Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support Will Rawls and a new artist- and scholar-run space focusing on Black contemporary arts, aesthetics, and their relations in North Adams and Williamstown, Massachusetts

Whistle Space 

to support the director of public programs and senior curator positions as part of the Leadership in Art Museums Initiative

Leadership in Art Museums

to support the national expansion of Artists at Work, which integrates art and artists through sustainable employment and partnership models into the rebuilding of healthy communities

Artists at Work

to support two think tanks to establish the initial grounding of the space, and work with Will Rawls to determine the ongoing advisory structure as well as his role at the organization in the long-term

Will Rawls, Artist as Leader

to support the development of interdisciplinary practice through the Confluence Artists Residencies

Confluence Artist Residencies

to support production residencies for two projects: Truth and Reconciliation Commission Cantata, and Of All The People In All The World

Production Residencies

to support costs of administration and planning

Administration and Planning Operations

to continue support for artist residencies

Artist Residencies

to support interdisciplinary artist residencies

to continue support for Technical and Production Residencies for Artists at MASS MoCA

Technical and Production Residencies for Artists at MASS MoCA

to support preservation of and access to primary source documentation in the field of contemporary art

Contemporary Art Scholarship

to support research, colloquia, scholarly publishing, and public discourse on contemporary art

to support the museum's role as a platform for research and debate on contemporary art

Contemporary Art Scholarship - Phase II

to support a curatorial position with specialization in Latinx art as part of Advancing Latinx Art in Museums

Advancing Latinx Art at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

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

Art Museum Futures Fund

to connect historic art museum collections and spaces with contemporary practices of living artists

Historic Museum, Contemporary Approaches

for use by the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) in support of its further planning and development

Art Museum Image Consortium

to support a new curatorial position dedicated to contemporary fiber arts

Curator of Contemporary Art

to support curatorial capacity in contemporary indigenous art and culture

Curator of Contemporary Indigenous Art and Culture

to continue support for new models of community and artistic engagement with historic art museum collections and spaces

to support Latinx and Caribbean art initiatives

Latinx and Caribbean Art and Engagement Initiatives 

matching endowment in support of its conservation program

Art Museum Program

matching endowment for research and publication of substantial scholarly quality

Art Museum Publication Program

to support a leadership program for museum professionals focused on innovative public programming and audience development

Animating Museums

to support travel to assess the damage to the collections at the Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo

Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo

to support NEW INC's new Director Salome Asega's vision including growing staff capacity, enhancing the membership model, and growing the reach of each artist’s venture

New Director Vision

to define and enhance aspects of its artistic mission

Contemporary Chamber Ensembles

to continue support for curatorial research, graduate fellowships, and publications in contemporary art

Curatorial Research and Publication - Phase II

to support a study of how four museum art research libraries might coordinate and centralize their core activities

Art  Museum Research Libraries 

to strengthen curatorial research functions and publications

Museum Program

to support the institution following losses incurred as a result of the events of September 11, 2001

Disaster Recovery Relief Fund

to support the development of Resources for Academic Art Museum Professionals (RAAMP)

Resources for Academic Art Museum Professionals

to support the conservation and preservation of the Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum

Conservation and Preservation of the Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum

to support organizational and programmatic capacity

Organizational and Programmatic Capacity

matching endowment for research and publication at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

General Operating Support

to support three postdoctoral curatorial fellows

Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellowships

to support capacity towards archiving and digitizing the museum’s collection and history

MOCA Digital Initiative & Archive

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" 