Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

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

CollectionSpace

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 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 further development of an open source collections management system for museums

CollectionSpace 3.0  

to support the institution following losses incurred as a result of the events of September 11, 2001

Disaster Recovery Relief Fund

to support further development of the OpenCollection software project

Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration [CollectionSpace]

to support the planning of a digital moving image archive to preserve video material and make clips available for educational use

Digital Moving Image Archive

as permanent endowment, to be matched two-to-one within four years, to support the College of Film and the Moving Image

College of Film and the Moving Image

to support a survey of moving image collections in the United States

Moving Image Collections 

to support a graduate program in moving image preservation

Moving Image Preservation

to support the development of an archive of ethnomusicological moving image recordings

Ethnomusicological Moving Image Archive

to support continued development of an archive of ethnomusicological moving image recordings

Ethnomusicological Moving Image Archive 

to support the continued development and the implementation of an archive of ethnomusicological moving image recordings

Ethnomusicological Moving Image Archive - EVIA 

to support the preservation of audio and moving Image collections

Audio and Moving Image Digital Preservation

to support a survey and assessment of audio and moving image materials in the library’s special collection

Audio & Moving Image Collections Assessment - Special Collections

to support an assessment of WGBH’s audio and moving image archives for scholarly and educational uses

Audio & Moving Image Archive Assessment - Special Collections 

to support the development of the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program

Audio Preservation in Research Libraries [Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program] -  Special Collections

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

Training of Chinese Museum Professionals

for use by the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) in support of its further planning and development

Art Museum Image Consortium

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

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

Reinstallation of the Asian Wing

to assist in defraying cost of moving headquarters to Washington, D.C.

Cost of Moving

to continue support for Museums Moving Forward, a staff-driven initiative to support greater equity and accountability in art museum workplaces through data and research

Museums Moving Forward

to support the development of a strategic plan for the future work and sustainability of the Community Archiving Workshop organization

Community Archiving Workshop

to support the writing, research, editing, and publication of The Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art

The Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art

to support training and services for the preservation of community audiovisual collections in the Mid-Atlantic region

Interface: Expanding Personal and Community Archiving in the US Mid-Atlantic

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

Art Museum Futures Fund

to support the development of methods for preserving circulating video collections in academic libraries

to support the development, testing, and publication of reference tools for film preservation

to support an experimental study to determine the most appropriate methods of preserving analog videotapes by transferring them to digital format

Digital Moving Image Standards

to support Museums Moving Forward, a program to create a culture of accountability and equity within the museum sector

to support a pilot training and internship program for Native American students interested in the museum profession

Training Native American Museum Professionals

to support increased organizational capacity, historical interpretation of sites, and cultural education programming

Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum

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 building construction and a chief curatorial position

Creation and Curation of the IAAM

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

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

to support the Museum’s consultation with the Dunhuang Research Academy on the selection of display technology for a planned visitors center in Dunhuang, China

Dunhuang Vistors Center

to support and endow efforts for developing new exhibitions and enhanced revenues that will be supportive of the Museum’s mission

Endowment Challenge Grant

to support the reinstallation, refurbishing, and conservation of the museum's Northwest Coast Hall

Northwest Coast Hall Reinstallation - Phase 2

to support planning efforts for the reinstallation, refurbishing, and conservation of the museum's Northwest Coast Hall

Northwest Coast Hall Reinstallation - Planning Phase

to support a survey of the content and preservation needs of audiovisual collections

Audio & Moving Image Collections Inventory & Preservation Needs Assessment

to support a final grant for the curatorial and conservation activities associated with the museum’s Northwest Coast Hall reinstallation

Northwest Coast Hall Reinstallation - Final Phase

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 cataloging of hidden collections

Cataloging Special Collections

to cover the losses the institution incurred as a result of September 11, 2001, and to support feasibility studies and planning for major forthcoming exhibitions and associated educational programs

to assist a program of curatorial support services in its Department of Anthropology

Curatorial Support

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" 