Foundation Report 2019–22: Grants Awarded FY2020

Fundação de Apoio à Universidade Federal de São Paulo
$25,000
São Paulo, Brazil
To support the 35th Comite International d’Histoire de I’Art World Congress, which aims to describe, reflect upon, and analyze different forms of migration in a concrete, historiographical, and theoretical way. Held at the Goethe Institut in São Paulo, the Congress is composed of 12 thematic sessions, one of which is a special session titled “Migration in the Americas,” where fifteen invited speakers reflect on the transit and exchange of artists, theories, methods, objects, artistic techniques, and so forth, across the Americas.

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts
$25,000
Stanford, CA
To support “Living for Change: Art, Aesthetics and Asian America,” a two-day public convening that aims to rethink and reimagine the historical and theoretical dimensions of Asian American art and aesthetics. Co-organized by the Cantor Center for Visual Arts and the Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University, this event brings together leading artists, performers, curators, and scholars for a broad conversation about the role of images in the past, present, and future of Asian Americans, and it also serves as the inaugural event of the Cantor Art Center’s Asian American Art Initiative.

John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Brown University
$23,000
Providence, RI
To support “Inheritance,” a scholarly symposium that convenes participants from a variety of disciplines to consider the intent and context of racialized representations in the arts, especially in the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The symposium seeks to understand the history of these artifacts, and to reflect on what to do with this inheritance, while convening speakers from different fields—including art history, contemporary art, law, tribal leadership, museums, and activism—to present on strategies that are being used to respond to concerns about these artworks in the present.

J. Paul Getty Trust Getty Research Institute
$25,000
Los Angeles, CA
To support an international workshop linked to the research project and online publication on Ed Ruscha’s “Streets of Los Angeles” at the Getty Research Institute. Through this workshop, 17 scholars from the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany work collaboratively to share innovative approaches to analyzing a recently digitized archive of 130,000 images of Los Angeles taken by Ed Ruscha since the 1960s.

Kingston University
$16,500
London, United Kingdom
To support “Moving Muybridge: A Transatlantic Dialogue,” a two-day program that brings together Eadweard Muybridge specialists to consider the significance of Kingston’s collection of the artist’s work, which is unveiled after five years in storage. The conference elucidates a more comprehensive and interconnected understanding of Muybridge’s work by focusing on the Kingston Collection in relation to major American collections of Muybridge to build international networks of Muybridge scholars and to plant seeds for future research projects.

Loughborough University
$25,000
Loughborough, United Kingdom
To support a symposium titled, “Rethinking the Histories and Legacies of New York Dada,” which brings together scholars, curators, and artists from the United Kingdom, United States, and Europe to examine the creative and intellectual distinctiveness of New York Dada, probing new idioms and ideas to which it gave rise.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
$44,260
New York, NY
To support a scholarly convening that will address the current opportunities and challenges of displaying and interpreting historical Indigenous North American collections in U.S., Canadian, and European museums. The program will include a panel discussion and a curatorial workshop, which will feature invited Native and non-Native academics and curators from various institutions.

Scottish Society for Art History
$7,500
Glasgow, Scotland
To support a study day titled “Scotland and North America,” organized by the Scottish Society for Art History in association with The Hunterian, University of Glasgow. The study day focuses on the topic of artistic exchange between Scotland and North America between the years of 1714 and 1946, and it consists of four sessions, focusing on the themes of transatlantic influences and networks, patronage and collecting, new research on individual artists, and art and education in Scotland and North America.

Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania
$20,900
Philadelphia, PA
To support “Translating Warhol,” a two-day symposium that considers the translations of Andy Warhol’s publications and speech and aims to offer new perspectives on the reception of Warhol abroad and on the transmission of art and ideas from one culture to another. The symposium brings together scholars from Europe and the United States to examine various translations of Warhol’s work as case studies of the complexity of cultural transmission.

