Mellon’s Humanities in Place team stands outside Sylvester Manor Educational Farm on Shelter Island in Long Island, New York.

A group of five people stand outside in front of a historic manor. 

Artist and Humanities in Place grantee Derrick Adams addresses guests at The Last Resort Artist Retreat in the Waverly neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. Photo: Alyssa Schukar for Mellon Foundation

A Black artist stands outside a restored house and addresses a group of visitors.

Natural dye materials used in Kenya Miles’s artist practice are displayed on a Humanities in Place and Office of the President trip to Blue Light Junction in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Mellon’s Humanities in Place team visits with Donnamarie Barnes, director of history and heritage at Sylvester Manor Educational Farm, on Shelter Island in Long Island, New York in August 2022.

A historical home docent gestures to artworks hanging on a wall that is adorned with decorative wallpaper. 

Humanities in Place

Funding Tomorrow’s Public Square

Artists as Catalysts

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Beyond Incarceration

A side profile of a Black poet who is wearing glasses and a hat with a feather hat pin.

Borderlands Cultures

In portrait orientation, an aerial view of a major highway running parallel to a large border wall set on a hilly landscape

Civic Engagement

A man in a brown jacket stands in front of blue bulletin board that is covered with papers and advertisements  

Evolving Higher Education

A vertical image of an Indigenous person who is sitting on a chair in front of a backdrop.

Expanding Public Knowledge

An interior room filled with audio and video equipment 

Monuments and Memory

A multicolored painted totem pole set in front of a foggy forest landscape

Multivocality

Five people stand together in a group photo. They are laughing and smiling.

Power of the Word

Five colorful neon signs hang on the wall with messages that include, "Freedom cannot wait," "Brown owned," and "America is for Dreamers."

Public Places‚ Public Stories

A group of Indigenous Maskoke people stand and sit in the wooden frame of a structure in a woods

Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

In a vertical image, a black leather vest is adorned with colorful pins across the front of it. Embroidery on the vest reads: "Felícitas "La Prieta" Méndez" 