Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support a partnership with Momus and Forge Project to deliver a virtual and in-person residency for Indigenous emerging art writers and editors in Spring 2023

Momus & Forge Project: International Indigenous Arts Criticism Residency

Artists Are the New Inventors

to support immediate relief efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy

Hurricane Sandy Relief

to support the Rapid Response Fund for a Better Digital Future

Rapid Response Fund for a Better Digital Future

to support a convening on artificial intelligence and its impact on the arts and culture field

ARTIFICE AND INTELLIGENCE: A Symposium and Inquiry into AI and Art 

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

Theatre Inc.

to support a pilot fellowship program for conservators from India, in collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Indian Conservator Fellowship Program - Implementation

to continue support for a fellowship program for early- to mid-career conservators from India

Indian Conservator Fellowship Program - Phase II

to support the pre-assessment phase of legacy planning for Meredith Monk and The House Foundation for the Arts, Inc.

Legacy Planning

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

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

to support transition costs related to a merger with American Music Center, Inc.

Merger with American Music Center

to support the development of The Clifton House, a creative space based in the home of Maryland Poet Laureate Lucille Clifton, and its initial programming for aspiring and established writers

The Clifton House Launch and Programming

towards costs of a project to place volumes of The Library of America series in public libraries around the country

The Library of America

for use of MacDowell Colony, Inc., Peterborough, New Hampshire, a working retreat for composers and other artists

National Endowment for the Humanities

toward costs of program development in off-campus study, in cooperation with the Great Lakes Colleges Association, Inc. and the Associated Colleges of the Midwest

Off-Campus Study

toward costs of program development in off-campus study, in cooperation with the Great Lakes Colleges Association, Inc. and the Associated Colleges of the South

for use by its Center for Reading and Language Studies for research on the effectiveness of Classroom, Inc.

Center for Reading & Language Skills - Classroom Inc. Research

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 support the new artist founded public benefit corporation, The Collective Practice

The Collective Practice

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 the construction of the Black Schoolhouse building and to continue support for organizational capacity and community-focused artist programs

The Black Schoolhouse

to support the Multi-Arts Production Fund

The MAP Fund

to support capacity building for a community building arts organization in Chinatown

The W.O.W. Project

to continue support for a regranting program for the creation and development of new work

to continue support for a regranting program for the creation and development of contemporary performance work

to support services for individual artists

The Field

for use by its Center for Reading and Language Studies for research on Classroom Inc., an educational intervention that uses computer simulations

to support artistic expansion and exploration for the feath3r theory

You Cannot Cover the Sun with Mud

to support Zealous's storytelling initiatives

Zealous Inc.

to support infrastructure and staffing under Legacy Russell's leadership for an inclusive space for the next avante-garde and its expanded audiences

The Kitchen 

for use by its Center for Reading and Language Studies for research on Classroom Inc., an educational innovation that uses computer simulations to increase high school students’ literacy and to introduce them to work-related activities

to support innovative artistic community, capacity building, and plans to develop The American Silkroad

The Silk Road

to support capacity building for The Last Resort Artist Retreat, a program of Charm City Cultural Cultivation, with staff costs, fundraising consulting capacities, facilities management and professional fees

The Last Resort 

to support a bubble residency for the feath3r theory

the feath3r theory Bubble Residency

in support of a computer-based course for high-school students in literacy and problem-solving skills

Classroom, Inc.

to support visionary artists in their desire to combine a long-enduring art form and experimental technologies into contemporary narratives on behalf of a broadly diverse public

Uplifting the Voices of Opera Artists

to support the implementation phase of projects giving agency to artists, technologists, and thinkers

The Collider 

to support journalistic coverage of scholarly research and related collections in the arts and humanities

Advancing Public Scholarship in the Humanities

to support transformative leadership within the American Theater

(Re)Seeding the American Theater

to support the development of virtual walking tours related to sites of Japanese American incarceration in the Pacific Northwest

Beyond the Barbed Wire: Japanese American Stories of the Pacific Northwest

to support the Right of Return fellowship program for formerly incarcerated artists and planning and capacity building for the Art and Advocacy Society

Art and Advocacy Society

to support sustainability planning through capacity building for governance, staff, and collections, as well as through the development of a long-range digital strategy

Poets House: Foundations for the Future

to support the development of a model for the long-term preservation and documentation of the Wintergreen Women Writers' Collective

Sacred Work: The Wintergreen Women Writers’ Collective

to support a collaborative program designed to increase the number of historically black college and university students entering graduate library and information science programs

Recruiting to the Library Profession IV

to support capacity building and a reimagined business model

Building capacity for The Flea

Righting the Scales Toward Abundance

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

Forbidden Books Fund

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 second phase of the Chrysalis Project including the development of an entity and technology product to radically re-imagine and upgrade support structures for individual artists in the United States

The Chrysalis Project II

to continue support for the Master Artists Residency program with additional funding for Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Ideas Festival

Master Artists in Communities: Ideas Festival

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" 