Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support artistic expansion and exploration for Shamel Pitts | TRIBE

TRIBE Collaborative Team

Shamel Pitts | TRIBE Bubble Residency

to continue support of capacity building and artistic expansion

Capacity Building and Artistic Expansion for TRIBE

to support the People’s Commissioning Fund and New York City performances

The People's Commissioning Fund and New York City Performances

to support a fellowship and residency program for Cal Performances

Cal Performances Berkeley RADICAL

to support the transition of core funding for the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman drama from independent to university sources

Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama

to support dance programming and board education

Dance Related Organizations

to support initiatives at the intellectual and institutional intersection of architecture, urbanism, and the humanities

Multidisciplinary Research Program II

to support the creation of a new Visual Studies Program

Visual Studies Program

to support the development of the Architecture Visual Resource Network, an online visual database of architecture from around the world

Architecture Visual Resource Network

to support the commissioning and development of projects that involve live music or nontheatrical art forms

Commissions and New Multidisciplinary Work

for use by the University of Chicago Press to continue development of the Chicago Visual Library

Chicago Visual Library

for teacher-pupil audio-visual education program

Audio-Visual Education Program

to support planning for the development of a national Visual Culture Council

Planning Visual Culture Research

to support the University’s Visual Studies Initiative

Institutional Excellence Initiatives - Visual Studies

to support planning for library support of interdisciplinary research clusters

Planning for Multidisciplinary Research Infrastructure in Libraries

to support and strengthen the University of Pittsburgh's Visual Cultural "Constellation" effort for university-wide curriculum reform in the humanities on both the graduate and undergraduate levels

Visual Culture Constellations Initiative

to support Los Angeles Visual Arts Coalition with development staffing and sustainability grants to its membership

Los Angeles Visual Arts Coalition

to support a disability studies project that uses innovative digital visual pedagogy to further ASL and English bilingualism

Visual-Centric Teaching and Learning

to support a national, interinstitutional alliance to develop new models of multimedia access and publication in the field of visual studies

Alliance for Networking Visual Studies 

to support the Center for Empathy and the Visual Arts

Center for Empathy and Visual Arts

to support the establishment of a center for digital and visual literacy

Center for Digital and Visual Literacy

to support an initiative aimed at strengthening the integration of the arts into academic life

Presenting Organizations on Campus - Cal Performances

support of audio-visual program in connection with Museum's exhibition on African Sculpture

Audio-Visual Orientation Program - "African Sculpture"

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

Art Museum and Visual Arts Program

to support a PhD program in visual and media studies

Institutional Excellence Initiatives - Visual Studies - Phase II

in support of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts

Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts

to support the technical assessment of a platform for multimedia research and publication in the field of visual studies and planning for its further development

Alliance for Networking Visual Culture - Phase II

toward costs of an Advisory Committee for the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Visual History:  The Past in Images"

Sawyer Seminar - "Visual History: The Past in Images"

to support the needs of the community-based archive

Support for Community-Based Archives

for permanent endowment in support of core functions of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Visual Exegesis: Images as Instruments of Scriptural Interpretation and Hermeneutics"

Sawyer Seminars - Comparative Study of Cultures: Visual Exegesis

to support student-faculty collaborative research

Preserving the Liberal Arts Through Collaborative Research, Multidisciplinary Dialogue, and Enhanced Writing

to support the further development of a platform for multimedia research and publication in the field of visual studies and creation of an institute for multimedia publishing

Alliance for Networking Visual Culture - Phase III: Implementation

support of library acquisition program in connection with establishment of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts

Center for the Advanced Study of the Visual Arts

to support an initiative to advance visual literacy and communication

Project VIS - Enhancing Visual Communication and Understanding Through Creative Pedagogy and Integrative Learning

endowment for its Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts to be designated the Paul Mellon Fund

Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts - Paul Mellon Fund

for use by its Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts to support predoctoral fellows in non-Western art and curatorial research-sabbaticals

Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts - Predoctoral Fellows

to support the development of an undergraduate program in visual culture with The Huntington Library

What the Eye Beholds: The Caltech-Huntington Library Joint Program in Visual Culture

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Race and Visual Culture in the Americas 20th to 21st Centuries"

Sawyer Seminar -  Race and Visual Culture in the Americas 20th-21st Centuries

to sustain the program of a scholarly publications at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at a time when the endowment principal has fallen below its historic dollar value

Scholarly Publications - Center for the Advanced Study of the Visual Arts

to support the development of Corredor Afro (African Pathway), a social justice creative cultural arts project in Loíza, Puerto Rico

Corredor Afro

to continue support for organizational capacity and general operations

General Operating Support

Capacity Building

to support presentations, fellowships, and public programs at the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute

CCCADI Arts Program

to support the exploration of digital materials within and among collections

Visual Understanding Environment

for support of Theatre, Inc. (Phoenix Theatre), New York

Theatre Inc.

to support an initiative to strengthen programming in public humanities

Center for Visual Culture

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" 