Brooklyn's Weeksville Heritage Center breaks ground to preserve the last physical remnants of one of the largest free Black communities established before the American Civil War. “The part that’s intangible is that the spirit of those people that built that community is still with us,” says Raymond Codrington, the president and chief executive of Weeksville Heritage Center. “When you come here, you feel something.”
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Largest supporter of the arts & humanities in the US. We invest in just communities & visionaries who connect us all.
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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is the nation’s largest supporter of the arts and humanities. Since 1969, the Foundation has been guided by its core belief that the humanities and arts are essential to human understanding. Through our grants, we seek to build just communities enriched by meaning and empowered by critical thinking, where ideas and imagination can thrive.
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“This building represents the collective aspirations of all who have been involved in thinking about what it would mean to make a museum on 125th Street devoted to the work of Black artists,” says Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator of Studio Museum in Harlem and Mellon Foundation Trustee. Learn more about the museum's opening season and inaugural exhibitions.
Studio Museum in Harlem to Open New Building in Fall 2025
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#ArtMuseums are keepers of our stories, our histories, and our aesthetic traditions. Meet 35 museum curators, leaders, and educators who are shaping the visual cultural landscape in their new roles.
35 Museum Curators and Arts Leaders Who Took on New Appointments in First Half of 2024 - Culture Type
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Mellon Foundation announces its continued support of Morgan State University's Arts and Humanities programs with $710K in new grants. → $660K will support the inventory and digitization of the James E Lewis Museum Of Art collection and recommissioning of a sculpture by Melvin Edwards, a pioneer in the history of contemporary African American art. → $50K will be provided to the "Morgannale: Academy-Community Connection for Repairing Our Places" project.
Mellon Foundation Awards $710,000 in New Grants to Morgan State University
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Mellon Foundation has awarded $800K to American Composers Orchestra, $600K to the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music, and $1M to Gateways Music Festival, Inc. The grants will support these classical music organizations in building a more just and vibrant future for concert music and its artists.
Mellon Foundation Awards $2.4 Million To Classical Music Orgs
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Mellon Foundation has awarded a $1.25 million grant to Climate Heritage Network to leverage culture and heritage as powerful catalysts for effective climate action. The initiative seeks to empower communities worldwide to safeguard their cultural legacies while promoting sustainable futures.
$1.25M Grant to the Climate Heritage Network for Culture-Based Climate Action
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"Early findings from a #GuaranteedIncome program for artists reveal that such initiatives can provide crucial support for artists’ financial stability, professional advancement, and individual well-being." The report was compiled by Creatives Rebuild New York (CRNY), a $125 million initiative funded by Mellon Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), and Ford Foundation.
How Does Guaranteed Income Impact Artists' Lives?
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“We combine art with learning opportunities and calls to action in such a way that visitors come out of the show seeing their own agency and ready to take action in a new way,” says The Climate Museum Founder and Director Miranda Massie. Read more about this #MellonGrantee and their #ClimateWeek programming in this TIME feature.
How the Climate Museum Hopes Art Will Spur Action
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Mellon Foundation has awarded a $1M grant to U of A College of Information Science to support paid internships in community archives. "The idea is for students to be at the table with the community," says Jamie A. Lee, associate dean for faculty affairs. "Making it accessible, doing outreach – you start to see how it's different when the community is involved." #AmericanArchivesMonth
University of Arizona receives $1M for paid internships in community archives
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Mellon Foundation has awarded $500,000 to Northeastern University's Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) in support of its expansion to the university's Oakland, CA campus. DTA is a free, public archive of more than 10,000 digitized historical documents telling the histories of trans people. The West Coast-based lab space will facilitate new partnerships and archival initiatives within the Bay Area. #AmericanArchivesMonth
Northeastern's Digital Transgender Archive receives $500K for West Coast Expansion
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