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Whitney Museum of American Art
$250,000
New York, New York
2019

To support The Impact of the Mexican Muralists on Artists in the United States, 1920-1950, which focuses on the impact of the “Mexican Vogue” on American art made between 1920 and
1950, a period defined by frequent travel of Mexican and American artists and intellectuals between the two countries. The exhibition brings together approximately 180 works by some 65 different artists from the United States and Mexico. A catalogue accompanies the exhibition, which will also be presented at the McNay Art Museum and the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Yorkshire Sculpture Park
$200,000
Wakefield, United Kingdom
2019

To support David Smith in Yorkshire, the largest exhibition on David Smith to take place in the United Kingdom outside of London. Smith was a key figure in the history of twentieth-century sculpture, and the exhibition includes approximately 40 sculptures, drawn from four decades, beginning with Smith’s earliest experimental works from the 1930s and ending with his large-scale sculptures of the 1960s, along with a selection of drawings. A catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris- Cergy and the École Supérieure d’Art et de Design TALM-Angers, Art by Translation
$17,640
Angers, France
2019

To support “Mel Bochner on Translation,” a one-day symposium exploring the career and legacy of artist Mel Bochner, paying particular attention to how his work engages with linguistic and translation theories and highlighting the relationship between Bochner’s work and the theories of Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Martin Heidegger, and Walter Benjamin.

Asian/Pacific/American Institute, New York University
$25,000
New York, New York
2019

To support “Activism and Diaspora: American Art Histories,” a program that brings together scholars from the overlapping fields of diasporic art and American art for a two-day workshop. The program expands the conception of American art to include activist art. It explores activist art produced by Asian American, Latinx, African American, Asian, and Indigenous artists, and also considers the ways in which art by some Asian American artists addresses domestic and global concerns.

Center for Italian Modern Art
$12,500
New York, New York
2019

To support “Methodologies of Exchange: MoMA’s Twentieth-Century Italian Art Exhibition (1949),” a program that examines the Museum of Modern Art’s 1949 exhibition Twentieth-Century Italian Art and how this shaped American artists’ views of Italian modernism. To study those involved in the MoMA show and those directly affected by its consequences, the program is divided into two main sections: the first half looking at the reception of Italian art and artists in the United States, and the second half focused on American artists.

Chicano Studies Research Center, University of California Los Angeles
$25,000
Los Angeles, California
2019

To support “Art in the Global 18th–20th Centuries at California’s Missions: Expanding ‘American’ Art to Incorporate the Legacy of Conquest,” a two-and-a-half-day program that expands the view of American art to account for the art collections at California’s missions and the effects of conquest on Indigenous makers.

University College London, Department of History of Art
$24,995
London, United Kingdom
2019

To support “Anni Albers and the Modernist Textile,” a two-day conference that gathers 16 scholars from academic institutions in the United Kingdom, the United States, Chile, Mexico, and Europe to discuss the critical significance of textiles within the modernist project. Focusing on the work of the twentieth- century weaver Anni Albers, the conference examines the afterlife of a Bauhaus weaving aesthetic as it was transformed across transnational networks of dialogue and dissemination.

Institut für Kunstgeschichte der Universität Wien
$17,300
Vienna, Austria
2019

To support “Untimely Media/Domestic Techniques: The 60s and 70s between New York and Vienna,” a two-day symposium examining how artists working in New York and Vienna in the 1960s and 1970s turned to “untimely media”—such as textile, wallpaper, and outmoded technologies—as well as “domestic techniques,” artistic engagement with intimate spaces that investigated the domestic sphere. Speakers represent methodologies informed by other fields, from the histories of craft to cultures of display and feminist and queer theory.

Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies
$9,975
Mainz, Germany
2019

To support “Once Upon a Time in America,” a program consisting of a one-day conference with art historians, curators, and academics from Europe and the United States and a one-day workshop for undergraduate and graduate students, half spent in dialogue with the conference presenters and half a lightning round of student papers. The gatherings bring together Americanist scholars from North America and Europe in conversation around transatlantic perspectives on new developments in the field of early American studies.

Universidad de Los Andes
$25,000
Bogotá, Colombia
2019

To support “Landscape Art of the Americas: Sites of Human Intervention across the Nineteenth Century,” a three-day program examining landscape art of the Americas produced in the long nineteenth century. Considering landscapes from across the Western Hemisphere, the program explores themes such as Indigenous sites, deforestation and ecology, ports and commerce, modern technology, and women intervening in the land.

National Museum of Mexican Art
$22,000
Chicago, Illinois
2019

To support “Nuestras Historias: Teaching through Art,” including professional development for teachers, curriculum development, field trips for participants’ students, and artist residencies in the classroom. The program highlights works by Mexican American artists in NMMA’s collection exhibition and serves 30 Chicago Public Schools teachers and approximately 900 students.

Chicago Architecture Biennial
$50,000
Chicago, Illinois
2019

To support a series of American art- and design-focused public programs as part of the third Chicago Architecture Biennial, in 2019. The programs are intended to stimulate dialogue about contemporary topics related to the built environment, each re-evaluating the historical impact and significance of American art, design, and related archival materials.