Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to establish endowments at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in support of the museum's directorship and curatorial research centers

Smithsonian Institution - NMAAHC Endowment

toward support of the cooperative Smithsonian Institution-University Program in terrestrial ecosystem studies

Terrestrial Ecosystems

in support of the Cooperative Smithsonian Institution-University Programs in Structure and Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems

matching endowment toward support of the cooperative Smithsonian Institution-University Program of Advanced Studies in Plant Sciences Research

Plant Sciences Research

to support the Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative, an international support program for cultural heritage emergency preparedness and response

Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative (SCRI)

to support professional practice fellowships through the Smithsonian Latino Center

Smithsonian Latino Center Institute for Museum Practice

to support a visiting research fellows program at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama

Institutional Support

to continue support for an international support program for cultural heritage emergency preparedness and response

to continue support for arts programming for individuals with dementia and their care partners

See Me at the Smithsonian

to support arts programming for individuals with dementia and their care partners

matching grant for use by the Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra to develop ways of increasing earned and contributed income

Period Instrument Orchestras

to endow the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute to support a visiting fellows program for Latin American scholars

Latin American Fellows

to support the continued development of open-source software for the management of archaeological research data

Managing Digital Archaeology Information at the Smithsonian

to support the digitization, organization, and dissemination of information from archaeological excavations in Panama using a prototype open source software system

to support the institution following losses incurred as a result of the events of September 11, 2001

Disaster Recovery Relief Fund

to support the Oral History Program of the Archives of American Art, a bureau of the Institution

Archives of American Art

to compensate for the losses the institution incurred as a result of September 11, 2001, and to help sustain its exhibition and educational programs

to support the development of a new model for museum practice at the National Museum of African Art

Developing an Afrocentric Model for a Museum of African Art 

to support a meeting concerning an international electronic initiative to link biology information resources with other institutions

Bio-Informatics

towards remodeling of the Carnegie Mansion in New York City as the headquarters of the Institution's affiliate, the National Museum of Design

Carnegie Mansion Remodeling [Cooper-Hewitt Museum]

to support an initiative to strengthen curatorial and conservation capacities of the National Museum of African American History and Culture

National Museum of African American History and Culture - Core Institutional Support

toward costs of programs of ecological research

Ecosystems Research

for a program of basic plant-ecosystem research on tropical forests as a continuation of the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments project

Ecological Research

to complete Foundation support for the development of a coordinated digital database of images and information on plants of the world

Plants Initiative

to complete Foundation support for the development of a coordinated digital database of images and information on plants of the world, including the 2014 meeting of the Plants Initiative partners

toward early planning costs of exhibitions and publications relating to the permanent collection at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum

Exhibitions/Publications

to support the development of a coordinated digital database of images and information on plants of the world

to continue support for the development of a coordinated digital database of images and information on plants of the world

to support the development of a coordinated digital database of images and information on plants of Africa, Latin America, and other areas

to support four small Central American herbaria in joining the Latin American Plants Initiative

to continue the development of a coordinated digital database of images and information on plants of Africa, Latin America, and other areas

to support a program of ecological research and training

Ecosystems Research- STRI

toward costs of programs of ecological research and training

Ecosystems Research - STRI

for use by its Freer and Arthur M. Sackler Galleries in support of a research program in the materials and structures of East Asian paintings

Curatorial/Conservation Collaboration

toward costs of ecological research and training

toward costs of a program of ecological research

STRI - Tropical Paleoecology

Botanical Ecosystems Research

to support the cataloging of hidden collections

Cataloging Special Collections

to endow the Museum Conservation Institute's directorship

MCI Directorship Endowment

to support research and conservation of the African American Photography Collection

African American Photography Collection

to continue support for undergraduate internships intended to diversity the applicant pool for graduate conservation programs

Art Conservation Diversity Pathways

for use by the Archives of American Art in support of an automated retrospective cataloguing project

to support the Catalog of American Portraits, a project of the National Portrait Gallery

Catalog of American Portraits

toward editorial and research costs of a project at the National Portrait Gallery to prepare for publication the papers of Charles Willson Peale and his family

Charles Willson Peale Papers

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" 