GIVING OPPORTUNITIESA guide to ongoing programs and their associated costsThe Arts Initiative's ability to make the arts part of every Columbian's education and to promote lifelong involvement in the arts - as creators and audiences - depends on the support of alumni and friends. Below is just a sample list of ongoing Arts Initiative programs. These are meant as a guide and are by no means a minimum gift requirement. Contributions in any amount make a difference and help make the arts part of every Columbian's education and life regardless of his or her academic or professional focus. While unrestricted gifts have an immediate impact by allowing the Arts Initiative to address its areas of greatest need, you may choose to designate your donation towards a particular program. Should you have any questions, please contact us.
 Arts LinkEnrich Columbia's curricula by supporting a program that will make arts and cultural events available as a teaching resource, accessible as easily as textbooks or other academic tools. Each semester, the Arts Initiative will provide faculty with a list of events or exhibits chosen from the New York’s cultural season. Professors can assign an event simply by sharing the event’s link, either in Courseworks or via email. Students will click to buy a subsidized ticket online, and pick up the tickets at the Ticket and Information Center (TIC) in Lerner.
Columbia Arts ExperiencePrepare the next generation of leaders in the arts by placing students in internship programs. The Arts Initiative, in partnership with Columbia's Center for Career Education, places students in internships with various arts organizations such as museums, theatres, publishing houses, TV and film studios and provides them with a stipend that is matched by the employer.
New Student Orientation Program (NSOP) Cultural EventIntroduce over 2,000 new incoming undergraduate students to Columbia and New York's great art institutions by hosting the Arts Initiative's orientation cultural event. The inaugural event in 2005 welcomed 1,200 students in MoMA’s Sculpture Garden and for the past two years 1,900 students have been introduced to Columbia and NYC culture with a private reception in the Greek and Roman, Egyptian, and African galleries of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Ticket and Information CenterThis new resource connects our students, faculty and staff to the arts on campus and around the city. The Arts Initiative created a fully fitted and staffed Ticket and Information Center in the main lobby of Alfred Lerner Hall that distributes and sells tickets to campus productions and events on behalf of university organizations, as well as discounted tickets to cultural events throughout New York City. It further serves as an information booth for campus and city arts activity. Sponsorship opportunities are available. Please inquire with the development office.
Columbia Alumni Arts League Class of 2009 MembershipsProvide graduating students with discounts and special benefits to more than 50 of New York City's finest cultural organizations with a one-year introductory Columbia Alumni Arts League membership. Congratulate new graduates and introduce them to the alumni community by presenting a graduating class with discounted access to the city’s best cultural offerings.
Provide recent graduates of your alma mater with a one-year introductory CAAL Membership
Columbia Alumni Arts League International Expand the Columbia Alumni Arts League internationally. CAAL was created in late 2006 to extend the Arts Initiative’s commitment to making the arts part of every Columbian’s life. CAAL currently provides alumni members with discounts and benefits at 58 leading NYC cultural organizations, and hosts special events called CAAL Nights that provide members the opportunity to meet fellow alumni over drinks, converse with artists about their work, and navigate the city's arts scene. Given its success, the Arts Initiative would like to expand CAAL internationally to Beijing, London, Paris, Tokyo, and Toronto.
Arts GlobalCreate global literacy through the arts. The Sino-Culture Project is the first phase of the Arts Initiative’s global arts program that serves as the cultural arm for the establishment of the University’s international regional centers. The primary goal is to educate all Columbia students, its physicists and financiers as well as filmmakers, by working with colleagues across the university – students, faculty, and administrators – to use arts and culture to train and educate not just better artists, but better scholars, scientists, historians, engineers, lawyers and businesspeople.
University ArtistsColumbia's University Artists are outstanding artists involved in the ongoing life of the university. Echoing the University Professor position, University Artists work across departments in creative endeavors, teaching and other special projects. Oliver Sacks was named the first University Artist in September 2007.
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