Arts and Culture
Frontera Culture Fund
Arts and Culture
Art and artists are essential to human connection.
Through our Arts and Culture program, Mellon celebrates the power of the arts to challenge, activate, and nourish the human spirit. We support exceptional creative practice, scholarship, and conservation practices while nurturing a representative and robust arts and culture ecosystem. We work with artists, curators, conservators, scholars, and organizations to ensure equitable access to excellent arts and cultural experiences and support approaches that place the arts and artists at the center of thriving, healthy communities.
How to apply
In our Arts and Culture program, grants are made to organizations that advance the Foundation’s charitable mission and strategic goals.
All grants made through this program result from invitations issued by Mellon to institutions with which staff have engaged in preliminary exchanges. Eligible institutions and organizations are working in support of communities and individual artists. Mellon does not make grants directly to individuals, although we do support regranting programs that benefit individuals.
Grantmaking in focus
Deana Haggag
Program Director, Arts & Culture
Program Director, Arts & Culture
“We remain deeply committed to the performing, visual, and literary arts and to supporting those who believe in the stirring and singular power of culture to deepen the meaning of our lives.”
Voice
The State of Nonprofit Theater in America Invites New Possibilities
Read the essay 
Stephanie Ybarra
Program Officer, Arts and Culture
Mellon Foundation
Our grantmaking is a catalyst for expression and ideas.
About our grantmaking process