Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

Artist Interview Project

to support the second phase of the Artist Interview Methodology Project

Artist Interview Workshops

to support the Artist Interview Methodology Project

Artist Interview Workshops - Phase III

to continue support for the Artist Interview Project

Artist Interview Methodology Project - Phase IV

to support a comprehensive organizational health initiative

Comprehensive Organizational Health

to continue support for an artist-centered stewardship training initiative

VoCA Capacity Building III

to support a training program to advance the stewardship of digital media collections

VoCA Capacity Building

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

Contemporary Art Scholarship

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

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

Contemporary Art Scholarship - Phase II

to define and enhance aspects of its artistic mission

Contemporary Chamber Ensembles

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

Leadership in Art Museums

to support curatorial capacity in contemporary indigenous art and culture

Curator of Contemporary Indigenous Art and Culture

to support visionary artists in their desire to combine a long-enduring art form and experimental technologies into contemporary narratives on behalf of a broadly diverse public

Uplifting the Voices of Opera Artists

to support archive creation and research personnel, expanded public programming, and cultural landscape planning and design

Voices Underground

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

Contemporary Music - Theatre and Opera Festival

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

Curatorial Research and Publication - Phase II

to support visionary artists in collaborative processes that reenvision a long-enduring art form in an artist-centric and contemporary manner

in support of its Program in Contemporary Arts Criticism

Contemporary Arts Criticism

to support a new curatorial position dedicated to contemporary fiber arts

Curator of Contemporary Art

to support Latinx and Caribbean art initiatives

Latinx and Caribbean Art and Engagement Initiatives 

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

Art Museum Futures Fund

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

Commissioning and Production Residency and Contemporary Global  Performance

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 

to support the American Voices New Play Institute

American Voices New Play Institute

to provide bridge support for the American Voices New Play Institute

to support the New Works, Bold Voices program

New Works, Bold Voices Incubator

to support the Projecting All Voices initiative

Projecting All Voices

to continue support for the Projecting All Voices initiative

to support a book and translation grant program for French Voices

French Voices

to provide a final round of support for the Projecting All Voices initiative

to support productions of six contemporary and Baroque operas

Artistic Initiatives for Contemporary and Baroque Operas

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

Research Center for Contemporary Native Arts Implementation Grant

American Voices New Play Institute and Playwright Residency Regranting Program Planning

to connect historic art museum collections and spaces with contemporary practices of living artists

Historic Museum, Contemporary Approaches

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 support "We Are the Voices We Have Been Waiting For," a program of poetry, performance, and public humanities

We are the Voices

toward the costs of three concerts of contemporary American music

Contemporary Music

to support Groundwater Arts, an Indigenous-led service organization focused in climate justice and decolonizing dominant cultural practices

Decolonization and Climate Justice in Contemporary Arts

to support capacity building and general operations for Native Voices as they find a new home for their theater

A New Home for Native Voices

toward the costs of commissioning, in a program conducted in cooperation with the New York State Council on the Arts, works of music by contemporary American composers

Contemporary American Composers

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

Curatorial Research and Publication

to continue support for the First Nations Performing Arts initiative

First Nations Performing Arts 

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 two think tanks to establish the initial grounding of the space, and work with Will Rawls to determine the ongoing advisory structure as well as his role at the organization in the long-term

Will Rawls, Artist as Leader

to support a new director's vision for a more equitable and participatory museum

New Director's Vision

to continue support for organizational and programmatic capacity

Organizational and Programmatic Capacity

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" 