Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to establish the Asian Paintings Conservation Center at the Seattle Asian Art Museum

Asian Paintings Conservation Center

to support the reinterpretation of the American art collection to foster a more equitable museum

A New Vision: Inclusive Exhibition Planning at SAM

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

Exhibitions/Publications

to sustain the conservation departments at a time when its Mellon endowment principal has fallen below its historic dollar value

Conservation Support

to support a leadership initiative of the new director

New Directors' Initiatives

to support planning for an Asian Paintings Conservation Center

Asian Conservation Center Planning

to establish a permanent endowment in support of the Conservation Department and to support the position of Chief Conservator

Establishment of Conservation Department

to support art conservation science research capacity for museum and library collections in the Pacific Northwest, and to provide analytical services to the Asian Paintings Conservation Center at the Seattle Art Museum

Pacific Northwest Consortium

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

Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo

for use by the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) in support of its further planning and development

Art Museum Image Consortium

matching endowment for research and publication at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Art Museum Publication Program

matching endowment in support of the Museum's conservation department

Art Museum Program

for use by the Art Museum Library Consortium toward costs of the retrospective conversion of bibliographic records

Art Museum Library Consortium

to support the implementation of Tessitura by five Seattle theaters, research on the theaters’ audiences, and a case study on the project

National Theater Program 

to support strategic planning for the Folk Art Annex

Folk Art Museum Study Center

to support a curatorial position with specialization in Latinx art as part of Advancing Latinx Art in Museums

Advancing Latinx Art at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

to support the development of Resources for Academic Art Museum Professionals (RAAMP)

Resources for Academic Art Museum Professionals

matching endowment in support of its conservation program

to support a final renewal for the Museum Research Consortium, an object-based training program in partnership with five regional graduate programs in art history

Museum Research Consortium Renewal

to continue support for the Museum Research Consortium, a program of curatorial fellowships, object-driven research, and seminars focused on the museum's collections, in partnership with five regional graduate programs in art history

to support the Art Museum and Visual Arts Program as a recipient of the Art Museum Futures Fund

matching endowment for research and publication

matching endowment for research and publication of substantial scholarly quality

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

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" 