• Search

Grants Awarded Spring 2024

Woven in Wool curatorial team. Seated, left to right: Chepximiya Siyam’ Chief Janice George, Tillie Jones, Buddy Joseph. Standing, left to right: Siseenaxalt Gail White Eagle, Bethany Palkovitz, Katie Bunn-Marcuse, Kelly Robinson, sa’hLa mitSa Susan Pavel, Bridget Johnson, Olive Keilholtz, Michelle Cohen, Roxanne Hockett, Rose Mathison, Ashley Verplank McClelland. Salish blanket of mountain-goat wool in foreground. Burke Museum, Nov. 3, 2023. Photo Credit Burke Museum/Timothy Kenney.

Art Design Chicago Grants Awarded Spring 2024

The "Chicago Sukkah Design Festival" is hosted at James Stone Freedom Square; landscape designed by Could Be Design and Nekita Thomas, working with Stone Temple Baptist Church. Photograph by Brian Griffin for the Chicago Sukkah Design Festival.

Letter from our President & CEO, Winter 2024

Big Soldier family (Iowa Tribe) reunited with their grandfather’s breechcloth at First Americans Museum, 2023 [NMAI 027462.000]. Photo by James Pepper Henry.

← →

The Terra Foundation fosters intercultural dialogues and encourages transformative practices to expand narratives of American art.

Our grant program, art collection, and initiatives support visual art projects engaged in reshaping how the story of American art is told.

Grant & Fellowship Opportunities

Announcements & Deadlines


  • A group of people sitting together smiling in front of a wool textile set on a table.

    Grants Awarded Spring 2024

    The Terra Foundation for American Art awarded 53 grants in spring 2024, totaling nearly $3.8 million of support for projects that broaden understandings of American art. Grants awarded include support for strategic initiatives, exhibitions, and Art Design Chicago. 
    Learn More
  • Collage image of Church and exterior mural beneath towers (top left); William Walker, 1972 (top right); close-up of the exterior mural.

    Art Design Chicago Grants Awarded Spring 2024

    The Terra Foundation for American Art awarded 22 grants in spring 2024 through its Art Design Chicago initiative. Totaling nearly $820,000, these grants support projects that highlight Chicago’s unique artistic heritage and its creative communities.
    Learn More
← →

Terra Foundation Collection

The Terra Foundation collection of American art includes over 750 paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, and sculptures by 242 artists.

 
View the Collection  Loans

Stay connected

Receive news about grant opportunities, collection projects, and partner features.

News


From left to right: Stephanie Harris; Amina Dickerson; Ric Estrada.
Terra Foundation Adds Ricardo Estrada to Board of Directors, Stephanie Harris Elected Chair, Amina Dickerson Elected Vice Chair
December 4, 2023
Read More
Read More
A group of people looking at a painting on a wall as they walk by at an exhibition.
Terra Foundation Launches Art Design Chicago: A Citywide Event And Exhibition Series
November 3, 2023
Read More
Read More
Headshots, clockwise from top left, of Kaywin Feldman, Henry P. Johnson, Catherine Sarr, Victoria Rogers
Terra Foundation adds Kaywin Feldman, Henry P. Johnson, Victoria Rogers, and Catherine Sarr to Board of Directors
May 3, 2023
Read More
Read More