Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

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

Theatre Program - 1991

to develop and extend artistic activity at the La Jolla Playhouse

Seasonal Theatre/Dance Program

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

Theater Program

to support the development of a new, large-scale music-theater piece exploring the real life of John Birch

Collaborative Production Development

to support artistic initiatives and organizational development

National Theater Program

Artistic Director Search

to support the theater’s artistic leadership transition

to support the theater’s Developmental Works program

1997 Theater Program

to support the activities of the memory lab at San Diego Public Library

Support for Public Library Memory Labs: San Diego Public Library

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 a final renewal for the Cross-Border Community Stations program of innovative community engagement in San Diego and Tijuana

Community Stations Network

to support the transfer of San Diego Community College District students in the humanities to the University of California at San Diego, and assure their successful completion of the BA degree

Community College-University Partnerships

to continue support for the transfer of San Diego Community College District students in the humanities to the university, and assure their successful completion of the BA degree

to continue support for the transfer of San Diego Community College District students in the humanities to the University of California at San Diego, and assure their successful completion of the BA degree

to support the curation and stewardship of audiovisual poetry archives at the Archive for New Poetry and the development of a toolkit to help contemporary poets and writers preserve their born-digital materials

Curation and Stewardship of Poetry Archives

to continue support for a multiyear residency with playwright Herbert Siguenza, as part of the National Playwright Residency Program

National Playwright Residency Program

to support a three-year residency with playwright Herbert Siguenza through the National Playwright Residency Program

to support the Prototype: Opera/Theatre/Now Festival

Prototype - Opera/Theatre/Now Festival

Opera/Theatre/Now Festival - Prototype

to support the PROTOTYPE: Opera/Theatre/Now Festival

toward the purchase of sound and lighting equipment at the Theatre's Muse Cultural Center

Sound and Lighting Equipment for Muse Cultural Center

to support development of tools for the analysis of static and moving images using the Software Environment for the Advancement of Scholarly Research

SEASR Tools for Analysis and Visualization of Large Image and Video Collections for the Humanities

to support the selection, documentation, and digitization of images for ARTstor’s Image Gallery

ARTstor Image Gallery 

to support the production of digitized images to be included in ARTstor’s Image Gallery

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

Contemporary Music - Theatre and Opera Festival

to support quality control work on images digitized from the University’s art history slide collection

to support the Pulse Check: Accountability and Activation of Future SF Monuments initiative

Pulse Check: Accountability and Activation of Future SF Monuments

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Claiming the City: Urban Citizenship, Hybrid Cultures, and Governance in the Modern Era"

Sawyer Seminar: Claiming the City: Urban Citizenship, Hybrid Cultures, and Governance in the Modern Era

for a project with the Harvard Theatre and Dance Collection, the New York Public Library Dance Collection, and the Library of Congress to plan the formation of a national coalition of dance repositories

Dance Heritage Coalition

to establish the National Dance Heritage Coalition and to initiate programs in collaboration with the Harvard Theatre and Dance Collection, the New York Public Library Dance Collection, and the Library of Congress

to support a new Civic Artist Development Initiative

Civic Artist Development Initiative 

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 

for development of ways to increase earned and contributed income

Regional Opera Program

to support the cataloging of hidden collections

Cataloging Special Collections

to support faculty and student scholarship and the creation of new courses that deploy speculative methods and center the histories of people of color to envision more just environments and ecologies

Speculative Environmental Futures 

to support the continued conservation, documentation, and interpretation of archival materials related to the San people of Southern Africa

Land and San Language

to support the UC Sentencing Project, a collaboration between UCSD, UCLA, and members of the California Coalition of Women Prisoners

UC Sentencing Project

to support initiatives to diversify academic leadership, in partnership with Morgan State University and the University of Maryland at College Park

Breaking the M.O.L.D. (Maryland Opportunities for Leadership Development) for Arts and Humanities Faculty

to support the activities of the memory lab at King County Library System

Support for Public Library Memory Labs: King County Library System

to support capacity building and activation of the new Center for Native Arts and Cultures

Center for Native Arts and Cultures

to support the Department of Ethnic Studies

Program Support

for support of Theatre, Inc. (Phoenix Theatre), New York

Theatre Inc.

in support of a program in Middle Eastern population studies

Middle Eastern Demography

to support the needs of the community-based archive

Support for Community-Based Archives

for use by the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences toward costs of a program of research on coastal processes

Coastal Research

for support of young research faculty members and postdoctoral scientists in the  Department of Reproductive Medicine

Reproductive Medicine

in support of young research faculty members and postdoctoral scientists in the Department of Clinical Endocrinology

for use by its School of Medicine in providing teaching andresearch opportunities for young faculty members and postdoctoral scientists in the Department of Reproductive Medicine

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" 