Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

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Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support the developmental process for new American opera and capacity building

Composer Librettist Development Program and Capacity Building

to support the Composer Librettist Development Program

Composer Librettist Development Program

to support the recording of The Golden Ticket

The Golden Ticket Recording

to continue support for the Composer Librettist Development Program

The Composer Librettist Development Program

to support the developmental process of new operas and organizational capacity

toward costs of a public television series on the American theater

American Theater Series

to support transformative leadership within the American Theater

(Re)Seeding the American Theater

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

Theater Program

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

Merger with American Music Center

to support the construction of Victoria Theater and its new community spaces and programs focused on the arts, cultural heritage, and social justice in St. Paul

Victoria Theater Arts Center

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

The Future of American Theater

to support transition and start-up costs related to a merger with American Music Center, Inc.

Merger With American Music Center 

The Future of American Theater 

for general support of the Alvin Ailey City Center Dance Theater

Alvin Ailey City Center Dance Theater

to support transitional expenses associated with the transfer of the Center for the Theater Commons from Washington Drama Society, Inc. (Arena Stage)

Center for the Theater Commons Transfer

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

to support theater and dance commissions, residencies, and projects

Theater and Dance Commissions

to support the programs of the American Dance Festival

Connecticut College: Theater Component, Project: Music and Dance, Total Theater - American Dance Festival

toward costs of development of its theater training program

National Theater Program

to support planning for a strategic alignment with American Composers Forum and Meet the Composer, Inc.

Merger Planning

to support core operations through the New York Theater Program

New York Theater Program

toward the costs of commissioning, in a program conducted in cooperation with the New York State Council on the Arts, works of music by contemporary American composers

Contemporary American Composers

to support the theater’s artistic development and its Associate Artist program

to support developmental activities and collaborations with producing theaters

Developmental Activities and Producing Theater Collaborations

toward retirement of debt incurred for renovation and expansion of the Center's building

Retirement of Indebtedness

to support productions of American operas

Opera 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" 