Grants During Financial Year 2025

Art Design Chicago
6018 North
Chicago, IL
Myth of the Organic City Extension Activations
$20,000

American Indian Center
Chicago, IL
Unbroken: A Dance and Art Collaboration
$20,000

Anchor Graphics, Columbia College
Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Photography Community Engagement Sustainability and Advancement
$20,000

Arts + Public Life at the University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Never So Free Continued
$20,000

Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art
Evanston, IL
Woven Being Community Engagement Extension
$20,000

Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events
Chicago, IL
Creating in Community
$20,000

Chicago History Museum
Chicago, IL
West Side Memory Keepers Project: Stories for the Best Side
$20,000

Chicago Humanities Festival
Chicago, IL
Chicago Humanities: Pilsen Neighborhood Day 2025
$20,000

Design Museum of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Flag Feast: A–Z
$20,000

Englewood Arts Collective
Chicago, IL
Expanding the EAC Arts Village for the 2025 Englewood Music Festival
$20,000

Folded Map
Chicago, IL
Extending the Community Engagement Impact of unBLOCKED Englewood Arts Activation
$20,000

Gallery 400 at University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL
Building Connections between Schools, Teachers, and UIC Gallery 400
$20,000

Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum
Evanston, IL”
Reclaiming the Narrative: A Convening for Positive Representation of Great Lakes Indigenous Cultures in Museums
$20,000

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
Chicago, IL
Redline Services and Hull-House: Workshop and Sustainable Partnership
$20,000

Hyde Park Art Center
Chicago, IL
Hyde Park Art Center Public Programs and Community Engagement
$20,000

Illinois Humanities
Chicago, IL
A People’s Salon
$20,000

Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Chicago, IL
Intuit’s Community Engagement for ADC and Beyond
$20,000

Lawndale Pop-Up Spot
Chicago, IL
Reimagining 16th Street + Portal Project
$20,000

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Chicago, IL
Engagement Programming for the Exhibition City in a Garden: Queer Art and Activism in Chicago
$20,000

National Museum of Mexican Art
Chicago, IL
Expanding Accessibility at the National Museum of Mexican Art
$20,000

National Public Housing Museum
Chicago, IL
Still Learning
$20,000

The Newberry Library
Chicago, IL
Indigenous Chicago
$20,000

Puerto Rican Arts Alliance
Chicago, IL
La Mudanza Art Exhibition – Community Convenings
$20,000

Red Line Service Institute
Chicago, IL
Designing Belonging Community Engagement
$20,000

Sixty Inches From Center
Chicago, IL
Chicago Archives + Artists Project Advisory Council
$20,000

South Asia Institute
Chicago, IL
Chicago Immigrant Creatives Project
$20,000

South Side Community Art Center
Chicago, IL
South Side Community Art Center 2025 Collaborative Exhibitions & Programming
$20,000

South Side Community Art Center
Chicago, IL
Two Public Programs on Black Women Art Collecting and Charles White and Music
$60,000

David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art
Chicago, IL
Enriching Community Engagement through K-12 and Family Initiatives at the Smart Museum of Art
$20,000

Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
Chicago, IL
UIMA Artist-Led Learning
$20,000

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

Boscobel House and Gardens
Garrison, NY
Scenic Vistas: Landscape as Culture in Early New York (working title)
$50,000

Boston Athenaeum
Boston, MA
Allan Rohan Crite: Griot of Boston
$75,000

Chazen Museum of Art
Madison, WI
Chazen Museum of Art Permanent Collection Reinstallation
$75,000

Thomas Cole National Historic Site
Catskill, NY
Emily Cole: Art and Artistry
$75,000

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

Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum
New York, NY
Maker, User, Dreamer: Selections from the National Collection of Design (previously Play, Tweak, Repeat: Design at Cooper Hewitt)
$75,000

Denver Art Museum
Denver, CO
Traveling exhibition, From a Whisper to a Scream: Contemporary Indigenous Art from the Denver Art Museum
$75,000

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

Figge Art Museum
Davenport, IA
Re-envisioning American Art at the Figge Art Museum—Highlighting New Visions and New Voices (contemporary and historical) and Improving Accessibility and Interpretation for Visitors throughout the Permanent Galleries
$75,000

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

Indian Pueblo Cultural Center
Albuquerque, NM
Through Convenings and Tech Upgrades, the Pueblo Community Pottery Project to Enhance the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center’s Permanent Exhibit
$75,000

Laumeier Sculpture Park
Saint Louis, MO
Begin Again / 50 Years and Counting
$75,000

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

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

Museo de Ropa Étnica de México, A.C.
Valladolid, Mexico
Mundo Maya/Mexico Diverso: A permanent collection reinstallation of the Museo de Ropa Étnica de México, MUREM
$13,000

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

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

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

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

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

Black Lunch Table
Chicago, IL
Collective Recollections: Reflections on Black Creativity and Contemporary Art History Making
$25,000

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

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

Denver Art Museum
Denver, CO
Native Arts Symposium at the Denver Art Museum
$25,000

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

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

Forge Project
Ancram, NY
Confluence
$25,000

Franconia Sculpture Park
Shafer, MN
Two Eyed Site (formerly Future Ancestral Technologies)
$25,000

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

Inuit Art Foundation
Toronto, Canada
qinnirajaattuq/ripples: Making Waves in Inuit Art symposium
$25,000

Momus
Alexandria, VA
Momus Art Writers and Fellows Convening
$25,000

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

Native Arts and Cultures Foundation
Portland, OR
2025 NACF Convenings
$20,000

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Kansas City, MO
Exploring Perspectives in Native American Art Convening
$25,000

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

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

Portland Museum of Art
Portland, ME
Reflecting Forward: Learning from American Art Reinstallations
$25,000

Remai Modern
Saskatoon, Canada
Gathering the Great Plains
$25,000

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

Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery
Washington, DC
Asian American Art, Pasts and Futures
$25,000

The Speed Art Museum
Louisville, KY
Louisville’s Black Avant-Garde: 2025 Legacy Convening
$25,000

St. Croix Foundation for Community Development, Inc.
Christiansted, VA
Embodied Histories: Art, Archive, and Memory in the Virgin Islands
$25,000

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

University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR
Resurgence, Reparations, & Return: Restoring Indigenous Epistemologies in Northwest Arkansas’ Contemporary Art Practices & Scholarship
$25,000

University of Delaware
Newark, DE
Iconoclasm across the Americas
$25,000

Clark Atlanta University Art Galleries
Atlanta, GA
Walk Together Children: The Legacy of Jewel W. Simon
$29,000

High Museum of Art
Atlanta, GA
Planning, Research, and Development—Isamu Noguchi: “I am not a designer”
$75,000

Honolulu Museum of Art
Honolulu, HI
Noguchi + Hawaiʻi
$75,000

Institute of the Arts and Sciences, UC Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA
Constelações: Visualizing Abolition from Brazil to the United States
$75,000

Musée Picasso Paris
Paris, France
Harlem Renaissance (working title)
$75,000

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Kansas City, MO
Photography and Abolition in the “Age of Pictures” (working title)
$66,000