Grants Awarded Spring 2025

The Wing Luke Museum’s reinstallation Honoring Our Journey 2.0 is the first major rethinking of the collection since the opening of the refurbished 1910 East Kong Yick Building in 2008. The reinstallation reflects the range and complexity of the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) communities, featuring items in the collection related to arts, heritage, and culture as well as newly commissioned works. The installation is intended to help visitors develop a deeper understanding of their own AANHPI culture or encourage them to better grasp how AANHPI cultures are similar to their own and are part of the broader American story.

Kamahanahokulani Farrar, the Wing Luke Museum’s Interim Executive Director, said, “We are excited to enhance Honoring Our Journey 2.0 through our Community Advisory Committee, a process that incorporates multiple voices. This project ensures that our visitors experience innovative works by AANHPI artists and engage with examples from our collections that promote vibrant stories rooted in the heritage and culture of the more than twenty-six ethnicities.”

Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts’s Impressions Over Time: Two Decades of Print at the Blackburn Printmaking Workshop celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (RBPMW). The exhibition provides comprehensive insights into the workshop’s history, encompassing its signature programs, exhibitions, and the artists involved in the workshop’s community. The project is organized around three key themes: Early Foundation of The Printmaking workshop and Its Roots; Print Experimentation and Community-Model Spaces; and Continuing the Legacy of the workshop.

Essye Klempner, the Director of Programming and Partnerships at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, said, “Impressions Over Time: Two Decades of Print at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop celebrates the oldest-running community printshop in the United States. The exhibition traces the workshop’s earliest foundations in Blackburn’s community to its ongoing legacy as a hub for experimentation, collaboration, and community-building.”

Alongside the exhibition, a series of public programs brings together artists, printmakers, scholars, workshop members, and community partners to pay tribute to Blackburn’s impact on contemporary printmaking. Programs include free print workshops, a symposium featuring scholars, printshop elders, and practitioners, and screenings of The Only Thing That Lasts: An Oral History Project of Robert Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop.

The Archives of Women Artists Research & Exhibitions (AWARE) convening “Toward Feminist Perspectives of the Black Atlantic” brings together art historians, curators, researchers, and artists from across the US, Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin and South America to expand upon Paul Gilroy’s Black Atlantic framework through the insights of Black feminist perspectives. The convening explores how Black women and nonbinary artists address gender, race, and nationality within different contexts through art, history, and theory.

“Building on AWARE’s international programs, this transnational symposium—developed in collaboration with researchers and partner institutions—will convene scholars and curators whose work looks at the Black Atlantic through the lens of Black feminisms. The absence of archives, the exploration of understudied documents, and the creation of new references will be central issues,” said Carolina Hernández Muñoz, International Networking and Cultural Projects Coordinator at AWARE. “Our goal is to generate new knowledge and interpretive frameworks that reflect the diversity and complexity of art histories by amplifying the contributions of Black women to cultural and artistic life. Accessibility remains central to AWARE’s mission, which bridges research and public engagement in its wide dissemination of these perspectives. This symposium will center Black women artists from the Americas, the Caribbean, Europe, and Africa, emphasizing their interconnected histories and the need for exchange. The exchange of viewpoints and methodologies will not only enrich AWARE’s resources but extend to our partners and the broader-art historical field.”

For a list of all foundation grants awarded and for more information about these grants, visit the grants database.

Afield, Paris, France, AFIELD Forum: 2025, 2026, Publication, $50,000

Aichi Trienniale, Aichi, Japan, Aichi Triennale 2025, $50,000

Àkéte Art Foundation/ Lagos Biennial, Lagos, Nigeria, The Museum of Things Unseen (Lagos Biennial 5th Edition), $100,000

Allied Media Projects Inc., Detroit, Michigan, The Racial Imaginary Institute’s “For Real For Real: Between the Auto and Bio,” $50,000

Black Artists Archive, Detroit, Michigan, Physical and digital archive to preserve the legacies of Black artists from Detroit and the Midwest, $125,000

Black Trustee Alliance for Art Museums, New York, New York, general operating grant (2024–2026), $30,000

Center for Cultural Innovation, Los Angeles, California, LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund, $100,000

College Art Association, New York, New York, CAA 113th Annual Conference and CAA 114th Annual Conference, $40,000

Contemporary And (C&), Berlin, Germany, Language and Our Responsibility, $45,000

For Freedoms, New York, NY, Vision & Justice, $200,000

Museum of Vernacular Arts and Knowledge, Chicago, Illinois, New Art School Modality, $800,000

