Bank of America partners with museums and cultural institutions that are vital to our vibrant communities to help deliver diverse arts experiences and educational and access programs.
Exhibition & performance sponsorships
North American Tour Sponsor
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Bank of America is a proud sponsor of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s 2024 and 2025 North American Tours.
Maestro Residency Presenter
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
A proud partner since 2010, Bank of America continues our support of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, widely regarded as one of the world’s greatest orchestras, as their Maestro Residency Presenter.
Exhibition sponsor
ED RUSCHA/NOW THEN
ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN, on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) from April 7 through October 6, 2024, explores the artist’s six-decade career.
Exhibition sponsor
Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations
Nation to Nation at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) brings together the largest historical collection of treaties made between the United States and American Indian Nations, along with more than 125 related artifacts, photographs and contemporary objects.
Exhibition sponsor
Yayoi Kusama: LOVE IS CALLING
Explore one of Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Rooms in Yayoi Kusama: LOVE IS CALLING at the Pérez Art Museum Miami through April 7, 2024.
Exhibition sponsorship
Clyfford Still: A Legacy for Buffalo
The inaugural installations at the new Buffalo AKG Art Museum (formerly the Albright Knox Gallery) in Buffalo, NY, feature the exhibition Clyfford Still: A Legacy for Buffalo, on view through March 11, 2024. The museum’s collection includes 33 paintings by the renowned Abstract Expressionist, 31 donated by Still in 1964. One of the largest public collections of the artist’s work, the exhibition spans critical developments in his career from 1937 to 1963 and documents his relationship with Buffalo during that time.
Exhibition sponsor
Up Close with Paul Cézanne
Up Close with Paul Cézanne features two works by French Post-Impressionist Paul Cézanne - Self-Portrait (1878-80) and Mont Sainte-Victoire (1886-87) - recently conserved through a grant from the Bank of America Art Conservation Project. On view at The Phillips Collection, Washington DC, from April 17 through July 14, 2024.
Exhibition sponsor
Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
150 years ago, on April 15, 1874, the first impressionist exhibition opened in Paris. Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment presents 130 works, including a rare reunion of the paintings first featured in the now-legendary exhibition, considered the birth of modern painting. On view at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. from September 8, 2024 through January 19, 2025.
Exhibition sponsor
The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure
The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure, curated by writer Ekow Eshun, showcases the work of contemporary artists from the African diaspora, including Michael Armitage, Lubaina Himid, Kerry James Marshall, Toyin Ojih Odutola and Amy Sherald, and highlights the use of figures to illuminate the richness and complexity of Black life. On view at the National Portrait Gallery, London, from February 22 through May 19, 2024.
Exhibition sponsor
Jeremy Frey: Woven
As the first-ever major retrospective of a Wabanaki artist in a fine art museum in the United States, Jeremy Frey: Woven is a groundbreaking exhibition in contemporary and Indigenous art. Featuring more than 50 baskets, made from natural materials like black ash and sweetgrass, Woven presents a comprehensive collection that spans a career of more than two decades. On view at the Portland Museum of Art, Maine, from May 24 through September 15, 2024.
Exhibition sponsor
Edges of Ailey
Edges of Ailey is the first large-scale museum exhibition to reflect on the life, work, and legacy of visionary artist Alvin Ailey (b. 1931, Rogers, Texas; d. 1989, New York, New York). On view at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, from September 25, 2024 through February 2025.
Exhibition sponsor
Georgia O’Keeffe: “My New Yorks”
Georgia O’Keeffe: “My New Yorks”, the first exhibition to examine O’Keeffe’s paintings, drawings, and pastels of urban landscapes, while also situating them in the diverse context of her other compositions of the 1920s and early 1930s, is on view at The Art Institute of Chicago from June 2 through September 22, 2024.
Exhibition sponsor
Judithe Hernández | Beyond Myself, Somewhere, I Wait for My Arrival
Judithe Hernández | Beyond Myself, Somewhere, I Wait for My Arrival spans over 50 years of this groundbreaking artist’s career. It is the first major retrospective of her work, which centers the realities and mythologies of Mexican migrant women, exploring the legacies of colonization and the US Mexico border and their impact on women and children. On view at The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture, Riverside, CA through August 4, 2024. footnote3
Institution partnerships
Lead partner
Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT
As the Lead Partner for the new Bruce, Bank of America will sponsor three exhibitions and loan an Art in our Communities® exhibition, Photographic Revolutionaries of Group f.64.
Corporate partner
Carnegie Hall
Bank of America is a proud corporate partner of Carnegie Hall, the world’s most famous concert hall.
Founding member and dedicated partner
National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC)
Bank of America is a proud early supporter and dedicated partner of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Dedicated partner
Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI)
Opened on Veterans Day 2020, the National Native American Veterans Memorial gives all Americans the opportunity to learn of the proud and courageous tradition of service of Native Americans.
Lead corporate sponsor
Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative (SCRI)
Bank of America proudly supports SCRI’s mission to protect cultural heritage threatened or impacted by disasters and to help U.S. and international communities preserve their identities and history.
Presenting sponsor
National Museum of Asian Art
Bank of America is the Presenting Sponsor of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art’s Centennial and the museum’s annual celebrations during Asian Pacific American Heritage Month through 2027.
Founding donor
International African American Museum
Bank of America is a Founding Donor and proud partner of the new International African American Museum, Charleston, SC.
Proud partner
ArtLifting
ArtLifting is a social enterprise that creates access to the art market for artists impacted by disabilities and housing insecurity. Bank of America partners with ArtLifting to beautify our Financial Centers and workplaces while creating opportunities for ArtLifting artists in communities around the United States.
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James Van Der Zee (American, 1886–1983), Family Group with Newspaper, 1936. Gelatin silver print. James Van Der Zee Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Purchase, Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, Twentieth-Century Photography Fund, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Gift, Joyce F. Menschel Fund, and Ford Foundation Gift, 2021. © James Van Der Zee Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Exterior) Photo courtesy of The Met
The title of this exhibition includes the line of poetry “Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival,” which is from “The Balcony” by Octavio Paz, translated by Eliot Weinberger, from THE COLLECTED POEMS 1957-1987, copyright ©1986 by Octavio Paz and Eliot Weinberger. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.