Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support the development of a business plan to strengthen the organizational and financial basis of the Courtauld Institute of Art

Courtauld Institute of Art

to support upgrade of the user interface of the Witt Computer Index, which provides scholarly access to a subset of art objects represented in the photo archive held by the Witt Library of the Courtauld Institute of Art

Research Forum - Phase III

to continue support for a pilot project for conservation and art historical documentation in digital form

Integration of Art Historical and Technical Information

to support activities to strengthen scholarship in art history

Art History Centers

to support a faculty cluster hire in art of Africa and the African diaspora

Faculty Cluster Hire in Art of Africa and the African Diaspora

to support a new faculty position in the history of art in Asia circa 1000-1750

Faculty Support

to support the completion of the Maestro di Figline prototype project for online exchange of conservation documentation

Conservation Documentation Pilot Project [Bridge - Pieta]

Research Forum

to support a pilot project for conservation documentation in digital form

Conservation Documentation Pilot Project [Implementation - Pieta]

Conservation Documentation Pilot Project [Planning - Pieta]

to strengthen its faculty and enrich its scholarly activities

matching endowment for research and publication at the Detroit Institute of Arts

Art Museum Publication Program [Detroit Institute Arts]

for faculty and curriculum development at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Faculty/Curriculum Development

to support collaborative programs to strengthen object-centered training of doctoral students in art history

Art History Graduate Education 

to support the Chicago Object Study Initiative, a collaboration between the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the Art Institute of Chicago to strengthen object-based training for art history graduate students

Chicago Object Study Initiative - Phase 2

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

Art Museum Futures Fund

to support the creation of a Caribbean Cultural Institute

Caribbean Cultural Institute

to support a collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago to establish a Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts

Northwestern University/Art Institute of Chicago - Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts

matching endowment in support of its conservation department

Art Museum Program

matching endowment for research and publication of substantial scholarly quality

Art Museum Publication Program

to support the Northwestern University-Art Institute of Chicago Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts

Northwestern University/Art Institute of Chicago Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts (NU-ACCESS) Phase 2

to continue support of its art workshop program

Art Workshop Program

to support the Summer Institute in Art Museum Studies

Summer Institute in Art Museum Studies

to issue proceedings of a conference of historians and art historians

Art History Conference

to support the expansion of Theater Institute programs

Expansion of Theater Institute Programs

to support a pilot program of collaborative research projects and seminars to be conducted by the Institute and Northwestern University in the field of conservation science

Conservation Research and Seminars 

to support efforts to increase participation of students from underrepresented and disadvantaged backgrounds in the Summer Institute in Art and Museum Studies

matching grant for networking computer resources and cataloguing in the Ryerson and Burnham Libraries

Art Museum Reference Libraries

to renew support for the Institute's Center for Art, Science, and Technology

Center for Art, Science, and Technology - Phase II

to support the continuation of the Summer Institute in Technical Art History

Summer Institute for Technical Studies - Harvard Art Museums

to continue support for capacity building and programming

The Institute of Black Imagination

to continue support for the Summer Institute for Technical Studies in Art at Harvard Art Museums

Summer Institute in Technical Art History- Phase 2

to support efforts to increase the level of private sector support for the Institute of Historical Research

Institute of Historical Research

to support the transition from the Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts to the Institute for Creative Arts

Institute for Creative Arts

to support the Intercultural Leadership Institute

Intercultural Leadership Institute

for a project to define the needs of the field of art conservation

Art Conservation - Funding

to continue support for the Intercultural Leadership Institute

to continue support for research, dissemination, and archiving of work on Hemispheric Blackness and Hemispheric Migration through the Hemispheric Institute

World-Making and Social Emergency: Art, Culture, and Social Justice at the Hemispheric Institute

to support planning for and the pilot round of the Advanced Intercultural Leadership Institute

Advanced Intercultural Leadership Institute

to support the research and programs of the Institute for Creative Arts

Institute for Creative Arts Renewal 

for short-term fellowships for art historians from Latin America

Latin American Art Historians

to support the Summer Institute of Music at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art

Summer Institute of Music

to support the further integration of the Center for Art, Science, and Technology into the research culture of the university

Center for Art, Science, and Technology - Phase III

to support a pilot initiative to train Chinese museum professionals

Training of Chinese Museum Professionals

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

Training of Chinese Museum Professionals 

to support evaluation and planning for the next iteration of the Intercultural Leadership Institute

Intercultural Leadership Institute Bridge Grant

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" 