Grants During Financial Year 2024

6018 North
Chicago, IL
The Myth of the Organic City
$75,000

Albertine Foundation
New York, NY
Opening Passages: Artists respond to Chicago and Paris
$40,000

American Indian Center
Chicago, IL
Indigenizing Urban Intertribal Arts
$50,000

Art on Sedgwick
Chicago, IL
Intersections: An Exploration of a Neighborhood through the lens of William Walker’s All of Mankind
$42,100
(Terra Foundation for American Art Fund at Chicago Community Trust)

Arts + Public Life at the University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
All Power to the People: Elizabeth Catlett’s Legacy in Chicago
$100,000

Arts + Public Life at the University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Never So Free: Black Queer Art + Assembly in Chicago
$43,000

Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture
Chicago, IL
Crossroads and Connections: Lithuanian American Artists in Chicago
$50,000

Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art
Evanston, IL
Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak / Chicagoland
$150,000

Chicago Art Department
Chicago, IL
Seeds IV: Healing Stages | An Annual Chicago Art Department Initiative Centering BIPOC Voices & Cultivating Cross-cultural Healing Between Artists
$25,000
(Terra Foundation for American Art Fund at Chicago Community Trust)

Chicago Collections Consortium
Chicago, IL
A Digital Look at Chicago’s Art Fairs and Art Festivals
$16,200

Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events
Chicago, IL
Victoria Martinez: Braiding Histories
$80,000

Chicago History Museum
Chicago, IL
Designing for Change: Chicago Protest Art of the 1960s–70s
$150,000

Chicago Public Library Foundation
Chicago, IL
Pilsen Days: Photographs by Akito Tsuda
$110,000

Comfort Station
Chicago, IL
Edra Soto: GRAFT in the Public Commons (en los Comunes Públicos)
$40,000
(Terra Foundation for American Art Fund at Chicago Community Trust)

DePaul University-DePaul Art Museum
Chicago, IL
Edgar Miller: Anti-Modern, 1917–1967
$110,000

Design Museum of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Chicago Sukkah Design Festival
$22,000
(Terra Foundation for American Art Fund at Chicago Community Trust)

Design Museum of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Letters Beyond Form: Chicago Types
$125,000
(Terra Foundation for American Art Fund at Chicago Community Trust)

The Richard H. Driehaus Museum
Chicago, IL
Material Tales Exhibition Public Programming
$20,300

Elmhurst Art Museum
Elmhurst, IL
A Love Supreme
$50,000

Embarc
Chicago, IL
Opening the Doors to Art Experiences for CPS Students with Embarc
$100,000

Folded Map
Chicago, IL
Creatively Empowering with Community—Continuing the Arts Village at Englewood Music Fest
$50,000
(Terra Foundation for American Art Fund at Chicago Community Trust)

Folded Map
Chicago, IL
Folded Map Curriculum Project
$30,000

Folded Map
Chicago, IL
unBLOCKED
$50,000

Gallery 400 at University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL
Learning Together: Art, Education, and Community
$150,000
(Terra Foundation for American Art Fund at Chicago Community Trust)

Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum
Evanston, IL
Living Stories: Contemporary Woodland Native American Art
$54,000

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
Chicago, IL
Radical Craft: Arts Education at Hull-House, 1889–1935
$124,000
(Terra Foundation for American Art Fund at Chicago Community Trust)

Hyde Park Art Center
Chicago, IL
Let’s Talk About Art
$10,000

IMAN
Chicago, IL
IMANifest Arts Studios Spring 2023 & Fall 2024 Exhibitions
$59,000

Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Chicago, IL
Chicago as Catalyst: Immigrant Communities Nourish Self-Taught Artists
$125,000

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

Mobile Makers Chicago
Chicago, IL
Strength in Community Pop-Ups
$35,000

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Chicago, IL
Andrea Carlson: Shimmer on the Horizons
$75,000

Museum of Contemporary Photography
Chicago, IL
Dawit L. Petros: Prospetto a Mare
$125,000

Museum of Vernacular Arts and Knowledge
Chicago, IL
The New Art School Modality Inaugural Year
$150,000
(Terra Foundation for American Art Fund at Chicago Community Trust)

My Block My Hood My City
Chicago, IL
Art Exploration Component of Downtown Day
$60,000

National Museum of Mexican Art
Chicago, IL
130 Años: México in the Chicago Columbian Exposition
$150,000