Barnes Foundation
$125,000
Philadelphia, PA
To support Soutine/De Kooning, an exhibition that explores the affinities between the work of the Lithuanian artist Chaim Soutine and the Dutch American artist Willem de Kooning. Co-organized by the Musée de l’Orangerie and the Barnes Foundation, this show considers how the work of Soutine had a decisive influence on the development of de Kooning’s art, especially following Soutine’s posthumous retrospective held at The Museum of Modern Art in 1950, which the American artist studied at length. The exhibition travels to both co-organizing venues and is accompanied by both a French-language and an English-language catalogue.

Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive
$250,000
Berkeley, CA
To support Alison Knowles: A Retrospective, the first comprehensive retrospective of Alison Knowles, who has been producing a significant and understudied body of work since the early 1960s. Best known as a core member of Fluxus, her innovative experiments—from painting and printmaking to sculpture and installation, sound works, poetry, and artists’ books—have influenced contemporary art and artists for more than 50 years. The exhibition travels to Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (Norway) and is accompanied by an English-language catalogue.

Centre Pompidou
$150,000
Paris, France
To support Alice Neel: An Engaged Eye, an exhibition that highlights the political and social aspects of Alice Neel’s work, which engaged with injustices in American society, pinpointing inequalities motivated by discrimination based on race, gender, and sexual orientation. Featuring 75 paintings and drawings, the show is divided into two thematic parts: class struggle and gender struggle. A French-language catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
$25,000
Bentonville, AR
To support Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and Our Contemporary Moment, an exhibition co-organized by the Olana State Historic Site, the Thomas Cole National Historic Site, and Crystal Bridges. Examining the complex relationships between art, nature, and science through the lens of three nineteenth-century artists, the exhibition highlights the metaphorical pollination of ideas among artists and between artists and scientists, in the nineteenth century and today. The exhibition travels to the co-organizing venues, as well as to the Cummer Museum and Gardens and Reynolda House Museum of American Art, and it is accompanied by an English-language catalogue.

Denver Art Museum
$300,000
Denver, CO
To support Indian Power: Reframing America through Indigenous Art, a collaboratively organized exhibition between curators at the Denver Art Museum and the exhibition’s exhibiting venue, National Palace Museum, Southern Branch (Taiwan). The exhibition features 80 works by American Indian artists and introduces audiences to the ways in which American Indian artists have challenged and shaped the ways their arts and cultures have been viewed. The exhibition is accompanied by a Chinese-language catalogue.

Fondation Beyeler
$100,000
Fondation Beyeler Riehen/Basel, Switzerland
To support Edward Hopper, a monographic presentation of Edward Hopper’s landscape paintings, highlighting Fondation Beyeler’s recent acquisition of Hopper’s Cape Ann Granite. The show presents approximately 100 works, including oil paintings, drawings, and watercolors, ranging in date from the early 1920s to 1961 to span the painter’s entire career. German- and English-language catalogues accompany the exhibition.

Fundación Juan March
$150,000
Madrid, Spain
To support a retrospective exhibition titled Ad Reinhardt: “Art is Art and Everything Else is Everything Else.” Showcasing 60 works by the artist, the exhibition features his photographic slides; writings on art; commercial illustrations; cartoons satirizing the art world and politics; travel journals; as well as notebooks, sketches, and political pamphlets. A Spanish-language catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt
$50,000
Darmstadt, Germany
To support American Heiner. A Mammoth making History, an exhibition that reintroduces the historical facts surrounding a set of mastodon bones discovered in the Hudson River Valley that were unearthed under the direction of artist and naturalist Charles Willson Peale. The show also reviews the importance of the discussions of extinct species in the founding narrative of the American nation at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A German-language catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art
$355,000
Evanston, IL
To support A Site of Struggle: Making Meaning of Anti-Black Violence in American Art and Visual Culture, an exhibition investigating the conceptual and aesthetic strategies that American artists and activists have used to reckon with the issue of anti-Black violence through art and visual culture created between 1895 and 2017. Including approximately 75 artworks in modes from realism to abstraction, and in a range of media including photography, painting, sculpture, video, and sound, the exhibition travels to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts and is accompanied by an English-language catalogue.

