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US$25m funding to support arts on US-Mexico border

The Mellon Foundation, the US’s largest philanthropic organization devoted to the arts and humanities, has inaugurated a $25 million fund aimed at supporting arts organizations in the US-Mexico border region. The Frontera Culture Fund will offer flexible funding to artist-led projects, cultural organizations, and grassroots community groups in the US and Mexico, and will additionally “support Indigenous, binational, and Black networks that are facilitating regional and cross-border knowledge exchange and working to defend cultural rights.”






The Mellon Foundation, the US’s largest philanthropic organization devoted to the arts and humanities, has inaugurated a $25 million fund aimed at supporting arts organizations in the US-Mexico border region. The Frontera Culture Fund will offer flexible funding to artist-led projects, cultural organizations, and grassroots community groups in the US and Mexico, and will additionally “support Indigenous, binational, and Black networks that are facilitating regional and cross-border knowledge exchange and working to defend cultural rights.”

The initial cohort of thirty-two grantees includes twenty-four on the US side of the border and eight on the Mexico side. Recipients include the Chicano Park Museum and Cultural Center in San Diego, which will use the money to assess, conserve, catalogue, and digitize archives documenting the work of generations of Chicano artists and activists.

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US$25m funding to support arts on US-Mexico border

The Mellon Foundation, the US’s largest philanthropic organization devoted to the arts and humanities, has inaugurated a $25 million fund aimed at supporting arts organizations in the US-Mexico border region. The Frontera Culture Fund will offer flexible funding to artist-led projects, cultural organizations, and grassroots community groups in the US and Mexico, and will additionally “support Indigenous, binational, and Black networks that are facilitating regional and cross-border knowledge exchange and working to defend cultural rights.”






The Mellon Foundation, the US’s largest philanthropic organization devoted to the arts and humanities, has inaugurated a $25 million fund aimed at supporting arts organizations in the US-Mexico border region. The Frontera Culture Fund will offer flexible funding to artist-led projects, cultural organizations, and grassroots community groups in the US and Mexico, and will additionally “support Indigenous, binational, and Black networks that are facilitating regional and cross-border knowledge exchange and working to defend cultural rights.”

The initial cohort of thirty-two grantees includes twenty-four on the US side of the border and eight on the Mexico side. Recipients include the Chicano Park Museum and Cultural Center in San Diego, which will use the money to assess, conserve, catalogue, and digitize archives documenting the work of generations of Chicano artists and activists.

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