Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support community engagement and cultural mapping activities that capture and embed the histories of several Los Angeles communities in new park spaces along the Los Angeles River

Cultural Asset Mapping Initiative

to support the development of a community archive and public art installation that document and elevate the lives of Indigenous immigrant communities in the Westlake area of Los Angeles, California

MARKINGS: Inscribing Community and Immigrant Stories in Westlake

to support the preservation of the Historic Hunterfly Road Houses and continued community-based and artist residency programs at the Weeksville Heritage Center and surrounding neighborhood

Remember Weeksville: Preservation and Capacity Building

to support staffing at Plantation Park Heights Urban Farm, a summer course, leadership training on food heritage and other programming  

Art of Urban Ag:  Growing an Art of Urban Ag Academy 

to support the Center for Embodied Pedagogy and Action (CEPA)

CEPA

to support Flor y Machete’s Sánate Boricua initiative

Flor y Machete

General Operating Support

to support the Onkyayun Oheki project with a focus on capacity building as well as food and cultural heritage programs

NDPonics

to support STooPS' free public place-focused arts and culture programs in Brooklyn

STooPS

to continue support for the Ashé Racial Justice and Healing Initiative

The Ashé Racial Justice and Healing Initiative

to support operating costs and programming for The Soapbox Presents

The Soapbox Presents

to support the creation of an interactive Black American Heritage Trail

Black American Heritage Trail

to support organizational capacity and general project support for the Creative Rural Building Project focused on artist-led community engagement and place activation in rural communities

Dept of Public Transformation Creative Rural Building Project

to support strategic planning, organizational capacity building, and the acquisition of land parcels for a planned commemorative park and educational center

Foot Soldiers Park Campus

to support organizational capacity building at the Grinding Stone Collective and expanded programmatic offerings for the First Foods Program focused on Indigenous culinary heritage and practices

Grinding Stone Collective - First Foods Program

to support inquiries into the conditions and possibilities of emancipatory housing and land use through collaboration between movement-based scholars and their surrounding community

Housing The Third Reconstruction

to support a multi-year public history initiative that explores representations of Appalachia's individuals, communities, and histories

Monuments across Appalachian Virginia

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 a food and community-centering, social practice project by the People’s Kitchen Collective

People's Kitchen Collective

to support increased organizational capacity, historical interpretation of sites, and cultural education programming

Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum

to support capacity building for member organizations of the Cultural Reforestation project in Oakland

The Oakland Cultural Reforestation Project

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 Untold RVA’s organizational development, public programs, exhibits, and campaigns

Untold RVA

to support recurring food and culture programming,  the production of educational media spanning from these events, and increased organizational capacity

Collective Focus Food and Culture Programming

to support the Marcus Garvey Park Culture, Creativity, & Care Initiative

Marcus Garvey Park Culture, Creativity, & Care Initiative

to support artistic and public memory projects

Counterpublic 2023 Civic Exhibition

to support planning for Little Amal's US tour and local activity in the Borderlands

Little Amal

to support the Re-Site initiative including historian and artist stipends and public programming

Re-Site

Rescuing Tibbetts Brook

to support community-centered programming and capacity building

Community-Centered Programming

to support the final stage of the Naming the Lost Memorials project

Naming the Lost Memorials

to support built elements of placekeeping along the Armitage Corridor, supplies and program costs, programming “pop up” events, and cultural performances and workshops

Palenque in Action: Arts and Cultural Celebration along the Armitage Corridor and in La Placita 

to support capacity building while the organization is working to develop a revenue stream to sustain its work

Sustaining Art, Food, Life 

to support  expanded community food, culture and arts  programmatic initiatives, increased staff, and renovation of food production space

Universe City

to support archive creation and research personnel, expanded public programming, and cultural landscape planning and design

Voices Underground

to support community engagement residencies and the creation of artwork for What does PURPLE sound like?

What does PURPLE sound like?

to support the development of the Queens Memory Monuments project

Queens Memory Monuments Project

to support the installation of historical markers and a large-scale mural by a local Asian artist to reflect Colorado’s Asian American history and the legacy of the Chinatown community in Denver’s downtown

Reclaiming Denverʻs Forgotten History: Chinatown

to continue and expand support for humanities postdoctoral fellowships in conjunction with the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence

Expanding the Boundaries of America250

to support the Iⁿ ‘zhúje ‘waxóbe project

Iⁿ ‘zhúje ‘waxóbe 

to support the expansion of Migratuse Ataraxia through long-term, community-focused dance residencies in Columbia, SC, Montgomery, AL, and Harpersville, AL

Migratuse Reimagined

to support programming and construction costs for a new cultural arts center serving the Lakota community

Waniyetu Wowapi Institute and Art Park 

to support conservation, digitization, research, engagement, and planning related to the school’s monumental public Diego Rivera fresco

Critical Collections

to renew support for the Food Humanities Program that supports the creation and collection of oral histories as audiovisual recordings and sharing of Bronx-based food stories that preserve diasporic neighborhood histories and cultures, and support the creation of networks of community gardening efforts that reveal those histories and cultures

Food Humanities in the Local Community

to support a final round of the Fronteridades program of binational community-engaged initiatives at the US-Mexico border with a particular focus on Nogales

Fronteridades: Nurturing Collaborative Intersections in the US-Mexico Borderlands

to support a Humanities for All Times project

Humanities Integrated Locational Learning (HILL)

to support the development of the Kinfolk AR Monuments app and archive, and related public programming

Kinfolk AR Monuments and Digital Archive

Mississippi River Watershed

to support the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project’s national convenings, LGBTQ heritage regranting program, and LGBTQ place-based research initiatives

NYC LGBTQ Historic Sites

to support the Reclaiming the Monument public art project

Reclaiming the Monument

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" 