One of the last remaining fresco murals by artist Luis Quintanilla has been restored in Kansas City, MO. Mellon awarded the University of Missouri-Kansas City a $4M grant to restore and preserve 16 historic sites, including the Quintanilla murals.
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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 guided by critical thinking, where ideas and imagination can thrive.
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We are proud to join this dynamic group of peers in launching #HumanityAI, a broad coalition uniting to shape a future for AI where people come first. Learn more about the initiative at https://humanityai.ai/ Doris Duke Foundation, Ford Foundation, Lumina Foundation, Kapor Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Mozilla, Omidyar Network, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Siegel Family Endowment
We are proud to join several of our philanthropic peers in launching #HumanityAI, a broad coalition uniting to shape a future for AI where people come first. We know AI will have far-reaching impacts, affecting every community our sector supports and every issue we’re working to address. As leaders and institutions committed to serving the public good and working to meet the needs of humanity, we are meeting this moment with the urgency required to ensure people have a stake in the future of this technology. “Every day, people learn more about the ways AI is impacting their lives, and it can often feel like this technology is happening to us rather than with us and for us,” says our President, John Palfrey. Now is the moment to put people at the center of AI. Learn more about this growing community of peers, leaders, and organizations committed to a people-centered future with AI ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/gNf2wcBN
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The Osage Nation Historic Preservation Office announces the reacquisition of Sugarloaf Mound, the last remaining Native American mound in St. Louis and the city’s oldest known human-made structure. With a $380K grant from Mellon, the St. Louis-based arts organization Counterpublic helped negotiate the official transfer back to the Osage Nation.
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📣 Applications for the 2026 cohort of Next Jazz Legacy are now open through October 31, 2025. Created by New Music USA and Berklee College of Music's Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice, with funding from Mellon, the program supports emerging jazz musicians.
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Mellon Foundation awards a $300,000 grant to The Latino Newsletter to expand its San Juan bureau and produce a bilingual podcast series exploring Puerto Rico's history. “The Latino Newsletter was built so our communities aren’t a footnote to the story but set the terms of it,” says Julio Ricardo Varela, Founder and Publisher/Executive Director.
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October is #AmericanArchivesMonth. Until recently, there were few ways of accessing the troves of public media materials that helped shape our national identity. Hours of public radio and TV programs remained locked away—and at risk of deterioration. The American Archive of Public Broadcasting changed that. The Archive works to digitize public media programs from stations across the country, making them accessible to the public at large. 📖 Read more at on.mellon.org/4egHzBF
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With support from Mellon, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival announces the participants of the 2025-2026 Pillow Lab, a choreographic residency program. This cohort of dance artists includes Grisha Coleman, Marjani Forté-Saunders, Jerron Herman and Candace L. Feldman, A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, mayfield brooks, Reggie Wilson / Fist and Heel Performance Group, and slowdanger.
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Mellon Foundation has awarded a $765,000 grant to UNC University Libraries to develop best practices for using AI in archival work. The "On the Books" initiative aims to apply new technologies to improve access to archives related to groups historically underrepresented in institutional collections.
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Academics are getting funding to study something completely different. Since 2022, Mellon’s New Directions Fellowship has supported humanities scholars ready to take intellectual risks—by pursuing formal training in an entirely different academic discipline. Most academics understand that the world’s urgent questions demand insights from across disciplines. Yet, for many already far into their careers, returning to the classroom is rarely feasible. The New Directions Fellowship changes that. Whether grappling with the implications of new technology or conducting field research across the globe, each project is driven by a desire to bridge disciplinary boundaries and reimagine what humanistic research can be.
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The New York Historical opens a new exhibit, "The New York Sari: A Journey Through Tradition, Fashion, and Identity." The show was curated by Salonee Bhaman, #Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Women’s History and Public History, along with Anna Danziger Halperin, director of the Center for Women’s History.