Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support a series of symposia on the changing state of the American orchestra

Meet Up San Francisco - Talking About American Orchestras

to strengthen artistic and administrative performance

Symphony Orchestra Program

to support artistic initiatives and organizational development

To support three initiatives:  Keeping Score, an Internet radio station, an adult amateur orchestra, and chamber music activities

Artistic Initiatives

supplemental award for permanent endowment

Supplemental Award

SoundBox Concert Series

to support an audience membership program

Audience Membership Program

to support the multimedia series, Keeping Score, and musician recruitment

Keeping Score and Musician Recruitment

to support an artistic exchange with the San Francisco Symphony

Artistic Exchange 

to extend its NEXA Program to other campuses of the California State University and College system

NEXA Program

to support a project to measure the costs and pedagogic effectiveness of using technology to improve undergraduate education

Web-based Instructions in Economics 

to support intersectional summer workshops, mentorship opportunities, and a durable network for emerging Disability Studies scholar-activists

Workshop for Emerging Disability Studies Scholar-Activists

to support the transfer of humanities students from Foothill De-Anza Community College District to the University of San Francisco, as well as faculty collaborations on curriculum and pedagogy

Community College-University Partnerships

to continue support for the transfer of humanities students from Foothill De-Anza Community College District to the University of San Francisco, as well as faculty collaborations on curriculum and pedagogy

to establish an artistic director's discretionary fund

Discretionary Fund

to commission new choreographic work, including fresh adaptations of existing pieces, for its repertoire

Ballet Program

for development of ways to increase earned and contributed income

to support dance programming and board education

Dance Related Organizations

Faculty/Curriculum Development

for use by the Ballet School to enhance the effectiveness of teaching classical ballet through curricular, faculty, or administrative development

Ballet Program - Training

Regional Opera Program

to enhance training in classical ballet through curricular, faculty, and administrative development

Ballet Training Program

to assist in the construction of the Institute's new studio building

New Studio Building

to continue support for artist residencies, commissions, and digital platform initiatives

Jazz Residencies and SFJAZZ Digital

to support artist residencies, commissions, and related audience development initiatives

Artistic Initiatives and Audience Development

to support the development and production of new opera and capacity building

Artistic Initiatives and Organizational Development

to support conservation, digitization, research, engagement, and planning related to the school’s monumental public Diego Rivera fresco

Critical Collections

Productions of New Commissions and a Major Revival

to support Friends of Harvey Milk Plaza's organizational capacity and planning for Harvey Milk Plaza

Friends of Harvey Milk Plaza

to continue support for a research and training initiative devoted to building capacity for prison library services

Bridge Grant: Expanding Information Access for Incarcerated People

to support a research and training initiative devoted to building capacity for prison library services

Expanding Information Access for Incarcerated People

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

Pulse Check: Accountability and Activation of Future SF Monuments

to strengthen and develop the institution

General Support

to define and enhance aspects of its artistic mission

Contemporary Chamber Ensembles

Independent Music Conservatory Program

toward early planning costs of exhibitions and publications relating to its permanent collection

Exhibitions/Publications

toward the establishment of a curatorial position with responsibility for the Museum's permanent collections

Museum Program

toward costs of producing a conservation training film

Conservation Training Film

to support an initiative aimed at engaging artists in the documentation, conservation, and installation of their works in the museum's collection

The Artist Initiative

matching endowment for the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra

matching endowment for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

matching endowment for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

to support coordinated ecological research and training programs in Kruger National Park, South Africa

Ecosystems Research and Training

supplemental award for permanent endowment of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra

supplemental award for permanent endowment of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

toward the costs of its efforts to document and preserve dance

Dance Documentation

to improve its efforts in documenting and preserving dance

Dance Preservation

Artists as Catalysts

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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" 