Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support Minnesota OperaWorks, a contemporary opera initiative

The Contemporary Opera Initiative "Minnesota OperaWorks"

toward costs of improving specific aspects of its operations

Opera Program

to strengthen its artistic and administrative capacities

New Works Initiative

to support the development and production of new American works

to continue support for the Local Artist Ensemble and New Works Initiative

Local Artist Ensemble

to support an ensemble of locally based artists and the creation and development of new work

Local Artist Ensemble and New Work

to support the 2007 Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute

Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute

to support the first phase of the development of a new performing edition of John Corigliano’s opera Ghosts of Versailles

The Ghosts of Versailles Opera

to continue support for Opera Fusion: New Works and to commission new operas about positive Black stories

Advancing the Future of American Opera

to support Fast Forward at Di Capo Opera, a series of concerts and semi-staged operas not yet produced by major opera companies

Opera Program 

to support the Frontiers program and the Noches de Opera initiative

Frontiers Programs and the Noches de Opera Initiative

to continue support for the Vanguard Emerging Opera Composer Residency Program

Vanguard Emerging Opera Composer Training

to support an ever-growing, interactive digital archive and remapping of Očhéti Šakówiŋ Oyáte placenames in Minnesota, North and South Dakota, and beyond

Remapping the Očhéti Šakówiŋ Oyáte: Orature as Deep Mapping

Opera Center

to support the Vanguard Emerging Opera Composer Residency Program 

Vanguard Emerging Opera Composer Residency Program 

toward support of a program of services for trustees and volunteers of opera companies and to explore the possibility of merging the organization with that of Opera Guilds International

Opera Company Services

American Opera Initiative

to continue support for the Opera of our Time Initiative

Opera of Our Time

to support the development and production new American operas

Opera of the Americas Initiative

to support required stabilization work for the opera house building and increased organizational capacity

National Opera House

to support planning for a national opera center

National Opera Center

to support the Opera Fusion: New Works initiative

Opera Fusion - New Works

to support activities facilitating the merger of the Utah Symphony and the Utah Opera

Opera and Symphony Merger

to support the implementation of hybrid programming models and critical analysis of organizational, artistic, and audience environments

to support developmental residencies for new American opera in partnership with the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music  

Opera Fusion:  New Works

to support the production of a new opera based on Charles Rosen’s The Classical Style

The Classical Style Opera Production

to support planning for a series of week-long residency programs in small Minnesota communities

Community Weeks

to support fellowships for opera composers and librettists

Opera Fellowships

to support collaboration between the University of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota Press in the publication of research in various interdisciplinary fields of study

Publication and Research Collaboratives

to support the John Duffy Institute for New Opera

John Duffy Institute for New Opera

to support collaborative opera development with Opera Company of Philadelphia and Music-Theatre Group, and a producing associate position in collaboration with Music-Theatre Group

Collaborative Opera Development/Producing Associate

to support the developmental process for new American opera

Composers and the Voice and First Chance

to support the project "Paying For College: Access, Affordability and Choice in Minnesota Higher Education"

Paying for College

to support the development of a new opera, Charlie Parker, and a producing associate position

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

University Press Program

to support a state-led, cross-institutional project to offer statewide college in prison opportunities in Minnesota

Higher Education in Prison State-wide Project

to strengthen access to electronic library resources at small- and medium-sized colleges in Minnesota and the Dakotas

Electronic Library Resources

to support an expansion of the Atlanta University Center/University of Minnesota honors program

Honors Program 

Artists as Catalysts

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Beyond Incarceration

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Borderlands Cultures

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Civic Engagement

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Evolving Higher Education

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Expanding Public Knowledge

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Monuments and Memory

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Multivocality

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Power of the Word

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Public Places‚ Public Stories

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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" 