All Grants


Burke Museum Association
$150,000
Seattle, Washington
2024

To support Woven in Wool: The Rebirth of Traditional Coast Salish Regalia, a first-of-its-kind exhibition that embraces the power of wool regalia in all forms. The six-month exhibition features traditional wool regalia—an art form threatened with extinction until the late twentieth century—common among the nineteenth-century Coast Salish peoples in the Pacific Northwest. 

Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA)
$125,000
North Adams, Massachusetts
2024

Opening at MASS MoCA and traveling to Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Vincent Valdez: Just a Dream… is the first-ever museum retrospective of the work of Houston- and Los Angelesbased artist Vincent Valdez. The exhibition surveys over two decades of Valdez’s work, spanning from early career drawings to current political pieces. 

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
$125,000
Memphis, Tennessee
2024

Andrea Morales: Roll Down Like WaterPhotography and Movement Journalism in the American South is a solo exhibition of the Memphis-based Peruvian American documentary photographer Andrea Morales (b.1984), the artist’s first major touring exhibition and catalogue. 

Spencer Museum of Art
$125,000
Lawrence, Kansas
2024

STREET NIHONGA: The Art of Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani explores the art of painter and collagist Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani (19202012). 

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
$100,000
New York, New York
2024

Making Home: Smithsonian Design Triennial explores contemporary perspectives on the theme of home throughout the United States, its territories, and tribal nations. It features 25 site-related commissions in which artists, architects, and designers transform the museum’s historic Carnegie Mansion into a canvas for creative expression. Each work is historically constructed and grounded in specific social, political, and economic contexts. 

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
$100,000
Bentonville, Arkansas
2024

Knowing the West presents works by Indigenous artists from more than 35 distinct tribal nations and by nonNative artists in order to recontextualize historical artworks, encourage deeper exploration of a familiar topic, and celebrate the rich cultures that reflect the complexity of the American West. 

El Museo del Barrio
$100,000
New York, New York
2024

Candida Alvarez: Circle, Point, Hoop is the artist’s first large-scale museum survey exhibition, examining her practice over a span of more than forty years and including works rarely or never before seen. 

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
$100,000
Washington, District of Columbia
2024

Adam Pendleton is a multidisciplinary exploration of the artist’s practice, in which he uses text and images to recontextualize histories of Blackness, abstraction, and the avant-garde. 

Alaska Native Heritage Center
$75,000
Anchorage, Alaska
2024

The Nacheyakda’ina Exhibition Project (nacheyakda’ina means “our ancestors” in the Dena’ina Athabascan language) delves into themes such as the rich artistic traditions of Indigenous peoples throughout the state of Alaska, the introduction of colonialism there, and the ongoing impacts of assimilative colonial institutions on contemporary Indigenous life. 

Michigan State University Museum
$75,000
East Lansing, Michigan
2024

IT’S MORE THAN A QUILLBOX”/“Ooshme Gaawiyekaajigan aawon is a bilingual (English and Anishinaabemowin) exhibition on Anishinaabe quillwork art at the Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture & Lifeways. 

Portland Museum of Art
$75,000
Portland, Maine
2024

Jeremy Frey: Woven commemorates the artistic achievements of a celebrated Indigenous basket maker. Presenting more than 50 of Frey’s baskets from 25 lenders, the exhibition opens at the Portland Museum of Art before traveling to both the Art Institute of Chicago and the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut. 

Westmoreland Museum of American Art
$75,000
Greensburg, Pennsylvania
2024

Anila Quayyum Agha: Interwoven surveys two decades of the artist’s practice across a variety of media, including sculpture, installation, embroidery, painting, and drawing, and represents the most comprehensive exhibition to date of this Pakistani American visual artist.