Modern Art Oxford
$200,000
Oxford, United Kingdom
To support Ruth Asawa: Citizen of the Universe, an exhibition co-organized by Modern Art Oxford and the Stavanger Art Museum (Norway), that presents a comprehensive overview of Ruth Asawa as an artist, a pedagogue, and arts activist. The exhibition brings together not only key examples of Asawa’s wire sculptures from the first half of her career, but also contextualizes them through the artist’s drawings and her involvement with community-based art education initiatives at Black Mountain College and the Alvarado Arts Workshop. The exhibition travels to both co-organizing venues and is accompanied by an English-language catalogue.

Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean
$150,000
Luxembourg
To support Robert Morris: The Perceiving Body, an exhibition co-organized by Mudam Luxembourg and the Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean. The exhibition features selected works representing the early work of Robert Morris, and it addresses his artistic practice that contributed to the transformation of art making in an era of political turmoil and profound historical change. The exhibition travels to both co-organizing venues and features a catalogue produced in English and French.

Museu de Arte de São Paulo
$100,000
São Paulo, Brazil
To support Senga Nengudi, the first solo exhibition in Latin America that focuses on the work of Senga Nengudi, an artist who for some 50 years crafted an oeuvre that inhabits a unique place between sculpture, dance, installation, and performance. The exhibition includes a large series of her iconic R.S.V.P sculptures, exhibited for the first time since 1976. A Portuguese-language catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

Musée de l’Orangerie
$125,000
Paris, France
To support Soutine/De Kooning, an exhibition that explores the affinities between the work of the Lithuanian artist Chaim Soutine and the Dutch American artist Willem de Kooning. Co-organized by the Musée de l’Orangerie and the Barnes Foundation, this show considers how the work of Soutine had a decisive influence on the development of de Kooning’s art, especially following Soutine’s posthumous retrospective held at The Museum of Modern Art in 1950, which the American artist studied at length. The exhibition travels to both co-organizing venues and is accompanied by both a French-language and an English-language catalogue.

National Gallery of Art
$200,000
Washington, D.C.
To support Philip Guston Now, the first major retrospective of the artist’s career in nearly a decade, as well as the first in the United Kingdom in almost 20 years. The exhibition spans Guston’s 50-year career through 125 paintings and a selection of drawings, depicting the personal and the political, the abstract and the figurative, and the humorous and the tragic. The exhibition features an English-language catalogue and travels to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Tate Modern; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

National Gallery of Art
$250,000
Washington, D.C.
To support The Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler, a survey exhibition of James Abbott McNeill Whistler’s many renderings of Joanna Hiffernan, and for the first time, a comprehensive account of her role as an active participant in Whistler’s creative and personal life during the early 1860s. Co-organized by the National Gallery of Art and the Royal Academy of Art, this show highlights several works that resulted from the two months that Whistler and Hiffernan spent in Trouville in the fall of 1865 in the company of Gustave Courbet, Whistler’s mentor, friend, and rival. The exhibition travels to both co-organizing venues and is accompanied by an English-language catalogue.

National Gallery Singapore
$75,000
Singapore
To support Nam June Paik: The Future is Now at all five venues: Tate Modern, Stedelijk Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and National Gallery Singapore. The exhibition is the first of its scale to present the Korean American artist Nam June Paik as a key figure of the twentieth-century avant-garde movement. English- and Dutch-language catalogues accompany the exhibition.

National Portrait Gallery of Australia
$203,000
Canberra, Australia
To support Facing New Worlds, an exhibition illuminating the stylistic and thematic affinities woven through portraits created on opposite sides of the Pacific during the “Age of Empire” from 1760 to 1860. The exhibition travels to the State Library of Victoria (Australia) and is accompanied by an English-language catalogue.

