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The Wider World & Scrimshaw, installation view, New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, Massachusetts, June 14–November 11, 2024

Grants Awarded During Financial Year 2023

Art Design Chicago

Center for Native Futures
Chicago, IL
CfNF Grand Opening Programming 2023 & 2024
$150,000
(Terra Foundation for American Art Fund at Chicago Community Trust)

Chicago Humanities Festival
Chicago, IL
Chicago Humanities Festival: Art Design Chicago Programming in 2023 and 2024
$100,000

Hyde Park Art Center
Chicago, IL
Alice Shaddle: Fuller Circles
$60,000

Hyde Park Art Center
Chicago, IL
Artist Run Chicago Fund with Art Design Chicago 2024
$300,000

Hyde Park Art Center
Chicago, IL
The United Colors of Robert Earl Paige
$102,000

Floating Museum
Chicago, IL
Floating Monuments: Mecca Flats
$110,000

Illinois Humanities
Chicago, IL
Chicago Style: Fashion and Design, Past and Present
$50,000

Independent Curators International
New York, NY
The Curatorial Forum: Professional Advancement and Network-Building for Chicago Curators
$25,000

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Chicago, IL
Entre Horizontes: Art and Activism Between Chicago and Puerto Rico
$125,000

Red Line Service Institute
Chicago, IL
Designing Belonging
$50,000

David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art
Chicago, IL
Ruth Duckworth: Life as a Unity
$110,000

Threewalls
Chicago, IL
Call-and-Response: Dreaming of a Future
$75,000

Terra Collection-in-Residence

Terra Collection-in-Residence

Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil
$50,000

Collections

Collections

Boston Athenaeum
Boston, MA
Framing Freedom: The Harriet Hayden Albums
$75,000

Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum
East Lansing, MI
The Center for Object Research and Engagement (The CORE): Rethinking Global Entanglements in American Art
$75,000

Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn, NY
American Art at the Brooklyn Museum (working title)
$175,000

Center for Social Justice & Civil Liberties, Riverside Community College District
Riverside, CA
Out of the Archive: Works by Miné Okubo
$75,000

Joslyn Art Museum
Omaha, NE
Reinstallation of Joslyn Art Museum’s American Wing
$75,000

John Michael Kohler Arts Center
Sheboygan, WI
Cloth as Land: Hmong Indigeneity
$50,000

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles, CA
Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st Century Art and Poetics
$75,000

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY
American Wing Centennial Reinstallation
$75,000

Moderna Museet Stockholm
Stockholm, Sweden
Rashid Johnson: Seven Rooms and a Garden
$75,000

El Museo del Barrio
New York, NY
Something Beautiful: Reframing la Colección
$150,000

National Museum of the American Indian
Washington, DC
Unbound: Narrative Art of the Plains
$75,000

New Bedford Whaling Museum
New Bedford, MA
The Wider World & Scrimshaw
$75,000

Rochester Museum and Science Center
Rochester, NY
Haudenosaunee Continuity, Innovation and Resilience exhibit
$75,000

University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN
Indigenous Arts of the Americas: Reinstallation of the North American Art Gallery at the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art
$75,000

Woodmere Art Museum
Philadelphia, PA
Permanent collection reinstallation at Maguire Hall, Woodmere’s newly acquired historic mansion
$75,000

Collections—Planning, Research, and Development

Collections—Planning, Research, and Development

High Desert Museum
Bend, OR
Creating Together: A Collaboration to Renovate the Indigenous Plateau Exhibition at the High Desert Museum
$75,000

Museum of the Cherokee Indian
Cherokee, NC
Permanent Exhibition Update Planning and Research Project
$75,000

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Philadelphia, PA
Planning, research, and development for major reinstallation of PAFA’s historic, 20th century, and contemporary collection in the Historic Landmark Building debuting in 2026
$75,000

Queens Museum
Queens, NY
About Us: Planning for a Community Reinstallation of the Collection at the Queens Museum, Local Authority (working title)
$75,000

Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art
Washington, DC
Shifting Boundaries: New Views on American Landscapes
$50,500

Convenings
American Folk Art Museum
Long Island City, NY
Unexpected Partners: Self-Taught Art and Modernism in Interwar America
$20,000

Art Gallery of Ontario
Toronto, Canada
aabaakwad 2023 & 2024
$100,000

Burke Museum Association
Seattle, WA
A Curatorial Colloquium on the Reinstallation of Permanent Galleries of Native American Art—Working with Artists and Communities
$10,000

California College of the Arts
San Francisco, CA
The Materiality of Resistance: A Convening at California College of the Arts
$25,000

Chinatown Media and Arts Collaborative
San Francisco, CA
Exploring the Golden Age of Chinatown: A Hidden History of Photography, Film, and Performance, 1920–1950
$22,130

Creative Time Inc.
New York, NY
Creative Time 2023 Summit
$25,000

The Field Museum
Chicago, IL
Indigenizing Museum Practices: Sharing Experiences and Strategies
$25,000

Housatonic Museum of Art
Bridgeport, CT
Community College Art Museum Leadership Convening: A Gathering to Foster Collaboration and Expand an Understanding of American Art on Two-Year Campuses
$25,000