National Public Housing Museum
Chicago, IL
The Making of the National Public Housing Museum
$25,000

National Public Housing Museum
Chicago, IL
Still Here: Linking Stories of Displacement
$150,000

The Newberry Library
Chicago, IL
Contemporary Expressions of Chicago Artists
$20,000

The Newberry Library
Chicago, IL
Immigrant Printing in Chicago
$40,000

The Newberry Library
Chicago, IL
Indigenous Chicago
$125,000

OPEN Center for the Arts
Chicago, IL
The Stories of One LAWNDALE
$50,000

Opendox
Kingston, NY
Designing For Dignity: A Convening of Possibilities 02
$50,000

Project Osmosis
Chicago, IL
Design Explorers—Art Design Chicago 4.0
$50,000

Public Media Institute
Chicago, IL
Artist Run Legacies: Conversations between generations of artist run culture in Chicago
$50,000

Puerto Rican Arts Alliance
Chicago, IL
El Rugir de los Leones en la Plástica Puertorriqueña: The Lions’ Roar in the Puerto Rican Arts
$125,000
(Terra Foundation for American Art Fund at Chicago Community Trust)

Rebuild Foundation
Chicago, IL
Theaster Gates: When Clouds Roll Away: Reflection and Restoration from the Johnson Archive and Black Archive Convening
$200,000
(Terra Foundation for American Art Fund at Chicago Community Trust)

The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
The Hamza Walker Book of Essays
$25,000

Rivendell Theatre Ensemble
Chicago, IL
The Folded Map at Rivendell
$46,650

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Chicago Designs: New Approaches to Teaching Social History and Design
$35,000

Sixty Inches From Center
Chicago, IL
Anchor Curatorial Residency: Finding Ceremony Monograph + Digital Publishing Collaboration
$25,000

Sixty Inches From Center
Chicago, IL
Chicago Archives + Artists Festival 2024
$30,000

South Asia Institute
Chicago, IL
Seen and Unseen: A Community Archive of South Asian American Art in Chicago
$100,000
(Terra Foundation for American Art Fund at Chicago Community Trust)

South Side Community Art Center
Chicago, IL
ReSOURCE: Art and Resourcefulness in Black Chicago
$150,000
(Terra Foundation for American Art Fund at Chicago Community Trust)

Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
Chicago, IL
Agency: Craft in Chicago from the 1970s–80s and Beyond
$108,000

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL
Supergraphic Landscapes: Public Art as Urban Design in Chicago
$20,000

Urban Gateways
Chicago, IL
MILDSAUCE Webzine: The Art and Fashion Issue: How Does Art Influence Fashion and Vice Versa?
$25,000

Window to the World Communication
Chicago, IL
WTTW News—Art Design Chicago Reporting Series
$50,000

Anchorage Museum
Anchorage, AK
As the Plover Flies: Climate Crisis and Resiliency in Alaska and Hawai’i
$75,000

Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology
Oxford, United Kingdom
Wingapo—Rethinking Powhatan’s Mantle with Originating Communities
$75,000

Boston Athenaeum
Boston, MA
Allan Rohan Crite: Neighborhood Liturgy (working title)
$75,000

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Bentonville, AR
Crystal Bridges Collection Reinstallation: Reimagining the American Art Museum
$50,000

Des Moines Art Center
Des Moines, IA
Whisper to a Scream: Women Artists and Minimalism
$63,000

The Detroit Institute of Arts
Detroit, MI
The Detroit Institute of Arts’ Contemporary Art Galleries Reinstallation Planning
$75,000

Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
Poughkeepsie, NY
Re-Envisioning the Loeb’s Founding Collection of Hudson River School Paintings
$75,000

Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico
San Juan, PR
Reframing Puerto Rican Art: Planning for the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Reinstallation of the MAPR’s Permanent Collection Galleries
$75,000

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston, MA
Revolutionizing Icons: Reimagining the 18th century Art of the Americas Galleries at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
$60,000

National Museum of the American Indian
Washington, DC
Investigation for Collections Reinterpretation—Belongings
$75,000

New-York Historical Society
New York, NY
Leading Nations: Gayë́twahgeh and Sagoyewatha (working title)
$75,000

Shelburne Museum
Shelburne, VT
Planning and Research for the Inaugural Exhibition for the Perry Center for Native American Art at Shelburne Museum
$75,000

Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum
Washington, DC
The Art of Liberation: Washington, D.C.’s Black Arts Movement of the 1960s–1980s (working title)
$75,000

