Multivocality

How do we expand our “we”?

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Team members from the Asian Arts Initiative, a multidisciplinary arts center located in Philadelphia’s Chinatown North. Photo: Alexander Saladrigas for Mellon Foundation

At Mellon, we believe in the power of many voices and many discourses. The inclusion of untold experiences ensures that the narratives we hear are not only accessible but accurate and genuinely complete.

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South Asian American Digital Archive
Sharing Personal Stories from South Asian Communities
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Julián Zugazagoitia
Director and CEO, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

One of the things about this very intentional work … is that notion of only one right answer—especially in the arts—is non-existent.

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Reckoning with the Devastating Legacy of Federal Indian Boarding School Policies

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