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 DTA is a free, public archive of more than 10,000 digitized historical documents telling the histories of trans people.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
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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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Congratulations to the 2024 cohort of MacArthur Fellows! 🎉 Special shoutout to our friends of Mellon and Mellon Grantee partners: Jericho Brown, Juan Felipe Herrera, Jennifer L. Morgan, Ebony G. Patterson, Wendy Red Star, Shamel Pitts, and Alice Wong.
🎉 Meet the 2024 MacArthur Fellows! These 22 exceptionally creative individuals redefine their fields with imagination and intention. They shift how we connect to one another, through our shared history and our stories. #MacFellow The 2024 MacArthur Fellows are: 🌾 Loka Ashwood, sociologist 💻 Ruha Benjamin, transdisciplinary scholar and writer 🎤 Justin Vivian Bond, artist and performer 📝 Jericho Brown, poet 🎧 Tony Cokes, media artist 📱 Nicola Dell, computer and information scientist 🎻 Johnny Gandelsman, violinist and producer 🎥 Sterlin Harjo, filmmaker 📖 Juan Felipe Herrera, poet, educator, and writer 📚 Ling Ma, fiction writer 📜 Jennifer L. Morgan, historian 🦎 Martha Muñoz, evolutionary biologist 📓 Shailaja Paik, historian 🪲 Joseph Parker, evolutionary biologist 🎨 Ebony G. Patterson, multimedia artist 🩰 Shamel Pitts, dancer and choreographer 📷 Wendy Red Star, visual artist 🎒 Jason Reynolds, children’s and young adult writer ⚖️ Dorothy Roberts, legal scholar and public policy researcher 🪐 Keivan Stassun, science educator and astronomer 🐋 Benjamin Van Mooy, oceanographer ♿ Alice Wong, writer, editor, and disability justice activist Learn more about the Fellows and their work on our website: https://lnkd.in/gGEsYSJY
Meet the 2024 MacArthur Fellows!
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A $280K New Directions Fellowship from the Mellon Foundation supports the research of Brown University historian Lukas Rieppel and founder of the Center for American Indian Research and Native Studies Craig Howe. The research project seeks to illuminate overlooked histories of fossil extraction on Native American lands and center Indigenous culture within the broader context of US history.
Studying fossil extraction on Native lands and exploring the depths of untold histories
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The #Borderlands that transcend the boundaries of Mexico and the United States, plus sovereign Indigenous nations, are spaces of artistic invention, cultural renewal, and intermingled histories. How can we better understand and celebrate the intersection of the arts, culture, and social justice within Borderlands communities? Join us on Tuesday, October 22 at 4pm ET as Mellon Foundation President Elizabeth Alexander speaks with Julián Castro, chief executive officer of the Latino Community Foundation; Dr. Patrisia Gonzales, emeritus associate professor, University of Arizona and advisor to the Indigenous Alliance Without Borders; and Cristina Ibarra, filmmaker & co-founding director of Borderlands Studios. 🎟️ Register for the free, virtual Mellon event: on.mellon.org/47RbBZY ––––––––––––––– Las zonas fronterizas que trascienden los límites de México y de los Estados Unidos, y también de las naciones indígenas soberanas, son espacios de invención artística, renovación cultural e historias entrelazadas. ¿Cómo podemos entender y celebrar de mejor manera la intersección de las artes, la cultura y la justicia social dentro de las comunidades fronterizas? Únase a nosotros el martes 22 de octubre a las 4:00p.m., hora del este, cuando Elizabeth Alexander, presidenta de la Fundación Mellon, hable con Julián Castro, director ejecutivo de la Latino Community Foundation; la Dra. Patrisia Gonzales, profesora asociada emérita de la Universidad de Arizona y asesora de la Indigenous Alliance Without Borders, y Cristina Ibarra, cineasta y directora cofundadora de Borderlands Studios. 🎟️ Regístrese en el evento virtual gratuito de Mellon: on.mellon.org/47RbBZY
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#AmericanArchivesMonth reminds us that a full and rich cultural and scholarly record is essential to understanding who we are. Explore the multifaceted ways Mellon and its partners are working towards building a more complete archival record.
Expanding Public Knowledge | Preserving our Archives
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🎨 Spotlight On: Mundos de Mestizaje at the National Hispanic Cultural Center Created by New Mexico artist Frederico Vigil, Mundos de Mestizaje is a buon fresco that depicts over 3,000 years of Hispanic identity and history. At 4,000 square feet, it is the largest, concave fresco in the United States. Located in the Torreón on the campus of the National Hispanic Cultural Center (NHCC) in Albuquerque, NM, the fresco features over 220 images representing historical figures, artifacts, ideas, and writing systems. A Mellon grantee, NHCC is dedicated to the preservation, promotion, and advancement of Hispanic culture, arts, and humanities. Learn more at on.mellon.org/3MZ81Da 📷 Tira Howard, courtesy of National Hispanic Cultural Center #NationalHispanicHeritageMonth
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Mellon Foundation has awarded a $310K grant to support a community-based design that reimagines Van Cortlandt Park in Bronx, NY. “This project not only honors the untold stories of the Enslaved African people who shaped our park, but also exemplifies our commitment to creating a more inclusive and respectful space for our community,” said Van Cortlandt Park Alliance Board Chair Charlie Samboy.
Mellon Foundation grant awarded to “reimagine” Enslaved African Burial Ground in Van Cortlandt Park
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Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program: 36 Years and Counting Established in 1988 to address the barriers that result in the problem of underrepresentation in the faculty ranks of higher education, the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) is committed to supporting a diverse professoriate. Since then, MMUF has supported the following: ⭐ 1,200+ earned PhDs ⭐ 850+ college and university faculty ⭐ 500+ tenured or tenure track professors ⭐ 500+ undergraduate students annually Each year, Mellon partners with member colleges and universities to support students through mentoring, research support, programming, and student cohort building. As students across the country return to classrooms and campuses, visit mellon.org/mmuf to learn more about Mellon’s initiatives to support Higher Learning. 🎥 by Meerkat Media for Mellon Foundation #MellonFoundation #MMUF #BackToSchool #HigherEducation
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Book bans attempt to prohibit the exchange of ideas in the classroom and limit access to knowledge about our complex history in libraries. What vibrant knowledge and broader freedoms do we all stand to lose? This #BannedBooksWeek, revisit a conversation with Mellon Foundation President Dr. Elizabeth Alexander, former American Library Association President Emily Drabinski, Pantheon & Schocken Books VP and publisher Lisa Lucas, and professor and The New York Times columnist Tressie McMillan Cottom. 🎥 Watch the full program at on.mellon.org/3U4YxL1 🎨 Illustration by Jungho Lee for Mellon Foundation
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"As we fight for the right to read, we also fight for shelters from the storms: our libraries," says Emily Drabinski. This #BannedBooksWeek, revisit Drabinski's guest essay exploring the multiple ways libraries serve our communities and the consequences of censorship and book bans on our society.
Libraries are America’s Saving Spaces
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