Europe


Tate
$25,000
London, UK
2025

To support “Inclusive Practice in the Art Museum: Writing for Audiences and Artists,” a convening program that takes the exhibition ‘Soul of A Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power’, as its starting point, delivering two workshops, followed by a Call for Papers and symposium, and culminating in a roundtable hosted by Tate. The program, scheduled April 1, 2025–September 30, 2026, focuses on examining the impact of the exhibition on interpretation practices in art museums, particularly in the US and the UK, and seeks to identify inclusive and equitable strategies for engaging diverse audiences. The outcomes will be disseminated through Tate’s research channels, including peer-reviewed articles, video essays, and other digital formats, ensuring broad access and long-term impact.

Contemporary And (C&)
$45,000
Berlin, Germany
2025

“Language and Our Responsibility” is a three-day convening conceived by Contemporary And, bringing together US and Global Majority publishers, academics, and cultural practitioners to examine how to challenge the dominance of exclusionary colonial languages (like English, French, or Spanish). It will explore ways to amplify Indigenous languages, foster equitable representation in global art discourse, and ensure ideas are communicated accessibly across diverse linguistic groups without creating barriers for broader audiences. Held at the Terra Foundation for American Art’s Giverny properties in July 2025, discussions will also address integrating these languages into digital archives, repurposing colonial languages to challenge hierarchies, and mitigating biases in digital technology. Findings, methodologies, and insights will be shared globally through multilingual content on the initiative’s website, partner platforms, and art-focused publications to ensure broad engagement and lasting impact.

The Recovery Plan
$125,000
Florence, Italy
2025

To support Setting the Table for the Congress of Black Artists and Writers, a research and development initiative developed in preparation of an international convening to take place in Florence in 2029, marking the 70th anniversary of the Second Congress of Black Artists and Writers organized in Rome. A steering committee of intergenerational leaders of artist-run spaces and collectives in the US, Europe, and on the African continent will organize short research residencies and annual collective retreats over the course of three years. The objective is to examine planning, format, structure, and methodologies of implementation of Black artists’ archives and convenings by producing a wayfinding for a collective future rooted in self-empowerment, shared imaginings, and transnational solidarities.

Städtisches Museum Braunschweig
$150,000
Braunschweig, Germany
2024

To support Indigenous Momentos from the time of the American Revolution in Germany, organized in partnership with the Seneca Art & Culture Center, Ganondagan State Historic Site, and Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstandt, an exhibition featuring some 80 North American Indigenous works drawn primarily from German collections. These pieces constitute the largest body of early Indigenous materials from North America in Germany. A bilingual catalogue (German/English) will be available in both printed and digital formats.

Haus am Waldsee
$125,000
Berlin, Germany
2024

To support Beverly Buchanan: Weathering (working title), the artist’s (1940–2015) first German survey exhibition, which brings together works from all periods of her important yet overlooked oeuvre. The exhibition includes early series of artist’s books and zines as well as later works in which she responds to the living conditions of African Americans in rural communities in the Southeast through environmental interventions. The accompanying publication will take the form of a collection of facsimiles of Buchanan’s zines and artist’s books as well as a reader with newly commissioned texts.

Victoria & Albert Museum
$75,000
London, United Kingdom
2024

To support the V&A East Storehouse and Museum’s inaugural installation of Work + Progress, a program of artist’s commissions, workshops, talks, and events creating a dialogue between contemporary artists and the V&A’s collections and local communities. In the The Long Goodbye Carrie Mae Weems explores migration histories in East London and parallel sites in the U.S., such as Brooklyn, NY. The project illustrates the diverse make-up of British and American cities at the heart of the creation of new shared identities, engaging hyper-local audiences aged 16–25 and bringing together the knowledge of East London’s communities and the creative approach and work of Carrie Mae Weems.

Yinka Shonibare Foundation
$220,000
London, UK
2024

To support Cultivation: Guest Artists Space Residencies and Re-Assemblages: African Arts Libraries Lab and Conference, a two-day interdisciplinary conference featuring scholars, publishers, artists, and representatives of cultural institutions and universities, that engages in dialogue, roundtables, and presentations themed on new directions in restitution through the lens of African and Afro-diasporic archival publications and library collections.

Whitechapel Gallery
$33,000
London, United Kingdom
2024

Conceived by Gilane Tawadros, Detour to the Imaginary is a three-day residential convening bringing together 12 artists, curators, writers, and philosophers in conversation to explore the role of the contemporary art institution in the twentyfirst century in providing critical spaces and platforms for different perspectives. Held on the Terra Foundation for American Art’s Giverny properties in October 2024, this convening focuses on how public institutions can respond and contribute to public discourse on global changes through public programming and  identifies the topics of greatest urgency:  censorship and freedom of speech; the politics of immigration and race; cultural activism and resistance; the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements; the ethics of patronage; and the climate crisis. 

Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology
$75,000
Oxford, England
2024

To support the development of a framework and methodology for engaging and building relationships with originating communities on the display, interpretation, and accessibility of the Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology’s collection, beginning with the Pamunkey Indian Tribe on the museum’s Powhatan’s Mantle (c. 1600), an iconic centerpiece of the founding collection that speaks to a central theme: the meeting of cultures.

INSTITUT VALENCIA D’ART MODERN (IVAM)
$50,000
Valencia, Spain
2024

Senga Nengudi and Maren Hassinger gives an in-depth overview of Nengudi’s and Hassinger’s practices, creating a project that establishes an intimate dialogue between them while highlighting the uniqueness of their shared paths. 

Contemporary And (C&)
$100,000
Berlin, Germany
2024

To support a three-day workshop in New Orleans for emerging art writers addressing arts writing and reporting while focusing on Caribbean diasporic perspectives. The program offers participants the possibility to publish texts in Contemporary And (C&) and engages with questions linked to local contexts. The workshop is followed by a six-month mentoring program connecting mentee participants with local and international art writers with the aim of expanding their professional networks.

Turner Contemporary
$70,000
Margate, Kent, United Kingdom
2023

To support Ed Clark (working title) at Turner Contemporary, the first solo institutional exhibition outside of the United States devoted to the artist. The exhibition highlights the ways Clark’s convention-defying techniques pushed the boundaries of painterly abstraction and explores how artistic networks influenced his canvases as well as his opportunities. A scholarly catalogue accompanies the exhibition.