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Painting of a dragon against a sunset. There are lanterns on the top of the painting, a building in the lower left corner, and children in the bottom right.

Martin Wong (American, 1946–1999), Chinatown Dragon, 1993. Acrylic on canvas. © The Martin Wong Foundation. Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University; Gift of The Martin Wong Foundation, 2019.202.

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

Woman seated in a gallery.

Alba Campo Rosillo, curator and scholar of American Art and Terra Foundation Research Fellow in American Art at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza (2021–22)

Photo of graffiti on a wall created with types forms. The graffiti resembles the Chicago flag. There are white and blue horizontal stripes with four red stars in the center.

Design Museum of Chicago, Chicago Types Project, featured work by calligrapher and artist Tubs, photo courtesy of Design Museum of Chicago, 2022.

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A map of the U.S.

Sierra Rooney, Fig. 31. Relationship between creators’ location (site of studio or home) and their suffrage monument, published in Panorama, 2021.

People viewing large photographs on a wall painted in blue, green, and yellow vertical stripes.

Visitors to Chicago Avant-Garde, 2021, The Newberry Library, photo by Anne Ryan.

Photograph of a greenhouse with glass paneled walls and roof. An orange glow emanates from the inside.

Lucas Foglia, American (b. New York City, 1983), New Crop Varieties for Extreme Weather, Geneva Greenhouses, New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, New York, 2013. From the series Human Nature. Archival pigment print. Harvard Art Museums, Richard and Ronay Menschel Fund for the Acquisition of Photographs, 2019.312. © Lucas Foglia; image courtesy of the artist.

A woman dressed in black spilling paint from a paint can onto the floor, which already has paint spills in orange, blue, and yellow.

American artist Lynda Benglis works on a commissioned project for the University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, 1969. The work involves poured latex paint for an installation at the university. © Adagp, Paris 2021 (Photo by Henry Groskinsky/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images)

Headshot of a woman.

Pascale Ife Williams, Terra Foundation Senior Engagement Fellow

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 in part by Art Design Chicago.

A woman holding a book and wearing a face mask stands in front of two paintings in gold frames. The gallery wall is painted a peach color.

Alba Campo Rosillo, Terra Foundation Fellow in American Art, at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2021.

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