The Olana Partnership
$20,000
Hudson, NY
To support Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and Our Contemporary Moment, an exhibition co-organized by the Olana State Historic Site, the Thomas Cole National Historic Site, and Crystal Bridges. Examining the complex relationships between art, nature, and science through the lens of three nineteenth-century artists, the exhibition highlights the metaphorical pollination of ideas among artists and between artists and scientists, in the nineteenth century and today. The exhibition travels to the co-organizing venues, as well as to the Cummer Museum and Gardens and Reynolda House Museum of American Art, and it is accompanied by an English-language catalogue.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
$150,000
San Francisco, CA
To fund the comprehensive retrospective Joan Mitchell: Fierce Beauty. The exhibition brings together signature canvases with rarely seen paintings and works on paper in a presentation that highlights the artist’s varied creative processes, while illuminating her impact on postwar painting on both sides of the Atlantic. The retrospective travels from the Baltimore Museum of Art, a co-organizer, and then to SFMOMA, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York) and the Foundation Louis Vuitton (Paris), and is accompanied by an English-language catalogue.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
$100,000
San Francisco, CA
To support Nam June Paik: The Future is Now at all five venues: Tate Modern, Stedelijk Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and National Gallery Singapore. The exhibition is the first of its scale to present the Korean American artist Nam June Paik as a key figure of the twentieth-century avant-garde movement. English- and Dutch-language catalogues accompany the exhibition.

Stedelijk Museum
$75,000
Amsterdam, Netherlands
To support Nam June Paik: The Future is Now at all five venues: Tate Modern, Stedelijk Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and National Gallery Singapore. The exhibition is the first of its scale to present the Korean American artist Nam June Paik as a key figure of the twentieth-century avant-garde movement. English- and Dutch-language catalogues accompany the exhibition.

Tate
$250,000
London, United Kingdom
To support Bruce Nauman, a retrospective exhibition co-organized by Tate Modern and the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam). Through an experiential display that gives prominence to sound and moving-image artworks, this presentation traces pertinent strands in the artist’s oeuvre through the staging of important and rarely seen works, in a way that aims to satisfy both long-standing followers and new audiences. The exhibition travels to both co-organizing venues, as well as to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Pirelli Hanger Bicocca (Milan). An English-language catalogue and an Italian-English, bilingual catalogue accompany the exhibition.

Tate
$100,000
London, United Kingdom
To support Philip Guston Now, the first major retrospective of the artist’s career in nearly a decade, as well as the first in the United Kingdom in almost 20 years. The exhibition spans Guston’s 50-year career through 125 paintings and a selection of drawings, depicting the personal and the political, the abstract and the figurative, and the humorous and the tragic. The exhibition features an English-language catalogue and travels to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Tate Modern; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Tate Modern
$150,000
London, United Kingdom
To support Nam June Paik: The Future is Now at all five venues: Tate Modern, Stedelijk Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and National Gallery Singapore. The exhibition is the first of its scale to present the Korean American artist Nam June Paik as a key figure of the twentieth-century avant-garde movement. English- and Dutch-language catalogues accompany the exhibition.

Thomas Cole National Historical Site
$12,000
Catskill, NY
To support Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and Our Contemporary Moment, an exhibition co-organized by the Olana State Historic Site, the Thomas Cole National Historic Site, and Crystal Bridges. Examining the complex relationships between art, nature, and science through the lens of three nineteenth-century artists, the exhibition highlights the metaphorical pollination of ideas among artists and between artists and scientists, in the nineteenth century and today. The exhibition travels to the co-organizing venues, as well as to the Cummer Museum and Gardens and Reynolda House Museum of American Art, and it is accompanied by an English-language catalogue.

Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events
$22,500
Chicago, IL
To support At Home in the World: African American Designers in Chicago, a scholarly publication based on the exhibition African American Designers in Chicago: Art, Commerce, and Politics of Race presented as part of Art Design Chicago 2018. The publication serves as the first comprehensive survey of Black design in Chicago, a major center of American product manufacturing and consumer culture in the twentieth century, while exploring the diverse work and worldviews of the city’s African American designers from the start of the Great Migration to today.

