Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

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

Art Museum Futures Fund

to support Latinx and Caribbean art initiatives

Latinx and Caribbean Art and Engagement Initiatives 

to support three postdoctoral curatorial fellows

Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellowships

to support preservation of and access to primary source documentation in the field of contemporary art

Contemporary Art Scholarship

to support research, colloquia, scholarly publishing, and public discourse on contemporary art

to support the museum's role as a platform for research and debate on contemporary art

Contemporary Art Scholarship - Phase II

to support a curatorial position with specialization in Latinx art as part of Advancing Latinx Art in Museums

Advancing Latinx Art at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

to support the director of public programs and senior curator positions as part of the Leadership in Art Museums Initiative

Leadership in Art Museums

to support a leadership program for museum professionals focused on innovative public programming and audience development

Animating Museums

to support Will Rawls and a new artist- and scholar-run space focusing on Black contemporary arts, aesthetics, and their relations in North Adams and Williamstown, Massachusetts

Whistle Space 

to support NEW INC's new Director Salome Asega's vision including growing staff capacity, enhancing the membership model, and growing the reach of each artist’s venture

New Director Vision

to support the national expansion of Artists at Work, which integrates art and artists through sustainable employment and partnership models into the rebuilding of healthy communities

Artists at Work

to support organizational and programmatic capacity

Organizational and Programmatic Capacity

General Operating Support

to support capacity towards archiving and digitizing the museum’s collection and history

MOCA Digital Initiative & Archive

to support the development of interdisciplinary practice through the Confluence Artists Residencies

Confluence Artist Residencies

to support Pepón Osorio: My Beating Heart / Mi corazón latiente

Pepón Osorio: My Beating Heart / Mi corazón latiente

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

Disaster Recovery Relief Fund

to support production residencies for two projects: Truth and Reconciliation Commission Cantata, and Of All The People In All The World

Production Residencies

to support costs of administration and planning

Administration and Planning Operations

to support two think tanks to establish the initial grounding of the space, and work with Will Rawls to determine the ongoing advisory structure as well as his role at the organization in the long-term

Will Rawls, Artist as Leader

to continue support for artist residencies

Artist Residencies

to support interdisciplinary artist residencies

to support a new curatorial position dedicated to contemporary fiber arts

Curator of Contemporary Art

to continue support for Technical and Production Residencies for Artists at MASS MoCA

Technical and Production Residencies for Artists at MASS MoCA

to support curatorial capacity in contemporary indigenous art and culture

Curator of Contemporary Indigenous Art and Culture

to connect historic art museum collections and spaces with contemporary practices of living artists

Historic Museum, Contemporary Approaches

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

Training of Chinese Museum Professionals 

to support the Chicago Object Study Initiative, a collaboration between the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the Art Institute of Chicago to strengthen object-based training for art history graduate students

Chicago Object Study Initiative - Phase 2

to support productions of six contemporary and Baroque operas

Artistic Initiatives for Contemporary and Baroque Operas

to support a pilot initiative to train Chinese museum professionals

Training of Chinese Museum Professionals

to support travel to assess the damage to the collections at the Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo

Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo

matching endowment in support of its conservation department

Art Museum Program

for use by the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art to strengthen the educational role of its collections and programs

College and University Art Museum Program Phase I: Spendable

matching endowment for research and publication of substantial scholarly quality

Art Museum Publication Program

to continue support for new models of community and artistic engagement with historic art museum collections and spaces

matching grant for networking computer resources and cataloguing in the Ryerson and Burnham Libraries

Art Museum Reference Libraries

to strengthen the academic role of the Smart Museum of Art's collections and programs

College and University Art Museum Program Phase II: Endowment

to support a study of how four museum art research libraries might coordinate and centralize their core activities

Art  Museum Research Libraries 

to support general operations at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts

to enhance the educational role of the museum's collections and programs, within a selective program to assist college and university art museums

to support the museum’s plans to improve access to unique archival collections

Museum Archives

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" 