Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support the appointment of a curatorial associate

Curatorial Associate

General Operating Support

to support two termed curatorial assistants

Curatorial Capacity Building

to support conservation capacity and a series of internships and postgraduate fellowships at the National Museum of African Art aimed at diversifying the conservation profession

National Museum of African Art Conservation Program

for use by the National Museum of the American Indian to support conservation training

National Museum of the American Indian

for use by its National Museum of the American Indian in support of advanced training opportunities in the field of conservation

to support the continuation of advanced training opportunities in archeological and ethnographic conservation at the National Museum of the American Indian

to endow its Advanced Training Program in Ethnographic and Archeological Conservation at the National Museum of the American Indian.

National Museum of the American Indian - Conservation Endowment

to support an initiative to strengthen curatorial and conservation capacities of the National Museum of African American History and Culture

National Museum of African American History and Culture - Core Institutional Support

to support the Arab American National Museum’s Artists + Residents program, and the museum’s capacity more generally

Arab American National Museum Artists + Residents Program

to support the Arab American Arts Council, the Arab American National Museum’s Artists + Residency program, and related staffing and convening

Arab American National Museum: Building Capacity for the Arts

to support capacity and management of the Mexican American Art Since 1848 project, an open-source portal that compiles digital collections of Mexican American visual art

Mexican American Art Since 1848 

to support organizational capacity at the Mexican American History of Civil Rights Institute, an archivist, and the development of an exhibition master plan

National Institute of Mexican American History of Civil Rights

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

Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo

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

Art Museum Futures Fund

to support the Art Museum and Visual Arts Program as a recipient of the Art Museum Futures Fund

to support scholarly research on the economics of American art museums

Art Museum Economics

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

Art  Museum Research Libraries 

to support the costs of a financial survey of the ten largest U.S. art museums

Museum Finance Survey

to support the Mexican Cultural Arts Alliance

Mexican Cultural Arts Alliance

to support the development of a new model for museum practice at the National Museum of African Art

Developing an Afrocentric Model for a Museum of African Art 

in support of fellowships and publications at its Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies

U.S.-Mexican Studies

to support the creation of a digital database of images and information on African plants

African Plants Initiative

to support the travel of African Plants Initiative partners to the 2007 annual meeting

matching grant for its Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies

for use by the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) in support of its further planning and development

Art Museum Image Consortium

to continue support for operations and programming for the Art Museum and Visual Arts Program

Art Museum and Visual Arts Program

to support the needs of the community-based archive

Support for Community-Based Archives

to support the development of a coordinated digital database of images and information on plants of the world

Plants Initiative

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 collaborative programs to provide object-centered research and curatorial training to art history graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia Museum of Art/University of Pennsylvania Collaboration

for use by the Art Museum Library Consortium toward costs of the retrospective conversion of bibliographic records

Art Museum Library Consortium

to support 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" 