Chicago Humanities Festival
$6,000
Chicago, IL
To support the production of the Terra Foundation Publication Creative Chicago: An Interview Marathon, based on the 2018 Terra Foundation-funded public program, “Creative Chicago Interview Marathon,” produced by the Chicago Humanities Festival, and presented during the international art fair EXPO Chicago. The daylong program brought 23 prominent artists, designers, architects, writers, and other creatives into conversation with one another and prominent curator and interviewer Hans Ulrich Obrist before a live audience. The richly illustrated publication includes interview texts, reproductions of artists’ works, and event documentation.

Polish Museum of America
$2,300
Chicago, IL
To support research travel to Poland for an exhibition tentatively titled Face to Face with Modernism: Stanislaw Szukalski in Chicago, 1913–23, focusing on the formation of modernist movements and networks in Chicago through the lens of Szukalski’s work, including sculptures, prints, and photographs created during his formative years in the city.

University of Illinois at Chicago
$22,500
Chicago, IL
To support Chicago Design: Histories and Narratives, a scholarly publication developed as an outgrowth of the two-day international conference of the same name, presented as part of Art Design Chicago 2018. Foregrounding a broad definition of design in Chicago, the volume is the first to look beyond previously studied examples of modernism, shedding light on lesser known—yet significant—design practices nurtured in Chicago from the late-nineteenth through twentieth century, by virtue of the city’s role as a national hub for printing, advertising, marketing, retail manufacturing, transportation, and design education.

For the full list of individuals who received fellowships from the following fellowships and visiting professorships, please view the fellows database.

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
$385,000
Berlin, Germany
To support the four-year renewal of the Terra Foundation Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship at the Institute of Art and Visual History, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. This program, originally funded in 2016 for a four-year cycle, supports two postdoctoral fellows, each for a two-year period, to teach and conduct research in art and visual culture of the United States prior to 1980 at the prestigious art history department in Germany, where students and faculty represent a variety of periods and traditions of art history.

Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac
$221,500
Paris, France
To support the Terra Foundation Research Fellowship and Convenings on Native American Art, a twelve-month research fellowship and two convenings devoted to the museum’s permanent collection of Native American art, from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, known as the “Royal Collections.” This interdisciplinary, multi-year research project of this vast collection furthers knowledge of the fragile indigenous objects and contributes to two convenings in Paris with representatives from Native American communities for first-hand study and discussion in front of objects.

Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
$213,498
Madrid, Spain
To support the Terra Foundation Collection Research Fellowship in American Art, a two-year fellowship focused on the museum’s permanent collection of nineteenth-century art of the United States. The fellow works with curators to imagine and implement a new installation of the American collection at the museum, the first full re-installation since the 1990s. The fellow publishes scholarly essays, contributes to a new collection catalogue, and organizes an international symposium in Madrid.

University of Oxford
$175,340
Oxford, United Kingdom
To support the renewal of the annual Terra Foundation for American Art Visiting Professorship at the University of Oxford for three years, starting fall 2018 and ending in spring 2021. The Professor teaches courses at the master’s and undergraduate levels, supervises master’s students, and gives a series of public lectures on campus and elsewhere.

Association of Historians of American Art
$25,000
New York, NY
To support “Toward a More Inclusive Digital Art History,” a digital publishing initiative comprising a workshop and a series of peer-reviewed research articles accompanied by project narratives and data on underrepresented or understudied constituencies in American art, to be published in Panorama, the first peer-reviewed, open access online journal dedicated to advancing the study of American art for an international audience.

