Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

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

Center for Puerto Rican Studies

to support the creation of a permanent outdoor space featuring original artworks designed to promote healing, truth-telling, and cultural preservation for Alaska Native peoples

Ngíisdla (Healing Garden Project)

to continue support for Visualizing Abolition

Visualizing Abolition

to support a catalogue for the "Byzantine Bembe: New York by Manny Vega" exhibition

Manny Vega Catalogue

to support the La Brega, Suave, and All-Stars: The Fania Story podcasts

Futuro Studios Storytelling Projects

to continue support of the expansion and implementation of the Monument Removal, Relocation, and Re-Interpretation Toolkit

Monuments Toolkit

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

New Jersey Im/migrant Laborers' Monument Project

to support The All African People’s Consulate

The All African People’s Consulate

to support the expansion of The Sunrise Project and related research and public programming on the history of sundown towns in communities across Oregon

The Sunrise Project

to support the Washington Prison History Project

Washington Prison History Project

to support community gatherings and culturally-responsive, trauma-informed care for participants in the Road to Healing oral history project

Healing-Centered Culturally-Informed Support for Oral History Project

to support production and dissemination of a documentary film about the Iⁿ‘zhúje Waxóbe/Sacred Red Rock Project

Iⁿ‘zhúje‘waxóbe/Sacred Red Rock Project Documentary

to support the development of research and studies to strengthen the preservation and interpretation of women’s history

NPS Women's History National Historic Landmarks Project

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 a national convening on ethics and practices related to carceral archives

Carceral Collecting Convening

Envisioning Justice

to support the Obama Presidential Center Museum’s plans for art programming

Obama Presidential Center Museum

Prisoncast!

to support a selection of monumental works at Prospect.6

Prospect.6 

to support the Stories of Freedom collaboration with StoryCorps

Stories of Freedom

to support the repatriation of a collection of objects to the Uganda Museum and a new model for politically engaged curatorship for African institutions

The Uganda Museum

to support training, technical assistance, production, and documentation of new monuments in rural Midwest communities

Monuments Across the Rural Midwest

to continue support for the Kinfolk AR Monuments app and digital archive

Kinfolk Renewal

to support Drapetomania, an Abolitionist Project

Drapetomania

to support the Galaxy Leader Fellowship at Galaxy Gives

Galaxy Leader Fellowship

to support strategic planning needs for future installations of 1-800 HAPPY BIRTHDAY

1-800 Happy Birthday

Alberto Ibarguen Innovation Fund

ArteYunque

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

Colecciones en Respuestas ante Emergencias (CoRE)

to support the Second International Writers Congress

International Writers Congress

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

Letras Boricuas 

to support the creation of educational content designed to accompany the release of Origin, an upcoming film

Origin

Puerto Rico Expansion

to support research, planning, and pilot programming at the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley House Museum

Till House

to support the Center for Art and Advocacy

Center for Art and Advocacy

to support organizational and programmatic development

Executive and Artistic Leadership Evolution

to support organizational capacity and the expansion of the Floating Monuments programming series

Floating Monuments: Mecca Flats

Freedom to Grow planning grant

to support the creation of a digital archive honoring the lives and histories of the people of Kalaupapa

Kalaupapa Digital Archive

to support the premiere of "On the Eve of Abolition"

On the Eve of Abolition

to support career pathway programs for formerly incarcerated people to work in museums and historic preservation, along with general operating support

Organizational and Programmatic Development 

to support community engagement, planning, and design related to the development of the Sleepy Lagoon Memorial

Sleepy Lagoon Memorial

to support staffing, artist fees and honoraria, and production of an interactive website and multimedia content related to the expansion of the Words Are Monuments initiative

Words Are Monuments

to support the establishment of an Oral History Project as part of the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative

A Permanent Collection: The Department of the Interior’s Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative

Ear Hustle

to provide major renewed support to Freedom Reads as it scales its library installations and expands organizational capacity

Freedom Reads

to support Michigan History Center's Gchi Mshiiken Deh Minising/Heart of Great Turtle Island project

Gchi Mshiikenh Deh Minising/Heart of the Great Turtle Island

General Operating Support

to support the Movements Against Mass Incarceration Lab

Movements Against Mass Incarceration

to support development of an online interactive portal, creative place-based activations, and research on the cultural and historical landscape of Freedom Colonies

Out(sider) Preservation

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" 