Independent Curators International
New York, NY
Mississippi Curatorial Assembly
$15,000

Indigo Arts Alliance
Portland, ME
Deconstructing the Boundaries: A Future of Land & Food Resilience Centering Black, Brown, and Indigenous Relationships with the Land
$25,000

Liquid Blackness, Limited
Decatur, GA
Music Video as Black Art: Claiming the B-Side
$25,000

Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
North Adams, MA
Magical Thinking
$25,000

Montana State University
Bozeman, MT
Representations of Asian Migrants and Settlers in the Western United States ca. 1850–1918
$25,000

Musée du Quai Branly–Jacques Chirac
Paris, France
New insights on the 18th-century painted hides collected in times of French Louisiana
$75,000

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá
Panama City, Panama
Chotin´: Curatorial methods from the tropics and surroundings
$25,000

New Bedford Whaling Museum
New Bedford, MA
The Wider World & Scrimshaw: Scholars’ Day
$25,000

New York Foundation for the Arts
New York, NY
Museums Moving Forward: Equity and Accountability in Museum Workplaces
$20,000

Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture
Chicago, IL
Visible Designs: The Arts of Race and Capitalism
$15,000

Tufts University
Boston, MA
Homelands, Ancestral Knowledges, and Cultural Stewardship: Indigenous Representation in Museum Spaces
$25,000

University College London, Department of History of Art
London, United Kingdom
Not Now: Modernism, Nativism, and Fascism in American Art and Culture
$25,000

University of Kentucky’s School of Art & Visual Studies in College of Fine Arts
Lexington, KY
Queer Art | Queer Archives
$25,000

University of Miami
Coral Gables, FL
Creole Miami: Generations of Black Artmaking
$25,000

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Contested Bodies: Black Women in Art and Culture
$25,000

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Richmond, VA
Picturing the Black Racial Imaginary: A Symposium at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
$25,000

Exhibitions

Exhibitions

American Federation of Arts
New York, NY
Whitfield Lovell: Passages
$50,000

American Federation of Arts
New York, NY
Xican–a.o.x. Body
$50,000

American Folk Art Museum
Long Island City, NY
Unnamed Figures: Black Presence and Absence in Early American Vernacular Art
$125,000

The Arts Club of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Mina Loy: Strangeness Is Inevitable
$75,000

Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum
East Lansing, MI
Blind Spot: Stephanie Syjuco
$75,000

Cincinnati Art Museum
Cincinnati, OH
Shahzia Sikander: Collective Behavior
$200,000

Contemporary Arts Center
Cincinnati, OH
The Heresies Generation: Feminism, Art, and Politics, 1977–1992
$100,000
(Terra Foundation for American Art Fund at Chicago Community Trust)

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Houston, TX
Ming Smith: Feeling the Future
$75,000

The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
New Paltz, NY
Global Connections: Four Artists in New York in the 1920s (Working Title)
$71,000

Friends of Ganondagan, Seneca Art & Culture Center
Victor, NY
WAMPUM/OTGOÄ
$153,037

Independent Curators International
New York, NY
Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art, a touring exhibition of the works of Teddy Sandoval and other Latinx and Latin American artists, with an accompanying catalog
$100,000

Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Moveables
$125,000

Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, CA
Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo
$150,000

LAXART
Los Angeles, CA
MONUMENTS
$250,000

McClung Museum of Natural History & Culture
Knoxville, TN
A Sense of Indigenous Place: Native American Voices and the Mound at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
$145,000

McCord Stewart Museum
Montreal, Canada
WAMPUM/OTGOÄ
$96,963

Minneapolis Institute of Art
Minneapolis, MN
Native Photography Exhibition (working title)
$100,000

Mint Museum of Art
Charlotte, NC
Southern/Modern
$50,000

Musée Picasso Paris
Paris, France
Faith Ringgold exhibition
$80,000

Museu de Arte de São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil
Melissa Cody—Webbed Skies (working title)
$75,000

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Chicago, IL
Gary Simmons: Public Enemy
$75,000

Museum of International Folk Art
Santa Fe, NM
To Keep Them Warm: The Alaska Native Parka
$148,000

Katherine E. Nash Gallery
Minneapolis, MN
The Color of the Wind: Native Painters of the Upper Midwest
$75,000

National Museum of the American Indian–New York
Washington, DC
Shelley Niro: 500 Year Itch exhibition
$250,000

National Museum of Mexican Art
Chicago, IL
The Legacy of Carlos Cortéz
$35,000

National Portrait Gallery
Washington, DC
1898: U.S. Imperial Visions and Revisions
$50,000

The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum
Long Island City, NY
Toshiko Takaezu
$250,000

Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture
Spokane, WA
Joe Feddersen: Earth, Water, Sky (working title)
$100,000

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Philadelphia, PA
John Rhoden: Determined to Be
$150,000

The Rose Art Museum
Waltham, MA
Lyle Ashton Harris: Shadows (working title)
$100,000

Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery
Washington, DC
The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture
$200,000