College Art Association
$115,540
New York, NY
To support the Terra Foundation Research Travel Grants for a three-year period. Administered by the College Art Association, two types of grant support are available to individuals for research on topics concerning American art prior to 1980: Research Travel Grants to the United States and International Research Travel Grants for US-based Scholars. These grants encourage direct contact between international scholars and collections, resources, and experts in the US, and allow US-based scholars the opportunity to consult archival collections, trace the trajectory of their objects of study, and discuss their findings with local art historians.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
$22,000
Houston, Texas
To support the research-and-development phase of a project, conducted by the International Center for the Arts of the Americas, which ultimately makes accessible key primary sources on Latinx art and artists on the web. Through the establishment of agreements with repositories, artists, and artists’ estates holding important primary source material, the International Center for the Arts of the Americas culls key documents—including published and unpublished essays, letters, programmatic statements, newspaper clippings, preparatory notes, and other unpublished sources—in order to digitize and publish them in the ICAA Documents Project site.

The Art Institute of Chicago
$110,000
Chicago, IL
To support the creation of a new American art-focused Art + History field-trip program, a series of professional-development convenings for teachers, and the multiday Terra Foundation American Sources Teacher Program. The two-year project, expected to serve 140 teachers and 1,150 students, is intended to build participants’ skills in source analysis, historical inquiry, and visual literacy, centered on essential questions and issues related to the topic “America in the World.” During the convenings, teachers are introduced to works from the museum’s collections and related source materials and ways to use these resources to explore such topics as immigration, international conflict and/or partnerships, cultural exchange, and other global issues.

Frank Lloyd Wright Trust
$49,650
Chicago, IL
To support “Teaching by Design,” a multi-year program and website that introduces K–12 teachers to Wright’s designs and philosophy and their relationships to contemporary issues in science, technology, engineering, the arts, and math (STEAM), along with strategies for integrating art and design into daily classroom instruction. The grant supports 12 professional-development seminars, 100 new online lesson plans, evaluation, and promotion of online teacher resources. Piloted in 2016 with the Terra Foundation’s support, the next iteration serves 90 or more K–12 teachers and 9,000 students from 40 schools, along with 3,000 new website users.

Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
$70,000
Chicago, IL
To support the “Teacher Fellowship Program” in the 2019–20 and 2020–21 school years. The program provides professional development for Chicago Public School teachers centered on teaching with American outsider or non-mainstream art. During more than 50 program hours, teachers explore outsider art concepts, collections, and artists, and are guided in creating interdisciplinary lesson plans designed to help students make personal connections and responses to these individuals and their work. Culminating in an exhibition of student art, the program is expected to serve annually approximately 26 Chicago Public Schools teachers at 10–14 schools and 640 students.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
$25,000
Chicago, IL
To support the development and implementation of a pilot teacher professional-development and collaborative curriculum-development program to take place in conjunction with the exhibition Alien vs. Citizen. The program brings together for the first time a cohort of classroom teachers, practicing artists who serve as museum guides, and MCA staff to co-design and evaluate new in-gallery and in-classroom tools and curricula engaging the key themes of the exhibition.

National Museum of Mexican Art
$22,000
Chicago, IL
To support “Nuestras Historias: Teaching the Story of America through Art” in the 2020–21 school year, which includes professional development for teachers, curriculum development, field trips for students, and artist residencies in classrooms. First supported by the Terra Foundation in 2014, the program makes use of the museum’s collection exhibition and highlights works by Mexican American artists featured in it. This program is aligned to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts and serves 20 Chicago Public Schools teachers in a variety of disciplines from up to 15 schools, and 400 students in grades K–12.

Greater Chatham Initiative
$14,000
Chicago, IL
To support “Black Arts, Black Power, and the Birth of Kwanzaa,” a free panel conversation exploring the ways in which artists shaped the tradition of Kwanzaa celebrated across the United States. The program, which takes place as part of a Greater Chatham Initiative’s larger Kwanzaa community celebration, features artists and scholars in discussion about the relationship between Kwanzaa and Chicago’s Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and ‘70s.