National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC, Amplifying Art and Culture Collections at NMAAHC: Revelation: The Universe of African American Abstraction, $200,000

Native American Art Studies Association, Phoenix, AZ, NAASA 2025, $75,000

The New School, New York, NY, The New School Orozco Mural Cycle Long-Term Preservation and Conservation Project, $125,000

New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), New York, New York, The Burns Halperin Report, $25,000

Racing Magpie, Rapid City, SD, Community Archiving Lab at Racing Magpie, $50,000

Rebuild Foundation, Chicago, Illinois, Rebuild Foundation planning grant, $125,000

The Recovery Plan, Florence, Italy, Setting the Table: for the Congress of Black Artists and Writers $125,000

Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK, “Art in a Time of Crisis” convening series, $93,700

Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town, South Africa, solo exhibitions by Cauleen Smith and Kambui Olujimi, $250,000

Boscobel House and Gardens, Garrison, New York, Scenic Vistas: Landscape as Culture in Early New York, $50,000

Boston Athenaeum, Boston, Massachusetts, Allan Rohan Crite: Neighborhood Liturgy, $75,000

Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin, Chazen Museum of Art permanent collection reinstallation, $75,000

Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Signs of the Americas, $75,000

Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, New York, Play, Tweak, Repeat: Design at Cooper Hewitt, $75,000

Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, From a Whisper to a Scream: Contemporary Indigenous Art from the DAM, $75,000

The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, New York, Impressions Over Time: Two Decades of Print at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, $75,000

Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa, re-envisioning American art at the Figge Art Museum, $75,000

Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, ORIGINAL PEOPLE: Indigenous Creativity in the American Southwest, $75,000

High Desert Museum, Bend, Oregon, Creating Together, $75,000

Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, project to enhance the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center’s permanent exhibit, $75,000

Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Missouri, Begin Again/50 Years and Counting, $75,000

Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, New York, New York, Not the Water, But the Wave: Traveling Exhibition, $75,000

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, Reimagining the Arts of the United States at LACMA, $75,000

McClung Museum of Natural History & Culture, Knoxville, Tennessee, planning and research for The Tennessee River, $74,000

Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, planning for the reinterpretation and reinstallation of the American Art Collection, $75,000

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee, Towards Liberation, $75,000

Museo de Ropa Étnica de México, A.C., Valladolid, Mexico, Mundo Maya/Mexico Diverso, $13,000

National Museum of the American Indian – DC, Washington, DC, Water’s Edge: The Art of Truman Lowe, $75,000

Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, New American Decorative Art Gallery planning, $75,000

Queens Museum, Queens, New York, About Us: A Community Reinstallation of the Collection at the Queens Museum, $75,000

Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill, New York, Emily Cole: Art & Artistry, $75,000

UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), Berkely, California, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings, $75,000

Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience, Seattle, Washington, Honoring Our Journey 2.0, $50,000

Americas Society, New York, New York, Women and Abstraction Across the Americas, $25,000

Art Papers, Atlanta, Georgia, National Arts Writing & Publishing Symposium, $25,000

Archives of Women Artists Research & Exhibitions (AWARE), Paris, France, Toward Feminist Perspectives of the Black Atlantic, $25,000

Blackfeet Community College, Browning, Montana, Cross-cultural Connections: The Niitsitapi, Winold Reiss, and Art—An International, $25,000

The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas, Ch’íná’itíh (Chinati) Intertribal Noise Symposium 2025, $18,000

El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas, Latinx Muralism Exchange: El Paso, TX and Los Angeles, CA, $20,000

First Light Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska, Curating the North 2025, $15,000

Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, Minnesota, “Two-Eyed Sight” symposium, $25,000

Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, New Constructions: A Symposium in Honor of Mavis Pusey, $25,000

National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture, Chicago, Illinois, Engage 2025, $25,000

Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, Portland, Oregon, 2025 NACF Convening, $20,000

Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois, Say It with Pictures: Black Photography, Chicago, and the Great Migration, $25,000

Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, MARS: A Reawakening, $25,000

Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West, Norman, Oklahoma, Belonging: Native American Art in Settler Contexts, $25,000

Tate, London, England, Inclusive Practice in the Art Museum: Writing for Audiences and Artists, $25,000

Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble Cedex, France, Terra Collection-in-Residence loan of Melvin Edwards, Good Friends in Chicago, $157,000