All Grants


Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
$25,000
Chicago, Illinois
2016

To support the Multiple Visit Field Trip Program, which serves approximately 360 grade 4–6 students and their teachers at approximately 10 schools in the Chicago Public Schools system. The program focuses on American art on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and includes professional development for teachers.

Frank Lloyd Wright Trust
$25,000
Oak Park, Illinois
2016

To support Frank Lloyd Wright: Teaching by Design, a web-based project and professional-development program for Chicago K–12 teachers. The project helps teachers learn about Wright’s design philosophy and connect it to contemporary issues in science, technology, engineering, the arts, and math.

Chicago Public Schools
$33,000
Chicago, Illinois
2016

To support a series of professional-development activities designed to help middle-grade art teachers bring African American and Latino art into their curricula in ways that address the new National Core Arts Standards and Common Core reading standards.

University of St. Andrews
$12,295
St Andrews, Fife, Scotland
2016

To support the two-day conference “In and Out of American Art: Between Provincialism and Transnationalism,” which focuses on the period between 1940 and 1980 when the reach of the US art world extended globally. The event aims to address the various ways in which artists and other art-world professionals negotiated the cultural pressures related to local art production and legacy.

Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery
$31,313
Washington, D.C.
2016

To support two interrelated conferences, one in Rome in fall 2016 and the other in Washington, DC, in spring 2017, that examine Italy’s significance to American visual culture and the impact of the United States on Italian art.

St. Louis University
$25,000
St. Louis, Missouri
2016

To support “Cold Atlantic: Cultural War, Dissident Artistic Practices, Networks, and Contact Zones at the Time of the Iron Curtain,” co-organized by Museo Reina Sofia; Universidad de Barcelona; Saint Louis University, Madrid campus; Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; and the research project of the Universidad de Barcelona. The conference critically reconsiders artistic practices in the context of the Cold War and sheds light on dissident spaces of artistic and political activism.

Pomona College Museum of Art
$25,000
Claremont, California
2016

To support “The Crossing/La Traversée: Art in Haiti and the US (1915–1986),” a two-and-a-half day symposium highlighting the aesthetic and political connections between artists in Haiti and the United States.

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen
$25,000
Düsseldorf, Germany
2016

To support “On Agnes Martin,” a symposium held in conjunction with the museum’s presentation of Agnes Martin, a Terra Foundation-supported exhibition organized by Tate Modern.

“Humanisms and Antihumanisms in the Arts of the United States”
$21,500
Giverny, France
2016

To support a four-day colloquium at the Terra Foundation’s properties in Giverny, France. The event is organized by Laura Bieger (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), Joshua Shannon (University of Maryland), and Jason Weems (University of California, Riverside).

Museum of Modern Art
$25,000
New York, New York
2016

To support the 2015 International Curatorial Institute, co-organized by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Center for Curatorial Leadership (New York), and Columbia University’s Business School. The program consists of a two-week session of intensive professional instruction for ten senior international curators and two MoMA curators.

Metropolitan Museum of Art
$35,000
New York, New York
2016

To support the 2016 Global Museum Leaders Colloquium, an effort to define and promote museum leadership worldwide. The annual program aims to foster more intensive institutional collaboration and coordination among participating institutions.

Association of Art Museum Curators
$50,849
New York, New York
2016

To support the Foundation Engagement Program for International Curators, a two-year program engaging three non-US based curators working on or having worked in exhibitions and projects that explore historical American art (c. 1500–1980).