Hyde Park Art Center
$15,000
Chicago, IL
To support public programs to be held in conjunction with an exhibition of contemporary work inspired by the historic South Side Community Art Center, titled Planting and Maintaining a Perennial Garden IV: Demise Shrouds. The public programs highlight how the two institutions have each shaped the arts and art making in Chicago, how arts spaces evolve over time, and how community and art in Chicago intersect through social practice.

Media Burn Archive
$15,000
Chicago, IL
To support “Chicago Lost and Found,” a four-part program series exploring the history of Chicago art and artists. Utilizing its vast collection of archival videos, Media Burn offers a lens into the art scenes of the past through four 90-minute multidisciplinary public programs, featuring documentary clips, panel conversations, live performances, and historical re-enactments.

Exhibition research and development grants support curatorial research travel in preparation for each institution’s respective forthcoming exhibition.

Barbican Centre Trust
$5,300
London, United Kingdom
Exhibition: Carolee Schneemann

Denver Art Museum
$4,000
Denver, CO
Exhibition: The Near East to the Far West

The Hunterian
$6,300
Glasgow, Scotland
Exhibition: The Stag and the Bison

New-York Historical Society
$10,000
New York, NY
Exhibition: Religion and the American West

Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art
$3,500
Providence, RI
Exhibition: Nancy Elizabeth

Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery
$22,500
Washington, DC
Exhibition: William H. Johnson in Scandinavia

Relief grants were made to provide emergency support to institutions impacted by the unprecedented nature of the COVID-19 pandemic. Funding was used to support American art-related programs, staff, or general operations.

6018|North
$5,000
Chicago, IL

American Antiquarian Society
$10,000
Worcester, MA

Amon Carter Museum of American Art
$25,000
Fort Worth, TX

Art, Design & Architecture Museum
$10,000
Santa Barbara, CA

The Arts Club of Chicago
$10,000
Chicago, IL

Arts Work Fund
$175,000
Chicago, IL

Asia Society Museum
$10,000
New York, NY

Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
$50,000
San Francisco, CA

Association of Art Museum Curators Foundation
$25,000
New York, NY

Association of Art Museum Directors
$25,000
New York, NY

The Baltimore Museum of Art
$50,000
Baltimore, MD

Barnes Foundation
$10,000
Philadelphia, PA

Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive
$10,000
Berkeley, CA

Black Metropolis Research Consortium
$7,000
Chicago, IL

Brooklyn Museum of Art
$50,000
Brooklyn, NY

Center for Creative Photography
$10,000
Tucson, AZ

Chicago Collections Consortium
$7,000
Chicago, IL

Chicago Cultural Alliance
$10,000
Chicago, IL

Chicago Film Archives
$7,000
Chicago, IL

Chicago History Museum
$40,000
Chicago, IL

Chicago Humanities Festival
$30,000
Chicago, IL

Chicago Public Library Foundation (CPLF)
$20,000
Chicago, IL

College Art Association
$25,000
New York, NY

Columbus Museum of Art
$25,000
Columbus, OH

The Contemporary Jewish Museum
$10,000
San Francisco, CA

Courtauld Institute of Art
$50,000
London, United Kingdom

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
$50,000
Bentonville, AR

David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art
$30,000
Chicago, IL

