Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support orchestration expenses associated with the world premiere of the musical Cloudlands

Cloudlands

to support the Pacific Playwrights Festival

National Theater Program

to support the commissioning of new work and the Pacific Playwrights Festival

1997 Theater Program

to support a multiyear playwright residency with Julie Marie Myatt

Playwright Residency Program

to support a new initiative in music-theater

Music - Theater Program

to support artistic initiatives and organizational development

National Theater Program 

to help launch the National Repertory Enrichment Program

National Repertory Enrichment Program

to support commissions and development of ambitious theater works

Berkeley Repertory Theatre

to support the reinstallation, refurbishing, and conservation of the museum's Northwest Coast Hall

Northwest Coast Hall Reinstallation - Phase 2

to support planning efforts for the reinstallation, refurbishing, and conservation of the museum's Northwest Coast Hall

Northwest Coast Hall Reinstallation - Planning Phase

Repertory Companies

to support a final grant for the curatorial and conservation activities associated with the museum’s Northwest Coast Hall reinstallation

Northwest Coast Hall Reinstallation - Final Phase

to establish an artistic director's discretionary fund at the Trinity Square Repertory Company

Regional Theatre Program

to assist the Trinity Square Repertory Company in producing earlier work that merits revival

to support commissioning of new work for American Ballet Theatre, in collaboration with Boston Ballet, Houston Ballet, and San Francisco Ballet

Repertory Companies - Ballet Choreographer Development 

to provide access to JSTOR for academic and research institutions in South Africa

JSTOR - South Africa

to support demographic research and training, particularly of South Africa

South African Demography

to provide support for initiating a program of undergraduate courses in ecology in South Africa for South African and US students

South Africian Undergraduate Program

matching funds for faculty development and to strengthen library collections at three open universities in South Africa

South African Universities

for use by its South African Information Exchange

South African Information Exchange

to support research meant to further understanding of the role religion plays in the conception and production of inclusive spaces in the South

Religion and Inclusive Public Spaces in the South

to support increased administrative staff capacity for the National Civil War Project

National Civil War Project

to support new artistic initiatives including Club Zero Arrow, Destination:  Boston, and ART in the World, and organizational development

Ambitious Artistic Initiatives and Organizational Development

to support the increased capacity for presenters in Southern US states to program modern dance and ballet through the Dance Touring Initiative

Dance Touring Initiative

to support research on higher education in South Africa

Higher Education Research in South Africa

to support the development and strengthening of the Academy of Science of South Africa

Academy of Science of South Africa

to support a multiyear playwright residency with David Adjmi

to support Project Number One, a job creation program for artists

Project Number One

to support core operations through the New York Theater Program

New York Theater Program

to establish a cash reserve fund and support an artistic director discretionary fund

Artistic Director Discretionary Fund and Cash Reserves

to support the planning for the Civil War/civil wars project

The National Civil War Project

to establish educational technology centers in the Northeast, South, and Midwest

Centers Strategy

to support centers for educational technology in the Northeast, South, and Midwest

to support a residency and touring initiative for Southern dance companies

Building Tour Capacity for Southern Dance Companies

to support the world premiere production of Cardenio

Cardenio

to support the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training

Theater Training

toward costs of establishing a seminar series on theater criticism in association with the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University

Criticism Program

to strengthen specific aspects of the institution, within a selective program to assist 18 American theaters

Theater Program

for use by its Institute for Advanced Theatre Training to initiate changes in the faculty, curriculum, and administrative structure

to strengthen specific aspects of the theater within a selective program to assist American theaters

to support artistic staff and resident artists

toward costs of development of its theater training program

to support a multiyear playwright residency with Nathan Louis Jackson

to assist in producing earlier work that merits revival

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

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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

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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

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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" 