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Terra Foundation Adds Ricardo Estrada to Board of Directors, Stephanie Harris Elected Chair, Amina Dickerson Elected Vice Chair

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A group of people looking at a painting on a wall as they walk by at an exhibition.

Installation view, "entre horizontes: Art and Activism Between Chicago and Puerto Rico," MCA Chicago. August 19, 2023 – May 5, 2024. Photo: Ricardo Adame.

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Art Design Chicago

Terra Foundation Launches Art Design Chicago: A Citywide Event And Exhibition Series

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Headshots, clockwise from top left, of Kaywin Feldman, Henry P. Johnson, Catherine Sarr, Victoria Rogers

Image: Clockwise, from top left: Kaywin Feldman, Henry P. Johnson, Catherine Sarr, Victoria Rogers

Press Release

Terra Foundation adds Kaywin Feldman, Henry P. Johnson, Victoria Rogers, and Catherine Sarr to Board of Directors

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Artwork featuring neon lights installed in a gallery space.

Patrick Martinez: America is for Dreamers, a 2017 exhibition at VPAM curated by Pilar Tompkins Rivas with Joseph Valencia, who has assumed the role of Curator of Exhibitions there thanks to the ALAM initiative. Courtesy of VPAM and Charlie James Gallery, photo by Monica Orozco. Artwork © Patrick Martinez

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New Initiative Allocates $5M for Latinx Art in Museums

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Artwork featuring neon lights installed in a gallery space.

Patrick Martinez: America is for Dreamers, a 2017 exhibition at VPAM curated by Pilar Tompkins Rivas with Joseph Valencia, who has assumed the role of Curator of Exhibitions there thanks to the ALAM initiative. Courtesy of VPAM and Charlie James Gallery, photo by Monica Orozco. Artwork © Patrick Martinez

Press Release

Las fundaciones Mellon, Ford, Getty y Terra anuncian una nueva iniciativa de $5 millones destinada al programa Advancing Latinx Art in Museums (Promoviendo el arte latino en los museos)

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Installation photograph of an exhibition. Two paintings hang on a blue wall on the left side of the image, and three artworks hang on a white wall on the right side of the image.

Installation of the exhibition FREEDOM: Abstract Expressionism, Tougaloo College and the Civil Rights Movement including, left to right, Albert Eugene Gallatin's Room Space (1937-38) and Arshile Gorky's Mannikin (1931). Photo by Mark Geil

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Terra Collection-in-Residence

Terra Collection-in-Residence: A New Approach to Loans and Partnerships

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Headshot against a multicolored background.

Turry M. Flucker, photo by Mark Geil.

Press Release

Terra Foundation for American Art Appoints Turry M. Flucker as Vice President of Collections and Partnerships, a Newly Created Position

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Four headshots arranged in a square.

Clockwise, from top left: Amina Dickerson; Eric T. McKissack; Amanda Williams, photo by Tony Smith; Ravi Saligram.

Press Release

Terra Foundation adds Amina Dickerson, Eric T. McKissack, Ravi Saligram and Amanda Williams to Board of Directors

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Multimedia

Addressing Sexuality, Gender, and the Decorative since the 1970s: Lari Pittman & David J. Getsy

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Painting that is primarily red vertical marking painted over an image underneath, which appears only as blue, yellow, and green marks beneath the red.

Alma Thomas, Red Atmosphere, 1973, acrylic on canvas, 35" x 52", Tougaloo College Art Collections, 1973.072, Purchased by Tougaloo College with support from the National Endowment for the Arts

Press Release

Terra Foundation Awards $2.5 Million to US Arts & Culture Organizations for Permanent Collection Projects

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Collage with photographs, blocks of pink and gray, and text, some of which reads Love Is Universal.

Ralph Arnold, Love Sign II, 1995. Collage with found images, acrylic paint, and graphite, image courtesy South Side Community Art Center.

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Collections Grants

Grantees Announced: Re-envisioning Permanent Collections

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Multimedia

Toward a Transnational Approach to American Art: Isamu Noguchi in India and Beyond

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