Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support a collaborative initiative to strengthen student and faculty engagement with the collections at the RISD Museum of Art and the Haffenreffer Museum at Brown University

Haffenreffer/RISD Museum Collaboration

to strengthen the educational role of the collections and programs of the Museum of Art

College and Univeristy Art Museum Program Phase I: Spendable

for use by the Museum of Art to strengthen the educational role of its collections and programs

College and University Art Museum Program Phase I: Spendable

to support an endowment to strengthen the educational role of collections and programs

College and University Art Museum Program Phase I: Endowment

to establish an endowment to strengthen the curricular role of the Museum's collections and programs

College and University Art Museum Program Phase II: Endowment

Faculty/Curriculum Development

to support the development of a Web-based directory of cultural heritage organizations in Rhode Island

The Rhode Island History Directory and Evaluation Initiative

to support organizational capacity and planning for Rhode Island AAPI History Museum

Rhode Island AAPI History Museum

to support the Department of Gender and Women's Studies

Program Support

for use by the Graduate Program in Marine Affairs in a study of marine-resource data

Marine Affairs

to support the development of a new Graduate Institute of Design, Ethnography, and Social Thought

Graduate Institute of Design, Ethnography, and Social Thought

to support the development of a complete set of functional and resource requirements for an open source academic portfolio system

Open Source Electronic Portfolio System

to support the Graduate Institute of Design, Ethnography and Social Thought

Graduate Institute of Design, Ethnography and Social Thought (GIDEST)

to enable its Marine Ecosystems Research Laboratory to continue coastal research projects in cooperation with investigators from other institutions

Marine Ecosystems Research

to support the development of a citywide inventory of commemorative works and the commissioning of temporary public art projects in partnership with the City of Providence Department of Art, Culture + Tourism

Providence Commemoration Lab

to continue support for staffing Art School Futures strategic planning, leadership development and convenings, curriculum opportunities, and culminating reports

Art School Futures

to support the St. Laurence Arts & Industry construction, archive and collections management, and programming at the Stony Island Arts Bank

St. Laurence School Arts and Industry and Stony Island Arts Bank

to support strategic planning, leadership development and convenings, and curriculum opportunities

to support the Design Justice Summit, including participant stipends and airfare, documentation, and event costs

The Design Justice Summit

Faculty & Curriculum Development

to support seminars that examine the historical and cultural sources of significant contemporary developments

Sawyer Seminars - Constitutional Design and the Politics of Difference in Mexico, Canada, and the United States

to support staffing for a new community-focused public space design network, local partner trainings, and subgrants to community partners for their respective projects 

Place Design Network

to support the organization's Pathways to Immigration and Digital
Stories and Histories initiatives

Angel Island Immigration Station

to support the world premiere production of Fire Island

Fire Island

toward costs of a barrier island study on Sanibel Island, Florida

Barrier Island Study

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

for use by MIT Press toward expenses of a special double issue of Design Book Review on Latin American architecture

Design Book Review

toward the purchase of a major part of Cumberland Island, Georgia, to be established as a National Seashore

Cumberland Island

toward acquisition by the Society of acreage on Sanibel Island, Florida, for protection of the Darling National Wildlife Refuge

Sanibel Island

toward the purchase of additional acreage on Cumberland Island, Georgia, to be established as a National Seashore

to support the interim distribution of the Museum’s Digital Design Collection

Digital Design Collection Project

toward costs of the Second Shelter Island Conference

Shelter Island Conference

to create and promote access to a digital database of the museum’s architecture and Design Collection

to support the planning of a digital design studio
that would provide services to scholars preparing
born-digital publications

Scholarly Communications Design Studio

to support costs for one year of interim distribution of the MoMA Digital Design Collection by Luna Imaging, Inc. and for essential updating of catalogue data

to provide for costs related to the Digital Design Collection

to support archiving and developing access to ecological research data from Tatoosh Island, Washington

Ecosystems Research and Training [Paine] [Tatoosh Island]

to support a studio for the collaborative design, development, and publication of digital scholarly projects

Scholarly Communication Design Studio Implementation

to support a meeting to plan a design competition focused on the usability features of a large-scale, interactive digital library

Interactive Digital Library Design Competition 

to support the museum’s plans to create and promote access to a digital database of its Design Collection

Digital Database [Digital Design Collection Project]

matching endowment to support the position of School Archivist

School Archivist

in support of the public television series "America by Design"

America by Design

to support design and production costs of The Pied Piper of Hamelin

Digital Set Design

to support two visiting dancers at the School of Dance

School of Dance

to continue support to implement strategic plans, leadership development and convenings, and curriculum opportunities for participating art colleges

Centering Social Justice in Art & Design Higher Education and Career Pathways

to support growth and outreach in the multidisciplinary Pacific Islander Studies program

Pacific Island Studies Growth and Outreach

Strategic Design

toward construction of new medical school building

School of Medicine Construction

for faculty and curriculum development at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design

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" 