting Monumental Change through Augmented Reality

to support a pilot program of undergraduate curatorial fellowships aimed at diversifying curatorial cohorts in American art museums

Undergraduate Curatorial Fellowship Program

to continue support for a program of undergraduate curatorial fellowships aimed at diversifying curatorial cohorts in American art museums

Mellon Undergraduate Curatorial Fellows Bridge Grant

to support an advanced conservation apprentice training program

Advanced Conservation Training

to support an initiative to develop the archive and site conservation plan for Michael Heizer's City, a work of American land art

Land Art Preservation

to support planning for an undergraduate curatorial fellowship initiative

Curatorial Diversity Initiative

to support collaboration with the University of California at Los Angeles to strengthen object-centered training of doctoral students in the art history department

Art History Graduate Education

to endow and support the position of Senior Conservation Scientist and to purchase scientific equipment

Art Conservation - Science Endowment

to continue support for the Art of Ancient Americas program

Art of the Ancient Americas

to support the Art of Ancient Americas research program

Art of the Ancient Americas Program

to establish a new program centered on the art of the ancient Americas

to support the design of a "Learning Associates" program

Learning Associates

to support continuation of the learning associates program while additional funds are raised to endow it

to support implementation of the UN Live Museum’s content and engagement strategy

Content and Engagement Development for the Launch of the UN Live museum

toward early planning costs of exhibitions and publications relating to its permanent collection

Exhibitions/Publications

to support a curatorial initiative in African art

Curatorial Support in African Art

to continue support for curatorial capacity in contemporary Indigenous art and culture

Native American Art Curatorial Capacity Building

to continue support for contemporary Indigenous art and culture and climate justice programs

Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Justice Initiatives

to support the ancient Near East gallery reinstallation project

Reinstallation of the Ancient Near Eastern Galleries

to support curatorial capacity in contemporary indigenous art and culture

Curator of Contemporary Indigenous Art and Culture

to assist the Brooklyn Children's Museum to equip its new museum building

New Museum Equipment

to support the museum as a recipient of the Art Museum Futures Fund

Art Museum Futures Fund

to support a market test for The Chronicle of the Arts

Chronicle of the Arts

to support the creation of a public museum of Sing Sing prison

Sing Sing Museum

to support a program to introduce Chinese museum professionals to American museum practices

Training of Chinese Museum Professionals

to support a study and planning process to address knowledge management infrastructure at the museum

Museum Knowledge Management

to support on an interim basis four key positions in the library and museum archives

Museum Library/Archives

to provide a pilot program to introduce Chinese museum professionals to American museum practices

to support a pilot program to introduce Chinese museum professionals to American museum practices

to continue support for a program to introduce Chinese museum professionals to American museum practices

Training of Chinese Museum Professionals 

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" 