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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, commonly known as the Mellon Foundation, is a New York City-based private foundation with wealth accumulated by Andrew Mellon of the Mellon family of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [2] It is the product of the 1969 merger of the Avalon Foundation and the Old Dominion Foundation.
Thanks to Elizabeth Alexander, the Mellon has committed $500 million to preserve, relocate and generate discussion about monuments — and it's changing the nature of monuments.
In 2023, the Center completed a $3.5 million renovation project, protecting the farmhouse and other structures from deterioration. [9] That same year, it hosted an awards ceremony to celebrate the Center's reopening for public visitation. [10] In June 2024, the Center was awarded a $750,000 grant by the Mellon Foundation. [11]
Created by curators Paul Farber and Ken Lum [1] and Director of Research Laurie Allen, [2] [3] the project is notable for producing a number of works of public art around the city of Philadelphia, often in collaboration with other organizations. [4] In 2020, Mellon Foundation awarded Monument lab a three-year, $4 million grant to aid the Lab's ...
The foundation said its award to Richmond was the first ever grant to a municipal government from its Monuments Project, a $250 million funding commitment launched in 2020 that aims to reimagine ...
Marvin Dunn, one of Florida’s most esteemed historians, will broaden the scope of his “Teach the Truth” tours thanks to a $1.5 million grant courtesy of the Mellon Foundation. The funding ...
Beyond Granite: Pulling Together is the title of a contemporary art exhibition held on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., from August to September 2023.Organized by the Trust for the National Mall, the National Capital Planning Commission, and the National Park Service, and curated by the nonprofit Monument Lab, Pulling Together was the first curated outdoor art exhibition in the Mall's ...
Mellon Foundation has awarded Sheboygan's John Michael Kohler Arts Center a half-a-million-dollar general operations grant. Sheboygan’s John Michael Kohler Arts Center scores $500K Mellon ...