Announcement! 📢 Mellon Foundation is excited to continue its partnership with Ford Foundation and United States Artists in supporting the Disability Futures Fellowship. Today, we announce the 2024 cohort of creatives who are working at the intersection of disability rights, the arts, and social justice at large. Join us in welcoming them to the #DisabilityFutures Fellows family! Learn more at on.mellon.org/3Y9G6Y2
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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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How do you tell the visual story of a city? 🎨 In 1970, the US Army Corps of Engineers approached visual artist Judith F. Baca to assist in “beautifying” an empty section of the LA River network. Baca co-founded The Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) and, over the course of five years, transformed the 2,754 ft stretch of concrete into an expansive mural. For Baca, the project was an opportunity to “recover the stories of those who were disappeared along with the river,” memorializing the people excluded from more dominant accounts of Los Angeles’s history. Read the full grant story and explore the interactive rendering of the mural ⟶ on.mellon.org/40oGukz 📷 Emily Shur for Mellon Foundation
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🏳️🌈 “To love who we love is a universal right,” says Mellon Foundation President Elizabeth Alexander. On June 28, 2024, the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center (SNMVC), a program of Pride Live , opened its doors to the public. Drawing a line from the past to the present, this historic unveiling commemorated the 55th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion on Christopher Street. Mellon joined artists, community members, and cultural leaders to celebrate the Grand Opening of the first LGBTQIA+ visitor center within the National Park Service. SNMVC will serve as a public space for multifaceted learning experiences about the Stonewall legacy and ongoing movement for equality. Learn more about our partners and Mellon’s commitment to supporting public projects that represent the complexity of American stories ⟶ on.mellon.org/3XNPQqG 📷 Photos courtesy of Getty Images and Pride Live
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“We are students first and foremost. We are able to collectively get all this history together and make context out of it, but we rely on our community for its history,” says Morris (Dino) Robinson, Jr , founder of Shorefront Legacy Center. After the City of Evanston, Illinois, passed path-breaking legislation in 2019 committing to local reparations, the community archive was tapped to help provide historical evidence of city practices and policies that had adversely impacted the Black community. Personal artifacts from community members and stewarded by Shorefront supported the legal basis for payments of $25,000 to Black residents who hold lineage in Evanston. https://lnkd.in/eMsThEgJ
The Nation's First Reparations Program, Grounded in Black History
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Congratulations to U.S. Latinx Art Forum and the newest cohort of Latinx Artist Fellows, a multigenerational group of artists whose compelling work spans many art forms. Since the fellowship was established in 2021, 60 artists based in the US and Puerto Rico have been awarded fellowships, and many have since participated in museum and gallery exhibitions, and now have works in museum collections. Supported by Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, and New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). https://lnkd.in/eJHhMbds
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Charles Gaines has been making art for more than half a century, but he’s never been as busy—and as visible—as he is now. https://lnkd.in/eTSDabEd
Charles Gaines, by the Numbers
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What can we learn from 60 years of public media? “History is cyclic. We’ve got a lot of the same social issues that we’ve had for the last forty years,” says Karen Cariani, director of GBH (@wbgh) Archives and project director of the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. https://lnkd.in/ePrahji8
Reel Talk: Saving America's Public Media Matters More Than You May Know
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Meet the archivists who are saving America’s media and stories of our shared past—one tape at a time. https://lnkd.in/eFCvffrJ
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What can we learn from 60 years of public media? “History is cyclic. We’ve got a lot of the same social issues that we’ve had for the last forty years,” says Karen Cariani, director of GBH (@wbgh) Archives and project director of the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. https://lnkd.in/ePrahji8
Reel Talk: Saving America's Public Media Matters More Than You May Know
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