Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support a community-created performance initiative

Chicago Voices

to support productions of American operas

Opera Program

Opera Project

for development of ways to increase earned and contributed income

Regional Opera Program

to support radio broadcasts and revivals of Porgy and Bess and Lulu

Radio Broadcasts and Revivals of "Lulu" and "Porgy and Bess"

to support artistic initiatives and community engagement

Artistic Initiatives and Community Engagement

to continue support for the Vanguard Emerging Opera Composer Residency Program

Vanguard Emerging Opera Composer Training

to support the Vanguard Emerging Opera Composer Residency Program 

Vanguard Emerging Opera Composer Residency Program 

for use by the University of Chicago Press to continue development of the Chicago Visual Library

Chicago Visual Library

to continue support for the Opera of our Time Initiative

Opera of Our Time

to support productions of A Flowering Tree and Death and the Power

Productions of "A Flowering Tree" and "Death and the Powers"

to support Chicago-based Black dance companies and strengthen their financial and operational capacity, ensuring the long-term survival of their work

The Chicago Black Dance Legacy Project

to renew support for 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 development of models of collaboration among faculty, graduate students, and archivists for the processing of collections in Chicago-area archives

Processing Chicago Area Archives 

to support the creation of a community critics’ project that would broaden and deepen the engaged reception of works by Black and brown artists in the Chicago area

The Chicago Critics' Table

to support productions of six contemporary and Baroque operas

Artistic Initiatives for Contemporary and Baroque Operas

to support the first phase of the development of a new performing edition of John Corigliano’s opera Ghosts of Versailles

The Ghosts of Versailles Opera

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

to support development of an online portal for historical collections related to Chicago

Chicago Collections Consortium: Portal Implementation

to support development and dissemination of new American opera

Development and Dissemination of New American Opera

to continue support for Opera Fusion: New Works and to commission new operas about positive Black stories

Advancing the Future of American Opera

to support planning for an online portal for the Chicago Collections Consortium of libraries and archives

Chicago Collections Consortium: Chicago Portal Planning

to support the presentation of contemporary operas in community-based settings 

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

Composer Librettist Development Program and Capacity Building

Opera Center

toward support of a program of services for trustees and volunteers of opera companies and to explore the possibility of merging the organization with that of Opera Guilds International

Opera Company Services

to support artistic initiatives and a cash reserve

Artistic Initiatives and Cash Reserve

to support Fast Forward at Di Capo Opera, a series of concerts and semi-staged operas not yet produced by major opera companies

Opera Program 

for its Chicago Area Health Careers Program

Chicago Health Careers

to support planning for a national opera center

National Opera Center

to provide a final round of support to the Chicago Musical Pathways Initiative

Chicago Musical Pathways Initiative

American Opera Initiative

toward costs of improving specific aspects of its operations

to support the Chicago Musical Pathways Initiative

to support activities facilitating the merger of the Utah Symphony and the Utah Opera

Opera and Symphony Merger

to support required stabilization work for the opera house building and increased organizational capacity

National Opera House

to support developmental residencies for new American opera in partnership with the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music  

Opera Fusion:  New Works

to support a fellowship program for black students at the University of Cape Town Opera School and support for the Opera School

University of Cape Town Opera School

to support the Opera Fusion: New Works initiative

Opera Fusion - New Works

to support the activation of community partnerships

An Orchestra for All of Chicago

to establish a collaborative opera program with the Metropolitan Opera Association

to support collaborative opera development with Opera Company of Philadelphia and Music-Theatre Group, and a producing associate position in collaboration with Music-Theatre Group

Collaborative Opera Development/Producing Associate

to support opera and music-theater programming

Opera Presentations and Opera Endowment

to support the University of Cape Town Opera School fellowship program

Opera School

to support surveys of archival collections in the Chicago area by faculty and doctoral students in preparation for the cataloging of these collections

Surveys of Archival Collections 

to support fellowships for opera composers and librettists

Opera Fellowships

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" 