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About Our Grants

We offer multiple pathways to funding, including three annual, open application-based grant programs, as well as invitation-only strategic initiatives, which allow us to take a more adaptive approach to emerging and immediate needs in the field.

Annual Grant Programs

Two people looking at a painting on a well, with a sculpture to their left.

The Stories We Carry, collection reinstallation, Seattle Museum of Art, copyright: Chloe Collyer

Grants

Open

Collections Grants

Open to organizations working to re-interpret and re-present their permanent collections through re-installation or temporary exhibitions. Includes research and planning support.

Inquiry Due August 3, 2026
Proposal Due October 13, 2026
Grant Range $25K–$100K

Grant Guidelines: Collections Grants

Person seated in a crowd asking a question into a microphone.

“How can we gather now?,” March 31–April 2, 2023, produced by Washington Project for the Arts, co-directed by Asad Raza & Prem Krishnamurthy, symposium attendee Anisa Olufemi asks a question during Stefanie Hessler’s keynote lecture, photo by McKenzie Grant-Gordon courtesy of Washington Project for the Arts.

Grants

open

Convening Grants

Support for conferences, workshops, and gatherings that stimulate interdisciplinary and intercultural exchange, and nurture relationships across networks.

Inquiry Due September 28, 2026
Proposal Due November 30, 2026
Grant Range $10K–$25K

Grant Guidelines: Convening Grants

Gallery installation with people viewing art.

Installation view of Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962. Photo: David Heald. Courtesy Grey Art Museum, New York University

Grants

Closed

Exhibition Grants

Support for organizations planning and presenting temporary loan exhibitions. Includes research and planning support.

Inquiry Due March 2, 2027
Proposal Due May 18, 2027
Grant Range $25K–$200K

Grant Guidelines: Exhibition Grants

Grantmaking Priorities

The Terra Foundation supports projects that engage the visual arts of the United States and Indigenous arts of North America, while questioning and broadening understandings of American art and transforming how its stories are told.

Our grantmaking helps encourage dialogue and exchange, transform practices, and expand narratives of American art.

We seek projects that:

  • generate knowledge and interpretive frameworks that collectively reflect the full breadth and complexity of American art and its histories through the artists represented, voices included, and stories told
  • engage artists, scholars, and communities who present a plurality of perspectives and methods, including intercultural and interdisciplinary approaches
  • catalyze inclusive practices and expansive histories in the field of American art

Grant Resources

Grant Resources

For more information on timelines, how to apply, eligibility, and other common questions, please review our Applicant Resources.

Current grantees, please visit Grantee Resources for information about managing a grant, as well as crediting guidelines.

Grantmaking Since 2005

View the foundation’s grants and collection loans since 2005. Dive into any point on the map to learn more about our local and global impact.

Grantmaking Since 2005

  • $180M Awarded
  • 2,330 Grants
  • 43 Countries

Strategic Initiatives

Strategic Initiatives

Strategic Initiatives

Strategic initiatives are an invitation-only funding opportunity, designed to support ideas and creativity while deepening relationships and multiplying impact. This program allows us to be nimble in our support of the American art ecosystem and respond to evolving field needs.

Person with white gloves holding an archival document.

ICAA staff survey rare materials related to Latinx art at the Hirsch Library, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2024. Photo: Junior Fernandez, MFAH

Giverny Convenings

Giverny Convenings

Giverny Convenings

Giverny Convenings offer space for global, intercultural, and interdisciplinary conversations. We invite partners to organize convenings for small groups of artists, scholars, and arts professionals in our residences in Giverny, France.

Group of people seated on a blanket on the grass.

Repose as Resistance, Giverny, June 28–July 1, 2023. Mawena Yehouessi leads a session on research, critical texts in her research.

Stories and News

A multi-colored image with different patterns.

Marsden Hartley (American, 1877–1943), Painting No. 50,1914–15. Oil on canvas, 47 × 47 in. (119.4 × 119.4 cm). Terra Foundation for American Art. Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1999.61 .

A image of figures working.

José Clemente Orozco, Science, Labor, and Art panel from Call to Revolution and Table of Universal Brotherhood, The New School Mural Cycle, 1930–31, The New School Art Collection. Photo credit: Tom Moore