Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support collaborative programs to provide object-centered research and curatorial training to art history graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia Museum of Art/University of Pennsylvania Collaboration

to support collaborative programs with Philadelphia Museum of Art to provide object-centered research and curatorial training to art history graduate students

matching endowment in support of research and publication of substantial scholarly quality

Art Museum Publication Program

to support a study and planning process to address knowledge management infrastructure at the museum

Art Information Commons planning phase

to provide final renewal of support for collaborative initiatives in art history graduate education

Graduate Art History Curriculum

to support the museum’s plans to improve access to unique archival collections

Museum Archives

to improve scholarly access to unique archival documents

to establish a scholarly research fund for curatorial assistance and for work on its permanent collections

Museum Program

to support the planning for the reinstallation of the Rodin Museum and several galleries in the main building

New Directors' Initiatives

to support object-based art history graduate education in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania

PMA-UPenn Collaboration

to complete construction and documentation of the Museum’s conservation database software, Conservation Tracker

Conservation Tracker

to support three temporary conservation positions associated with the move of the Museum’s costume and textiles collection

Costume and Textile Collection Move

to support structural improvements to the Museum’s conservation database software, Conservation Tracker

to establish a permanent endowment for the Senior Curatorship of Costume and Textiles; to establish a permanent endowment for the Associate Curatorship of Arms and Armor; and to support the Associate Curatorship of Arms and Armor while endowment funds are raised

Curatorial Endowment

matching endowment in support of its conservation program

Conservation Endowment

to support the processing of the Anne d’Harnoncourt Archives

Anne d'Harnoncourt Archives

to endow the program of postdoctoral Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellowships

Curatorial Fellowships Endowment

to establish a permanent endowment in support of one Senior Conservatorship and three post-graduate conservation fellowships and to support publication and presentation projects directly related to conservation

Conservation Endowment 

for affiliation of its library with the Research Libraries Information Network

Research Libraries Information Network

to continue support for a program of postdoctoral Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellowships

Curatorial Fellowships - Phase III

toward costs of re-installing the European collections and to endow two curatorial positions

European Collections Reinstallation Project

to endow one or more midlevel (assistant/associate) curatorial position

to support positions for a senior conservator and a senior conservation scientist, and to purchase essential analytical equipment

for an advanced conservation apprentice training program

Advanced Conservation Training

to strengthen the permanent endowment for scholarly publications

Scholarly Publications - Endowment

to sustain Mellon curatorial, conservation and science  positions and programs at a time when their endowment principals have fallen below their historic dollar value

Core Scholarly Support

to support the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellowships

Curatorial Fellowships - Phase II

matching endowment for two senior curatorial positions and to establish two Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellowships

Curatorial Endowment and Curatorial Fellowships - Phase I

to support object-based art history graduate education, in collaboration with the Philadelphia Museum of Art

to continue support for an undergraduate fellowship program aimed at diversifying curatorial cohorts in American art museums, in partnership with the Art Institute of Chicago, the High Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Mellon Undergraduate Curatorial Fellowship

to continue support for the Philadelphia Music Alliance for Youth Artists’ Initiative

Philadelphia Music Alliance for Youth Artists' Initiative

to support the launch and implementation of the Public Art & Civic Engagement Capacity Building Initiative in three American cities

Launch of the Public Art & Civic Engagement Capacity Building Initiative

to support pathways initiatives for musicians from underrepresented communities

Philadelphia Music School Alliance for Youth Artists' Initiative

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

Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo

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

Art Museum Futures Fund

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

Art  Museum Research Libraries 

to support reconstruction and preservation of the Robeson Houses of Philadelphia and Princeton, as well as increased organizational capacity for collaborative initiatives

Robeson Houses of Philadelphia and Princeton

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" 