Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support public exhibitions of place-based research, art, and design projects and community programming

Morgannale

to continue support for scholarship and public engagement at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics

Vera List Center for Art and Politics II

to support leadership transition and a different approach to community service

Centering Community in Theater Making

to support the New Press in countering book bans through its new "Forbidden Books Series"

Forbidden Books Fund

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

Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics

to support capacity building of Afro House

Afro-Futurism and Contemporary Performance

General Operating Support

to continue support for regional artists engaged in interdisciplinary social practice

Interchange Renewal: Supporting Artists Engaged in Social Practice in the Mid-America Arts Alliance Region

to support the documentation of legislative challenges to academic freedom and the promotion of awareness about their effects

Defending Academic Freedom through Public Engagement II

Divided Community Project

MyVote Project

to support Creative States Coalition staff capacity and convenings for arts advocacy organizations across the United States

Creative States Coalition 

Museum of Broken Windows

Restore Your Vote

to support capacity building and a new, shared leadership-structure

Thriving Leadership

to support a project that studies the history of ballot access

Civic Engagement, Voting Rights, and the Founding Documents at the University of South Carolina

to support the development of curriculum and curricular materials centering voting rights history

Voting Rights History as Civic Literacy

to support a project developing teaching materials on civic engagement and voting rights

Civic Engagement and Voting Rights Teacher Scholars

to support a humanities-centered voting rights and civic engagement initiative

Convening Series: Roots and Shadows - Mining History to Counter Political Violence and Threats to Election Integrity in Appalachia

to support the Imagining Democracy Lab, which seeks to increase participation in civic processes through collaboration with community organizations focused on voting rights, access to voting, and citizen education

Imagining Democracy Hub at Emory University

to support a project on civic engagement, citizenship, and voting rights

Native Americans and African Americans in and out of the US Body Politic

to support the development of a sustainable community engagement infrastructure modeled after the values embedded in Toshi Reagon’s latest opera, Parable of the Sower

Parable of the Sower: A Community Building Practice

to support studies addressing the most significant voting rights cases on college campuses, and the production of Open Educational Resources available for teachers of voting rights courses

The 26th Amendment: Student Voting Rights as a Prism into Disenfranchisement and Re-enfranchisement in America

to support publicly-engaged research, curricular development, and public programming to bring the literary and broader humanities imagination to bear on urgent issues of social justice in the West Philadelphia community

UnMapping: A Project of Radical Textual Geographies

to support Samora Pinderhughes and The Healing Project

The Healing Project

to support artistic and public memory projects

Counterpublic 2023 Civic Exhibition

General Support

to support the Activist Musician Accelerator Program

Activist Musician Accelerator Program

Campus Voter Engagement

to support underresourced institutions, specifically community colleges and HBCUs, in participating in the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge through a communities of practice model

Campus Voting Engagement

to support a Democracy Fellows project in voter education, campus voting infrastructure, and curricular integration

Democracy Fellows and Election Infrastructure on Campus

to continue support for a faculty and course development program that integrates voter education, civic engagement, and community-based learning into the humanities curriculum of colleges and universities

Periclean Faculty Leadership (PFL) Program in the Humanities II

to support operations and capacity for The Civic Season

The Civic Season

to support initiatives at the state and national levels that would promote a fair and accurate census in 2030

Census Equity Initiative

to support the establishment of a center for social justice that builds on the history and legacy of the institution's connection to the "Greensboro Four"

Center of Excellence for Social Justice

to support the King Boston Embrace Ideas Festival in 2022 and 2023

King Boston Embrace Ideas Festival

to continue support for postdoctoral fellowships and programming related to environmental justice 

 Fellowships for Public Engagement

to continue support for the Citizenship Project

Citizenship Project

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

Projecting All Voices

to support efforts for coalition building for critical race theory among academics and institutions

Defending Academic Freedom through Public Engagement

to support sustainability planning and further capacity building for archiving social media content

Documenting the Now - Phase III

to continue support for postdoctoral fellowships in social-justice-oriented government and nonprofit agencies for humanities PhDs

Leading Edge Fellowships

to support a series of voter education workshops for college students

An Issue-Focused Approach to Voter Education

Interchange

to support the Fellows at the Forefront pilot program of the Mindich Program in Engaged Scholarship

Mindich Programs in Engaged Scholarship/Fellows at the Forefront

to continue support for the Ashé Racial Justice and Healing Initiative

Ashé Racial Justice and Healing Initiative

to support Project STAND in the development of collaborative models for ethical documentation and teaching with primary resources on student activism

Project STAND:  Student Activism Now Documented

to continue support for regranting programs for artistic initiatives and regional convenings

Strategic Partnerships for Southern Artists and Cultural Organizers

to support the needs of the community-based archive

Support for Community-Based Archives

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" 