Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support an enhancement of institutional digital infrastructure that would expand the Library's preservation of, and access to, African American Studies archival content and scholarly resources

Enhancing Institutional Digital Infrastructure and Descriptive Practices  at the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

to renew support for a center for technology and teaching serving the Atlanta University Center institutions

Center for Integrating Technology and Teaching

to develop a campus-integrated center for technology and teaching for the Atlanta University Center institutions

to support the implementation of a records management program for the Atlanta University Center

Archives and Special Collections Strategic Plan

to support the development of an information literacy program for institutions in the Atlanta University Center community

Information Literacy Program

to support a collaborative program designed to increase the number of historically black college and university students entering graduate library and information science programs

Recruiting to the Library Profession IV

to support reviews of the collection development policy and the instructional technology department

Library Support

to support the documentation, publication, and, preservation of the oral histories, experiences, and perspectives of former historically black college and university presidents

HBCU President's Project

to support collaborations between campus art museums and libraries

Campus Museum and Library Collaboration

to support JSTOR and ARTstor access as well as the creation of an institutional repository

JSTOR and ARTstor

to support improving scholarly access to collections of the papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Collection II

to support Project STAND in the development of collaborative models for ethical documentation and teaching with primary resources on student activism

Project STAND:  Student Activism Now Documented

to support a strategic plan for the member archives

Strategic Plan for AUC Archives

to support improving scholarly access to the Morehouse College King Collection

Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Collection

to support a software programmer to enhance the open source application used for cataloging the Martin Luther King, Jr. collections

Software Programmer for Martin Luther King Jr. Collection

to support a collaborative program that would strengthen academic libraries in collaboration with Johnson C. Smith University, Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, Inc., and Occidental, Saint Augustine’s Swarthmore, and Wellesley Colleges

Recruiting to the Library Profession III  

to support the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's Talent Development Program

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Talent Development Program

Woodruff Library - Part II

to support the School of Composers, recordings, and concert enhancements at the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

School of Composers, Recordings, & Concert Enhancements

to support the Creation Stories project in collaboration with Emory University

The Creation Stories Project 

to support the planning phase for a workshop devoted to the restoration and related study of the Gates of Paradise by Lorenzo Ghiberti

Gates of Paradise 

to support two libraries serving private, historically black colleges and universities

Woodruff Library

to support a fellowship program for art history graduate students focused on object-centered curatorial training at the High Museum of Art in collaboration with Emory University

Graduate Curatorial Training

to support an ongoing collaboration to provide object-centered training based on the collections at the High Museum to graduate students in Emory University’s art history department

Graduate Curatorial Training Phase 3

to continue support for a collaborative initiative that provides object-centered training based on the collections at the High Museum to graduate students in Emory's art history department

Graduate Curatorial Training Renewal

to support the publication of The Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Renaissance Masterpiece

Ghiberti Publication

toward support of the early planning costs of exhibitions and publications linked in particular to the museum's permanent collection

Exhibitions/Publications

to support a scholarly interdisciplinary workshop focusing on the technical and art historical achievement of Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Porta del Paradiso

Ghiberti Workshop

to support a multiyear playwright residency with Pearl Cleage at the Alliance Theatre

Playwright Residency Program

to support a three-year residency with playwright Pearl Cleage through the National Playwright Residency Program

National Playwright Residency Program

toward expenses of preliminary investigations for the planning of its new Library

Library Planning

toward costs associated with consolidation of its six constituent institutions' collections into a single central library

Library Consolidation

to support classical music presenting activities at the Robert & Magrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts

Classical Music Presenting Activities at the Robert & Magrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts

toward costs of cataloguing and preserving the Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection and the Atlanta University Archives

Archival Cataloguing & Preservation

to support community engagement, storytelling, and capacity building for the Atlanta Documenters program

Canopy Atlanta

to establish "The Andrew W. Mellon Fund," the income to be used to facilitate use of the Library's collections by qualified scholars

The Andrew W. Mellon Fund

support of a fellowship program to train librarians in predominantly black college libraries to motivate students and faculty to utilize library resources

School of Library Service

to support the development of faculty and graduate student research programs, a lecture series, and events for local community college students and faculty at the university's W. E. B. Du Bois Center

W. E. B Du Bois Center

toward costs of completing the ninth and final volume of The Papers of Robert Morris

The Papers of Robert Morris

to manage the purchase and implementation of a new integrated library management system at the University of Namibia and to include the University’s library in FOTIM’s Gauteng and Environs Library and Information Consortium

University of Namibia Library

towards costs of a project to place volumes of The Library of America series in public libraries around the country

The Library of America

to support completion of the current phase of restoration of the Clinton Church building, leadership and staffing of the center, and programming support for the Interpretive Center and W.E.B. Du Bois Forum

W.E.B. Du Bois Center for Freedom and Democracy

to support the development of a partnership model for digital library support of Furious Flower, a living center for Black poetry

Digital Library Support for a Living Center for Black Poetry

to support an inter-institutional network of Atlanta-based researchers to develop and promote humanities-forward, justice-oriented approaches to artificial intelligence

The Atlanta Interdisciplinary AI (AIAI) Network

for a program to place volumes of The Library of America series in public libraries

Library of America

to support research, editorial, and related costs for publishing projects consistent with the core mission of the Library of America series

for use as an endowment of three fellowships for resident scholars in the New York Public Library’s Center for Scholars and Writers, and for spendable funds to support near-term fellowships and related expenses

Fellowships at the Center for Scholars and Writers

to support the development of a sustainable model for processing large, complex, born-digital literary archives

Poetic practice in the digital era: the born-digital archive of Robert Creeley

in support of its Center for the History of the American Indian

Center for the History of the American Indian

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" 