Denver Art Museum
$50,000
Denver, CO

DePaul Art Museum
$30,000
Chicago, IL

Design Museum of Chicago
$15,000
Chicago, IL

The Detroit Institute of Arts
$50,000
Detroit, MI

Dia Art Foundation
$25,000
New York, NY

DuSable Museum of African American History
$20,000
Chicago, IL

Edgar Miller Legacy
$7,000
Chicago, IL

Elmhurst Art Museum
$20,000
Elmhurst, IL

Floating Museum
$7,000
Chicago, IL

Frank Lloyd Wright Trust
$20,000
Chicago, IL

Gallery 400 at University of Illinois at Chicago
$15,000
Chicago, IL

Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
$25,000
Santa Fe, NM

Grey Art Gallery, NYU
$10,000
New York, NY

Harvard Art Museums
$10,000
Cambridge, MA

Heard Museum
$25,000
Phoenix, AZ

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
$10,000
Ithaca, NY

High Museum of Art
$50,000
Atlanta, GA

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
$50,000
Washington, DC

Honolulu Museum of Art
$25,000
Honolulu, HI

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
$50,000
San Marino, CA

Hyde Park Art Center
$20,000
Chicago, IL

Illinois Humanities
$10,000
Chicago, IL

Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
$30,000
Chicago, IL

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts
$10,000
Stanford, CA

The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum
$10,000
Queens, NY

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, University of Illinois at Chicago
$20,000
Chicago, IL

The Jewish Museum
$50,000
New York, NY

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
$50,000
Los Angeles, CA

Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art
$30,000
Evanston, IL

Mead Art Museum
$10,000
Amherst, MA

Media Burn Archive
$7,000
Chicago, IL

Menil Collection
$25,000
Houston, TX

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
$50,000
New York, NY

Milwaukee Art Museum
$50,000
Milwaukee, WI

Minneapolis Institute of Art
$50,000
Minneapolis, MN

Mint Museum of Art
$10,000
Charlotte, NC

Montclair Art Museum
$10,000
Montclair, NJ

The Morgan Library & Museum
$50,000
New York, NY

El Museo del Barrio
$10,000
New York, NY

Museum of Arts and Design
$25,000
Chicago, IL

Museum of the City of New York
$25,000
New York, NY

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
$50,000
Chicago, IL

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
$10,000
Los Angeles, CA

The Museum of Contemporary Photography
$30,000
Chicago, IL

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
$10,000
Boston, MA

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
$50,000
Houston, TX

The Museum of Modern Art
$50,000
New York, NY

Nasher Museum of Art
$10,000
Durham, NC

National Gallery of Art
$50,000
Washington, DC

National Museum of Mexican Art
$40,000
Chicago, IL

National Portrait Gallery
$25,000
Washington, DC

National Public Housing Museum
$15,000
Chicago, IL

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
$50,000
Kansas City, MO

New Britain Museum of American Art
$10,000
New Britain, CT

New Museum of Contemporary Art
$10,000
New York, NY

The Newberry Library
$40,000
Chicago, IL

New-York Historical Society
$50,000
New York, NY

The Olana Partnership
$10,000
Hudson, NY

Peabody Essex Museum
$50,000
Salem, MA

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
$50,000
Philadelphia, PA

Philadelphia Museum of Art
$50,000
Philadelphia, PA

The Phillips Collection
$25,000
Washington, DC

Project Osmosis
$5,000
Chicago, IL

Rebuild Foundation
$20,000
Chicago, IL

Reynolda House Museum of American Art
$10,000
Winston-Salem, NC

The Richard H. Driehaus Museum
$10,000
Chicago, IL

San Diego Museum of Art
$25,000
San Diego, CA

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
$50,000
San Francisco, CA

San Francisco State University Art Gallery
$10,000
San Francisco, CA

Seattle Art Museum
$25,000
Seattle, WA

Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art
$10,000
Bloomington, IN

Sixty Inches From Center
$5,000
Chicago, IL

Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery
$50,000
Washington, DC

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
$50,000
New York, NY

Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute
$50,000
Williamstown, MA

South Side Community Art Center
$20,000
Chicago, IL

Telfair Museum of Art
$10,000
Savannah, GA

Thomas Cole National Historic Site
$10,000
Catskill, NY

Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
$20,000
Chicago, IL

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
$50,000
Richmond, VA

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
$25,000
Hartford, CT

Walker Art Center
$50,000
Minneapolis, MN

Westmoreland Museum of American Art
$10,000
Greensburg, PA

Whitney Museum of American Art
$50,000
New York, NY

Williams College Museum of Art
$10,000
Williamstown, MA

Worcester Art Museum
$25,000
Worcester, MA

Window to the World Communication
$40,000
Chicago, IL

Yale University Art Gallery
$10,000
New Haven, CT