At the Mellon Foundation, Justin Garrett Moore, FAICP Connects Place and Memory. In the past four years, the Mellon Foundation Humanities in Place grant-making program has given more than $200 million for 263 grants, mainly in the United States. It was a grant from Humanities in Place that helped reopen the playwright August Wilson’s home in Pittsburgh, turning the backyard into an ADA-accessible public performance and gathering space and adding to an ongoing fellowship for early-career artists and playwrights. Another grantee, Ekvn-Yefolecv, an intentional community of Indigenous Maskoke people in Alabama, is building a new eco-lodge, or Vlahoke. The lodge will be a center for linguistic revitalization, cultural expression, ecological design, and regenerative agriculture, reconnecting the Maskoke people to their Alabama home, from which they were forcibly removed 180 years ago. 📝: Laura Raskin 📷: Ekvn-Yefolecv, courtesy Ekvn-Yefolecv https://lnkd.in/ecCg3YE7
