To support the 2016 US-China Museum Leaders Forum in New York, which brings together 20 US museum leaders and 20 Chinese museum leaders to participate in programming and discussions designed to bridge cultural divides and foster museum collaborations among participants and their institutions.
To support a research colloquium at the Terra Foundation’s properties in Giverny, organized jointly by the Terra Foundation and the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. The event brings together approximately 12 international scholars for a week of presentations and discussion.
To support two events, one in Chicago and one in Paris, celebrating the release of Picturing, the first volume in the Terra Foundation Essays publication initiative.
To support the fifth and sixth volumes of the Terra Foundation Essays, an international publication initiative that explores fundamental ideas shaping American art and culture. The series comprises thematic volumes, each articulated around a single concept, and brings together essays by US and international scholars.
To support installation, programming, interpretation, and marketing of the Terra Foundation’s traveling exhibition at the venues of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, Arkansas), the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Reynolda House Museum of American Art (Winston-Salem, North Carolina).
To support the development of Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945 in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago and the Shanghai Museum. The exhibition is currently proposed to be shown at the Shanghai Museum in fall 2018.
To support postdoctoral fellowships at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin’s Institute of Art and Visual History for four years. The program supports two consecutive two-year postdoctoral fellowships to teach and engage in research on American art history, and complements the visiting professorships at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin.
To support a two-year loan of three paintings from the Terra Foundation collection to the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology (Oxford, UK), which includes work by Charles Courtney Curran, Childe Hassam, and Maurice Prendergast.
To support a partnership between the Terra Foundation, the Art Gallery of Western Australia (Perth), the Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne, and the University of Western Australia (Perth). The program consists of comparative exhibitions of nineteenth-century landscape paintings from Australia and the United States presented at the two art venues, which serve as the focus for related university courses, international symposia, and a publication.
To support a focused exhibition and conference at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts (Birmingham, UK) devoted to two works of art by George Bellows: Nude, Miss Bentham (1906), a new acquisition at the Barber, and Nude Girl, Miss Leslie Hall (1909), on loan from the Terra Foundation.
To support Show the World: 150 Years of Chicago Art and Design, a four-part documentary airing in 2018 on Chicago’s PBS affiliate WTTW. The series explores the national and international impact of Chicago’s history of innovation in art and design.
To support the publication of The Wall of Respect: Public Art and Black Liberation in 1960s Chicago. The volume, authored by Abdul Alkalimat, Rebecca Zorach, and Romi Crawford, provides a history of the influential civil-rights era mural and will be released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Wall of Respect.
