Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support the MONUMENTS exhibition and public programming

Monuments 

to continue support of the expansion and implementation of the Monument Removal, Relocation, and Re-Interpretation Toolkit

Monuments Toolkit

to support the creation of the Monuments podcast and related educational materials

Monuments Podcast

to support the continued planning, policy, and engagement work for Portland's monuments and memorial efforts

Portland Monuments Project

to support staffing, artist fees and honoraria, and production of an interactive website and multimedia content related to the expansion of the Words Are Monuments initiative

Words Are Monuments

to support organizational capacity and the expansion of the Floating Monuments programming series

Floating Monuments: Mecca Flats

to support the development of an interdisciplinary studio and legal clinic to provide practical solutions to communities facing legal challenges related to monuments

Monuments Workshop at UK

to support the development of the Queens Memory Monuments project

Queens Memory Monuments Project

to support training, technical assistance, production, and documentation of new monuments in rural Midwest communities

Monuments Across the Rural Midwest

to support P.5’s “New Monuments” as well as the first year of projects for “Prospect’s Proposal”: collaborative, post-P.5 projects and programming centering on Tivoli Circle, that continue the conversation around monuments and public space

Prospect 5 "New Monuments" Commissions and Public Projects

to support the Pulse Check: Accountability and Activation of Future SF Monuments initiative

Pulse Check: Accountability and Activation of Future SF Monuments

to support the development of the Kinfolk AR Monuments app and archive, and related public programming

Kinfolk AR Monuments and Digital Archive

to support the development of a toolkit to inform decisions about the display, interpretation, removal, or relocation of monuments associated with oppression

Monument Removal, Relocation, and Re-Interpretation Toolkit

to support a multi-year public history initiative that explores representations of Appalachia's individuals, communities, and histories

Monuments across Appalachian Virginia

to continue support for the Kinfolk AR Monuments app and digital archive

Kinfolk Renewal

to support the Chicago Monuments Project and citywide community-initiated commemorative initiatives and installations

Citywide Community-initiated Commemorative Projects

to support a memorial to the victims of the 1871 Chinese Massacre in Los Angeles

Mellon Monuments Project - Memorial to the 1861 Chinese Massacre in Los Angeles

to support the development of  approximately18 virtual monuments projects across Los Angeles County

Erecting Monumental Change through Augmented Reality

to support community and curatorial partnerships, new temporary commemorative installations, and related public programs

Un-monument | Re-monument | De-Monument: Transforming Boston

to support the implementation of the Pack Square Plaza Vision Plan and commemorative projects

A Place for all People: Reshaping Pack Square Plaza

to support the Monumental Concerns fall symposium and three-part spring workshop series

Monumental Concerns

to support research, planning, and pilot programming at the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley House Museum

Till House

to support the expansion of the Re:Generation program, field building, narrative change work, and general operations

Monument Lab

to support a selection of monumental works at Prospect.6

Prospect.6 

to support Monument Lab’s operational capacity and research

to support the expansion of The Sunrise Project and related research and public programming on the history of sundown towns in communities across Oregon

The Sunrise Project

to support development of an online interactive portal, creative place-based activations, and research on the cultural and historical landscape of Freedom Colonies

Out(sider) Preservation

to support the reimagining of the studio of sculptor Edward Valentine and the reinterpretation of the Wickham House

Edward Valentine Studio

to support engagement with Emmett Till’s story and sites in Mississippi

Emmett Till National Monument

to support the development of a citywide inventory of commemorative works and the commissioning of temporary public art projects in partnership with the City of Providence Department of Art, Culture + Tourism

Providence Commemoration Lab

to support efforts to identify, document, and stabilize Mississippi's Freedom Houses

Mississippi Freedom Houses Project

to support the creation of a digital archive honoring the lives and histories of the people of Kalaupapa

Kalaupapa Digital Archive

to support the Indigenous Place Names Project, a movement to amplify Anchorage’s Indigenous identity along the Municipality of Anchorage's public trail system

Indigenous Place Names Project

to support the construction of the Mineta-Simpson Institute

Mineta-Simpson Institute

to support the preservation, relocation and restoration of the Williamsburg Bray School and development of public programming

The Williamsburg Bray School

to support the Reimagining Columbus Initiative

Reimagining Columbus

to support community engagement, planning, and design related to the development of the Sleepy Lagoon Memorial

Sleepy Lagoon Memorial

to support museum interpretation and planning, community engagement, memorial design, and the center’s organizational capacity

Emmett Till Interpretive Center

to support a new memorial to Till and the center's organizational capacity

to support the creation of a permanent outdoor space featuring original artworks designed to promote healing, truth-telling, and cultural preservation for Alaska Native peoples

Ngíisdla (Healing Garden Project)

to support production and dissemination of a documentary film about the Iⁿ‘zhúje Waxóbe/Sacred Red Rock Project

Iⁿ‘zhúje‘waxóbe/Sacred Red Rock Project Documentary

to support organizational capacity, visioning and planning, and community engagement to develop a public monument in Portland’s Jade District

Jade District Canton Grill Monument

to support the expansion of the Public Memory and Memorials Lab

Public Memory and Memorials Lab 

to support the creation of the Irei Names Monument

Irei Names 

to support the development of the Public Memory and Memorial Lab

Public Memory and Memorial Lab

to support the development of research and studies to strengthen the preservation and interpretation of women’s history

NPS Women's History National Historic Landmarks Project

to support the capital costs related to the exterior restoration of Roberts Temple, organizational capacity building, and design and fundraising costs needed to advance future phases of work

Restoration of Roberts Temple

to support the pre-construction phase of the development of the Fred Rouse Center for Arts and Community Healing, fundraising for the capital campaign, and core staffing

Transform 1012 N. Main Street

to support the project's core staffing needs and continued planning activities

Capacity Building and Planning Support

to support the Temporary Commemoration Pilot program

Temporary Commemoration Pilot

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" 