The Trustees of Reservations
Boston, MA
Research and Planning: Building an Indigenous Collections Framework and Interpretive Strategy
$34,000

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Richmond, VA
Reinstalling American Art at VMFA: Research and Conversations
$50,000

Àkéte Art Foundation/ Lagos Biennial
Lagos, Nigeria
Lagos Biennial 2021>2024
$150,000

Alaska Native Heritage Center
Anchorage, AK
Nacheyakda’ina Exhibition Project
$75,000

Gregory Allicar Museum of Art
Fort Collins, CO
qóóxoneeʼnohoʼóoóyóóʼ / Ho’honáa’e Tsé’amoo’ese: Art from the Rocky Mountain Homelands of the Hinono’ei and Tsistsistas Nations
$30,000

Art Galleries at Black Studies at The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
Transcendence: A Century of Black Queer Ecstasy
$70,000

The Baltimore Museum of Art
Baltimore, MD
Joyce J. Scott
$200,000

Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
Omaha, NE
Paul Stephen Benjamin: Variations on Blackness
$25,000

Biennale of Sydney
Sydney, Australia
U.S. Artists & Stories in the 24th Biennale of Sydney (2024)
$200,000

Birmingham Museum of Art
Birmingham, AL
Hayward Oubre: Structural Integrity
$150,000

Blaffer Art Museum
Houston, TX
Cian Dayrit: Counter Cartographies (working title)
$50,000

Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn, NY
Elizabeth Catlett: A Revolutionary Black Artist and All that It Implies
$225,000

Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum
East Lansing, MI
Samia Halaby: Eye Witness /// Relocating a Palestinian-American Artist in Midwestern and American Art Histories
$150,000

Burke Museum Association
Seattle, WA
Woven in Wool: The Rebirth of Traditional Coast Salish Regalia
$150,000

CALA Alliance
Phoenix, AZ
To support CALA Alliance exhibitions at the ASU Art Museum
$75,000

California State University Sacramento, University Galleries
Sacramento, CA
She Laughs Back: Feminist Wit in 1970s Bay Area Art
$35,000

The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, OH
Martin Puryear: Fifty Years
$200,000

Thomas Cole National Historic Site
Catskill, NY
Native Prospects: Indigeneity and Landscape Painting
$100,000

Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum
New York, NY
Making Home: Smithsonian Design Triennial
$100,000

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Bentonville, AR
Knowing the West
$100,000

The Drawing Center
New York, NY
Joan Jonas: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral
$25,000

Farnsworth Art Museum
Rockland, ME
Magwintegwak: A Legacy of Penobscot Basketry
$125,000

Fells Point Creative Alliance, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
Walk On By (Exhibition & Artists Exchange)
$200,000

Frye Art Museum
Seattle, WA
Sky Hopinka
$60,000

Gallery 400 at University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL
Chicago-specific presentation of Contemporary Ex-Votos: Devotion Beyond Medium
$53,000

Gund Gallery at Kenyon College
Gambier, OH
Ming Smith: Jazz Requiem—Notations in Blue
$100,000

Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University
Logan, UT
Artepaño/Kerchief Art
$75,000

Heard Museum
Phoenix, AZ
Maria & Modernism Exhibition
$100,000

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Washington, DC
Adam Pendleton
$100,000

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
San Marino, CA
Sargent Claude Johnson
$150,000

Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (IVAM)
Valencia, Spain
Senga Nengudi and Maren Hassinger
$50,000

Madison Square Park Conservancy
New York, NY
Rose B. Simpson: Seed (2023)
$100,000

Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
North Adams, MA
Vincent Valdez: Just a Dream…
$125,000

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY
The Harlem Renaissance and Trans-Atlantic Modernism
$150,000

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
Memphis, TN
Andrea Morales: Roll Down Like Water—Photography and Movement Journalism in the American South
$125,000

Michigan State University Museum
East Lansing, MI
IT’S MORE THAN A QUILLBOX/Ooshme Gaawiyekaajigan aawon
$75,000

Moderna Museet Stockholm
Stockholm, Sweden
Vaginal Davis: Magnificent Product
$200,000

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Fort Worth, TX
Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists since 1940
$100,000

El Museo del Barrio
New York, NY
Candida Alvarez: Circle, Point, Hoop
$100,000

Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI)
Astoria, NY
Auriea Harvey: My Veins Are the Wires, My Body is Your Keyboard
$150,000

