Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

general support of the Arena Stage, a repertory company producing classics and new work

General Support

to establish an artistic director's discretionary fund

Regional Theatre Program

to assist the Arena Stage in producing earlier work that merits revival

National Theater Program

to support artistic and audience development

New Play Programs

to support artistic initiatives and organizational development

National Theater Program 

to support artistic programming at Arena Stage

Artistic Programming and Initiatives

to provide bridge support for the American Voices New Play Institute

American Voices New Play Institute

to support the American Voices New Play Institute

to support a convening of arts practitioners to discuss the development and production of new musicals

National Convening of Arts Practitioners

to support transitional expenses associated with the transfer of the Center for the Theater Commons from Washington Drama Society, Inc. (Arena Stage)

Center for the Theater Commons Transfer

to support the Washington Prison History Project

Washington Prison History Project

to support a new initiative for the interdisciplinary study and production of sacred music drama

Sacred Music Drama

support of the work of the Office for Advanced Drama Research in assisting new playwrights

Advanced Drama Research

to support listening sessions with tribal communities in Washington State to better understand their library and technology needs for future pilot projects

Centering Washington Tribal Libraries 

to support editorial costs for the preparation of the Greater London volumes of the Records of Early English Drama series

Records of Early English Drama 

to support editorial costs associated with The Records of Early English Drama series

Records of Early English Drama - Oxford

to support the subsidized distribution of the Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection database to 49 historically black colleges and universities

Audio Drama Database to HBCUs

to support editorial costs associated with the Greater London series of the Records of Early English Drama

Records of Early English Drama - London

to support editorial and research costs associated with the preparation of the Greater London volumes of the Records of Early English Drama

to support the transition of core funding for the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman drama from independent to university sources

Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama

to support the Right of Return fellowship program for formerly incarcerated artists and planning and capacity building for the Art and Advocacy Society

Art and Advocacy Society

in support of the Washington Collegium on the Humanities

Washington Collegium

in support of the Washington Collegium for Humanistic Study and Research

to assist planning for cooperative programs among seven Washington cultural institutions

to support the development of a prototype digital edition of the Records of Early English Drama

Fortune Theatre Records - A Prototype Digital Edition for Records of Early English Drama

to establish a society of fellows in critical bibliography

Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography

to support planning and implementation of the Baltimore-Washington Musical Pathways Initiative

Baltimore-Washington Musical Pathways Initiative

for use of The Asia Society, Inc., of New York City, in support of its Asian Literature Program

Asian Literature Program

to support the development of an online version of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

Developing the Online Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

to support a program to diversify and strengthen the Society and the field

SEEDS

in support of research and education in science and society

Science & Society

in support of research and other activities in the area of science and society

Science & Society 

toward planning costs of a Minority Dramatist Laboratory

Minority Dramatist Laboratory

matching grant to provide endowment for its Society of Fellows in the Humanities, and for support of senior non-tenured fellows in the Society

Society of Fellows

to support the Washington Opera’s production of Samuel Barber’s Vanessa

Opera Program

for use by the Program in Science, Technology and Society for training in the history and social study of the life sciences

to support the creation of a culture consortium and expand new and existing partnerships with regional Indigenous tribes

Indigenous Cultural Preservation in Washington State

to support the festival's core operations

March on Washington Film Festival

toward development of its Division of History, Culture, and Society

History, Culture, & Society

for training and research in the area of science and society

Science and Society

to support the expansion of the Museums and Society program

Museums and Society

for further programmatic development within the Society of Fellows in the Humanities

in support of training and research in the area of science and society

Science & Society [Holton]

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

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Public Places‚ Public Stories

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Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

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