Terra Foundation for American Art

Terra Foundation Report 2019–22

Grants Awarded November 2022

Terra Collection in Residence:
A New Approach to Loans and Partnerships

Grants Awarded June 2022

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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

Exhibition Grants: Letters of Inquiry Due March 10

Terra Foundation Exhibition Grants provide support for organizations to plan and present temporary exhibitions comprised primarily of loans.
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Art Design Chicago Grant Opportunities

Art Design Chicago is a platform for collaboration and exchange developed with cultural practitioners throughout Chicago. Letters of inquiry for Convening grants and Public Program grants are due December 7.
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Terra Foundation Collection

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

Painting of a telephone wires above a house.

Joseph Stella, Telegraph Poles with Buildings, 1917

Painting of an iceberg at sunset.

Frederic Edwin Church, The Iceberg, 1875

Painting of an Laotian boy wearing a red shirt.

Jamie Wyeth, Kalounna in Frogtown, 1986

Black and white lithograph of a spindle, draped fabric, and suggestions of a head.

Arshile Gorky, Mannikin, 1931

Abstract painting with four squares and three lines.

Albert Eugene Gallatin, Room Space, 1937–38

Painting of a boy and a cow, with buildings in the background and a black sky.

Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Boy with Cow, 1921

Painting of letters, newspapers, notebook, a feather, stamp, and other memorabilia held to a brown bulletin board by pinned, thin red tape.

John Frederick Peto, Old Time Letter Rack, 1894

Impressionist painting of a street scene in Paris. Two individuals and a dog are in the foreground, and a domed building is in the background. The sky is gray and cloudy.

Henry Ossawa Tanner, Les Invalides, Paris, 1896

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Terra Foundation for American Art Appoints Turry M. Flucker as Vice President of Collections and Partnerships, a Newly Created Position

June 16, 2022

Four headshots arranged in a square.

Terra Foundation adds Amina Dickerson, Eric T. McKissack, Ravi Saligram and Amanda Williams to Board of Directors

April 27, 2022

Painting that is primarily red vertical marking painted over an image underneath, which appears only as blue, yellow, and green marks beneath the red.

Terra Foundation Awards $2.5 Million to US Arts & Culture Organizations for Permanent Collection Projects

May 4, 2021