Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

Henry Street Children's School

to support the development of partnerships in Puerto Rico

Partnership Development in Puerto Rico

to support a collaborative artistic exchange project with Abrons Arts Center and Pública Espacio Cultural

Abrons Arts Center/Pública Espacio Cultural  Partnership

to support Christopher Nuñez's creative and administrative collaborators and organizational design

Christopher Nuñez and Audio Dance: The regenerative power of sound and movement on the body

to support the American Realness dance festival

American Realness

Children's School

Arts Center Construction

American Realness Festival

to support American Realness, a dance and contemporary performance festival

to support the institution following losses incurred as a result of the events of September 11, 2001

Disaster Recovery Relief Fund

to help meet the cost of a new headquarters building

General Support

to support a planning process that involves community engagement and arts programming for the Henry O. Tanner House

Henry Ossawa Tanner House

toward costs of editing the papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe

Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe

to support the pre-construction phase of the development of the Fred Rouse Center for Arts and Community Healing, fundraising for the capital campaign, and core staffing

Transform 1012 N. Main Street

to support Rennie Harris's company and curriculum, to broaden public understanding of hip-hop aesthetics and street dance culture

Building a Legacy of Street Dance

in support of the editorial and research costs of The Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe

"The Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe"

to support the transfer of Henry Ford College students in the humanities to the University of Michigan and to strengthen collaboration between faculty in the humanities at both institutions.

Transfer Bridges to the Humanities 

to continue support for the transfer of Henry Ford College, Grand Rapids Community College, and Schoolcraft College students in the humanities to the University of Michigan and to strengthen collaboration between faculty in the humanities at both institutions

Transfer Bridges to the Humanities - Phase II

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the historical and cultural sources of major contemporary developments

Sawyer Seminars - Settlement, Race, and Sovereignty

for support of its new Department for the Performing Arts

Department for the Performing Arts

for use as endowment of a volume of the Library of America series

Henry David Thoreau Volume

to support the restoration of three sculptures, the re-creation of missing sculptures, new mural commissions at the north and south entryways, and the research and installation of interpretive signage documenting the history of the development and its residents

Harlem River Houses Public Art and Community Space Restoration

to support a three-year residency with playwright Carlos Murillo through the National Playwright Residency Program

National Playwright Residency Program

to continue support for the Philadelphia Music Alliance for Youth Artists’ Initiative

Philadelphia Music Alliance for Youth Artists' Initiative

to support pathways initiatives for musicians from underrepresented communities

Philadelphia Music School Alliance for Youth Artists' Initiative

to strengthen its curatorial staff and activities, and to improve and increase its research and publication

Curatorial Support

Decasia Live

Wavetree Ship Restoration

to support immediate relief efforts to restore museum operations in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy

Hurricane Sandy Relief

Development Program

for support of its library expansion program

Library Expansion Project

to support expenses of dance and theater organizations engaged to perform in the theater

The New Victory Theater

to support new commissions, a national choreographer competition, and strategic planning

Planning, Commissions, & National Choreographic Competition

to assist this community music school in its New Building and Program Development Fund

Development Program Building and Program Fund

to support the project's core staffing needs and continued planning activities

Capacity Building and Planning Support

matching endowment for a Fund for Faculty and Curriculum Renewal in the arts and sciences

Appalachian College Program

to strengthen curricular offerings and to assist faculty development

to support a project-based core curriculum

Enhancing the Core Curriculum for Cohesive Project-Based Liberal Education

in support of the African Renaissance conference

African Renaissance

to support community-based archives in historic black towns and settlements

Community Archives of Historic Black Towns and Settlements

to establish and support an office of Coordinator of Research Activities at the Huntington Library

Endowment

to establish "The Andrew W. Mellon Fund," the income to be used to facilitate use of the Library's collections by qualified scholars

to support a Mellon Seminar in Interpretation

Dissertation Seminars 

matching grant to promote access to and use of its collections

Fellowship Program

matching endowment in support of its conservation department

Library Conservation

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" 