Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support the needs of the community-based archive

Support for Community-Based Archives

to support the design, construction, and programming of the Hatch Family Apartment exhibit and stipends and staffing for the Artist as Instigator project

Hatch Family Apartment and Artist as Instigator

to support inquiries into the conditions and possibilities of emancipatory housing and land use through collaboration between movement-based scholars and their surrounding community

Housing The Third Reconstruction

to support DC Legacy Project's historic research and planning for the Barry Farm public housing project, community events and outreach, and a project director

Public Housing Heritage Sites: Barry Farm - Hillsdale

to support the New York City Housing Authority’s restoration of the historic artwork Exodus and Dance and related programmatic activation, community workshops, artist residency, and a Kingsborough Houses fellow

Exodus and Dance Placekeeping

to support the museum's engagement of humanities scholars in its mission and public programs

Public Humanities Fellowship Program

President of the National Council for the Museum of the American Indian

for use by the National Museum of the American Indian to support conservation training

National Museum of the American Indian

to support the restoration of three sculptures, the re-creation of missing sculptures, new mural commissions at the north and south entryways, and the research and installation of interpretive signage documenting the history of the development and its residents

Harlem River Houses Public Art and Community Space Restoration

in support of work with educational organizations to enlarge the talent pool of future public servants

Public Service Education

to support the continuation of advanced training opportunities in archeological and ethnographic conservation at the National Museum of the American Indian

for use by its National Museum of the American Indian in support of advanced training opportunities in the field of conservation

to support a NYCHA arts liaison, artists-in-residence salaries and benefits, stipends for participating NYCHA residents, and materials and fabrication fees for the space activations

From Roots to Art: Celebrating NYCHA's Cultural Heritage

toward costs of East European participants at an international conference on Central and East European housing finance

EEP - Housing Finance Conference

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Jonathan Fenderson

New Directions Fellowship: Project Noise: NYC Public Housing, Neoliberalism & the Ascent of Hip-Hop America

to endow its Advanced Training Program in Ethnographic and Archeological Conservation at the National Museum of the American Indian.

National Museum of the American Indian - Conservation Endowment

to support the Reclaiming the Monument public art project

Reclaiming the Monument

toward completion of the Oral History program of the Dance Collection of the Library and Museum of the Performing Arts

Dance Collection of the Library & Museum of the Performing Arts

for support of the magazine, "The Public Interest"

The Public Interest' Magazine

to assist the Dance Collections of the Library & Museum of Performing Arts in establishing an oral history program

Dance Collection of the Library & Museum of the Performing Arts - Oral History Program

to support the Arab American Arts Council, the Arab American National Museum’s Artists + Residency program, and related staffing and convening

Arab American National Museum: Building Capacity for the Arts

to support the Center for Art and Public Exchange and the community components of Railways—a national artist-led and community-driven project to accompany the upcoming exhibition on the Great Migration

The Center for Art and Public Exchange and its Great Migration Project: Railways

matching endowment for research and publication at the Brooklyn Museum

Art Museum Publication Program

matching endowment for research and publication at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

for development of programs in the arts and humanities

Public Radio Program

to support postdoctoral fellowships in public history related to new National Park Service sites

Postdoctoral Fellowships in Public History

to support organizational capacity building and public programming

Museum and Archive Capacity Building and Public Programming 

to support a qualitative study on how public schools utilize the collections at the Wellin Museum of Art

Wellin Museum Public School Curriculum Study

to support conservation capacity and a series of internships and postgraduate fellowships at the National Museum of African Art aimed at diversifying the conservation profession

National Museum of African Art Conservation Program

to continue and expand support for humanities postdoctoral fellowships in conjunction with the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence

Expanding the Boundaries of America250

to support an additional round of applications for, and an assessment of, a fellowship program in digital publication

NEH-Mellon Fellowships in Digital Publication

for evaluation of new and promising developments in education for public affairs and administration

Public Affairs - Administration

in support of a study of the relationships among  economic theory, empirical  research, and public policy

Economic Theory, Research, & Public Policy Study

matching endowment for research and publication at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

to support the development of software and digital content to strengthen national classical music programming

Digital Content Development for Classical Music Programming

to support the Art Museum and Visual Arts Program as a recipient of the Art Museum Futures Fund

Art Museum Futures Fund

to support an initiative to strengthen curatorial and conservation capacities of the National Museum of African American History and Culture

National Museum of African American History and Culture - Core Institutional Support

to support the Arab American National Museum’s Artists + Residents program, and the museum’s capacity more generally

Arab American National Museum Artists + Residents Program

to support the museum as a recipient of the Art Museum Futures Fund

for a study of private rehabilitation of slum dwellings and improvement of neighborhood facilities and institutions

Study of Private Rehabilitation of Slum Dwellings and Improvement of Neighborhood Facilities and Institutions

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

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

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

Public Policy Project

to support a study by the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, entitled "Science and Technology in the National Interest: Ensuring the Best Presidential and Advisory Committee Appointments-3rd Edition"

Science and Technology in the National Interest  

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

Art Museum and Visual Arts Program

to support construction and renovation costs for the Museum Community Annex

The Motown Museum Community Annex 

to support a series of fellowship competitions for scholarly research in the humanities that would result in digital publications

NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication: Phase 2

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

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" 