Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

Opera Program

to support productions of contemporary American operas

Artistic Initiatives

National Radio Broadcasts

to support the Off Grand Initiative and a new artist-in-residence

Off Grand Initiative and Artist-in-Residence

to support the Ring Cycle and the commissioning of Il Postino

Wagner's Ring Cycle and "Il Postino" Commission

in support of the project "Ethnic Los Angeles"

Immigrant Research - Ethnic Los Angeles 

to support the activities of the memory lab at Los Angeles Public Library

Support for Public Library Memory Labs: Los Angeles Public Library

to support a memorial to the victims of the 1871 Chinese Massacre in Los Angeles

Mellon Monuments Project - Memorial to the 1861 Chinese Massacre in Los Angeles

to support COVID-19 emergency response for Los Angeles arts and cultural organizations

Los Angeles Emergency Response

to support a program to integrate the Los Angeles arts community with the college curriculum

Los Angeles Integrated Arts Program

to support Los Angeles Visual Arts Coalition with development staffing and sustainability grants to its membership

Los Angeles Visual Arts Coalition

toward support of a program of services for trustees and volunteers of opera companies and to explore the possibility of merging the organization with that of Opera Guilds International

Opera Company Services

to support the preservation, activation, and expansion of "The Great Wall of Los Angeles," one of the country’s largest monuments to interracial harmony through civic engagement and muralist training

The Great Wall of Los Angeles

supplemental award for permanent endowment of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

Symphony Orchestra Program

to support the Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles Institute and Centennial Scholars programs

YOLA Institute and Centennial Scholars

to support a diversity fellowship program in collaboration with the Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles

Graduate Fellowships

to support a diversity fellowship program in collaboration with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra

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 Million Dollar Hoods project, which seeks to archive historical documents, oral histories, and ephemera in order to chronicle the many impacts of policing and mass incarceration in Los Angeles

Million Dollar Hoods-Archiving the Age of Mass Incarceration

to support activities facilitating the merger of the Utah Symphony and the Utah Opera

Opera and Symphony Merger

to support planning, research, design, and the installation of physical markers and the creation of digital content to highlight Los Angeles’ diverse historic places

HistoricPlacesLA Revealed

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 collaboration with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to provide object-centered training of doctoral students in art history

Art History Graduate Education

to embed the urban humanities program into UCLA graduate and undergraduate curricula in a sustainable way and develop a new emphasis on urbanism in Los Angeles and Mexico City

Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities

to support the semi-permanent installation of a monument to South Central

A Monument to South Central, sister dreamer, lauren halsey’s architectural ode to tha surge n splurge of south central los angeles 

for development of ways to increase earned and contributed income

Regional Opera Program

to support collaborative opera development with Opera Company of Philadelphia and Music-Theatre Group, and a producing associate position in collaboration with Music-Theatre Group

Collaborative Opera Development/Producing Associate

to support visionary artists in collaborative processes that reenvision a long-enduring art form in an artist-centric and contemporary manner

Uplifting the Voices of Opera Artists

Multimedia Projects

matching grant to develop ways of increasing earned and contributed income

Period Instrument Orchestras

to support a convening of orchestra executives who are planning the implementation of programs modeled on El Sistema

El Sistema Conference

to support a new concert series called First Nights: An Introduction to the Great Works

New Concert Support

to support composer-centered artistic initiatives

Composer-Centered Artistic Initiatives

to support artistic and marketing initiatives to cultivate Latino audiences

Artistic and Marketing Initiatives

to support the needs of the community-based archive

Support for Community-Based Archives

Evolving Artist Services and Leadership Structures

to continue support for Lauren Halsey’s south central la hieroglyph architecture (sister dreamer)

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

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

to support community engagement, planning, and design related to the development of the Sleepy Lagoon Memorial

Sleepy Lagoon Memorial

to support leadership, staff positions and public programming at Mujeres de Maiz

 Rooted and Rising: Cultivating a Movement Milpa

to support a degree-granting program and reentry support for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students

Prison Education and Graduation Initiative

to continue to support a degree-granting program and reentry support for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students

to support the needs of prison education programs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

COVID-19 Emergency Response Grants to Current Grantee Prison Education Programs

to continue support of pathways initiatives for musicians from communities underrepresented in concert music professions

to support the Creative Cultivation Project at Claremont Library

Children's Programming

to strengthen its administrative capacity

Small Orchestra Program

to support artistic and administrative initiatives

Chamber Orchestra Program

in support of artistic and administrative initiatives

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" 