Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support succession planning and capacity building

Succession Planning

to support the travel for a delegation of US theater artists, leaders, and scholars to participate in the 2007 World Social Forum

World Social Forum

to support a collaborative initiative for plays by emerging and established artists of color for multigenerational audiences

Generation Now Commissioning Program

to continue support for a multiyear residency with playwrights Mike Lew and Rehana Lew Mirza, as part of the National Playwright Residency Program

National Playwright Residency Program

to support a three-year residency with playwrights Mike Lew and Rehana Lew Mirza through the National Playwright Residency Program

New York Theater Program

to support core operations through the New York Theater Program

to establish a cash reserve fund and support an artistic discretionary fund

Artistic Director Discretionary Fund and Cash Reserves

for support of Theatre, Inc. (Phoenix Theatre), New York

Theatre Inc.

to support and sustain ensemble theater practices

Ensemble Practitioners Support

to support capacity building for The Fire Ensemble, led by Troy Anthony

The Fire Ensemble 

to support subsidized rehearsal space for the professional nonprofit dance field

Dance Rehearsal Space Subsidy

to support artistic initiatives and organizational development

Ensemble Theater Program

to support Black Theatre United's strategic planning process

Black Theatre United

toward administrative expenses of the Manhattan Project, an experimental theatre company

The Manhattan Project

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

Regional Theatre Program

to support a professional training and development hub for Black theatre artists and technicians and to produce six plays by Indiana Black playwrights

District Theatre Project

to continue support for the Local Artist Ensemble and New Works Initiative

Local Artist Ensemble

to support the artistic initiatives and organizational development of the ensemble theater company Culture Clash

to support the pilot phase of an artist-to-artist touring and exchange network

Network of Ensemble Theaters/Touring and Exchange Network Initiative

to assist the Theatre in renovating its Annex facility

Annex renovation

to support an ensemble of locally based artists and the creation and development of new work

Local Artist Ensemble and New Work

to support the National Institute for Directing and Ensemble Creation

National Institute for Directing and Ensemble Creation

to continue support for the National Institute for Directing and Ensemble Creation

to support the launch of the National Institute for Directing and Ensemble Creation

toward capital improvements in the Theatre's Manhattan Annex

Manhattan Annex

to continue support for the National Institute for Directing and Ensemble Creation and general operating support

National Institute for Directing and Ensemble Creation 

Obsidian Theatre Festival

Arts Income Management System

toward completion of its new theatre facility

New Theatre Facility

to support a demonstration project in methods for training teachers for the theatre in basic approaches to voice, movement, and acting

Theatre Teacher Training

to support the 2005 International Hispanic Theatre Festival

International Hispanic Theatre Festival

to establish an artistic director's discretionary fund at the Long Wharf Theatre

to assist the Long Wharf Theatre in producing earlier work that merits revival

General Support

to support The GhostLight Arts Initiative's Propulsion Theatre Project

The Propulsion Theatre Project

to assist the American Ballet Theatre in developing ways to increase earned and contributed income

Ballet Program

to support the Signature Ticket Initiative, the historic Negro Ensemble Company Season, and other ambitious productions

NEC Season, Ticket Initiative, Angels in America

to commission new choreographic work, including fresh adaptations of existing pieces, for the repertoire of the American Ballet Theatre

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" 