All Grants


The University of Edinburgh
$45,000
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
2022

To support Hot Art, Cold War: East Central Europe Workshops on American Art, to be held in Poznań, Bucharest, and Dresden. These workshops expand on research undertaken for the Terra Foundationfunded anthology Hot Art, Cold War: Southern and Eastern European Writings on American Art, 1945–1990 (Routledge, 2020). Organized by the University of Edinburgh, the thematically related workshops stimulate further debate and research on artistic relations between East Central Europe and the US in the context of the Cold War. 

University of Copenhagen
$25,000
Copenhagen, Denmark
2022

To support a two-day conference that highlights the groundbreaking practices of the Light and Space movement, connecting past and present generations of artists. The event will be recorded and be made available on Copenhagen Contemporary’s website. 

Hellenic American University
$25,000
Nashua, NH
2022

To support Terra (in) cognita: Dialogues between Greek Culture and Modern American Art, a four-day conference to be held at the Athens Campus of Hellenic American University. The event explores the wide spectrum of associations between modern American art, with a focus on Abstract Expressionism, and iconic aspects of Greek culture. An English- and Greek-language book will be published following the conference. 

University of Miami
$25,000
Coral Gables, FL
2022

To support “Geoffrey Holder: Prismatic Blackness, A Writers’ Workshop,” a two-day event organized by the Center for Black Global Studies, which convenes scholars, archivists, writers, and editors to support the development of an integrated web-based archive and academic publication dedicated to the work of Geoffrey Holder. 

Yale University
$25,000
New Haven, CT
2022

To support “Surrogates: Embodied Histories of Sculpture in the Short 20th Century,” a three-day symposiumorganized in collaboration with University of Graz and Museum Brandhorstexploring how modern sculpture became the locus for impassioned debates about the human, investigating the intersection of corporality, subjectivity, and ideology across four revisionist histories: postcolonial, feminist, queer, and antiracist. The symposium will be shared via a website, livestreaming, and possibly an edited volume. 

Archives of American Art
$24,000
Washington, DC
2022

To support a computer art study day at the Archives, which focuses on the first decades when artists began to incorporate emerging computer technologies into their practices. The study day explores how to collect, preserve, and make available key archival collections documenting the medium’s history. Interviews with attendees after the event will be posted online. 

American Folk Art Museum
$20,000
Long Island City, NY
2022

To support “Unexpected Partners: Self-Taught Art and Modernism in Interwar America,” a virtual symposium that examines the contributions of self-taught art and artists to the development of American modernism.  

Artspace, Inc.
$25,000
New Haven, CT
2022

To support “Magical Thinking,” a convening and related publication that explores causal and ritualistic modes of knowledge formation as an invitation to see signs, relationships, and links within the material and spiritual worlds.  

California College of the Arts
$25,000
San Francisco, CA
2022

To support “The Materiality of Resistance,” a symposium that convenes writers, artists, designers, and archivists to examine how the materiality of making has served as a tool to imagine, promote, and enact resistance and sociocultural change in American art and culture.  

Chinatown Media and Arts Collaborative
$22,130
San Francisco, CA
2022

To support “Exploring the Golden Age of Chinatown: A Hidden History of Photography, Film, and Performance, 1920–1950,” a convening that will enable participants to refine the nascent organization’s goals of contextualizing the historic cultural contributions of Asian Americans in San Francisco and to plan for future programming.  

Creative Time, Inc.
$25,000
New York, NY
2022

To support the eleventh Creative Time Summit, which brings together an interdisciplinary group of artists, activists, and thought leaders to explore strategies for subverting histories and systems of property ownership in favor of redistribution, reparation, and rematriation of land and resources.  

Field Museum
$25,000
Chicago, IL
2022

To support “Indigenizing Museum Practices: Sharing Experiences and Strategies,” a two-day convening bringing together Indigenous and non-Indigenous curators, artists, academics, and community members to consider Indigenous practices in museum contexts and strategies for collaboration and reciprocity, artistic practice, the confrontation of colonial legacies, and more.