Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support the creation of the Invest STL neighborhood-based oral history and preservation initiatives along with necessary training to develop a multi-generational storytelling program

Cultivating a Neighborhood Storytelling Practice

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 plaza, classroom/lab, exhibits, and infrastructure at Historic Mitchelville Freedom Park

Historic Mitchelville Freedom Park

to support research and design for the creation of a community archive, public library exhibit and programs, and public artwork in Los Angeles’ Westlake enclave that is inclusive of the histories and experiences of its diverse immigrant communities

MARKINGS: Inscribing Community and Immigrant Histories in Westlake

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 creation of a memorial to the individuals who were enslaved at Montpelier

Memorialization Project

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

Muddy Waters MOJO Museum

to continue support for a program of undergraduate research, graduate training, and teaching in American Indian and Indigenous studies

Pathways and Partnerships for Native American and Indigenous Studies - Phase II

to support research and implementation for the South Carolina preservation toolkit, the promotion of historic sites and organizations, and increased organizational staffing

Preservation Toolkit Initiative

to support the creation of the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center and core staffing

Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center

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

Henry Ossawa Tanner House

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

CEPA

El Ancon

to support Flor y Machete’s Sánate Boricua initiative

Flor y Machete

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

NDPonics

to continue support for the Ashé Racial Justice and Healing Initiative

The Ashé Racial Justice and Healing Initiative

to support building a program of study in Native American and Indigenous Studies

Emory NAIS

to support the American Archive of Public Broadcasting to preserve endangered public media holdings at scale for future access and use

American Archive of Public Broadcasting

to support the creation of an interactive Black American Heritage Trail

Black American Heritage Trail

to support a project to examine the impact of race and racism on the identities, histories, and lived experiences of Black, Arab, and Muslim people living in the city of Syracuse specifically and its implications on US racial politics

Black-Arab Relationalities: Confronting Racism, Narrating Solidarities

to support the Naco Heritage Alliance with the rehabilitation and enhancement of historic buildings, new public programming, and artist and scholar residencies at Camp Naco

Camp Naco

to support the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History in collection processing, digitization, and community and outreach engagement activities

Ethnic Studies Futures: Africana Studies and African American Studies

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 the development of a community-driven archive and resource collection for Indigenous research, teaching, and learning

Haudenosaunee Archive and Resource Collection - Phase II

to support the development of humanistic Food Studies curricula, research opportunities, and public-facing events and media on African American and Indigenous foodways

Higher Learning Through Humanities in Food Studies

to support the construction and furnishing of a new Black Box Theater at the historic New Granada building, the restoration of the marquee, and three years of support for public performing arts programming, including program staff and artist fees, with a focus on Black/African American heritage and culture

New Granada Square Black Box Theater 

to support the expansion of the Getting Word project and the development of the Digital Archive of Slavery to Freedom at Monticello

Next Generation Getting Word: An Archive of Black Freedom

to support capacity building for Niamuck Land Trust

Niamuck Land Trust

to support research, storytelling, and an artists-in-residence program connected to commemorating the 100th anniversary of the lynching of the Ute people

Oral History Project 

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

People's Kitchen Collective

to support the planning, development, and initial operations of a cultural space located at the Shockoe Bottom train shed that memorializes and commemorates the history of slavery in Richmond

Shockoe Heritage Campus Center: Transforming Richmond's Core Commemorative Landscape

to support research, planning, and pilot production for Lauren Halsey's Monument to South Central

south central la hieroglyph architecture (sister dreamer) by Lauren Halsey

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

The Oakland Cultural Reforestation Project

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

Untold RVA

to support Corredor Afro's organizational development

Corredor Afro

Revista Étnica

to continue support for organizational capacity and general operations

General Operating Support

to support the completion of the Dred Scott Memorial Monument

Dred Scott Memorial Monument

to support Friends of Harvey Milk Plaza's organizational capacity and planning for Harvey Milk Plaza

Friends of Harvey Milk Plaza

to support a convening of the Community Archives Collaborative

Convening Support for Community-Based Archives Collaborative 

to continue support for the Penumbra Center for Racial Healing

Penumbra Center for Racial Healing

to support the "Loophole of Retreat" symposium and an exhibition catalogue associated with the presentation of Simone Leigh's representation of the United States for the American Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

Simone Leigh at the Venice Biennale, Symposium and Catalogue

to support the creation of an archive that documents spatial racism in Oakland, as well as salaries and stipends for university and community personnel

Archive of Urban Futures

to support an integrative, interdisciplinary, and reparative approach to analyzing the role that data, computation, and archives play in Black life

Beyond Black Data: Computational Humanities and Social Sciences Laboratory for Black Digital Humanities - Phase II

to continue support for ongoing community exchange and collaborative conservation with Indigenous partners, and to develop and disseminate guidelines for respectfully working with Native communities to other museums and cultural centers

Collaborative Action with Native American and Indigenous Materials, Cultures, and Communities

to support the planning process for a memorial to those lost to convict leasing at the Bellwood Quarry and the Chattahoochee Brick Company prison labor camps

Forced Labor Memorial at Bellwood Quarry 

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" 