"From Roots to Arts: Celebrating NYCHA’s Cultural Heritage" is an innovative artist-in-residency pilot program. With a $3 million grant from the Mellon Foundation, this initiative by the Public Housing Community Fund, in collaboration with the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) and other city partners, expands art and culture narratives within public housing. 🎉 Congratulations to the 5 selected artists-in-residence! • Crystal Clarity • Tina Thompson-Pope • Tamra Cosby • Dominique Robinson • Corey Harrison Read more at on.mellon.org/3XhqGju
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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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Join us on September 5 at 4pm ET for "Telling the American Story on Our Public Lands." RSVP for the free event at on.mellon.org/3M9pyIH Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior Deb Haaland joins Mellon Foundation President Elizabeth Alexander for a discussion about the reparative work Haaland leads on our public lands, the charge of stewardship for racial and environmental justice, and the role of Interior in telling the American Story.
Telling the American Story on Our Public Lands (Online) 9/5 at 4pm ET
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On this day in 1963, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom began. Initially planned as a demonstration to spotlight economic inequalities, the goals of the march expanded to include calls for congressional passage of the Civil Rights Act, full integration of public schools, and enactment of a bill prohibiting job discrimination. More than 250,000 people gathered for a series of riveting speeches, closing with Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and his soaring declaration, "I Have a Dream." Today, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is located at 1964 Independence Avenue SW in Washington, D.C., referencing the year the Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law. The memorial’s official dedication date of August 28, 2011 celebrated the 48th anniversary of the #MarchOnWashington. ⭐ How does our nation's commemorative landscape continue to shape our understanding of history? Mellon Foundation's #MonumentsProject fosters a more complete telling of who we are as a nation and who we can be in the future. 📖 Read more at on.mellon.org/3XNPQqG 📷 LuAnn Hunt
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Ear Hustle launched in 2017 as the first #podcast created and produced in prison, spotlighting the daily realities of life inside California’s San Quentin State Prison, shared by those living it. Learn how the team is building an audio space at the California Institution for Women and expanding stories from inside prison and from the outside, post-incarceration. 📖 Read more at on.mellon.org/4fNWbcl
Ear Hustle's new audio space is just the first step in a bigger plan
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"Dance is healing and spiritual, and I want every body to have access to that." 2024 Disability Futures Fellow Kayla Hamilton is a Bronx-based dancer, director, and educator. Learn about her new work exploring histories of Black disability, while imagining a liberated future. 📖 Read more at on.mellon.org/4fPshV7
Kayla Hamilton on Disability as Method and Access as Artistry
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Now a museum and cultural space, Hotel Metropolitan was the first Black-owned hotel in Paducah, Kentucky. The hotel provided a place of safety and refuge during racial segregation for guests such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, and Thurgood Marshall. The City of Paducah is a recipient of a $1.34 million Humanities in Place grant from the Mellon Foundation to support this museum of Black heritage in the US. 📖 Read more at on.mellon.org/3YKSvSw #MellonFoundation #GrantStory #HumanitiesInPlace #BlackBusinessMonth
The City of Paducah receives $1.34M grant to preserve the historic Hotel Metropolitan
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For more than 150 years, federally-funded schools separated Indigenous families and used brutal methods to try to assimilate Native children into white culture. A new oral history initiative is working to record the stories of still-living survivors and facilitate healing. Learn more about how the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition and the U.S. Department of the Interior are working towards empowering survivors and memorializing this period of American history at on.mellon.org/4dHMcmX 📷 courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration, Cumberland County Historical Society, and Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress
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Join us on September 5 for "Telling the American Story on Our Public Lands." RSVP for the free, virtual event at on.mellon.org/3M9pyIH Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior Deb Haaland joins Mellon Foundation President Elizabeth Alexander for a discussion about the reparative work Haaland leads on our #PublicLands, the charge of stewardship for racial and #EnvironmentalJustice, and the role of Interior in telling the American Story.
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Welcoming the 2024 National Dance Production Grantees Learn more about these artists' work to "embrace both an evolution and divergence of dance styles that speak to our current world events and hopes for the future."
20 new dance projects have been selected by the National Dance Project Advisors from a two-stage application process that centers artistic prowess, community partnerships, and social impact. Congratulations to the 2024 National Dance Project Production Grantees! The National Dance Project is made possible with lead funding from DORIS DUKE FOUNDATION INC and the Mellon Foundation, with funding for special initiatives from the Aliad Fund at The Boston Foundation.
National Dance Project Grantees Stretch Artistic Possibilities and Center Humanity | NEFA
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On this #NationalRadioDay, explore The HBCU Radio Preservation Project. “Nearly a third of Historically Black Colleges and Universities have radio stations, and many went on the air during the Civil Rights era, fifty or more years ago,” says Project Coordinator Jocelyn Robinson. “Much of the material created at these stations during the struggle for equality and beyond is now at risk." The Miami Valley Public Media station received $5 million from the Mellon Foundation to support the preservation of these #HBCU audio collections. 📖 Read more at on.mellon.org/46WMLra
HBCU Radio Preservation Project receives $5 million grant from the Mellon Foundation
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