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

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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

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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.

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Humanities in Place

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Artists as Catalysts

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Beyond Incarceration

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Civic Engagement

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Evolving Higher Education

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Expanding Public Knowledge

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Monuments and Memory

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Multivocality

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Power of the Word

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Public Places‚ Public Stories

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Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

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University Everywhere

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