Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support an international conference, collaborative research projects, and an edited volume on critical bibliography

Bibliography Among the Disciplines - Rare Book School Conference and Publication

to support a fellowship program to advance the diversity of staffing and curatorial practice in special collections libraries

The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion & Cultural Heritage

to support the development of a summer fellowship program in critical bibliography

The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography

to support planning of a program to train humanistic scholars in the bibliographic arts

Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography 

to support a summer fellowship program in critical bibliography

The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography III

to establish a society of fellows in critical bibliography

Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography

to support sustainability planning for a fellowship program in critical bibliography

Planning - Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography

to support planning for a fellowship program that would encourage diversity among staff in special collections

Planning for a Diversity Fellowship Program in Special Collections Librarianship

to support the New Press in countering book bans through its new "Forbidden Books Series"

Forbidden Books Fund

to support the Literary Arts Emergency Fund

Literary Arts Emergency Fund

to support planning for the future of Small Press Traffic's archives

Small Press Traffic Literary Archives

to improve the effectiveness of its operations, within a selective program to assist nine independent literary presses

Small Press Program

to support COVID-19 emergency response grants for nonprofit literary arts organizations

COVID-19 Emergency Response Grants to Nonprofit Literary Arts Organizations

to support planning for the future of the organization's archives

Planning for the Future of the National Book Foundation's Archives

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

Theatre Inc.

to support a nationwide initiative to engage readers in public programming with National Book Award winners and other great writers, with a focus on communities in underserved regions

NBF Presents

to support post-production costs for Bridge Records, Inc.’s recording of two new American operas

Bridge Records' Printing and Pressing of Bastianello and Lucrezia

to support research on the availability in the United States of books translated into English

A Study of Translated Books in the US

to support capacity building and business planning for Cita Press, publisher of public domain books in English and Spanish by female authors

Getting Fit to Print: Capacity Building for Cita Press

to support costs of producing and distributing a directory of American poetry books published in 1993 and 1994

Poetry Directory

to subsidize publication of humanities books and to encourage use of new technologies by the University of Oklahoma Press

University Press Program

to support the implementation of a strategic roadmap for capacity building and financial sustainability for Cita Press, publisher of public domain books in English and Spanish written by women authors

Cita Press

to support, in collaboration with Texas A & M Univeristy Press, University of Alabama Press, University of Arizona Press, Universiy of Florida Press, and University of Utah Press, the publication of first monographs on the archaeology of the Americas

Monographs Initiative - Archaeology of the Americas 

toward costs of book and journal donations to institutions in Eastern Europe

EEP - Book/Journal Donations

to support a book documenting and celebrating the 25-year history of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company

25th Anniversary History Book

to support the initial phase of an international research initiative that would explore the origins and development of book bindings

The Book and the Silk Roads 

to support research and public education on the value of the arts and of programs supported by the National Endowment for the Arts

Increasing Public Awareness of the Value of the Arts

to assist the scholarly publication program of the University of Oklahoma Press

in renewed support of the scholarly publication program of University of Oklahoma Press

for use by MIT Press toward expenses of a special double issue of Design Book Review on Latin American architecture

Design Book Review

for use by the University Press of New England in developing an on-line file of book-review editors

Book Review Editors File

toward a study of the effectiveness of book and journal donation programs in Eastern Europe

toward support of a publication on cable television and the arts, including the legal aspects of cable production

Arts-TV Publication

to support further development of a digital distribution center for scholarly monographs

Scholarly Press Services 

to increase the international distribution of university press publications

International Distribution of University Press Publications

Seeding Residencies: Baldwin for the Arts

Literary Publishing

to improve publishing operations and organizational capacities of Arte Publico Press

Arte Publico Press - Literary Publishing Program

to improve its publishing operations and organizational capacities, within a selective program to assist nine literary presses

Artists as Catalysts

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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" 