Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support a convening on the future of the arts as part of the National Endowment for the Arts's 50th anniversary

Future of the Arts in America Convening

to support a Spring for Music: Orchestras Alive! festival of North American orchestras

Spring for Music - Orchestras Alive - Festival of North American Orchestras

to support the Fund for New American Plays

1997 Theater Program

Social Impact Fund

Sondheim Symposium

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

Baltimore-Washington Musical Pathways Initiative

to support the spring 2019 season of Lincoln Center Moments, a performing arts series for audiences with dementia and their caregivers

Lincoln Center Moments

to support classical music presenting activities at the Center for the Performing Arts

Classical Music Presenting Activities at the Center for the Performing Arts

to support a fellowship program for performing arts leaders

Fellowships for Performing Arts Leaders

to support classical music presenting activities at the Robert & Magrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts

Classical Music Presenting Activities at the Robert & Magrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts

Lincoln Center Festival

to support the Lincoln Center Moments concert series for audiences living with dementia

in support of the public television series "Live from Lincoln Center"

Live from Lincoln Center

in support of the "Live from Lincoln Center" public television series

to support an expansion of Lincoln Center Moments, a performance series for people with dementia and their care partners

to support theatre programs, organizational capacity, and space improvements at the Andre Cailloux Center for Performing Arts & Cultural Justice

We Will Dream: New Works Festival at the Andre Cailloux Center for Performing Arts and Cultural Justice 

for use by its Performing Arts Research Center to improve coordination, research, and public programming of its performing-arts exhibitions

Performing Arts - Research Center

toward costs of the Lincoln Center Festival

Summer Festival

to assist the Denver Center Theatre Company in producing ealier work that merits revival

Regional Theatre Program

to assist the Denver Center Theatre Company in producing earlier work that merits revival

to support the implementation phase of projects giving agency to artists, technologists, and thinkers

The Collider 

for support of its new Department for the Performing Arts

Department for the Performing Arts

to support an endowment for new commissions and artistic collaborations

Endowment for New Commissions and Artistic Collaborations

for use by its Library for the Performing Arts toward costs of curatorial staff and research for its public programs

Library for the Performing Arts

to continue support for Lincoln Center Moments, a performance series for people with dementia and their care partners, in honor of Michele S. Warman's 23 years of distinguished service to the Mellon Foundation

Grant in Honor of Michele S. Warman

toward costs of establishing its programming department and to implement the Performing Arts Community Subsidy

Special Non-Profit Initiatives [Programming Department and Performing Arts Community Subsidy]

to support the John Duffy Institute for New Opera

John Duffy Institute for New Opera

Bridge Funding

for use by the John F. Kennedy School of Government in developing a program of research and teaching on the role of the chief executive in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom

Kennedy School - Chief Executive Study

Boro-Linc Program

toward the costs of its Program on Public Policy for the Performing Arts

Program on Public Policy for the Performing Arts

THE OFFICE performing arts + film

to support a revolving loan fund for performing arts institutions

Revolving Loan Fund - Performing Arts Capital Projects

to support the leadership of president and chief executive officer, Henry Timms

President's Leadership

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

Disaster Recovery Relief Fund

to continue support for the First Nations Performing Arts initiative

First Nations Performing Arts 

to support the creation of the John Lewis Fellowship

The John Lewis Fellowship

Seeding Residencies: Headlands Center for the Arts

to support a final round of the National Endowment for the Arts' Performing Arts Discovery program

Performing Arts Discovery

to support the Performing Arts Discovery international exchange program

Performing Arts Discovery Program

to support the John Duffy Composers Institute

John Duffy Composers Institute

to support the Center for Creative Research

Center for Creative Research 

to support the developmental process of new opera at the John Duffy Composers Institute

for the publication activity of the Asia House Gallery and for the Society's performing arts program

Performing Arts

to support a shifting performing arts ecosystem

Evolving the Organization

to support organizational capacity and development for a community-focused project honoring the legacy of John Coltrane

John Coltrane House Museum and Cultural Arts Center

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" 