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

to establish an artistic director's discretionary fund at the Mark Taper Forum

Regional Theatre Program

to assist the Mark Taper Forum in producing earlier work that merits revival

to assist in strengthening artistic leadership

Theater Program

to support new play development and resident artist programs

National Theater Program

to support a commissioning and development program focused on non-text-based work

Devised Work Program

to support artistic initiatives and organizational development

National Theater Program 

to support a commissioning and development program for collaboratively devised work

Devised Work Program - Renewal

to support the RADAR L.A theater festival

Under the Radar L.A.

to support transformative leadership within the American Theater

Righting the Ship: Fortifying Visionary Leadership

in support of the project "Ethnic Los Angeles"

Immigrant Research - Ethnic Los Angeles 

to support the preservation, activation, and expansion of "The Great Wall of Los Angeles," one of the country’s largest monuments to interracial harmony through civic engagement and muralist training

The Great Wall of Los Angeles

to support South Asian Experimental Dance Artists

sada working group

to support the activities of the memory lab at Los Angeles Public Library

Support for Public Library Memory Labs: Los Angeles Public Library

to support a memorial to the victims of the 1871 Chinese Massacre in Los Angeles

Mellon Monuments Project - Memorial to the 1861 Chinese Massacre in Los Angeles

to support COVID-19 emergency response for Los Angeles arts and cultural organizations

Los Angeles Emergency Response

to support a program to integrate the Los Angeles arts community with the college curriculum

Los Angeles Integrated Arts Program

to support Los Angeles Visual Arts Coalition with development staffing and sustainability grants to its membership

Los Angeles Visual Arts Coalition

to support the Million Dollar Hoods project, which seeks to archive historical documents, oral histories, and ephemera in order to chronicle the many impacts of policing and mass incarceration in Los Angeles

Million Dollar Hoods-Archiving the Age of Mass Incarceration

to support two project coordinators for the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA

Center for the Art of Performance - Project Coordinators

supplemental award for permanent endowment of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

Symphony Orchestra Program

to support collaboration with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to provide object-centered training of doctoral students in art history

Art History Graduate Education

to support the Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles Institute and Centennial Scholars programs

YOLA Institute and Centennial Scholars

to support the development of a community archive and public art installation that document and elevate the lives of Indigenous immigrant communities in the Westlake area of Los Angeles, California

MARKINGS: Inscribing Community and Immigrant Stories in Westlake

to support research at the Center for Education Policy and Evaluation

Center on Education Policy and Evaluation 

to support planning, research, design, and the installation of physical markers and the creation of digital content to highlight Los Angeles’ diverse historic places

HistoricPlacesLA Revealed

to support a diversity fellowship program in collaboration with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra

Graduate Fellowships

to support research and design for the creation of a community archive, public library exhibit and programs, and public artwork in Los Angeles’ Westlake enclave that is inclusive of the histories and experiences of its diverse immigrant communities

MARKINGS: Inscribing Community and Immigrant Histories in Westlake

to support a diversity fellowship program in collaboration with the Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles

to support the semi-permanent installation of a monument to South Central

A Monument to South Central, sister dreamer, lauren halsey’s architectural ode to tha surge n splurge of south central los angeles 

to embed the urban humanities program into UCLA graduate and undergraduate curricula in a sustainable way and develop a new emphasis on urbanism in Los Angeles and Mexico City

Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities

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

to support composer-centered artistic initiatives

Composer-Centered Artistic Initiatives

to assist the Denver Center Theatre Company in producing ealier work that merits revival

to assist the Denver Center Theatre Company in producing earlier work that merits revival

to support a working group for South Asian experimental dance artists

South Asian Experimental Dance Artists

for general support of this national service agency for the non-profit professional theatre

General Support

for use by the Center for Theatre Arts toward costs of establishing a professional dance residency program

Center for Theatre Arts

to develop and extend its artistic activity

Seasonal Theatre/Dance Program

to support Yale Repertory Theatre’s Center for New Theatre

Yale Center for New Theatre

to support a three-dimensional, virtual reality computer model of the Roman Forum

Virtual Reality - History of Architecture

for use by its Graduate School of Management toward costs of research and publication comparing practices and methods of U.S. and Japanese business and industry

Graduate School of Management - Japanese Business

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the historical and cultural sources of significant contemporary developments, entitled "Disputation:Ways of Arguing In and Out of the University"

Sawyer Seminars - Disputation: Ways of Arguing In and Out of the University

to support the Off Grand Initiative and a new artist-in-residence

Off Grand Initiative and Artist-in-Residence

in support of Sawyer Seminars on historical and cultural sources of significant contemporary developments

Seminars on the Comparative Study of Cultures

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" 