Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

matching endowment for research and publication

Art Museum Publication Program

to support an initiative at the intersection of the Walker's visual and performing arts programs

Interdisciplinary Initiative

to support an archival assessment of properties, sets, sculptures, costumes, and other objects derived from Merce Cunningham’s art

Assessment of Cunningham Production Archive 

to increase and improve developmental and production support for dance companies

Dance Presenters Initiative Pilot

toward early planning costs of exhibitions and publications relating to its permanent collection

Exhibitions/Publications

to support a conservation assessment of the recent acquisition of materials from the Merce Cunningham Dance Company archive

Conservation Assessment

to support developmental and production residences for choreographers

Dance Presenters Initiative

to create a consortium to commission new works in opera and dance

Opera/Dance Consortium

to support developmental and production residencies for choreographers

Dance Presenters Choreographer Residencies

to continue support for the New American Dance Initiative

New American Dance Initiative

to support theater and dance commissions, residencies, and projects

Theater and Dance Commissions

to support research on the Merce Cunningham Dance Company archive

Merce Cunningham Archive Research

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

Commissions, Residencies. International Travel, and Research

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

Commissioning and Production Residency and Contemporary Global  Performance

to support staff and collections in the Margaret Walker Center and the Council of  Federated Organizations Civil Rights Education Center

Capacity Building for the Margaret Walker Center and the COFO Center

to continue support for staff and collections in the Margaret Walker Center

to support a two-part project for the Margaret Walker Center's long-term sustainability, capacity for growth, and impact

Long-Term Sustainability at the Margaret Walker Center

to support the symposium, "A Keeping of the Records:  the Art and Life of Alice Walker"

A Keeping of the Records: The Art and Life of Alice Walker

to support the Center for Art and Advocacy

Center for Art and Advocacy

toward support of the Museum's Art Resources Center

Art Resources Center

to support organizational capacity and planning for the preservation and renovation of the center

South Side Community Art Center

to support the Center for Art and Public Exchange and the community components of Railways—a national artist-led and community-driven project to accompany the upcoming exhibition on the Great Migration

The Center for Art and Public Exchange and its Great Migration Project: Railways

for use by its Center for Reading and Language Studies for research on the effectiveness of Classroom, Inc.

Center for Reading & Language Skills - Classroom Inc. Research

Lincoln Center Festival

for use by its Center for Reading and Language Studies for research on Classroom Inc., an educational intervention that uses computer simulations

to support the spring 2019 season of Lincoln Center Moments, a performing arts series for audiences with dementia and their caregivers

Lincoln Center Moments

in support of the public television series "Live from Lincoln Center"

Live from Lincoln Center

in support of the "Live from Lincoln Center" public television series

to continue support for the Art Conservation Research Center

Art Conservation - Research Center

to support the Lincoln Center Moments concert series for audiences living with dementia

for use by its Center for Reading and Language Studies for research on Classroom Inc., an educational innovation that uses computer simulations to increase high school students’ literacy and to introduce them to work-related activities

to support activities to strengthen scholarship in art history

Art History Centers

to support activities aimed at strengthening scholarship in art history

to support an expansion of Lincoln Center Moments, a performance series for people with dementia and their care partners

for use by the Yale Center for British Art in support of a postgraduate fellowship program for art historians from abroad

Art History Fellowships [Center for British Art]

to establish the Asian Paintings Conservation Center at the Seattle Asian Art Museum

Asian Paintings Conservation Center

to support strategic planning for the Folk Art Annex

Folk Art Museum Study Center

to continue support for the Art Conservation Research Center while it prepares for a transition to a new host institution

to support activities to strengthen scholarship in art history at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts

Art History Centers - Phase I

to support Zealous's storytelling initiatives

Zealous Inc.

Art History Centers - Phase II

to establish a postgraduate fellowship program for historians of art from abroad at the Yale Center for British Art

Fellowships - Yale Center for British Art

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

Theatre Inc.

to support Dikan Center’s Conservation and Cultural Heritage Center, capital project planning, and organizational development

Dikan Center

to support transition costs related to a merger with American Music Center, Inc.

Merger with American Music Center

for use by its Media Center for Art History for core support, the production of curricular materials, a series of summer institutes, and the development of an online consortium for liberal arts college faculty

Media Center for Art History

to support a pilot project to bridge politically engaged art, scholarship, and public engagement at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics

Vera List Center for Art and Politics

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" 