Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

matching endowment in support of its conservation program

Art Museum Program

matching endowment for research and publication of substantial scholarly quality

Art Museum Publication Program

to strengthen curatorial research functions and publications

Museum Program

to support the position of Conservation Scientist

Conservation Science

to endow two mid-level (assistant/associate) curatorial positions

Curatorial Endowment

to create and endow two mid-level curatorial positions

for an advanced conservation apprentice training program

Advanced Conservation Training

to establish a permanent endowment for the position of senior scientist

Senior Scientist Endowment

to endow the program of Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellowships

Curatorial Fellowships Endowment

to establish an endowment in support of scholarly research and publications related to exhibitions

Scholarly Exhibitions Endowment

to sustain Mellon curatorial positions at a time when their endowment principals have fallen below their historic dollar value

Curatorial Endowments Supplement

to support three postdoctoral Mellon Curatorial Fellowships

Curatorial Fellowships - Phase II

to establish two Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellowships and for matching endowment for two Senior Curatorial positions

Curatorial Endowment and Curatorial Fellowships - Phase I

for use by the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) in support of its further planning and development

Art Museum Image Consortium

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

Art Museum Futures Fund

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

Leadership in Art Museums

matching endowment for research and publication at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

to support a collections manager position as part of the Leadership in Art Museums Initiative

in support of the research-and-development phase of a public-television series on art museums

Art Museum Series

to support a study of how four museum art research libraries might coordinate and centralize their core activities

Art  Museum Research Libraries 

to support travel to assess the damage to the collections at the Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo

Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo

matching endowment in support of research and publication of substantial scholarly quality at the Guggenheim Museum

to support the development of Resources for Academic Art Museum Professionals (RAAMP)

Resources for Academic Art Museum Professionals

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 the development of the Obama Presidential Center Museum collection and plans for the museum's inaugural art installations

Obama Presidential Center Museum collection and art plan

for curatorial development and exhibitions related to the permanent collection

to support the conservation and preservation of the Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum

Conservation and Preservation of the Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum

to support a study and planning process to address knowledge management infrastructure at the museum

Museum Knowledge Management Infrastructure - Planning

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

to support the final phase of knowledge management infrastructure at the museum

Museum Knowledge Management Infrastructure-Final Phase

matching endowment for research and publication at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

matching endowment in support of the Museum's conservation department

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" 