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TERRA FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN ART AWARDS MORE THAN $1.8 MILLION IN ITS FALL 2011 QUARTER
Tuesday, November 15, 2011(Chicago, Illinois)—The Terra Foundation for American Art awards $1,864,020 for 17 grants, initiatives, and partnerships, which include: support for the 2012–2013 exhibition Claes Oldenburg, a comprehensive overview of Oldenburg's oeuvre from the late-1950s to the present that will travel from Vienna to Cologne to Bilbao; support for three years of funding for the annual Terra Foundation Lecture on American Art at the Chicago Humanities Festival; and support for a series of annual presentations of American art jointly organized by the High Museum of Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Musée du Louvre, and Terra Foundation for American Art, the first of which will be Encounters with American Art: Thomas Cole. Funds are awarded quarterly; visit terraamericanart.org/grants for a comprehensive list of projects supported by the foundation to date.
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Announcing the 2012 Terra Foundation Academic Grants and Awards in American Art
Wednesday, October 26, 2011The Terra Foundation supports a variety of annual awards in American art, including an essay prize, travel grants, residential fellowships, and others.
Terra Foundation for American Art Seeks a Communication and Web Manager
Tuesday, October 11, 2011The Terra Foundation for American Art seeks a Communication and Web Manager to develop and implement a global communications strategy and web presence that will advance the Foundation's identity and broaden awareness of its programs and impact. The Communication and Web Manager, based in Chicago, would develop, oversee, and implement an integrated foundation-wide communication and digital-media plan in both offices and manage the website.
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TERRA FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN ART AWARDS MORE THAN $3.1 MILLION IN ITS SPRING AND SUMMER 2011 QUARTERS
Friday, September 16, 2011(Chicago, Illinois)—The Terra Foundation for American Art awards $3,191,430 for 27 grants, initiatives, and partnerships, which include: funding for an exhibition co-organized by the Hirshhorn Museum and the Centre Pompidou that examines surrealist sculpture from the movement's inception in the 1920s through the 1980s; support for an international conference on Winold Reiss at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies in Berlin; an award for a three-part lecture series on historical American art at the Art Institute of Chicago; and continued support for the annual Terra Summer Residency, which will be open to scholars and artists worldwide in 2012. Funds are awarded quarterly; visit www.terraamericanart.org/grants for a comprehensive list of projects supported by the foundation to date.
ANNOUNCING NEW PUBLICATION GRANTS
Thursday, June 30, 2011The Terra Foundation for American Art is pleased to announce a new area of funding: Publication Grants. These grants will provide support for publication projects on historical American art (circa 1500 to 1980) that make a significant contribution to scholarship and have an international dimension. The grants are designed to advance and internationalize scholarship on American art and provide individuals outside the United States with greater access to resources in the field.
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Announcing Terra Foundation Fellowship and Award Recipients
Tuesday, June 21, 2011Congratulations to the individuals who were chosen for this round of Terra Foundation fellowships and awards.
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Winner of the 2011 Terra Foundation for American Art International Essay Prize Announced
Thursday, April 21, 2011(Washington, D.C.)—Alex J. Taylor has been awarded the Smithsonian American Art Museum's 2011 Terra Foundation for American Art International Essay Prize.
Archives of American Art Receives Second Multimillion Dollar Grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art to Support Digitization Project
Thursday, April 7, 2011The Terra Foundation for American Art has awarded a $3 million grant to the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art to support another five years of the Archives' digitization project and to fund a new position that will create and oversee related online scholarly and educational outreach initiatives.
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TERRA FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN ART AWARDS MORE THAN $ 3.8 MILLION IN ITS WINTER 2011 QUARTER
Thursday, March 31, 2011The Terra Foundation for American Art awards $3,880,154 for seven grants, initiatives, and partnerships, which include: a multi-million dollar award to the Archives of American Art for the continued digitization of its collections; the loan of the Terra Foundation's newly conserved Gallery of the Louvre by Samuel F. B. Morse for two special exhibitions; and funding to continue the Terra Foundation's professional-development program for Chicago Public Schools teachers.
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The National Gallery and the Terra Foundation for American Art: An American Experiment
Friday, December 31, 2010The National Gallery and the Terra Foundation for American Art are collaborating to bring historical masterworks from the United States to audiences in London through a series of focused exhibitions that will be presented over the next several years.
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Terra Foundation for American Art Announces New Grant Opportunities
Monday, December 6, 2010To encourage and enrich international partnerships between art museums and to enable curators outside the United States both to learn more about historical American art and to develop exhibitions of American art at their home institutions, the Terra Foundation for American Art now offers two types of Exhibition Research and Development Grants: Convening Grants for Internationally Collaborative Exhibitions and Curatorial Travel Grants to the United States.
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Terra Foundation for American Art Announces New Chair and Members of the Board of Directors
Thursday, November 18, 2010(Chicago, Illinois)—The Terra Foundation for American Art announces a new chair and the addition of five new members of the Board of Directors. Elected for a four-year term, the following individuals were selected for their extensive experience in American art scholarship and collecting, museum leadership, education, and finance.
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Terra Foundation for American Art Awards Grants in Excess of $ 2.5 Million
Thursday, November 18, 2010(Chicago, Illinois)—The Terra Foundation for American Art announces the following recipients of grants totaling $2,512,355:
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Winner of the 2010 Terra Foundation for American Art International Essay Prize Announced
Tuesday, July 20, 2010(Washington, D.C.)—Sergio Cortesini of the University of Cassino in Italy has been awarded the Smithsonian American Art Museum's 2010 Terra Foundation for American Art International Essay Prize.
THE TERRA FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN ART AWARDS GRANTS IN EXCESS OF $1.2 MILLION
Wednesday, July 14, 2010(Chicago, Illinois)— The Terra Foundation for American Art announces the following recipients of Terra Foundation grants totaling $1,267,300:
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THE TERRA FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN ART AWARDS GRANTS IN EXCESS OF $2.3 MILLION
Saturday, May 1, 2010(Chicago, Illinois)— The Terra Foundation for American Art announces the following recipients of Terra Foundation grants totaling $2,335,550:
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