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Grants Awarded Spring 2025

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Image of stone-like objects in black and white or greyscale.

Image: Beverly Buchanan, slab works, c. 1978–1980. Cast concrete sculptures with acrylic paint. Dimensions unknown. Courtesy the Frances Mulhall Achiles Library, Artist File, Whitney Museum of American Art.

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Grants Awarded Fall 2024

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Image of statue-like figures near water.

Andrea Carlson, Perpetual Genre, 2024. Oil, acrylic, gouache, ink, color pencil, and graphite on paper; overall: 45.5 × 61 in. (115.6 × 154.9 cm). Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Block Board of Advisors Endowment Fund purchase, 2024.2a-d. © Andrea Carlson. Courtesy of the artist and Bockley Gallery.

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Art Design Chicago

Chicago Grants Awarded Summer 2024

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Canvas with shades of dark colors, including green, grey, and blue.

Jessica Winters, born in Makkovik, Nunatsiavut, Newfoundland and Labrador, in 1996, Lichen (Hopedale 1), 2023, Acrylic on canvas, 91,5 x 91,5 cm, MMFA, purchase, the Paradis family fund in memory of Claude Paradis, Photo MMFA.

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Art Design Chicago

Grants Awarded Summer 2024

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A group of people sitting together smiling in front of a wool textile set on a table.

Woven in Wool curatorial team. Seated, left to right: Chepximiya Siyam’ Chief Janice George, Tillie Jones, Buddy Joseph. Standing, left to right: Siseenaxalt Gail White Eagle, Bethany Palkovitz, Katie Bunn-Marcuse, Kelly Robinson, sa’hLa mitSa Susan Pavel, Bridget Johnson, Olive Keilholtz, Michelle Cohen, Roxanne Hockett, Rose Mathison, Ashley Verplank McClelland. Salish blanket of mountain-goat wool in foreground. Burke Museum, Nov. 3, 2023. Photo Credit Burke Museum/Timothy Kenney.

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Art Design Chicago

Grants Awarded Spring 2024

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Collage image of Church and exterior mural beneath towers (top left); William Walker, 1972 (top right); close-up of the exterior mural.

Stranger’s Home M.B. Church and exterior mural beneath Cabrini-Green's “White Walls” towers (top left); William Walker, 1972 (top right); close-up of the exterior mural; the whitewashed church building at 617 W. Evergreen St., courtesy of Karen-edid Barzman, Art & Architecture Historian, Newberry Library Scholar in Residence and the Save All of Mankind Coalition

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Art Design Chicago

Art Design Chicago Grants Awarded Spring 2024

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A picture of three people looking at a breechcloth on a table.

Big Soldier family (Iowa Tribe) reunited with their grandfather’s breechcloth at First Americans Museum, 2023 [NMAI 027462.000]. Photo by James Pepper Henry.

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Art Design Chicago

Grants Awarded Fall 2023

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A person standing on the front porch of a house, with his hand on his chest, next to a ladder.

Folded Map, "unBLOCKED" project, Delon Adams in front of his home on construction day.

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Art Design Chicago

Art Design Chicago Grants Awarded Fall 2023

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Polaroid photographs arranged in a grid.

Letitia Quesenberry, from the series little darlings, 2014–ongoing, panel, lacquer, photo, wax, resin, 6 x 5 x .25 in each, photo courtesy of the artist

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Convening Grants

Grants Awarded June 2023

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A purple cloth with embroidered imagery titled Becoming White, by artist Ger Xiong.

Ger Xiong, Becoming White, 2021; fabric, thread, and copper; 71 x 61 x 2 in. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Bill Moree. Photo courtesy of the John Michael Kohler Arts Center.

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Grants Awarded March 2023

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Three details from portrait paintings, set side by side.

Detail views of paintings by (left to right): Hisako Hibi, Study for a Self-Portrait, Topaz, Utah, ca. 1944. Japanese American National Museum; Miki Hayakawa, Untitled, ca. 1930s. Collection of Richard Sakai; and Miné Okubo, Portrait Study, ca. 1937. Trustees of the Miné Okubo Art Collection at the Center for Social Justice and Civil Liberties, Riverside Community College District, California.

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Convening Grants

Grants Awarded November 2022

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A black-and-white photograph of a group of people dressed in business attire walking together between two buildings in New York City.

A group photo of (front L-R) Councilman Fred Samuel, Mayor Edward I. Koch, Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell, C. Elaine Parker, Terrance Moan, (rear L-R) Charles A. Shorter, Jr., Commissioner Bess Myerson, Fred Price, circa 1979, courtesy of The Studio Museum in Harlem

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Grants Awarded June 2022

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