All Grants


Montana State University
$25,000
Bozeman, MT
2022

To support “Representations of Asian Migrants and Settlers in the Western United States, ca. 1850–1918,” a conference at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, that explores the contributions of Asian American and European American artists to representations of the Asian experience in the West.   

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá
$25,000
Panama City, Panama
2022

To support “CHOTIN´: Curatorial Methods from the Tropics and Surroundings,” a convening of curators who specialize in Latin American and/or Latinx art and hail from across the U.S. and the Americas that will allow them to network and share experiences, especially as they relate to contemporary curatorial practice.  

New Bedford Whaling Museum
$25,000
New Bedford, MA
2022

To support “The Wider World and Scrimshaw,” a public symposium and scholars day to explore new research on scrimshaw traditions and adjacent global forms of carving from Oceania, the Pacific Islands, the Pacific Northwest, and the Arctic. The program also serves as a research convening for the exhibition The Wider World and Scrimshaw.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
$20,000
Brooklyn, NY
2022

To support “Museums Moving Forward: Equity and Accountability in Museum Workplaces,” a multi-convening program examining ways to make art museums more equitable. The convenings serve to disseminate field-wide data studies with new quantitative and qualitative research addressing key topics such as gender and racial wage gaps, promotion and retention rates, psychological safety, and a sense of belonging at work. The project results in a publicly available report with aggregate data analyses and concrete recommendations for change. 

University of Pennsylvania
$25,000
Philadelphia, PA
2022

To support “Contested Bodies: Black Women in Art and Culture,” a convening series planned by the Contested Bodies Collaborative, an intergenerational gathering of Black women artists and art historians. The series will explore the historical construction and ongoing perpetuation of various stereotypes and tropes of Black women and Black femme-identified people in American art and culture. 

The Newberry Library
$25,000
Chicago, Illinois
2021

To support the multiday seminar “Chicago Designs: New Approaches for Teaching Politics, Commerce, and Culture.” Developed for university faculty from a variety of disciplines, the program highlights key topics in Chicago’s design history, ranging from the legacy of the New Bauhaus to the impact of the city’s African American design community, and provides hands-on opportunities at the Newberry Library and other local archives. Participants build and share curricular projects to be made available on a website created to host materials produced through the program. The program is part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Green Lantern Press
$7,000
Santa Fe, New Mexico
2021

To support Fleeting Monuments for the Wall of Respect, a scholarly publication edited by art historian Romi Crawford with contributions from more than thirty artists, writers, cultural theorists, and others, reflecting on the history and significance of the historic Wall of Respect mural created by a community of artists on Chicago’s South Side, and ways to commemorate this influential but no longer extant work of public art. The book is published and distributed by the University of Minnesota Press.

Africa International House USA, Inc.
$25,000
Chicago, Illinois
2021

To support a public symposium, “Art & Agency: Exploring the African American Quilting Tradition,” at the University of Chicago’s Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, examining the history and significance of quilting within African American communities and the broader African diaspora, with emphasis on quilting’s role as an art form and a medium for storytelling and resistance.

Center for Native Futures
$25,000
Chicago, Illinois
2021

To support the Mounds Summit, the inaugural two-day conference of the newly formed Center for Native Futures, dedicated to scholarship addressing Indigenous Futurisms, and the contemporary art and creative art practices of Native people.

Illinois Institute of Technology, Institute of Design
$25,000
Chicago, Illinois
2021

To support the two-day Design + Activism Symposium, examining design’s role in social movements and activism in Chicago past and present, to be held in conjunction with the Chicago History Museum’s research project to develop the 2024 Art Design Chicago exhibition Chicago Designs for Change.

Courtauld Institute of Art
$12,000
London, United Kingdom
2021

To support “Deconstructing America: Art and Politics in the United States” at the Courtauld Institute of Art. This conference looks to American visual culture to interrogate the fabric of the contemporary political moment. The conference will be recorded and posted on the Courtauld’s website and across its social media channels.