Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support the development, testing, and publication of reference tools for film preservation

Moving Image Preservation

to support further on-site preservation assessment of silent-era American nitrate films currently held at the New Zealand Film Archive

Repatriating Early American Films at the New Zealand Film Archive

to support further the on-site preservation assessment of American silent-era nitrate films currently held at the New Zealand Film Archive

Repatriating Early American Films at the New Zealand FIlm Archive

to support the creation of a guide for the selection, preservation, and study of industrial and institutional films

Preservation Field Guide Development

to support the assessment of early American nitrate film in The Netherlands

Evaluating Early American Films in the Netherlands: Laying Groundwork for a New International Preservation Partnership

toward costs of a documentary film on book and paper preservation

Preservation Film

Short Film on Preservation with Library of Congress and National Endowment for the Humanities

for an international symposium on the preservation of serial literature, and for a film on preservation binding

Preservation Symposium/Film

to support a preservation needs assessment to be carried out by a film archives expert

Film Preservation Needs Assessment

toward support of its National Preservation Revolving Fund

National Preservation Revolving Fund

to augment the resources available for revolving loans under the National Historic Preservation Fund

National Historic Preservation Fund

toward costs of the Hudson River film project

Hudson River Film

toward costs of a proposed film on Frederick Law Olmsted

Olmsted Film

toward the costs of completing a film biography of Charles Ives

Film Biography of Charles Ives

Bookbinding Film

for a program of empirical studies of the relation of historic preservation to certain critical urban problems

Historic Preservation - Urban Problems

toward costs of developing alternative models for relations among national, state, and local historic preservation organizations

Pennsylvania and Vermont Project Models

in support of a project on the optimal operating relationships among national, state, and local preservation organizations

Planning and Analysis

for research projects on preservation-standards development

Preservation Standards

Collection Preservation

to establish national guidelines and standards for the care, protection, preservation, and educational or interpretive uses of historic houses and their collections

Historic Houses Guidelines

for a research project on the state of dance preservation in this country

Dance Preservation

to support the transfer of core staff and programs from Heritage Preservation, Inc

Heritage Preservation

to support the preservation of recorded sound archives

Audio Preservation

to support research and implementation for the South Carolina preservation toolkit, the promotion of historic sites and organizations, and increased organizational staffing

Preservation Toolkit Initiative

to support assessment and preservation of at-risk archival films

Film Archives Planning

toward costs of the film "Frederick Law Olmsted--The Genius of Place"

toward production costs of the public-television film "The Genius of Place"

support of its sponsored research projects at Carnegie-Mellon University relative to the preservation of paintings

Preservation of Arts at Carnegie-Mellon University

toward costs of producing a conservation training film

Conservation Training Film

to support the digitization, publication, and repatriation of audio and film recordings of traditional Indonesian music dating from the first half of the 20th century

Restoration, Dissemination, and Repatriation of the Earliest Music Recordings and Films in Bali

to support a work plan for establishing a National Leadership Council for the Humanities

National Leadership Council for the Humanities

THE OFFICE performing arts + film

to support the festival's core operations

March on Washington Film Festival

to support the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, which distributes preservation support to important sites of African American history in the United States

African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund

to support the African American Cultural  Heritage Action Fund’s grantmaking, programs, marketing, expanded technical assistance for prospective grantees, and three signature preservation projects

to renew support for the Baltimore Youth Film Arts Program

Baltimore Youth Film Program

for the use of Town Hall in support of a film series for young people

Town Hall Film Series

to support the development and launch of the Baltimore Youth Documentary and Film Arts Program

to support staff capacity, programs for presidential sites in Virginia, a national regranting program, and a convening for the new Descendant Stewardship & Leadership Initiative

Descendant Stewardship & Leadership Initiative

Better World Society-TV Film

to support planning for a systematic analysis of possible scholarly and educational uses of dance video and film

Dance Video and Film

to support the conservation and preservation of the Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum

Conservation and Preservation of the Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum

toward costs of creating an international database of bibliographic records for preservation microforms

International Preservation Activities

toward completion of the Institute's Chinese History Film Project, a series of films depicting Chinese civilization from prehistoric times to the founding of the Republic

Chinese History Film Project

to support a documentary film exploring the work of Toni Morrison

The Foreigner's Home Documentary Film

to support engagement with Emmett Till’s story and sites in Mississippi

Emmett Till National Monument

to support planning of a Film and Digital Media Studies program

Film and Digital Media Studies Program 

to support the National Residency Program

Special National Residency

toward costs of a conference series on preservation, in cooperation with the National Preservation Program of the library of Congress

Preservation Conferences

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" 