Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support archival maintenance, research, operations, and website development for ARTS.BLACK

ARTS.BLACK

General Operating Support

to support the restoration of James Weldon Johnson's historic writing cabin, preservation planning for the site, and research

Writing Cabin Restoration 

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

Forbidden Books Fund

to support Disability Visibility Project's operating expenses and programmatic costs to continue ongoing partnerships and seed new program areas

Disability Visibility Project

Righting the Scales Toward Abundance 

to support a convening and consultants for planning, organizing, and evaluation

Artists Legacies Convening 

to support the digitization of over 2,000 literary audiovisual recordings held by the Woodberry Poetry Room and to explore new approaches to facilitating their discovery, access, and use

Library of Voices Preservation & Access Initiative

to continue support for the development of collaborative partnerships and inclusive survey administration for the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project

Strategic National Arts Alumni Project

to support capacity building and programs that seed the creative community in Baltimore

Black Creative Empowerment in Baltimore

to support planning, expansion, and use of the organization's current and future archives

Future Memory: Literary Archives

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 a living public archive of Wyoming stories

Re-storying the West for a Transformative Future

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

Sipp Culture Rural Performance/Production Lab

to support emerging and historically significant artists' archival and estate projects by hiring legal, editorial, and archival consultancy and to bolster long-term organizational capacity

Supporting Artistic Legacies 

to continue support for research, dissemination, and archiving of work on Hemispheric Blackness and Hemispheric Migration through the Hemispheric Institute

World-Making and Social Emergency: Art, Culture, and Social Justice at the Hemispheric Institute

to continue support of the Local Poets Laureate Fellowship

Local Poets Laureate Fellowship 

to continue to support capacity building and a fellowship program for the Poetry Coalition

Poetry Coalition 

to support planning for the future of the organization's archive through assessment of Lambda's holdings and the potential ways it may support the existing network of queer literary archives

to support planning for the future of Small Press Traffic's archives

Small Press Traffic Literary Archives

to support planning for the future of the organization's archives

Cave Canem Archival Planning Project (Phase I)

Planning for the Future of the National Book Foundation's Archives

to support capacity building for The Last Resort Artist Retreat, a program of Charm City Cultural Cultivation, with staff costs, fundraising consulting capacities, facilities management and professional fees

The Last Resort 

to support efforts to increase access to and use of 92NY's Unterberg Poetry Center's archive of literary recordings and planning for their long-term preservation

Activating Poetry Archives at 92NY 

to support the further development of software to make audiovisual collections of cultural heritage materials more discoverable and accessible

AVAnnotate - Phase II

to support an exploration of essential questions surrounding the acquisition, discoverability, preservation, and use of born-digital poetry collections

Curation and Stewardship of Poetry Archives

to support the development of a sustainable model for processing large, complex, born-digital literary archives

Poetic practice in the digital era: the born-digital archive of Robert Creeley

to support networks of artists, writers, and archivists in the Midwest through the Midwest Satellites regional relationship-building program and the Sixty Collective alternative benefits program

Sixty Collective and Midwest Satellites

to support an exploration of the opportunities and challenges associated with creating a shared “virtual reading room” for literary archives

The Virtual Reading Room: Consortia Access to Digitized Literary and Poetry Archives

to support the launch of an Asian American music initiative

Asian American Music Initiative

to support capacity building, completion of construction for artist housing, and programming for the August Wilson House 

August Wilson House

to support the development of a model for the long-term preservation and documentation of the Wintergreen Women Writers' Collective

Sacred Work: The Wintergreen Women Writers’ Collective

to support a partnership with Momus and Forge Project to deliver a virtual and in-person residency for Indigenous emerging art writers and editors in Spring 2023

Momus & Forge Project: International Indigenous Arts Criticism Residency

to support publication costs, contributor fees, the hiring of a project manager, and the recruitment of new academic partners

An Unfinished Atlas

to continue support for the Master Artists Residency program with additional funding for Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Ideas Festival

Master Artists in Communities: Ideas Festival

to support the creation of a high-quality literary journal which will publish works by incarcerated writers and be staffed by incarcerated editors

Beyond Bars: A Literary Magazine by and for the Incarcerated and Their Support Communities

to support collaborative faculty research, curriculum development, pedagogical innovation, and public-facing projects around literary treatments of disability and normality

Beyond the New Normal: Disability, Literature, and Reimagining Social Justice

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 curation and stewardship of poetry archives related to 20th-century poet-activists of color and a digital publishing and poet-in-residence project that draws on these collections

to support the curation and stewardship of audiovisual poetry archives at the Archive for New Poetry and the development of a toolkit to help contemporary poets and writers preserve their born-digital materials

to support the curation and stewardship of poetry archives at the Bancroft Library related to 20th-century women poets and the presses that published them

to support I wanna be with you everywhere, including to expand and continue a festival of, by, and for disabled artists and writers, and creating more studio time, research, and events, as well as compensating disabled organizers

I wanna be with you everywhere

to support a community-engaged literary project

Tell All the Truth Project

to support the Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva, which will generate scholarship, programming, and the creation of resources on bilingual Borderlands Shakespeare appropriations

The Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva

to support the #AfricaNoFilter donor collaborative as the initiative transitions into its next chapter as a thriving organization

#AfricaNoFilter Donor Collaborative

to provide supplemental support for the Literary Arts Emergency Fund's data platforms

Literary Arts Emergency Fund Supplemental Grant

Artists as Catalysts

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Beyond Incarceration

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Borderlands Cultures

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Civic Engagement

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Evolving Higher Education

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Expanding Public Knowledge

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Monuments and Memory

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Multivocality

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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" 