Our partnerships include sponsoring major exhibitions and programs each year to help nonprofit arts institutions around the world deliver outreach and educational programs to ever-broader audiences and celebrate diverse traditions. A key component of our arts support is and has always been to help celebrate diverse traditions and create greater cultural understanding.
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 2022 and 2023 North American Tours. footnote1

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. footnote2

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. footnote5

Exhibition sponsor
Fashioned by Sargent
Fashioned by Sargent explores John Singer Sargent’s complex relationship with his often-affluent clients and their attire. On view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from October 8, 2023 through January 15, 2024. footnote13

Exhibition sponsor
ED RUSCHA/NOW THEN
ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN, on view at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York from September 10, 2023 to January 13, 2024, explores the artist’s six-decade career. footnote16

Exhibition sponsor
Africa Fashion
Showcasing a dazzling array of garments alongside music, visual art, and much more, Africa Fashion celebrates the ingenuity and global impact of African fashions from the 1950s to the present. On view at the Brooklyn Museum from June 23 through October 22, 2023.footnote18

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 February 11, 2024.footnote19

Exhibition sponsorship
Black American Portraits
Black American Portraits reframes the history of portraiture to highlight Black American subjects, sitters, and spaces. Featuring more than 100 works drawn primarily from the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the exhibition chronicles the many ways in which Black Americans have used portraiture to envision themselves. On view at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art from August 17, 2023 through January 7, 2024.footnote22

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 February 19, 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.footnote3
Institution partnerships

Corporate partner
Carnegie Hall
Bank of America is a proud corporate partner of Carnegie Hall, the world’s most famous concert hall. footnote8

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. footnote9

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. footnote10

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. footnote11

Lead partner
Bruce Museum
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. footnote14

Principal partner
National Portrait Gallery, London
As Principal Partner of the new National Portrait Gallery, Bank of America is committed to opening the arts to broader audiences and democratizing access for young visitors. Bank of America is proud to support the £5 tickets for under 30s initiative to the National Portrait Gallery’s Summer 2023 season of exhibitions, including Yevonde: Life and Colour. footnote15

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.footnote20

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.footnote21
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Linda Celeste Sims and Yannick Lebrun. Photo by Andrew Eccles.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Hans Namuth (American, born Germany, 1915–1990), Clyfford Still, 1952, gelatin silver print, 13” x 10 1/2” inches (33 x 26.7 cm). Collection Buffalo AKG Art Museum, gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr., 1976 (K1976:4.41.) © Hans Namuth Estate, Center for Creative Photography.
Shan Goshorn (Eastern Band of Cherokee, 1957–2018), Pieced Treaty: Spider's Web Treaty Basket, 2007, paper and watercolor, 16 3/4”× 19 1/2” × 12 3/4” (42.5 x 49.5 x 32.5 cm). NMAI purchase from the artist, 2007. All rights reserved.
Carnegie Hall
The National Museum of African American History and Culture. Architectural photos by Alan Karchmer.
Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative (SCRI). Nepalese military and cultural heritage professionals team up to rescue architectural fragments at a temple in Kathmandu.
National Native American Veterans Memorial. Photo by Alan Karchmer for NMAI.
John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925), Mrs. Charles E. Inches (Louise Pomeroy), 1887, oil on canvas, 34” x 23 7/8” (86.3 x 60.6 cm). Anonymous gift in memory of Mrs. Charles Inches' daughter, Louise Brimmer Inches Seton. Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Bruce Museum, Photo: Michael Biondo
National Portrait Gallery, London. Photo: Jamie Fobert Architects; Forbes Massie Studio. Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery.
Ed Ruscha (American, b. 1937), Standard Station, Ten-Cent Western Being Torn in Half, 1964, oil on canvas, 65” x 121 1/2” (165.1 x 308.6 cm). Private collection, Fort Worth. © 2023 Ed Ruscha. Photo © Evie Marie Bishop, courtesy of the Modern Museum of Art of Fort Worth.
Yorùbá. Prestige robe (agbádá or dàńdógó), 20th century. Cotton, silk, and indigo, 49” × 103” × 2” (124.5 × 261.6 × 5.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Philip Gould, 1991.230.2. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Yayoi Kusama, LOVE IS CALLING, 2013. Wood, metal, glass mirrors, tile, acrylic panel, rubber, blowers, lighting element, speakers, and sound, 174 1/2” × 340 5/8” × 239 3/8” (443 × 865 × 608 cm). Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. Acquired through the generosity of Barbara Lee/The Barbara Lee Collection of Art by Women, Fotene Demoulas and Tom Coté, Hilary and Geoffrey Grove, Vivien and Alan Hassenfeld, Jodi and Hal Hess, Barbara H. Lloyd, and an anonymous donor. Photo: Ernie Galan. © 2023 YAYOI KUSAMA. Courtesy David Zwirner and Ota Fine Arts.
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art
The International African American Museum. Photo: Greg Noire
Artist not recorded, Untitled, late 19th century, daguerreotype, 3 7/8” × 3 1/2” × 3/4”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Ralph M. Parsons Fund, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA