To support the development and pilot phase of the Burroughs Residency over three years, a new residency opportunity in Chicago for local and international artists that is highly tailored to the residents’ research needs and interests as well as to the interests of local cultural organizations that interact with the artists. A portion of the grant supports the organization’s operations and programmatic activity as well.
To support Andrea Carlson: Shimmer on Horizons, the first solo exhibition in a Chicago museum of work by Andrea Carlson, co-founder of the Center for Native Futures. Carlson’s art challenges colonial representations of Indigenous territories by incorporating references to her family, Ojibwe history, and symbols of Indigenous sovereignty. The exhibition includes video works, paintings, sculptures, and prints created over the past five years, with didactics presented in English, Spanish, and the Ojibwe language, Anishinaabemowin.
This grant supports Clichycago, a residency program at Ateliers Médicis in the Parisian suburb of Clichy-Montfermeil offering fellowships for Chicago-based artists from the city’s South Side. Centered on the theme of “Chosen or Endured Community,” it aims to foster intercultural dialogues and connections between artists locally and internationally, engaging with themes of community, architecture, and public institutions.
This three-year grant supports Analyze, Assess, and Resituate the International Review of African American Art, a research and assessment project that examines the journal’s history, structure, and audience during its time in circulation from 1972 to 2020. A consultant will work with Hampton University Museum staff, Hampton student interns, an advisory board, and former IRAAA staff to determine a comprehensive direction for the journal. A final report will outline results and recommendations for returning the journal to publication.
Embarc brings Chicago Public School high school students to various Art Design Chicago exhibitions to provide them with insights into Chicago’s rich art and design legacy and the city’s museums and galleries and to offer exposure to careers in the visual arts and design. Collaborating closely with staff at host sites, Embarc’s educators orchestrate experiential learning activities bridging the gap between the exhibitions and the students’ classrooms and communities, fostering a sense of connection and belonging at the cultural organizations they visit.
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.
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.
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.
Knowing the West presents works by Indigenous artists from more than 35 distinct tribal nations and by non–Native 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.
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.
STREET NIHONGA: The Art of Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani explores the art of painter and collagist Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani (1920–2012).
Andrea Morales: Roll Down Like Water—Photography 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.
