Climate Museum Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post and Pre-Doctoral Fellowships
Posted: 1/4/2020 (Funding)
The Climate Museum has been awarded a generous grant by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support its work in public engagement with the climate crisis. The grant, in the amount of $500,000 over a 2-year period, establishes Pre-Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Fellowships focused on climate and inequality within a humanities framework. The Fellows will work with the Climate Museum’s staff and partners to create interdisciplinary public programs, including exhibition content, highlighting climate and justice.
“Climate change sharply intensifies social inequalities. Just as the Pentagon describes the crisis as a ‘threat multiplier,’ it is also an inequality multiplier. We are deeply grateful to the Mellon Foundation for its generosity and vision in supporting public engagement and outreach on this crux issue,” says Miranda Massie, the Museum’s Director.
“With this grant, the Mellon Foundation has greatly enhanced our capacity and our expertise, particularly in the humanities, and thus our ability to provide the highest quality of interdisciplinary programming. Museums have great transformative potential because they are so popular and so trusted. This grant harnesses that potential on the most critical challenge we face, the climate crisis,” says Peter S. Knight, Climate Museum Board Chair.
The Fellowships will start in August 2020 and run for two years. For further information:
About the Climate Museum
The Climate Museum’s mission is to inspire action on the climate crisis with programming across the arts and sciences that deepens understanding, builds connections, and advances just solutions. Most people in the US are worried about the climate crisis, but silent and inactive. Building on the popularity and trust held by museums, we bring people together to learn about solutions and join the fight for a brighter future, providing multiple pathways into civic engagement. The Climate Museum received a provisional museum charter from New York State in 2015 and has been presenting public programming for two years. Additional information is available at climatemuseum.org.
Deadline: 03/15/2020