Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support seed and finish line funding as well as professional development for Asian, Black, Indigenous, and Latinx creators utilizing the Kickstarter platform

Creative Capital x Skoll Creator Fund

to support research on ways to strengthen support structures for individual artists

Support for Individual Artists

to support regional artist retreats and public programming

Capacity Building

to support Phase One of a strategic organization assessment

Strategic Assessment

to support the Multi-Arts Production Fund

MAP Fund

to support and enhance services to participating artists

Enhance Services

Multi-Arts Production Fund

to support a revolving loan fund for performing artists

Loan Fund for Performing Artists

Capital Fund

toward development of a working capital fund

to support capital work to develop new arts and cultural heritage spaces through the Creative Complex at The Forum in Bronzeville, Chicago

The Creative Complex at The Forum

to support the Center for Creative Research

Center for Creative Research 

EEP - Capital Campaign

to support the attendance of Foundation grantees at a seminar entitled Creative Alliances

Creative Alliances 

for research on capital formation in the United States

Capital Formation

toward costs of establishing a working capital reserve fund during organizational transition

Capital Reserve

to support planning, capacity building, and pilot programming for The Institute of Black Imagination

The Institute of Black Imagination

for support of a program of research on capital formation in the United States

Capital Construction Program

Capital Fund IV

Capital Fund Drive

Capital Fund III

Capital Fund II

Working Capital Fund

for general support, and to establish a working capital reserve

Working Capital Reserve

to support succession planning and new business model implementation through change-capital funding

Core Capital Support

to support payment of the archive capital fee to JSTOR for seven American overseas research centers

Archive Capital Fees

to strengthen its capacity to rebuild its capital base

Planning Grant - Capital Campaign

to support a revolving working capital fund

Revolving Working Capital Fund

to support a study on capital expenses in athletics

Athletics Capital Expense Study

for capital funds to provide for construction, and to establish research and educational programs

Capital Fund-Raising Program

Producing Fund/Risk Capital Fund

to support a project to mark Black history and heritage in Louisville through public realm installations and arts-based experiences

(Un)Known Project

toward costs of a multifaceted program of research on the functioning of the international capital markets and their responses to financial and currency crises

International Capital Market Research

Creative Advisor

to support Anthony Roth Costanzo's Creative ARC, a project designed to support his creative practice as well as a mentorship program for emerging artists building practices that transcend institutional walls

Creative ARC

Creative Writing Program

to support the Creative Fellowships initiative

Creative Fellowships Initiative

to support the Creative Common Ground initiative

Creative Common Ground

to support the National Dance Project university residency program for choreographers, and its touring program

Center for Creative Research and National Dance Project Training

to support a cohort of early-career creative producers

Creative Producer Cohort

to support an empirical study and analysis of the distinction between "commercial" and "noncommercial" in Creative Commons licenses

Defining "NonCommercial" Within the Context of Cultural Production

to support The Music Makes a City Creative Neighborhood Residency Program

Creative Neighborhood Residency

to support the development of interdisciplinary practice through Creative Exchange Lab

Creative Exchange Lab

to support planning by the Institute for Culture in the Service of Community Sustainability for a study of recent capital projects by New York City cultural organizations

ICSCS NYC Cultural Capital Projects Study

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 Creative Ecosystem," a participatory, democratic approach to art and civic engagement

The Creative Ecosystem

to support the creation of a collaborative creative residencies program to expand the role of creative residencies within the broader liberal arts curriculum at all three colleges

Liberal Arts Creative Residencies 

to support Creative States Coalition staff capacity and convenings for arts advocacy organizations across the United States

Creative States Coalition 

Artists as Catalysts

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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" 