The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is a nonprofit corporation governed by the laws of the State of New York. It was founded on the 30th of June 1969 through the consolidation of Avalon Foundation and Old Dominion Foundation.
Currently, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is making grants in five core program areas: Higher Education and Scholarship; Scholarly Communications and Information Technology; Art History, Conservation, and Museums; Performing Arts; and, Conservation and the Environment.
The foundation's philosophy is to build, strengthen, and sustain institutions and thier core capacities.
In recognition of the changing field of contemporary art conservation, the Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU will implement a high caliber program in time-based media (TBM) art...more
Ohio Wesleyan University has received a $150,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support “enhancing interdisciplinarity” – an initiative by OWU professors to create classes that...more
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grants include $1 million as part of the Engage Humanities Initiative over 4 1/2 years. It will be used to teach and mentor undergraduates to explore and conduct...more
The University of Illinois at Chicago has been awarded two grants totaling nearly $1.9 million to expand undergraduate research in the humanities and to aid doctoral candidates in Latino humanities...more
CHICAGO (AP) — The University of Illinois at Chicago has been awarded two grants totaling nearly $1.9 million to expand undergraduate research in the humanities and to aid doctoral candidates in...more
NEW YORK CITY: Theatre Communications Group has named the 11 recipients of the latest round of its Global Connections grants, which encourages cultural exchange. The grants, supported by the Andrew...more
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a more than $2 million grant to The University of Texas at El Paso and El Paso Community College (EPCC) to ... The possibilities for connections within the...more
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a more than $2 million grant to The University of Texas at El Paso and El Paso Community College (EPCC) to establish The Humanities Collaborative. UTEP...more
... and music scholar Matthew Morrison of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, who will discuss his work about racial identity relating to the sound of American popular music. The national...more
South Arts, a nonprofit regional arts organization based in Atlanta, has received a $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the National Coalition for Arts' Preparedness and...more
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