Springfield Museums
Springfield, MA
Nelson Stevens’ Color Rapping
$25,000

University of Arizona Museum of Art
Tucson, AZ
Pulse: A Solo Exhibition of Weavings and Paintings by Navajo Artist Marlowe Katoney
$40,000

University of Kentucky Art Museum
Lexington, KY
Disguise the Limit: John Yau Collaborations
$75,000

Whitechapel Gallery
London, United Kingdom
Action Gesture Paint—A Global Story of the Women of Abstraction
$66,000

Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, NY
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map (working title)
$250,000

Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library
Winterthur, DE
Ann Lowe: American Couturier
$200,000

Woodmere Art Museum
Philadelphia, PA
Drawn to Music: The Art of Jerry Pinkney
$100,000

Exhibitions—Planning, Research, and Development

Exhibitions—Planning, Research, and Development

Ballroom Marfa
Marfa, TX
Tongues of Fire
$21,500

Bowdoin College
Brunswick, ME
The Essential Oneness of the Western Hemisphere: The United States, Mexico, and American Art
$25,000

Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture
Seattle, WA
Woven in Wool: The Rebirth of Traditional Coast Salish Regalia
$74,000

Strategic Initiatives

Strategic Initiatives

American Art Fund
Wilmington, DE
Designated fund associated with American Nanjing University Education Foundation (NJUEF), on behalf of the Institute for the Study of American Art in China (ISAAC) at Nanjing University for library of American art history books
$50,000
(Elizabeth Glassman Fund for International Museum Partnerships)

AWARE (Archives of Women Artists Research & Exhibitions)
Paris, France
Building Constellations: A collaborative network of independent feminist art structures
$95,000

Black Metropolis Research Consortium
Chicago, IL
BMRC Research Fellowship in Black Visual Arts
$111,500

Center for Curatorial Leadership
New York, NY
Curatorial Leadership Convenings
$150,000

Chazen Museum of Art
Madison, WI
re:mancipation Documentation
$100,000

Contemporary And (C&)
Berlin, Germany
C& Critical Writing Workshops and Mentoring Program
$86,000

The Laundromat Project
Brooklyn, NY
The Laundromat Project 2023 Artist Alumni Convening: Harnessing the Collective Power of Creative Change Makers
$35,000

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Houston, TX
International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA) Latinx Papers Project
$250,000

Museum of Vernacular Arts and Knowledge
Chicago, IL
The New Art School Modality Launch
$100,000
(Terra Foundation for American Art Fund at Chicago Community Trust)

National Museum of Mexican Art
Chicago, IL
ALAM at the National Museum of Mexican Art
$342,500

Native American Art Studies Association
Toronto, Canada
NAASA Travel Awards & Presidential Session
$35,000
(Terra Foundation for American Art Fund at Chicago Community Trust)

SAVVY Contemporary
Berlin, Germany
Standing in the Cracks of Multiple Histories
$175,000

Sharjah Art Foundation
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
March Meeting 2023
$25,000

Smarthistory
Pleasantville, NY
Latinx Art Histories and Futures
$68,000

V&A East
London, United Kingdom
V&A East Talks: Back-to-Back
$75,000

Project Spotlights

A woman holding a baby standing in front of textiles in a museum display.

Arts of Indigenous America, installation view, de Young Museum, San Francisco, 2025. Photo by Gary Sexton. Courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Impact Report July 2022–June 2025

A sculpture in the foreground of a gallery space and a woman standing in the background looking at works of art out of view.

Sargent Claude Johnson, installation view, The Huntington, San Marino, California, February 17–May 20, 2024

Impact Report July 2022–June 2025

Table with brochures and tickets.

“Black Portraitures: Shifting Paradigms” at the Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello, Venice, Italy. BP photos by Deborah Wills and Victor Cruz.

Impact Report July 2022–June 2025

A group of people standing inside a large tent on green grass. Architectural images are projected on the walls and ceiling of the tent.

for Mecca installed by the Floating Museum on Siegel Field, Illinois Tech, Chicago, Illinois, public debut, August 8–9, 2025. Polyester blend fabric, dye sublimation, air blowers, and hardware, 30 × 41 × 24 ft. (9.1 × 12.5 × 7.3 m). Part of the Floating Monuments series. Photo by Tom Harris.

Impact Report July 2022–June 2025

People standing in a large gallery space with blue carpet and white walls. Artwork is hanging on the walls and the center of the room has many vitrines.

entre horizontes: Art and Activism Between Chicago and Puerto Rico, installation view, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, August 19, 2023–May 5, 2024. Photo by Shelby Ragsdale, ©MCA Chicago.

Impact Report July 2022–June 2025

Painting of a woman in a white dress under the water's surface.

Calida Rawles, Thy Name We Praise, 2023. Terra Foundation for American Art and Spelman College Museum of Fine Art co-acquisition in honor of Mary Schmidt Campbell, Ph.D., 10th President of Spelman College, TCA2023.3. Photo courtesy of Lehmann Maupin Gallery.

Grants Awarded

Impact Report

Terra Foundation for American Art
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