Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to strengthen aspects of the institution, within a selective program to assist nine American theaters

Theatre Program - 1991

for use by its Conservatory to initiate changes in the faculty, curriculum, and administrative structure

Theater Training

to establish an artistic director's discretionary fund

Regional Theatre Program

to assist in producing earlier work that merits revival

to strengthen specific aspects of the theater within a selective program to assist American theaters

Theater Program

to support meetings of the artistic and executive leaders of a consortium of theaters collaborating on the creation and touring of new large-scale theater works

Theater Consortium

to support its artistic development and to strengthen its administrative capacity

National Theater Program

toward costs of development of its theater training program

to support the development of The Tosca Project

Collaborative Production Development

to support new large scale works, and Words on Plays dramaturgical publications

to support artistic initiatives and organizational development

Conservatory Project

to establish an artistic director's discretionary fund at the American Ballet Theatre

Ballet Program

to support the conservatory of music and the integrated double-degree program in music and the liberal arts and sciences

Conservatory of Music

to support the establishment of a small music conservatory and assess interest in a "double degree" program in music and another field

to assist the American Ballet Theatre in developing ways to increase earned and contributed income

to commission new choreographic work, including fresh adaptations of existing pieces, for the repertoire of the American Ballet Theatre

to support commissioning of new work for American Ballet Theatre, in collaboration with Boston Ballet, Houston Ballet, and San Francisco Ballet

Repertory Companies - Ballet Choreographer Development 

toward the purchase of sound and lighting equipment at the Theatre's Muse Cultural Center

Sound and Lighting Equipment for Muse Cultural Center

to support new presidential initiatives designed to reinvigorate the conservatory

Re-Invigorating the Conservatory: Presidential Initiatives

Independent Music Conservatory Program

to establish an artistic director's discretionary fund at the Long Wharf Theatre

to assist the Long Wharf Theatre in producing earlier work that merits revival

to establish an endowment to support the academic core of the Conservatory's five year double degree program

to support the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training

for use by its Institute for Advanced Theatre Training to initiate changes in the faculty, curriculum, and administrative structure

to develop and extend artistic activity at the La Jolla Playhouse

Seasonal Theatre/Dance Program

Three American Operas

to support a demonstration project in methods for training teachers for the theatre in basic approaches to voice, movement, and acting

Theatre Teacher Training

to support Black Theatre United's strategic planning process

Black Theatre United

to support the American premiere of The Overwhelming

American Premiere of "The Overwhelming"

to strengthen specific aspects of the institution, within a selective program to assist 18 American theaters

to support capacity building for experiments in solidarity economies for a new American Theater

The Future of American Theater

to assist the Goodman Theatre in producing earlier work that merits revival

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" 