Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support the expansion of the Re:Generation program, field building, narrative change work, and general operations

Monument Lab

to support Monument Lab’s operational capacity and research

to support the development of the Public Memory and Memorial Lab

Public Memory and Memorial Lab

to support the expansion of the Public Memory and Memorials Lab

Public Memory and Memorials Lab 

to support the development of a citywide inventory of commemorative works and the commissioning of temporary public art projects in partnership with the City of Providence Department of Art, Culture + Tourism

Providence Commemoration Lab

to support research, community engagement, and public installations commemorating im/migrant stories

New Jersey Im/migrant Laborers' Monument Project

to support the Reclaiming the Monument public art project

Reclaiming the Monument

to support the Pillow LAB dance residency program

Pillow Lab

to support the completion of the Dred Scott Memorial Monument

Dred Scott Memorial Monument

to support the construction of the Dred Scott Memorial Monument

to support the Triangle Lab in collaboration with Intersection for the Arts

Triangle Lab

The Ashé Lab

Upstart Co-Lab

Dancing Disability Lab

to support the creation of A Monument to Listening, a new commemorative public artwork and landscape in Tom Lee Park, and related public programming

A Monument to Listening 

to support the creation of the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center and core staffing

Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center

to continue support for the Pillow Lab residency program

Pillow Lab Residencies

to support the development of interdisciplinary practice through Creative Exchange Lab

Creative Exchange Lab

to support the Social Practice Lab and Artistic Research Initiative Fellows

Social Practice Lab

to support organizational capacity, visioning and planning, and community engagement to develop a public monument in Portland’s Jade District

Jade District Canton Grill Monument

to support the creation of Newark's Harriet Tubman and Underground Railroad Monument and related public programming 

Harriet Tubman and Underground Railroad Monument

to support the planning process for a memorial to those lost to convict leasing at the Bellwood Quarry and the Chattahoochee Brick Company prison labor camps

Forced Labor Memorial at Bellwood Quarry 

to support exhibition projects and the research and production activities of the Isaac Julien Lab

The Isaac Julien Lab 

to support Choreo-Lab, a training program for choreographers with disabilities

Axis Dance Company Choreo Lab

to support the Public LAB and the new position of Shakespeare outreach director

Public LAB and Shakespeare Outreach

to support the creation of a new monument in Central Park in honor of the Lyons family

Central Park Monument to the Lyons Family

to continue support for the Sipp Culture Rural Performance/Production Lab

Sipp Culture Rural Performance/Production Lab

to support Anthony Roth Costanzo in the creation of a Culture Lab for artists and producers interested in expanding their creative practices 

Anthony Roth Costanzo's Culture Lab

to support the 2012-13 season of the Public Lab and a subsequent pilot program

Public LAB and Bare Bones Productions

to support planning for a monument for New Orleans East by EJ Hill

A Monument for New Orleans East by EJ Hill

to support planning for the Sipp Culture Rural Performance/Production Lab

Sipp Culture Rural Performance/Production Lab Planning

to support a civic media lab to integrate civic engagement, project-based pedagogies, digital technologies, social entrepreneurship, and design thinking into the curriculum

Mid-Career President - Civic Media Lab

to continue support for the Lab Fellows program at the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics

Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics - Lab Fellows program 

to support the Core Writers’ Lab and initiatives to promote writers’ work to producing theaters

Core Writers Lab and Initiatives Aimed at Theaters

to support the archival collection at the David C. Driskell Center for the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, and a monument to the late artist and art historian

Critical Collections and Monument to David C. Driskell

to support community and curatorial partnerships, new temporary commemorative installations, and related public programs

Un-monument | Re-monument | De-Monument: Transforming Boston

to support the semi-permanent installation of a monument to South Central

A Monument to South Central, sister dreamer, lauren halsey’s architectural ode to tha surge n splurge of south central los angeles 

to support Upstart Co-Lab's research efforts for impact investing in the creative economy

Upstart Co-Lab 

for use by its Environmental Quality Laboratory in support of studies related to natural resources and environmental quality

Environmental Quality Lab

to support the Humanities Action Lab's "Climates of Inequality and the COVID Crisis" initiative

Humanities Action Lab

Civic Media Lab: Bridging the Liberal Arts Curriculum and the Contemporary World via Experiential Learning

to support research and planning stages for the IAO Design Lab & Garden, a food heritage and culture project

Studio IAO Design Lab & Garden Food Heritage Initiative Research and Planning

to support Public LAB, the Master Writer’s Chair, and the Under the Radar festival and symposium

New York Shakespeare Festival - Public LAB, the Master Writer’s Chair, and Under the Radar

to support the development of a toolkit to inform decisions about the display, interpretation, removal, or relocation of monuments associated with oppression

Monument Removal, Relocation, and Re-Interpretation Toolkit

to support the construction of the North Carolina Freedom Park and Beacon of Freedom

North Carolina Freedom Park

to support its Summer Research laboratory on Russia and Eastern Europe

Russia/East Europe Research Lab

to support engagement with Emmett Till’s story and sites in Mississippi

Emmett Till National Monument

General Operating Support

to support diasporic (Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian) digital studies with a focus on graduate students at R1 universities, in collaboration with artists and community members

Diaspora Solidarities Lab

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" 