Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

toward equipment and reinstallation costs in connection with the construction of a new wing to the Museum's main building

New Wing

to support a catalogue for the "Byzantine Bembe: New York by Manny Vega" exhibition

Manny Vega Catalogue

to support a curator of community history position as part of the Leadership in Art Museums Initiative

Leadership in Art Museums

to support the exhibition Who We Are: Visualizing NYC by the Numbers

Who We Are: Visualizing NYC by the Numbers

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

Disaster Recovery Relief Fund

to support the cataloging of hidden collections

Cataloging Special Collections

to support continuation of predoctoral fellowships in public history

Predoctoral Fellowship Program

to support a final round of postdoctoral fellowships in public history

Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellowship Program

to support four postdoctoral curatorial fellowships

Curatorial Fellowships

to support predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowships in public history

Curatorial Fellowships - Phase II

for teacher-pupil audio-visual education program

Audio-Visual Education Program

in support of family planning services in New York City

New York Family Planning

in support of family-planning services in New York City

to support the development of infrastructure and staff for strengthening the institutional archives of the City University of New York

Cultivating Archives and Institutional Memory at “The People’s University”

to support mapping of New York City’s Black, Indigenous, People of Color led and serving cultural entities, a collaboration with Hester Street and Museum Hue

Mapping BIPOC Cultural Orgs in New York City

to support core operations through the New York Theater Program

New York Theater Program

to support analyses of New York City neighborhood networks and the development of asset and power mapping tools

Reimagining New York City - From the Neighborhood Up

to continue support for a humanities teacher training and pipeline initiative in partnership with four New York City community colleges

Humanities Training and Pipeline Initiative

to support the People’s Commissioning Fund and New York City performances

The People's Commissioning Fund and New York City Performances

to support a study of the effects of the City University of New York’s "open admissions" policy on low-income students and their children

Open Admissions - Second Generation Effects

to support food security activities on City University of New York campuses in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

CUNY Campaign for a Food Secure CUNY

toward completion of the Oral History program of the Dance Collection of the Library and Museum of the Performing Arts

Dance Collection of the Library & Museum of the Performing Arts

to support adjunct faculty impacted by COVID-related budget cuts and sustain humanities offerings at the City University of New York

Adjunct Faculty Support

to facilitate planning for the maintenance of adequate family planning services in New York City

Family Planning Services

to support food security, health and mental health care, and housing assistance activities on City University of New York campuses

Comprehensive Access to Resources for Essential Services

to support the development and expansion of prison education and reentry initiatives, in collaboration with the City University of New York 

Expanding Access to Higher Education in New York State Prisons

in support of The Making of New York project, a digital collection of material on the history of New York drawn from 11 major libraries

Making of New York

to assist the Dance Collections of the Library & Museum of Performing Arts in establishing an oral history program

Dance Collection of the Library & Museum of the Performing Arts - Oral History Program

toward support of the Development Department of the New York City Opera

Development Department

to support The Year of Talking Honestly project, exploring race, diversity, inclusion, and bias in New York City

The Year of Talking Honestly

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Christopher Loperena

New Directions Fellowship: Fighting to Stay in Place: Race, Climate, and Geographies of Loss

to establish an artistic director's discretionary fund at the New York City Ballet

Ballet Program

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Transpacific Thought and the Problem of Asia"

Sawyer Seminars: Transpacific Thought and the Problem of Asia 

toward costs of the Database of Classical Bibliography

Database of Classical Bibliography

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures, entitled "Democratic Citizenship and the Recognition of Cultural Differences"

Sawyer Seminars - Democratic Citizenship and the Recognition of Cultural Differences

New Directions Fellowship (Wilder)

to strengthen its graduate programs and undergraduate teaching in the four-year colleges of the City University

Undergraduate Teaching

to sustain the Community Colleges Project to strengthen humanities teaching in the seven community colleges of the City University and in others nearby

Community College Project

toward support of the project "Improving Newcomer Access to City Services"

City Services Access

to support services to the dance field in New York City

Dance/NYC

to support a study focusing on specific factors that might influence the transfer of community college students with interests in the humanities

Community College Students Majoring in the Humanities: Transfer and Attainment of Bachelor's Degrees

to support ongoing scholarly activities by former New Directions Fellowship recipient Gary Wilder

New Directions Post-Fellowship Award (Wilder)

toward costs of its project "Improving Newcomer Access to City Services"

to support the digitization, publication, and repatriation of audio and film recordings of traditional Indonesian music dating from the first half of the 20th century

Restoration, Dissemination, and Repatriation of the Earliest Music Recordings and Films in Bali

to provide a final round of support for the New York Theater Program

Museum of Broken Windows

to support planning for a program of renewal and innovation in the humanities

Curriculum of Engagement

to support planning for a re-granting program for dance rehearsal space in New York City

Dance Rehearsal Space Re-granting Planning

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" 