Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support a research and training initiative devoted to building capacity for prison library services

Expanding Information Access for Incarcerated People

to continue support for a research and training initiative devoted to building capacity for prison library services

Bridge Grant: Expanding Information Access for Incarcerated People

to support the activities of the memory lab at San Diego Public Library

Support for Public Library Memory Labs: San Diego Public Library

for a project with the Harvard Theatre and Dance Collection, the New York Public Library Dance Collection, and the Library of Congress to plan the formation of a national coalition of dance repositories

Dance Heritage Coalition

to establish the National Dance Heritage Coalition and to initiate programs in collaboration with the Harvard Theatre and Dance Collection, the New York Public Library Dance Collection, and the Library of Congress

to improve its efforts in documenting and preserving dance

Dance Preservation

to extend its efforts related to the documentation and preservation of dance

Dance Archive

toward the costs of its efforts to document and preserve dance

Dance Documentation

to develop national systems for preservation of dance materials

Dance Archives

to complete a national catalogue of dance materials

Dance Company Special Initiative

to support a series of symposia on the changing state of the American orchestra

Meet Up San Francisco - Talking About American Orchestras

to support dance programming and board education

Dance Related Organizations

to support Friends of Harvey Milk Plaza's organizational capacity and planning for Harvey Milk Plaza

Friends of Harvey Milk Plaza

to support conservation, digitization, research, engagement, and planning related to the school’s monumental public Diego Rivera fresco

Critical Collections

to support the transfer of humanities students from Foothill De-Anza Community College District to the University of San Francisco, as well as faculty collaborations on curriculum and pedagogy

Community College-University Partnerships

to continue support for the transfer of humanities students from Foothill De-Anza Community College District to the University of San Francisco, as well as faculty collaborations on curriculum and pedagogy

to support the activities of the memory lab at Richmond Public Library

Support for Public Library Memory Labs: Richmond Public Library

to support the activities of the memory lab at Jacksonville Public Library

Support for Public Library Memory Labs: Jacksonville Public Library

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

Exhibitions/Publications

to support the activities of the memory lab at Los Angeles Public Library

Support for Public Library Memory Labs: Los Angeles Public Library

to support the activities of the memory lab at Boyle County Public Library

Support for Public Library Memory Labs: Boyle County Public Library

to support a national research project to identify and address library policies that may serve to create barriers to accessing books and other library resources

Library Card Access Research 

To support three initiatives:  Keeping Score, an Internet radio station, an adult amateur orchestra, and chamber music activities

Artistic Initiatives

supplemental award for permanent endowment

Supplemental Award

Symphony Orchestra Program

to strengthen artistic and administrative performance

SoundBox Concert Series

to support an audience membership program

Audience Membership Program

to support artistic initiatives and organizational development

Library Support Network

to support the multimedia series, Keeping Score, and musician recruitment

Keeping Score and Musician Recruitment

to support the activities of the memory lab

Support for Public Library Memory Labs

to support the activities of the memory lab 

to commission new choreographic work, including fresh adaptations of existing pieces, for its repertoire

Ballet Program

for development of ways to increase earned and contributed income

to extend its NEXA Program to other campuses of the California State University and College system

NEXA Program

to establish an artistic director's discretionary fund

Discretionary Fund

to enhance training in classical ballet through curricular, faculty, and administrative development

Ballet Training Program

to assist in the construction of the Institute's new studio building

New Studio Building

Faculty/Curriculum Development

for use by the Ballet School to enhance the effectiveness of teaching classical ballet through curricular, faculty, or administrative development

Ballet Program - Training

Regional Opera Program

to support the development and production of new opera and capacity building

Artistic Initiatives and Organizational Development

to support a project to measure the costs and pedagogic effectiveness of using technology to improve undergraduate education

Web-based Instructions in Economics 

to support artist residencies, commissions, and related audience development initiatives

Artistic Initiatives and Audience Development

to continue support for artist residencies, commissions, and digital platform initiatives

Jazz Residencies and SFJAZZ Digital

Productions of New Commissions and a Major Revival

for use by its Library for the Perfoming Arts toward the costs of curatorial staff and research for its public programs

Performing Arts - Library

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" 