Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

for faculty and curriculum development at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Faculty/Curriculum Development

to support the Chicago Object Study Initiative, a collaboration between the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the Art Institute of Chicago to strengthen object-based training for art history graduate students

Chicago Object Study Initiative - Phase 2

to support collaborative programs to strengthen object-centered training of doctoral students in art history

Art History Graduate Education 

matching endowment in support of its conservation department

Art Museum Program

to support a pilot program of collaborative research projects and seminars to be conducted by the Institute and Northwestern University in the field of conservation science

Conservation Research and Seminars 

matching endowment for research and publication of substantial scholarly quality

Art Museum Publication Program

matching grant for networking computer resources and cataloguing in the Ryerson and Burnham Libraries

Art Museum Reference Libraries

to support art historical and conservation research and online publication of key collections within the museum's permanent collection

New Directors' Initiatives

to support a pilot initiative to train Chinese museum professionals

Training of Chinese Museum Professionals

to continue support for a program to introduce Chinese museum professionals to American museum practices

Training of Chinese Museum Professionals 

to establish an endowment for the position of associate scientist in the Department of Conservation; and to sustain essential elements of the collaboration with Northwestern University

Conservation Science Endowment

to endow the program of postdoctoral Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellowships

Curatorial Fellowships Endowment

to strengthen the permanent endowment for scholarly publications, and in support of three individual scholarly catalogues

Scholarly Publications - Endowment

for research and scholarly catalogues related to the permanent collections

Museum Program

for a permanent endowment of a Conservation Scientist position and to establish and operate a scientific laboratory

to support the museum’s plans to improve access to unique archival collections

Museum Archives

to continue support for a program of postdoctoral Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellowships

Curatorial Fellowships - Phase III

to support the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellowships

Curatorial Fellowships - Phase II

to support a research program in conservation science in collaboration with Northwestern University and the Argonne National Laboratory

Conservation Research and Seminars - Phase II  

to improve scholarly access to unique archival documents

matching endowment and spendable funds to establish a Fellowship in Photographic Conservation

Conservation Fellowships

to support an advanced conservation apprentice training program

Advanced Conservation Training

to establish two Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellowships

Curatorial Fellowships - Phase I

to support an institutional planning process and regional consortium for time-based media conservation

Time-based Media Initiative 

for affiliation with the Research Libraries Information Network

Research Libraries Information Network Affiliation

to support a collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago to establish a Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts

Northwestern University/Art Institute of Chicago - Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts

to renew support for the Chicago Object Study Initiative, a collaboration between the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the Art Institute of Chicago to strengthen object-based training for art history graduate students

to support the Northwestern University-Art Institute of Chicago Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts

Northwestern University/Art Institute of Chicago Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts (NU-ACCESS) Phase 2

to continue support for an undergraduate fellowship program aimed at diversifying curatorial cohorts in American art museums, in partnership with the Art Institute of Chicago, the High Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Mellon Undergraduate Curatorial Fellowship

to support the creation of a community critics’ project that would broaden and deepen the engaged reception of works by Black and brown artists in the Chicago area

The Chicago Critics' Table

for its Chicago Area Health Careers Program

Chicago Health Careers

to support Chicago-based Black dance companies and strengthen their financial and operational capacity, ensuring the long-term survival of their work

The Chicago Black Dance Legacy Project

to support upgrade of the user interface of the Witt Computer Index, which provides scholarly access to a subset of art objects represented in the photo archive held by the Witt Library of the Courtauld Institute of Art

Courtauld Institute of Art

to support a faculty cluster hire in art of Africa and the African diaspora

Faculty Cluster Hire in Art of Africa and the African Diaspora

to support the development of a business plan to strengthen the organizational and financial basis of the Courtauld Institute of Art

for use by the University of Chicago Press to continue development of the Chicago Visual Library

Chicago Visual Library

toward cost of surveying the climate control and storage needs of the Oriental Institute

Oriental Institute Renovation

to support the museum as a recipient of the Art Museum Futures Fund

Art Museum Futures Fund

to continue support for capacity building and programming

The Institute of Black Imagination

to support the development of models of collaboration among faculty, graduate students, and archivists for the processing of collections in Chicago-area archives

Processing Chicago Area Archives 

to support the Jazz Links Fellowship Program and commissions for new jazz works by Chicago artists

Jazz Links Fellowship Program and New Works Fresh Voice Project 

to continue support for research, dissemination, and archiving of work on Hemispheric Blackness and Hemispheric Migration through the Hemispheric Institute

World-Making and Social Emergency: Art, Culture, and Social Justice at the Hemispheric Institute

matching endowment for research and publication at the Detroit Institute of Arts

Art Museum Publication Program [Detroit Institute Arts]

to support administrative and artistic infrastructure for the Era Footwork Collective

Expanding the Footprint of Chicago Footwork

to support efforts to increase the level of private sector support for the Institute of Historical Research

Institute of Historical Research

for a project to define the needs of the field of art conservation

Art Conservation - Funding

to support the expansion of Theater Institute programs

Expansion of Theater Institute Programs

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" 