Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to connect historic art museum collections and spaces with contemporary practices of living artists

Historic Museum, Contemporary Approaches

to continue support for new models of community and artistic engagement with historic art museum collections and spaces

to endow a program of scholarly exhibitions based on the Museum’s permanent collection

Scholarly Exhibition Endowment - Phase II

to support curatorial research while endowment funds for a program of scholarly exhibitions are being raised

Curatorial Support

to support scholarly exhibitions based on the permanent collection

Small Scholarly Exhibitions

toward support of small scholarly exhibitions based upon its permanent collection

to endow the position of chief conservator

Chief Conservator Endowment

to endow a program of scholarly exhibitions based upon the permanent collection

Scholarly Exhibitions Endowment

to support planning for the endowment of scholarly exhibitions

Endowment Campaign Planning

to partially support scholarly publications for the exhibition, Gondola Days: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Palazzo Barbaro, to be held at the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice, Italy

Gondola Days Exhibition

to support the museum as a recipient of the Art Museum Futures Fund

Art Museum Futures Fund

to support construction and renovation costs for the Museum Community Annex

The Motown Museum Community Annex 

to support a study and planning process to address knowledge management infrastructure at the museum

Museum Knowledge Management Infrastructure - Planning

to support the final phase of knowledge management infrastructure at the museum

Museum Knowledge Management Infrastructure-Final Phase

to support the creation of a public museum of Sing Sing prison

Sing Sing Museum

for use by the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) in support of its further planning and development

Art Museum Image Consortium

to support organizational staffing, construction of the museum’s event and music recording space, landscape design, and public programming

Muddy Waters MOJO Museum

to support the museum as a recipient of the Art Museum Futures Fund 

to assist the Brooklyn Children's Museum to equip its new museum building

New Museum Equipment

to support the development of standards for museum data exchange

Standards for Museum Data Exchange 

matching endowment for research and publication at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Art Museum Publication Program

Museum Hue Capacity Building

to strengthen curatorial research functions and publications

Museum Program

​to support the continued development of a web-based archive of the museum's collections, exhibitions, and public programs

Online Museum Archive

Maritime Museum Program

to support a program to introduce Chinese museum professionals to American museum practices

Training of Chinese Museum Professionals

to support on an interim basis four key positions in the library and museum archives

Museum Library/Archives

Museum Knowledge Management

to provide a pilot program to introduce Chinese museum professionals to American museum practices

to support a pilot program to introduce Chinese museum professionals to American museum practices

to continue support for a program to introduce Chinese museum professionals to American museum practices

Training of Chinese Museum Professionals 

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" 