National Nordic Museum
Seattle, WA
Nordic Utopia: African Americans in the 20th Century
$75,000

National Portrait Gallery
Washington, DC
Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris, 1900–1939
$100,000

Portland Museum of Art
Portland, ME
Jeremy Frey: Woven
$75,000

Royal Academy of Arts
London, United Kingdom
Entangled Pasts, Art, Enslavement and Belonging: 1768–Now
$200,000

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Scottsdale, AZ
There Are Other Skies (formerly transfeminisms)
$60,000

SITE Santa Fe
Santa Fe, NM
Teresita Fernández / Robert Smithson
$100,000

Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum
Washington, DC
A Bold and Beautiful Vision: A Century of Black Arts Education in Washington, D.C., 1900–2000
$200,000

Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center (APAC)
Washington, DC
Sightlines: Chinatown and Beyond
$165,000

Spencer Museum of Art
Lawrence, KS
Street Nihonga: The Art of Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani
$125,000

Turner Contemporary
Margate, United Kingdom
Ed Clark
$70,000

University of Illinois – Krannert Art Museum
Champaign, IL
Millie Wilson: The Museum of Lesbian Dreams
$100,000

The University of Virginia, The Fralin Museum of Art
Charlottesville, VA
O’POWA O’MENG The Art and Legacy of Jody Folwell
$125,000

Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA
Dear Mazie
$120,000

Walker Art Center
Minneapolis, MN
Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night
$200,000

Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery
New York, NY
Shifting Shorelines: Art, Industry, and Ecology Along the Hudson River
$50,000

Westmoreland Museum of American Art
Greensburg, PA
Anila Quayyum Agha: Interwoven
$75,000

Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa
Cape Town, South Africa
Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn Survey Exhibition
$75,000

Amistad Research Center
New Orleans, LA
Conservation of The Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture series by Jacob Lawrence: Conflict in the Antilles, Ripples in the States and the World
$844,000

Arts Alliance Illinois
Chicago, IL
Creating Opportunities for Visual Artists of Color to Thrive
$50,000

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

Ateliers Médicis
Clichy-sous-Bois, France
Clichycago
$100,000

Center for Black European Studies, Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
Water Holds Memory
$39,800

Chicago Public Art Group
Chicago, IL
United Electrical Workers Solidarity Mural Preservation and Relocation
$50,000

College Art Association
New York, NY
CAA 112th Annual Conference
$25,000

Contemporary And (C&)
Berlin, Germany
C& Critical Writing Workshop and Mentoring Program with focus on the US Caribbean Diaspora
$100,000

Eaux Fortes
Strasbourg, France
The Wake: Public Programming, 15th Dakar Biennale
$25,000

Enrich Chicago
Chicago, IL
Enrich Chicago: Enhanced Capacity for Greater Racial Equity & Healing in the Arts & Culture Sector
$55,000

First Americans Museum
Oklahoma City, OK
WINIKO: REUNIONS
$150,000

Floating Museum
Chicago, IL
Floating Museum: The Burroughs Residency
$285,000

Grantmakers in the Arts
New York, NY
Grantmakers in the Arts 2024 National Conference in Chicago
$25,000

Hampton University Museum
Hampton, VA
Analyze, Assess, and Resituate the International Review of African American Art
$165,000

Institut national d’histoire de l’art
Paris, France
Support for an American Keynote Lecturer at the 36th CIHA Congress (Lyon, France, 2024)
$14,873.46

Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio Inc.
Southampton, NY
Documenting & Engaging with Contemporary Shinnecock Artists
$25,000

National Association for Latino Arts and Cultures—NALAC
San Antonio, TX
Chicago Regional Convening
$25,000

Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art
Oviedo, FL
$250,000

Park Avenue Armory
New York, NY
The Radical Practice of Black Curation: A Symposium and Retreat
$25,000

Portland Art Museum
Portland, OR
Jeffrey Gibson: the space in which to place me / Official U.S. Presentation at the 60th International Art Exhibition in Venice
$250,000

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc.
New York, NY
Black Trustee Alliance for Art Museums—2024 Convening
$25,000

The Norman Rockwell Museum
Stockbridge, MA
Re-interpreting Norman Rockwell’s The Problem We All Live With
$50,000

University of Maryland, David C. Driskell Center
College Park, MD
Writing the Future: Connecting and Supporting Black Archival Collections
$280,000

Whitechapel Gallery
London, United Kingdom
Detour to the Imaginary—Convening in Giverny
$19,352.64