All Grants


Carnegie Museum of Art
$200,000
Pittsburgh, PA
2024

To support Black Photojournalism, the first comprehensive traveling exhibition considering the work of Black photojournalists active in the United States from the end of World War II, through the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, to Jesse Jackson’s run for president in 1984. Co-organized with the Phillips Collection, the exhibition features images by some 40 Black photographers of such landmark events as the March on Washington and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as everyday occasions like birthdays, weddings, and funerals. A catalogue will offer new scholarship at the intersection of photography, Black visual culture, and American history.

Centre Pompidou
$250,000
Paris, France
2024

To support Paris Noir, an exhibition that brings together works of 150 artists who are Black and/or part of the African diaspora—from Africa, the Caribbean, South and North America—and who are still widely overlooked in France. The transdisciplinary artists featured in the exhibition work across painting, literature, music, dance, fashion, and cinema. A catalogue with substantial essays will highlight this historical survey and a conference, Paris Noir. From Présence Africaine to Revue Noire (1947–1991), will be offered.

Palais de Tokyo
$250,000
Paris, France
2024

The Palais de Tokyo, the largest European art center dedicated to contemporary creation, has invited Naomi Beckwith, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Guggenheim Museum, to be guest artistic director for an American Season in fall 2025. The American Season exhibitions and programs provide opportunities for the Palais de Tokyo to continue its work with diverse groups of artists and audiences and to introduce U.S. contemporary art to French audiences.

UCR ARTS
$125,000
Riverside, CA
2024

To support Transgresoras: Mail Art and Messages, 1960s–2020s, an exhibition that investigates artworks made and exchanged by an intergenerational group of more than 30 Latinx and Latin American women-identifying artists. It draws on the foundational work of artists who, from the 1960s to the 1980s, used the postal system to transgress a varied set of restrictive systems, ranging from gender expectations to authoritarian regimes and censorship. The first in-depth publication devoted to this critical area of artistic production promises to become an important resource for future scholarship.

Musée du Louvre
$22,000
Paris, France
2024

This grant to four of eight national Parisian art institutions supports the first multi-museum celebration to be presented in the city in honor of a single artist in their lifetime: the sculptor, draftswoman, and author Barbara Chase-Riboud. Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Orsay, Musée du Louvre, Musée du Quai Branly, Musée Guimet, Musée Picasso, Palais de la Porte Dorée, Palais de Tokyo, and Philharmonie de Paris each present a specific series of Chase Riboud’s works in conversation with their permanent collections and temporary exhibitions, creating dialogues with art and artists such as the ancient Egyptian and Greek sculptors, Benin bronzes, Constantin Brancusi, Auguste Rodin, Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Lee Bontecou, and Louise Bourgeois. An English- and French-language catalogue co-published by the Louvre accompanies the exhibitions.

University of Maryland—David C. Driskell Center
$280,000
College Park, Maryland
2024

To support a three-year programming and publication project to establish an institutional archive documenting the first 25 years of the David C. Driskell Center’s history and legacy as the leading institution for the study and presentation of African American arts. The archive will also make accessible the papers of arts administrator Terrie S. Rouse-Rosario. 

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.

Center for Black European Studies, Carnegie Mellon University
$39,800
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2024

To support “Water Holds Memory,” a four-day convening exploring the reception of the works of Calida Rawles and Torkwase Dyson by non-US Black diasporic artists and thinkers in relation to their views of Blackness as well as how such reinterpretations might circulate back into the field of American art in the US. The convening includes artists and scholars from Europe, North America, South America, and the Caribbean. 

Brooklyn Museum
$225,000
Brooklyn, New York
2024

To support Elizabeth Catlett: A Revolutionary Black Artist and All that It Implies (working title), co-organized by the Brooklyn Museum and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. The exhibition explores the contributions of Elizabeth Catlett through rarely seen early paintings, drawings, and ephemera, demonstrating her engagement with multiple artistic and political movements over the course of the twentieth century. 

The Cleveland Museum of Art
$200,000
Cleveland, Ohio
2024

To support Martin Puryear: Fifty Years, co-organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in collaboration with Martin Puryear. The exhibition offers a new perspective on the artist’s multi-decade career, featuring a body of work that includes abstract sculptures, prints, and drawings and that is notable for its formal elegance and the range of global aesthetic histories on which it draws.  

Walker Art Center
$200,000
Minneapolis, Minnesota
2024

To support the first mid-career survey of American artist Christine Sun Kim, co-organized by Walker Art Center and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Kim is a visual and sound artist, performer, and activist who identifies as Deaf and Korean American, and the exhibition examines Kim’s practice centered around sound, its visual representation, and how it is valued in society. The exhibition is accompanied by an extensive publication, available in audio and braille editions. 

Birmingham Museum of Art
$150,000
Birmingham, Alabama
2024

To support the first monographic exhibition of the work of Hayward Oubre. The exhibition reveals how Oubre shaped the art of Alabama as artist and teacher and how his art both complicates and expands existing histories of American art. The exhibition and catalogue explore the importance of Historically Black Colleges and Universities’ art departments in building arts communities within and beyond the South.