To support the exhibition Alice Shaddle: Fuller Circles (March–July 2024), which examines the work and practice of Alice Shaddle (1928–2017), a Chicago artist and longtime Hyde Park Art Center teacher, who also co-founded the women’s artist collective and gallery Artemisia. The project is part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.
To fund planning activities for The New Art School Modality (NASM), a new art-school model grounded in the tenets of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s in Chicago and reflecting its ethos of collaboration, experimentation, and improvisation. During the planning phase, Museum of Vernacular Arts and Knowledge will offer three long-form and one or two short-form NASM programs, refine course design, develop its business model, identify institutional and funding partners, and define impact measures.
To support a two-year Terra Collection-in-Residence loan of six paintings and 30 works on paper from the Terra Foundation Collection and related programs. Artworks by 27 American artists, including Thomas Hart Benton, Edward Hopper, Winslow Homer, Clare Leighton, and William Zorach, are displayed in study galleries and are used for object-based teaching for students at several local universities.
To support Drawn to Music: The Art of Jerry Pinkney at the Woodmere Art Museum. The exhibition features approximately 75 works from throughout the career of Jerry Pinkney (1939– 2021), whose more than 100 illustrated books have reached millions globally. As a Black artist, Pinkney interpreted American history and identity through the lens of music throughout his career. The exhibition will be at Woodmere (September 2023–January 2024) and then at the Eric Carle Museum (February–July 2024), and it may travel to additional venues. Educational materials in a variety of formats for scholars, families, and teachers accompany the exhibition.
To support Melissa Cody—Webbed Skies (working title) at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP). Melissa Cody (b.1983) is a Navajo artist who belongs to the fourth generation of artists in her family. Cody’s weavings are made using the traditional techniques of the Navajo people, passed down from generation to generation. This temporary exhibition is situated within a year-long curatorial program dedicated to Indigenous Histories, a theme that provides the thematic axis of the museum’s 2023 programs. It is also the first solo show of Melissa Cody’s work in Brazil and, after its installation at MASP, it will travel to venues in the United States. An English and Portuguese catalogue accompanies the exhibition.
To support the planning process of Shifting Boundaries: New Views on American Landscapes at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art (NMAA). Shifting Boundaries offers an important new platform for previously underrepresented constituencies to consider human relationships to the natural world using the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art collections. Shifting Boundaries uses a model of community curation to make these works of art directly relevant to contemporary audiences through the lens of the environment. After the project, NMAA, with feedback from the curatorial group, will create a resource documenting the collaborative process, which will help both the institution and the field at large reflect on what worked well and what did not. This resource, which could take the form of a website or a conference presentation, aids other institutions considering similar projects.
To support the permanent collection reinstallation at Maguire Hall, Woodmere Art Museum’s newly acquired building. The collection reinstallation focuses on Philadelphia, with an emphasis on its Black and Brown communities, which together make up the majority demographic of the city. New installations offer visitors, educators, and community members expanded opportunities to build new relationships with works of art and the collections, allowing the museum to expand its explorations of the themes and ideas that make Philadelphia distinct. A digital scholarly catalogue accompanies the exhibition.
To support Indigenous Arts of the Americas at the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame. The new Raclin Murphy Museum of Art includes galleries for collections transitioning from the current Snite Museum of Art, including a suite of galleries dedicated to Indigenous Arts of the Americas, beginning with the North American Art gallery, transitioning into the Mesoamerican gallery, and ending in the Central and South American gallery. The North American Art gallery celebrates contemporary Indigenous artists working in various media. Each contemporary piece is presented alongside historical works created in the same medium, showing how these artists are honoring traditional artistic practices. A collection-highlight catalogue accompanies the exhibition.
To support the American Wing Centennial Reinstallation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Met celebrates its 100th anniversary with its first major reinstallation since 2012, reflecting new and evolving departmental leadership and staff, including Patricia Norby, associate curator of Native American art, along with an emphasis on cross-departmental collaborations. The overall reinstallation is informed by current curatorial thinking, expansive scholarship, and external community voices related to the ongoing redefinition of a broadly conceived American art, an effort in which the Wing is in the vanguard. An issue of The Met Bulletin, authored by Associate Curator Alyce Perry Englund, accompanies the exhibition.
To support Haudenosaunee Continuity, Innovation and Resilience at the Rochester Museum and Science Center (RMSC). The exhibition explores themes of Haudenosaunee cultural continuity and change, identity, and sovereignty through featured artists and artworks, both historical and contemporary. Envisioned and curated by Jamie Jacobs (Tonawanda Seneca, Turtle Clan), Rock Foundation collections manager, the exhibition reimagines a 2,200 square foot space on the museum’s second floor, where objects were deinstalled in early 2022 for the repatriation of cultural items back to their communities of origin. The project is a collaboration between nationals from numerous sovereign nations comprising the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the RMSC, and the Rock Foundation. The exhibition includes both written and spoken text in English, with the inclusion of some Seneca and Mohawk language.
To support Out of the Archive: Works by Miné Okubo at the Riverside Community College District. Out of the Archive is a collection reinstallation project of approximately 25–30 of Okubo’s works currently in the Center’s archive, none of which have been exhibited for the general public. The collection reinstallation contributes to a new exhibition that includes 60–70 of Okubo’s works and a renewed look at her diverse body of art. Themes such as the power of documenting lived experiences; the intersection of gender, race, and labor; the politics of citizenship and belonging; and activism and social justice provide a framing for the critical (re)reading and (re)imagining of Okubo’s work.
To support About Us: Planning for A Community Reinstallation of the Collection at the Queens Museum, Local Authority (working title). The Queens Museum’s (QM) objective is to host an exhibition, designed with input from community members, to align with its vision of becoming a more accessible, equitable, and situated museum. The collection includes more than 3,000 modern and contemporary artworks. The planning and review process reconsiders the stories these artworks can tell and how one might reframe such stories as prompts for dialogue.
