Terra Foundation Giverny Convenings offer intimate space for global, intercultural, and interdisciplinary conversations. Considering new models for gathering in Giverny, the foundation invites partners to organize convenings lasting up to one week for small groups of artists, scholars, and arts professionals in its historic residences in Giverny, France.

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An impressionist view of houses and trees toward the bottom of a hill.

Lilla Cabot Perry, Autumn Afternoon, Giverny, c. 1905–1909. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1999.106

Giverny Convenings Overview

Giverny Convenings provide time and space for participants to engage deeply with diverse cultural perspectives and interdisciplinary approaches, while building connections and broadening understandings of American art and its histories in a global context.

These gatherings are intentionally conceived and organized to welcome a plurality of voices and ideas across cultural and disciplinary boundaries, where participants engage outside of their usual contexts and are welcomed into a new, collaborative space. Guest curators, artists, and scholars share their unique insights and experiences, helping to disseminate new knowledge and innovative practices, opening new avenues of understanding and creativity. Giverny is intended to be a space for imagination, inspiration, and invention.

We seek partners who work to broaden perspectives and address critical questions in the field and practice of American art. Giverny is a space to address challenges and opportunities collectively, and these collaborations have the potential to activate intercultural and interdisciplinary projects that have tangible impact.

Contact Us

Hosting Giverny Convenings is currently by invitation only. If you are interested in learning more, please email Lucy Pike, Program Associate, Convening Grants and Initiatives, at [email protected].

Giverny Convenings

Giverny Facilities

Famous for its association with the Impressionist painter Claude Monet, Giverny is a rural village of 500 residents in Normandy, France, 77 kilometers from Paris. The foundation’s meeting and residential facilities are located in the heart of the village, yet are hidden from the street and surrounded by gardens.

The central house, Le Hameau, comprises a seminar room, kitchen, library room, four artist studios, a multipurpose room, a large garden, and the foundation’s onsite staff office. Located five to ten minutes walking distance from Le Hameau, the four houses have the capacity to receive up to fifteen guests. The space is well suited for reflection, creativity, experimentation, and exchange.

Giverny Houses

Terra Foundation and Giverny

The foundation’s presence in Giverny stems from the vision and collection of its founder, Daniel J. Terra. Inspired by the American Impressionist artists whose works he collected, Daniel Terra acquired land and properties in Giverny, where he opened a museum and began to create the conditions for future scholarly and artistic residencies, including the Terra Summer Residency (2001–2020), as well as our current program, Giverny Convenings.

Paintings of Giverny from the Terra Foundation Art Collection

Additional Grant Opportunities

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

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.

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