CULTURE CREATIVITY
& CARE INITIATIVE
AT MARCUS GARVEY PARK
The Culture, Creativity, & Care Initiative at Marcus Garvey Park is a two-year project that is amplifying Harlem’s rich history and cultures with programming and installations centered around food, culture, and visual and performing arts. Within the Mellon Foundation’s Humanities in Place Initiative, Harlem Grown and our partners are fostering creativity and care in this essential public space at the heart of New York’s Harlem community!
Check out our events calendar below!
Click below to be a part of the Culture, Creativity & Care Initiative
“Our work is a community effort and never stops at food; we are thrilled to find new ways to uplift the voices of past and present Harlem.”
Tony Hillery, Founder and CEO
Harlem Grown
VISUAL ARTS
PERFORMING ARTS
LIBERAL ARTS & CULTURE
FOOD PROGRAMMING WITH HARLEM GROWN’S
MOBILE TEACHING KITCHEN
Images represent possible events, activities, activations, and installations that could be funded by the Initiative.
About The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is the nation’s largest supporter of the arts and humanities. Since 1969, the Foundation has been guided by its core belief that the humanities and arts are essential to human understanding. The Foundation believes that the arts and humanities are where we express our complex humanity, and that everyone deserves the beauty, transcendence, and freedom that can be found there. Through our grants, we seek to build just communities enriched by meaning and empowered by critical thinking, where ideas and imagination can thrive. Learn more at www.mellon.org.