To support the Terra Foundation Research Fellowship in American Photography at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (2020-2022) to spearhead research on works in the museum’s permanent collection. Two fellows will be selected for one year each to conduct in-depth research on selected works, photographers, and/or themes based on the fellows’ individual research.
To support “Terra Foundation for American Art Series: New Perspectives,” a series of 10 events that develop original research, generate debate, promote the exchange of ideas, and contribute to an expanded view of American art and artists. The series amplifies a suite of seven recent and forthcoming American art exhibitions throughout the various Tate institutions, and provides an opportunity for audiences to engage with American art and artists.
To support the Terra Foundation’s Exhibition Research and Development Fund from 2020 to 2022. This fund provides a variety of grants designed to encourage international curators to learn more about historical American art and present exhibitions of American art at their home institutions, and to encourage US curators of American art to conduct research internationally and/or partner with international institutions. Additionally it supports pre-exhibition convenings of US and non-US partners.
To support the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s six-year collaborative exhibition consortium with two university galleries and two regional museums in the Greater Los Angeles area, with a goal of broadening access to American art. Three exhibitions in development reframe and broaden the traditional idea of American art, while allowing the public to access and engage with important segments of LACMA’s collection. This multi-year, multi-institutional exhibition partnership is made possible by the Art Bridges + Terra Foundation Initiative, a joint program of Art Bridges and the Terra Foundation for American Art.
To support the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s American West exhibition consortium over five years with five partners from the Western region of the United States in order to present American art and implement object-centered learning opportunities in ways that deeply connect with the lives and regional histories of audiences in the West. This multi-year, multi-institutional exhibition partnership is made possible by the Art Bridges + Terra Foundation Initiative, a joint program of Art Bridges and the Terra Foundation for American Art.
To support a pre-exhibition convening for the internationally collaborative exhibition Joan Mitchell: To Paint Out of My Own Landscape. Co-organizers the Baltimore Museum of Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will conduct research with the goal of generating collaborative, international scholarship on Joan Mitchell’s work, her social and cultural context, and the reception of her paintings in Paris from the 1950s through 70s.
To support research travel in connection to a large-scale Light and Space exhibition in Denmark, exploring the Californian ‘Light and Space-artists’ of the 1960s and 70s, and considering them as a historical movement contributing to the practice of contemporary artists.
To support a two-part convening for the purpose of planning an international exhibition of approximately 90 paintings and works on paper by American modernist Georgia O’Keeffe. Partners include El Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza (Madrid, Spain), Fondation Beyeler (Basel, Germany), and Musée National d’Art Moderne (Paris, France).
To support partners Grey Art Gallery, New York University, and the Musée d’arts de Nantes to convene a symposium devoted to development of the exhibition Americans in Paris: Artists in the City of Light, 1946–1968. Partners will bring together key American and European scholars, writers, and curators who have addressed aspects of post–World War II American expatriate art and its intersections with French culture.
To support research travel for the exhibition Peter Saul, Pop, Funk, Bad and More, with the aim of documenting the works presented and to re-examine Peter Saul’s career, from his period spent in Europe (1958-1964), to his return to the United States until now.
To support research travel to view Niki de Saint Phalle’s work in person, including the Tirs, and establish relationships with museums, collectors, and curators in order to secure loans in preparation for the upcoming exhibition on the artist.
To support research travel to explore the work and legacy of the Societé Anonyme in preparation for the upcoming exhibition on the beginnings of the institutionalization of the avant-garde in the United States and Europe.
