Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

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

Art Museum Futures Fund

to continue support for curatorial research, graduate fellowships, and publications in contemporary art

Curatorial Research and Publication - Phase II

to support the "Loophole of Retreat" symposium and an exhibition catalogue associated with the presentation of Simone Leigh's representation of the United States for the American Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

Simone Leigh at the Venice Biennale, Symposium and Catalogue

to support the creation and touring of Simone Leigh's representation of the United States for the American Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in collaboration with Spelman College

Simone Leigh at the Venice Biennale

to support curatorial research and exhibition development resulting in a series of three scholarly publications

Curatorial Research and Publication

General Operating Support

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

Institute of Historical Research

to continue support for capacity building and programming

The Institute of Black Imagination

to support preservation of and access to primary source documentation in the field of contemporary art

Contemporary Art Scholarship

in support of its Program in Contemporary Arts Criticism

Contemporary Arts Criticism

to support research, colloquia, scholarly publishing, and public discourse on contemporary art

to support planning, capacity building, and pilot programming for The Institute of Black Imagination

to support the museum's role as a platform for research and debate on contemporary art

Contemporary Art Scholarship - Phase II

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 continue support for the implementation of the Research Center for Contemporary Native Arts

Research Center for Contemporary Native Arts Implementation Grant

to support a new curatorial position dedicated to contemporary fiber arts

Curator of Contemporary Art

to support the Institute for Interdisciplinary Innovation

Institute for Interdisciplinary Innovation

to support Prototype, an annual contemporary opera music-theater festival

Contemporary Music - Theatre and Opera Festival

to support the director of public programs and senior curator positions as part of the Leadership in Art Museums Initiative

Leadership in Art Museums

to assist the Institute during an organizational transition

Institutional Transition

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 curatorial capacity in contemporary indigenous art and culture

Curator of Contemporary Indigenous Art and Culture

to improve the effectiveness of its operations, within a selective program to assist nine independent literary presses

Small Press Program

to support further development of the "storehouse model," in which contemporary writers deposit their materials in a university archive early in their careers to help ensure broad and lasting use

The Storehouse Model for Archives of Contemporary Poetry

to support the Instituto de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias

Invigorating Scholarly Communities at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Research 

to support Will Rawls and a new artist- and scholar-run space focusing on Black contemporary arts, aesthetics, and their relations in North Adams and Williamstown, Massachusetts

Whistle Space 

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

Faculty/Curriculum Development

to support the Summer Institute of Music at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art

Summer Institute of Music

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

to support the Commissioning and Production Residency and Contemporary Global Performance programs

Commissioning and Production Residency and Contemporary Global  Performance

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 improve its publishing operations and organizational capacity

Literary Publishing 

to improve its publishing operations and organizational capacities, within a selective program to assist nine literary presses

to improve publishing operations and organizational capacities

Literary Publishing Program 

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

Art History Graduate Education 

to support the national expansion of Artists at Work, which integrates art and artists through sustainable employment and partnership models into the rebuilding of healthy communities

Artists at Work

to continue support for the First Nations Performing Arts initiative

First Nations Performing Arts 

to support the development of interdisciplinary practice through Creative Exchange Lab

Creative Exchange Lab

Civic Media Lab: Bridging the Liberal Arts Curriculum and the Contemporary World via Experiential Learning

to support Latinx and Caribbean art initiatives

Latinx and Caribbean Art and Engagement Initiatives 

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures, entitled "Property, Race and Poverty: Paradoxes of the Law and the Possibility of Justice in Contemporary South Africa"

Sawyer Seminars - Property, Race, and Poverty: Paradoxes of the Law and the Possibility of Justice in Contemporary South Africa

to support the Global First Nations Performance Network

Global First Nations Performance Project

matching endowment in support of its conservation department

Art Museum Program

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 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 

to support the developmental process of new opera at the John Duffy Composers Institute

John Duffy Composers Institute

to support interdisciplinary artist residencies

to continue support for artist residencies

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" 