Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, Maine, to support In the Shadow of the Eagle, an exhibition timed to align with the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence that reveals Indigenous Americans’ ongoing, complicated, relationship to American democracy, $75,000
Albuquerque Museum Foundation, Albuquerque, New Mexico, to support Delilah Montoya: Reclaiming Chicano Narratives through Art and Activism, a retrospective exhibition with more than 100 works to be held in Albuquerque, where the artist went to school and one of the cities in which she resides, $150,000
American Federation of Arts, New York, New York, to support Willie Birch: Stories to Tell, the first career retrospective and national tour for the New Orleans–based artist, $100,000
Art, Design & Architecture Museum, Santa Barbara, California, to support Tiffany Chung: indelible traces, the first comprehensive museum survey of the Vietnamese American artist, $150,000
Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California, to support my hands are monsters who believe in magic, a group exhibition that features works by cross-generational American artists from the Asian diaspora, $50,000
ASU Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona, to support Carmen Lomas Garza: Picturing the Familiar, the first large-scale exhibition since 2001 dedicated to the artist, activist, and educator, $150,000
August Wilson African American Cultural Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to support August Moon for August Wilson by Ming Smith, featuring a suite of Smith’s photographs that have never been seen together in Pittsburgh, $100,000
Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, to support Joi T. Arcand: kā-isinākwahki itwēwina: The Shape of Words, the artist’s first major solo exhibition in Ottawa, and her largest to date, $72,500
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to support Black Photojournalism, the first comprehensive traveling exhibition considering the work of Black photojournalists active in the United States in the period stretching from the end of World War II through the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s and Jesse Jackson’s run for president in 1984, $200,000
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, to support Paris Noir, an exhibition that brings together works of 150 artists who are Black and/or part of the African diaspora—from Africa, the Caribbean, South and North America—and who are still widely overlooked in France, $250,000
Clark Atlanta University Art Galleries, Atlanta, Georgia, to support the development of Walk Together Children: The Legacy of Jewel W. Simon, a retrospective whose aim is to highlight Simon’s career, $29,000
Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina, to support Rodney McMillian: A Son of the Soil, a major solo exhibition featuring the Columbia-born artist’s work across media, including painting, sculpture, and film, $125,000
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, to support Cara Romero: Panûpünüwügai (Living Light), the artist’s first major solo exhibition, which explores the narrative artistic practice of the Chemehuevi photographer, $200,000
David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, Illinois, to support Theaster Gates: Unto Thee (working title), a mid-career survey of the artist and the first major museum presentation in his hometown of Chicago, $200,000
Dia Art Foundation, New York, New York, to support a survey exhibition of work by Renée Green, the first major New York museum exhibition dedicated to her practice and curated in close collaboration with the artist, $100,000
Great Plains Art Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska, to support Reflections of Our People, Our Ways, Our Land, a project that brings together 20 Otoe-Missouria artists working in multiple genres to co-create an exhibition focused on healing, reconciliation, and reconnecting to the land of their ancestors in southeast Nebraska, $75,000
Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany, to support Beverly Buchanan: Weathering (working title), the artist’s first survey exhibition in Germany, bringing together works from all periods of her important yet overlooked oeuvre, $125,000
Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York, to support The Sculpture of Emma Stebbins, an exhibition that will be the first to recognize Stebbins as one of the most significant American sculptors of the nineteenth century and includes nearly all of her 17 extant marble sculptures, many on view for the first time in a century, $150,000
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, to support planning, research, and development for Isamu Noguchi: “I am not a designer,” a project that seeks to problematize the artist’s declaration and expand the understanding of his diverse creative practice by focusing on the myriad design disciplines that Noguchi engaged with, $75,000
Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii, to support the development of Noguchi + Hawaiʻi, an exhibition that includes Noguchi’s studio works, public art commissions, maquettes, drawings, and archival materials in dialogue with seven modern and contemporary artists of Hawaii, $75,000
Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to support Mavis Pusey: Mobile Images (working title), the artist’s first solo museum exhibition, co-organized with the Studio Museum in Harlem, $200,000
Institute of the Arts and Sciences, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, to support the development of Constelações: Visualizing Abolition from Brazil to the United States, an exhibition and programming initiative by organizers, curators, and artists in Brazil and the United States to creatively engage audiences in the shared issues around prisons and inequality in both countries, $75,000
Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, Los Angeles, California, to support Hirokazu Kosaka: Art & Asymmetry, a project that contextualizes the evolution of Kosaka’s artmaking, from visual, sound, landscape, and solo body experiments of the early 1970s to his current large-scale collaborative projects that seamlessly incorporate contemporary Western art concepts with traditional Japanese art forms and Shingon Buddhism, $100,000
The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Foundation, Sarasota, Florida, to support Ancestral Edge: Abstraction and Symbolism in Contemporary Native Craft (working title), a group exhibition of Native American abstract art rooted in the tradition of craft, $50,000
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Montreal, Canada, to support History is Painted by the Victors (working title), an exhibition of Kent Monkman’s large-scale history paintings of peoples and territories that have directly shaped the Turtle Island (North America) of today, reinforcing his credo that “History Painting” is a relevant contemporary genre, $200,000
Musée Picasso Paris, Paris, France, to support the development of Harlem Renaissance (working title), an exhibition showcasing major figures of the Harlem Renaissance from the literary, artistic, and social realms, $75,000
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, to support the development of Photography and Abolition in the “Age of Pictures” (working title), an exhibition highlighting the various ways photography and the abolitionist movement coalesced in the 1830s–1860s to further the cause of antislavery and wage the struggle for social justice, $66,000
Onsite Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, to support Rosalie Favell: Belonging. A Photographic Series Retrospective (1983–2023), the first major retrospective of the Métis artist’s photographic work, $50,000
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to support Edward Mitchell Bannister: A Black Artist in 19th-Century New England (working title), the first major retrospective of the artist who lived in Boston and Providence for 50 years, $125,000
The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Collegeville, Pennsylvania, to support Mark Thomas Gibson: Overture, an exhibition that presents several new works by the Philadelphia-based artist and a selection of collages from the Town Crier series, $125,000
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., to support Vivian Browne: My Kind of Protest, the first museum retrospective of Browne’s work, co-organized with the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, $150,000
Print Center New York, New York, New York, to support Printing Black America: Reimagining Du Bois’ Data Portraits in the 21st Century, a project that revisits W.E.B. Du Bois’ Data Portraits or data visualizations/infographics that offered a view into the lives of African Americans after three decades of Emancipation, $50,000
The Reach Gallery Museum, Abbotsford, Canada, to support Parallax: Reimagining the Canada-US Border, a collaboratively curated exhibition that presents the plural history of the demarcation of the western Canada-US border along the 49th parallel, $200,000
Rowan University Foundation, Inc. on behalf of Rowan University Art Gallery & Museum, Glassboro, New Jersey, to support Persistence of Vision: Decades of Activist Art by former Black Panther Artists, an exhibition that converges the artistic legacy and ongoing contributions of four former members of the Black Panther Party (Emory Douglas, Gayle Dickinson, Akinsanya Kambon, Malik Edwards), shedding light on the role of art in fostering a radical imagination and cultivating activist practices, $30,000
Städtisches Museum Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, to support Indigenous Momentos from the Time of the American Revolution in Germany, an exhibition featuring some 80 North American Indigenous works drawn primarily from German collections, $150,000
Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block, Tucson, Arizona, to support Ya Hecho: Readymade in the Borderlands, an exhibition that highlights new and recent work by 17 contemporary artists from both sides of the US-Mexico border, $50,000
UCR ARTS, Riverside, California, to support Transgresoras: Mail Art and Messages, 1960s–2020s, an exhibition that investigates artworks made and exchanged by an intergenerational group of more than 30 Latinx and Latin American women-identifying artists, $125,000
Vincent Price Art Museum, Monterey Park, California, to support Ofelia Esparza: A Retrospective, an exhibition that celebrates the artistic and cultural contributions of the artist and altarista, $125,000
