Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

Native American Curatorial Fellowship

to support staff capacity to enhance collections, archives management, and public accessibility

Collection and Archives Management

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 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 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

in support of its Center for the History of the American Indian

Center for the History of the American Indian

to support the Fund’s plan to increase the number of American Indian students pursuing graduate degrees and academic careers, and to support professional development for faculty members at tribal colleges and universities

Training American Indian Educators

to support the museum’s repatriation and tribal consultation initiative, food sovereignty and Indigenous Garden project including a kitchen renovation, community outreach and programs, as well as culturally responsive rebranding and organizational capacity for the museum

Food Sovereignty and Indigenous Garden Project

to support the establishment of an Oral History Project as part of the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative

A Permanent Collection: The Department of the Interior’s Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative

to support general operations at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts

Art Museum Futures Fund

to support the Chair of Indian Studies for the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa

Indian Studies

to support the development of a program of study in Native American Studies and advance the national conversation on the Indigenous boarding school experience with a focus on the history of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School

Native American Studies and the Carlisle Industrial Indian School

for use by Harvard Law School in conducting an American Indian Law Symposium

American Indian Law Symposium

to support African/American: Setting the Nation's Table, an exhibit to be held in 2020 at the Africa Center

African/American: Setting the Nation's Table

to support staffing, development, installation of a new exhibit focusing on the cultural history of American Indian communities in the Northern Plains and Rockies, and related programming

Under a Common Sky: Native Cultures of the Northern Plains & Rockies

to support a full-time curator position, expanded public programming, and business planning

Nanticoke Indian Museum

to support the development of American Indian Studies on campus and statewide

Expanding American Indian Studies Programs in South Dakota

to support the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa for a multi-year research and postgraduate development program

Centre for Indian Studies in Africa

to support efforts to increase the number of doctoral recipients among faculty members at four-year institutions that are members of AICF, and to provide additional teaching and learning opportunities for faculty members at these institutions

Faculty Career Enhancement - American Indian Tribal College Fund

to support planning for reinstallation of the museum’s Asian Collections

Reinstallation of the Asian Wing

to support an institutional planning process for time-based media conservation

Institutional Planning of the Stewardship of Native Digital Works of Art

to support the purchase and implementation of a new integrated library system

Migration to the Millennium - Integrated Library System

to support the production of the next generation of the OpenCollection open-source museum collection management system

CollectionSpace

to support the development of a historical database of native people in the far northeast region of North America

Historic Records of Indians of the Far Northeast

to support a fellowship as part of the pilot initiative to train Chinese museum professionals

Training of Chinese Museum Professionals

to provide supplemental funding to support one short term fellowship as part of the pilot initiative to train Chinese museum professionals

to support a meeting of the Council of Deans of the American International Consortium of Academic Libraries

Council of Deans of the American International Consortium of Academic Libraries

to support organizational capacity, enhanced programming and exhibits, a historian in residence, and capital projects

Expanding the American Story

to support a fellowship program in the stewardship of Native American art

Native American Art

to support curatorial capacity for the Native American collections, as well as research support for the permanent collection

Native American Art Curatorial Capacity Building

to continue support for a program to introduce Chinese museum professionals to American museum practices

Training of Chinese Museum Professionals 

to strengthen student and faculty engagement with the collections at the Indiana University Art Museum

Art Museums and the Curriculum

to support the collaborative work of the American International Consortium of Academic Libraries

Building Out the American Consortium of Academic Libraries Network

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Religious Materiality in the Indian Ocean World, 1300-1800"

Sawyer Seminar: "Religious Materiality in the Indian Ocean World, 1300 - 1800"

to support advancement of the field of photograph conservation in Russia in collaboration with the George Eastman House

State Hermitage Museum Collaboration 

to support the creation of a program focused on transregional research involving the Indian Ocean and the principles of ethical collaboration

Transregional Collaboratory on the Indian Ocean

to support the establishment of the Society of Historians of the Early American Republic in Philadelphia

Society of Historians of the Early American Republic

to continue to support general operations for the Gorman Museum of Native American Art

General Operating Support: Gorman Museum of Native American Art

to support improvements (such as data visualizations) in a digital archive documenting the history of Indigenous people in the Northeastern United States

Historic Records of Indians in the Far Northeast – Phase II

to support the planning of a pilot fellowship program for conservators from India

Indian Conservator Fellowship Program - Planning

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

to support the further development of an open source collections management system for museums

CollectionSpace 2.0 

to support further development of an open source collections management system for museums as well as final negotiations to move the system to a permanent home organization

CollectionSpace 4.0: Transition and Handoff

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 a pilot fellowship program for conservators from India, in collaboration with the Stichting Restauratie Atelier Limburg

Indian Conservator Fellowship Program - Implementation

to support new curriculum and pedagogy in the teaching of Native American and Indigenous Studies

Indigenous Liberal Studies Program

to support further development of an open source collections management system for museums

CollectionSpace 3.0  

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" 