All Grants


The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts
$75,000
New York, NY
2025

To support Impressions Over Time: Two Decades of Print at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, a collection-based exhibition that provides comprehensive insight into the history of the workshop, signature programs (e.g., Exhibitions, the Blackburn Legacy Fellowship, the Kahn | Mason Studio Immersion Project Fellowship, and the Blackburn Print Archives), and the artists involved in the workshop’s community. The exhibition is organized around three key themes: Early Foundation of The Printmaking Workshop and Its Roots; Print Experimentation and Community-Model Spaces; and Continuing the Legacy.

Queens Museum
$75,000
Queens, NY
2025

To support About Us: A Community Reinstallation of the Collection, the first consideration of the Queens Museum’s photography collection with an emphasis on appealing to its local audience. The collection-based exhibition is a narrative, intergenerational, and non-linear investigation of modern and contemporary photography, speaking to its audience by appealing to the hybridization of identity that is distinctly American.

Peabody Essex Museum
$75,000
Salem, MA
2025

To support planning for a new American Decorative Art gallery, a long-term collection installation that brings together a range of objects from the 1630s to the present including glass, ceramics, furniture, silver, fiber arts, jewelry, tools, shop signs, weapons, and musical instruments. While the project predominantly features objects made in North America, with a focus on Essex County, MA (where PEM is located), works will also originate from the Caribbean and Central and South America, with selected global objects having historic provenance in the Americas. Local and regional community members, including local Dominican and Latinx communities, will provide input on the checklist, labels, and programming.

National Museum of the American Indian – DC
$75,000
Washington, DC
2025

To support Water’s Edge: The Art of Truman Lowe, a collection-based exhibition that is the first major retrospective of the acclaimed artist, educator, and curator. Lowe created sculptures made of willow branches, feathers, and other organic materials, evoking the rivers, streams, and waterfalls of the Wisconsin woodlands where he was raised and the canoes used to traverse them. His sculptures and sensitively rendered pastel and charcoal drawings also reflect on the cultural traditions, knowledge, and history of his Ho-Chunk community and family.

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
$75,000
Memphis, TN
2025

To support Towards Liberation, a collection reinstallation project whose centerpiece is a nearly 150-year-old work of art featuring the Black Gospel Window, the earliest known stained-glass depiction of Christ as a man of color. Placing the Black Gospel Window in conversation with artworks from the permanent collection that represent a range of styles, mediums, and time periods, Towards Liberation will explore the ways various communities in the United States have created and used art in their fight for equality and social justice.

Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester
$75,000
Rochester, NY
2025

To support planning for a reinterpretation and reinstallation of the American Art Galleries, a project that seeks to reimagine how we tell stories about American art and history and how Rochester’s rich history reflects the complexities of national stories. The resulting collections program and exhibitions will better reflect the diversity of audiences and the nation.

The Chinati Foundation
$18,000
Marfa, TX
2025

To support “Ch’íná’itíh (Chinati) Intertribal Noise Symposium 2025,” a semi-annual gathering of Native American sound artists working at the experimental edges of the sonic arts. Co-presented by The Chinati Foundation and Atomic Culture in Marfa, Texas, from March 14 to 16, 2025, the convening features listening sessions, performances, conversations, and community gatherings at venues across Marfa. The symposium aims to acknowledge and examine the complexity and diversity of contemporary Indigenous sonic practices, focusing on collaborative research and engagement and highlights Native American sonic agency while fostering cross-disciplinary dialogue on the intersections of sound, art, and resistance. The program will have a website, and an audio and video recording.

Museum of Vernacular Arts and Knowledge
$800,000
Chicago, IL
2025

To support organization planning and the expansion of the New Art School Modality (NASM), an innovative and affordable alternative to traditional art schools. NASM offers free or low-cost art and art history courses to a diverse community, emphasizing underrecognized art histories, forms, and learning methods. The program fosters collective teaching, intergenerational exchange, and collaborative approaches rooted in various cultural contexts.

College Art Association
$40,000
New York, NY
2025

The College Art Association (CAA) seeks support for its 113th and 114th Annual Conferences, taking place in 2025 and 2026. As the largest professional convening of artists, art historians, curators, designers, students, and visual art professionals, the “CAA Annual Conference” provides a space for dialogue, professional development, and the presentation of new research in the visual arts. While conference content evolves each year based on submissions, the study and creation of American art remains a core focus, offering opportunities to engage with a range of perspectives and expanding narratives in the field. Terra Foundation support will help sustain this convening as a platform for scholarship and critical discussion, particularly at a time of ongoing transformation in the study of American art. By bringing together practitioners and researchers, the conference fosters engagement with historical and contemporary issues, ensuring continued dialogue on the evolving role of American art within a broader cultural and global context.

Black Trustee Alliance for Art Museums
$30,000
New York, NY
2025

Funding supports trustee education and mentorship, research on systems change within museums, advocacy for advancing inclusion in the arts, and year-round programming to strengthen Black Trustee Alliance’s network of nearly 200 Black trustees, artists, philanthropists, and cultural leaders. These efforts are intended to drive institutional transformation toward greater inclusion and equity in the arts.

Rebuild Foundation
$125,000
Chicago, IL
2025

Building on fifteen years of artist-led, community-based work, Theaster Gates and Rebuild Foundation will undertake a year of strategic planning and experimentation to refine the organization’s vision, respond to evolving community needs, and explore new models for programming and engagement. During this pivotal year, “Rebuild” will pause public programming to focus on developing infrastructure, testing new approaches to archival engagement, and strengthening community collaboration. This planning process will lay the foundation for “Rebuild’s” next chapter, centering artist residencies, archival stewardship, land management, pedagogy, and craft. Through ongoing experimentation and strategic planning, “Rebuild” will chart a path forward as a vital hub for Black artistic innovation and cultural preservation on Chicago’s South Side.

Afield
$50,000
Paris, France
2025

To support the multi-year AFIELD forums on the themes of “Transitional Justice by Artists” (2025) and “Institutions by Artists” (2026) hosted by KANAL—Centre Pompidou in Brussels, Belgium, the Kunstenfestivaldesarts, and AFIELD, an international network of artists-led initiatives. These convenings connect American and international artists as well as curators, cultural practitioners, policymakers, students, and the public interested in the role of art as leverage for solution-building and societal transformation. Drawing from the forums, a publication, to be released in 2026, will critically explore the intersection between art, history, and social justice, highlighting the role of art and artists in addressing societal and cultural challenges.