Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

Puerto Rico Afro

to support the Maestría en Gestión y Administración Cultural program

Maestría en Gestión y Administración Cultural

to support the Afro-Diasporic and Racial Studies Research Center

Afro-Diasporic and Racial Studies Research Center

to support faculty development in the Afro-Diasporic program

Afro-Diasporic and Racial Studies Major and Minor

to support general operations at the Museum of History, Anthropology and Art

Art Museum Futures Fund

to support the establishment of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program

to continue support for the Puerto Rico Arts Initiative

Puerto Rico Arts Initiative

Puerto Rico Afro 

to support the Instituto de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias

Invigorating Scholarly Communities at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Research 

to expand a study of forest ecosystems in Puerto Rico

Forest Ecosystems - Puerto Rico

to support the master's in Cultural and Humanistic Studies program

Maestría en Estudios Culturales y Humanísticos 

to support the Puerto Rico Disaster Archive

Puerto Rico Disaster Archive

to support the Puerto Rico artist development initiative

Puerto Rico Artist Development Initiative

Puerto Rico Expansion

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

Plants Initiative

to support scholarly study groups between academics from the University of Puerto Rico and Puerto Rican scholars at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies

Center for Puerto Rican Studies

to support Hurricane Fiona response in Puerto Rico

Fondo Adelante

to support the development of partnerships in Puerto Rico

Partnership Development in Puerto Rico

to support the Archivo de Respuestas Emergencias de Puerto Rico

Archivo de Respuestas Emergencias de Puerto Rico (AREPR)

to support an initiative to stabilize and strengthen contemporary artists and artist-centered organizations across Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico Arts Ecosystem

to support the Puerto Rico Architectural Heritage Archive

Puerto Rico Architectural Heritage Archive

Hurricane Fiona Response

to support the development of the Artspace Feasibility Study and Arts Market
Study for Creative Space and Mixed-use Affordable Artist Housing in San Juan, Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico Feasibility Study

The Puerto Rico Architectural Heritage Archive

to support the mapping of cultural and artistic activity in Puerto Rico

Mapping Arts and Cultural Work in Puerto Rico

to support a program of ecological research and training

Ecosystems Research - Zimmerman 

to support expanded food culture programming and research, as well as a regranting program for smaller community-led cultural food spaces

Developing Food Heritage and Culture Programming in Puerto Rico

to support relief microgrants to artists in Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Fiona

Hurricane Fiona Recovery

to support COVID-19 emergency relief efforts for Puerto Rican artists and arts organizations

Puerto Rico Arts Emergency Relief Fund

to support the development of El proyecto de la literatura puertorriqueña/The Puerto Rican Literature Project

El proyecto de la literatura puertorriqueña/The Puerto Rican Literature Project

to support the development of Nido Cultural, a platform to support shared services for artistic and cultural production in Puerto Rico, designed and implemented by Inversión Cultural

Nido Cultural (Shared Services for Puerto Rican Artists)

to support no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria

no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria

to support individual fellowships for Puerto Rican writers across genres

Puerto Rican Literary Voices Fellowship

to support the continuation of the Letras Boricuas fellowship for writers from Puerto Rico and the diaspora

Letras Boricuas 

to support the Letras Boricuas fellowship for writers from Puerto Rico and the diaspora

to continue support for the Center for Puerto Rican Studies’ Rooted & Relational initiative

to support planning for a community archive project in Loíza, Puerto Rico

¡Loíza Vive! 

to support the CoRE project in alliance with Alianza Cultural para Emergencias de Puerto Rico

Colecciones en Respuestas ante Emergencias (CoRE)

to support the development of Corredor Afro (African Pathway), a social justice creative cultural arts project in Loíza, Puerto Rico

Corredor Afro

General Operating Support

to support the organization’s annual conferences in New York City in 2020 and Puerto Rico in 2021

Grantmakers in the Arts Annual Conferences

to support conservation and curatorial capacity for recovery and response efforts

Hurricane Recovery

to support core staff and program capacity building

Capacity Building

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" 