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Grantmakers in the Arts
$25,000
Bronx, New York
2024

Grantmakers in the Arts (GIA), a national professional organization that provides professional development and resources for arts grantmakers, is holding its annual conference in Chicago in October 2024. This grant offsets speaker fees. Shaped by a local committee, the conference comprises four days of sessions as well as cultural programs and tours at cultural sites identified by the committee. The critical goals of the conference are to advance racial equity in arts funding, connect funders to the larger national arts grantmaking ecosystem, and introduce funders from around the nation to local creative communities. 

National Association for Latino Arts and Cultures— NALAC
$25,000
San Antonio, Texas
2024

The National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC) is a professional organization that serves the US Latino arts and cultural sector via funding, leadership training, convenings, research, and advocacy. The grant supports NALAC’s first regional workshop in Chicago, an event tailored to the needs and interests of area artists/administrators across disciplines but also designed to promote national connections. Workshop plans and content are informed by a local advisory committee and findings from a survey of Latinx/e arts workers to understand how the convening can add value to the Chicago area, as well as grasp what skills and information are needed and who are the potential speakers from whom respondents want to learn. 

Park Avenue Armory
$25,000
New York, New York
2024

Park Avenue Armory is seeking support for “The Radical Practice of Black Curation: A Symposium and Retreat,” jointly proposed by Tavia Nyong’o (Yale University) and Tina M. Campt (Princeton University) as part of Nyong’o’s curated series of public programs titled “Making Space at the Armory.” Starting from the observation that the past two decades have witnessed the success of a wide range of Black artists, this symposium considers the conditions that have enabled this success, in particular the ascent of a visionary group of Black curators and curators of color, who have expanded the capacity of arts institutions to recognize the work of an increasingly diverse group of artists. 

Norman Rockwell Museum
$50,000
Stockbridge, Massachusetts
2024

To support the reinterpretation of Norman Rockwell’s The Problem We All Live With. The painting has become one of the most recognized and potent images of the modern civil rights movement, and the Norman Rockwell Museum seeks to develop a new interpretive framework that tells a more complete story of the painting. The project contextualizes the work more deeply within the desegregation of schools in New Orleans and the specific people involved, as well as within the work Rockwell did before and after this painting. The project also addresses the ways that Rockwell’s art can be presented today in an inclusive and meaningful way for diverse audiences.    

Chicago Public Art Group
$50,000
Chicago, IL
2024

The Chicago Public Art Group (CPAG) seeks support to preserve one of the earliest CPAG murals still extant and one of the few monumental murals created for a labor union, the Union Electrical Workers Mural (1973–74), also known as “Solidarity,” by CPAG cofounder John Pitman Weber and the late Jose Guerrero. Addressing such themes as resilience and the dignity of labor, and representing the story of the UE, industrial unionism, and related social movements, “Solidarity” reflects Chicago’s centrality to the revival of the mural movement of the 1960s and ’70s and is significant to the city’s art history and US labor history. The sale of the United Electrical Workers (UE) Hall at 37 S. Ashland Avenue necessitates moving the mural to preserve and conserve it—work to be carried out by Parma Conservation, after which it will be rehoused at the Chicago’s Teachers Union at 1901 West Carroll Street. 

Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
$20,000
Paris, France
2023

To support a series of three roundtables with contemporary African American visual artists Glenn Ligon, Jordan Casteel, and Hank Willis Thomas, joined by local French artists, scholars focusing on their work, and museum professionals. The roundtables take place once a year from 2024 until 2026. Events are open to the public and free of charge; are livestreamed and made available on the websites of the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle and of the French American Museum Exchange (FRAME).

Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
$,25,000
Madrid, Spain
2023

To support Disobeying the mandate, interrupting the narrative, amplifying the apparatus, a convening to be held on September 28–29, 2024, organized by the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in partnership with grassroots associations FelipaManuela, Espacio Afro, La Parcería, and Periferia Cimarronas. The convening aims to enable the development of tools and strategies to transform cultural institutions and advance them toward adopting inclusive models in their programming, collections, work teams, and governance systems. There are lectures and talks for the general public, as well as workshops and working sessions with staff from other museums and cultural institutions.

University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology
$23,850
Vancouver, Canada
2023

To support Meddling in the Museum Redux, a two-day symposium with an evening public event at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, scheduled for May 2024. Meddling in the Museum Redux looks at the way ancestral and contemporary artworks are brought into relation with one another in museums, focusing on the anthropological museology of Indigenous Northwest Pacific art.

The New School
$25,000
New York, New York
2023

To support Correction*—A Series of Public Convenings on the Perils and Promise of “Correcting” the Past, the final convenings of a two-year research seminar organized by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics (VLC) investigating the theme of correction, are held monthly between January and May 2024. Participating artists, curators, and art historians, members of the VLC’s network from the US, Canada, and Mexico, include Native American, First Nations, and Indigenous artists. Each convening includes a reading and resource list created collectively during the program that is shared for free along with the program recordings on the VLC’s website.

University of Minnesota Foundation
$25,000
Minneapolis, Minnesota
2023

To support the Truth & Reconciliation Initiative: Harm Reparation Around Repatriation of the Mimbres Collection at the Weisman Art Museum, a convening to be held on June 4–6, 2025, at the Weisman Art Museum of the University of Minnesota. The convening brings together interdisciplinary and multigenerational Native artists, scholars, organizers, and curators with non-Native museum professionals to engage in public dialogue and action around harm reparation at the Weisman Art Museum.

Amistad Research Center
$1,000,000
New Orleans, LA
2023

To support a multi-year research and conservation project of the series of forty-one paintings by Jacob Lawrence devoted to Toussaint Louverture in the collection of the Amistad Research Center. The funding includes a three-year research fellow, conservation of the paintings, and planning for an exhibition. The grant is part of a larger Terra Foundation initiative devoted to institutions founded by or associated with the American Missionary Association.

Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art
$15,000
Paris, France
2023

the 36th International Committee for Art History Congress in Lyon, France, June 23–28, 2024. The International Committee for Art History Congress is a global platform of exchange in the field of art history held every four years in a different location. It brings together emerging and established art historians and researchers from related disciplines around a specific theme for six days of in-depth exchanges, lectures, roundtables, and debates, as well as visits to local cultural institutions and historic sites.