Terra Foundation for American Art

Meet Alba Campo Rosillo:
2021–22 Terra Foundation
Research Fellow in American Art

Grants Awarded March 2022

Discovering hidden histories: Spreadsheets, Datasets, and other Unfancy Digital Methods

Chicago Avant-Garde:
An Interview with Curator
Liesl Olson

Devour the Land:
An Interview with Curator Makeda Djata Best

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The Terra Foundation is dedicated to fostering exploration, understanding, and enjoyment of the visual arts of the US for national and international audiences.

Our grant program, art collection, and initiatives encourage dialogue among many voices on American art.

Grant & Fellowship Opportunities

Announcements & Deadlines

Collections Grants: Letters of Inquiry Due August 1, 2022

Terra Foundation Collections Grants provide support for organizations to reinterpret and re-present their collections through reinstallations or temporary exhibitions drawn from their permanent collections.
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Art Design Chicago Exhibition Grants: Letters of Inquiry Due August 3, 2022

Art Design Chicago is a platform for collaboration that fosters the investigation and elevation of Chicago’s rich visual art and design histories and creative communities.
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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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News

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