Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

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 planning for a national opera center

National Opera Center

to support development and dissemination of new American opera

Development and Dissemination of New American Opera

to support planning for its endowment campaign

Fund for Opera in America

Internet Project - Part II

Opera Project

toward costs of establishing a research and information program

Central Opera Service

to support a convening and travel grants to encourage subsequent productions of new work

Collaborative Work on New American Opera

to support the Co-Production Bank, an interest-free revolving loan fund for collaborative productions of American operas

"Co-Production Fund" PRI

to support its relocation from Washington, DC to New York

Relocation Expenses

Core Institutional Support

New Works Forum

to support convenings and related events that would encourage collaboration around new work development and production

toward costs of placing its databases and services on the Internet

Internet Project - Part I

to support the 2008 National Performing Arts Convention

National Performing Arts Convention

to support documentation of the first national performing arts convention

to support the New Works Forum and New Works Exploration Grants program

New Works Forum & Exploration Grants

to support to support professional development programs and customization and implementation of the Cultural Data Project in New York

Professional Development and Implementation of Cultural Data Project

to support electronic resources and other services to the field

Electronic Resources and Other Services to the Field

to support fellowships for opera composers and librettists

Opera Fellowships

American Opera Initiative

Opera Program

to support the development and production new American operas

Opera of the Americas Initiative

to support the developmental process for new American opera

Composers and the Voice and First Chance

to support artistic initiatives and the production of new America operas

Artistic Initiatives for New American Operas

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

Advancing the Future of American Opera

to support the development of a new opera, Charlie Parker, and a producing associate position

to support the development and production of new opera

Development and Production of New American Works

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

National Opera House

to support the Frontiers program and the Noches de Opera initiative

Frontiers Programs and the Noches de Opera Initiative

toward costs of improving specific aspects of its operations

to support the orchestra development program, and new and 20th-century operas

to support a pilot program to train American composers and librettists

to establish a collaborative opera program with the Metropolitan Opera Association

to support opera and music-theater programming

Opera Presentations and Opera Endowment

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

Opera Program 

Small Opera Program

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

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

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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" 