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A person looks into a plexiglass case housing teal-colored ceramics. — Visitors to Arte Diseño Xicágo: Mexican Inspiration from the World’s Columbian Exposition to the Civil Rights Era, National Museum of Mexican Art, 2018, supported by Art Design Chicago

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Five Foundations Commit $16 Million to Black, Latinx, Asian, and Indigenous Arts Organizations

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Terra Foundation Announces $8M COVID-19 Relief Fund for Visual Arts Organizations Engaging with Art of the United States

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A woman with glasses and short brown hair is seated and smiling. — Photo by Greta Rybus.

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Sharon Corwin Appointed President & CEO of Terra Foundation for American Art

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Art Design Chicago to Return in 2024, with Increased Budget and New Grant Opportunities; Organizer Terra Foundation Announces First Round of Grant Guidelines for Prospective Partners

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Painting of a gray skyscraper with four tiers. The top tier crumbles, chunks of cement and a man falling into the cavern the building sits in. The background is black with bright yellow at the horizon line. — Roger Brown, The Big Jolt, 1972. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Art Acquisition Endowment Fund, 2019.1. Image: Courtesy Roger Brown Study Collection

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Terra Foundation Acquires Chicago Imagist Roger Brown “Disasters” Series Painting and Other Major Works

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American Art in the 1940s: Global Currents, Local Tides. A Study Day in Memory of Professor François Brunet” at Institut national d’histoire de l’art & Université Paris Diderot

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Terra Foundation Adds Raymond J. McGuire and Jay Xu to Board of Directors

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Terra Foundation Announces Recipients of 2019 International Academic Awards & Fellowships

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An etching of abstract lines and shapes. — Stanley William Hayter, Cinq Personnages, 1946. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1995.37

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Terra Foundation Partners with Brazil’s Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo to Present “Atelier 17 and Modern Printmaking in the Americas;” Accompanying Symposium—April 11–12—to Examine Major Trends in Modern Printmaking Across America

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Visitors at "The Time Is Now! Art Worlds of Chicago’s South Side, 1960–1980," which was on view at the Smart Museum of Art from September 13 to December 30, 2018.

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Terra Foundation for American Art Announces Key Results of Art Design Chicago Initiative; Partners Report 2.5 Million Participants in Art Design Chicago Exhibitions and Programs

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Elizabeth Glassman. Credit: Joe Mazza.

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Elizabeth Glassman, President & CEO of Terra Foundation for American Art, Announces She Will Step Down; Announcement Coincides with the Foundation Exceeding $100 Million in Grants Given

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Dorothea Lange, photographe documentaire at Terra Foundation Paris Center & Library

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