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Grants & Fellowship Opportunities

$50,000 - $100,000

South Side Community Art Center
$50,000
Chicago, IL
2024

To present two convenings in early 2025 in conjunction with Art Design Chicago. The first is a daylong symposium that offers a sensory and aesthetic exploration of themes in the artist Charles White’s work, complemented by performances by the pianist and composer Gerald Clayton, who will present his original suite, “White Cities: A Tribute to Charles White,” a dialogue between two artists across time, exploring race and lived experiences in three American cities that were important to White (Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles).

The second is conference, “Beyond Frames: Celebrating and Empowering Black Women Art Collectors,” designed to inspire and equip Black women with the skills, resources, and knowledge needed to start or expand their art collections. The event addresses theories of collecting and the history and legacy of Black women collectors in Chicago with an emphasis on Margaret Burroughs’s significant role as a collector. It features panel discussions, workshops, and off-site collection tours, with a focus on art media, acquisition strategies, collection organization, and appraisal processes.

Palais de Tokyo
$98,000
Paris, France
2024

This grant to four of eight national Parisian art institutions supports the first multi-museum celebration to be presented in the city in honor of a single artist in their lifetime: the sculptor, draftswoman, and author Barbara Chase-Riboud. Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Orsay, Musée du Louvre, Musée du Quai Branly, Musée Guimet, Musée Picasso, Palais de la Porte Dorée, Palais de Tokyo, and Philharmonie de Paris each present a specific series of Chase Riboud’s works in conversation with their permanent collections and temporary exhibitions, creating dialogues with art and artists such as the ancient Egyptian and Greek sculptors, Benin bronzes, Constantin Brancusi, Auguste Rodin, Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Lee Bontecou, and Louise Bourgeois. An English- and French- language catalogue co-published by the Louvre accompanies the exhibitions.

Victoria & Albert Museum
$75,000
London, United Kingdom
2024

To support the V&A East Storehouse and Museum’s inaugural installation of Work + Progress, a program of artist’s commissions, workshops, talks, and events creating a dialogue between contemporary artists and the V&A’s collections and local communities. In the The Long Goodbye Carrie Mae Weems explores migration histories in East London and parallel sites in the U.S., such as Brooklyn, NY. The project illustrates the diverse make-up of British and American cities at the heart of the creation of new shared identities, engaging hyper-local audiences aged 16–25 and bringing together the knowledge of East London’s communities and the creative approach and work of Carrie Mae Weems.

Kalakuta Trust
$100,000
Cape Town, South Africa
2024

To support Chimurenga’s research and archival project exploring Pan-African cultural projects on both sides of the Atlantic in the years following the creation of post-colonial African states. It focuses on the influence of Ousmane Sembene’s militant films on the development and theorization of the Black Independent Cinema movement in the U.S., particularly by the so-called LA Rebellion, which gathered at the UCLA Film School in the 1970s. PASS (Pan African Space Station), a roving research platform, part installation, part public convening, part broadcast performance, is traveling to partner organizations in Bamako, Dakar, Conakry, Abidjan, Ouagadougou, Chicago, and Paris, to produce new knowledge on Pan-African cinema and its historical connections to American art and U.S. practitioners prior to the release of an online research archive and print publication.

US Latinx Art Forum (USLAF)
$100,000
Medford, MA
2024

“X as Intersection: Writing on Latinx Art” is a digital publishing initiative that addresses the significant gap in the written record about the work and careers of contemporary Latinx artists. Over the course of two years, funding from the Terra Foundation supports the publication process of 42 interview-based essays on contemporary artists, as well as a convening held in New York City to assess the project’s progress, impact, and future.

American Federation of Arts
$100,000
New York, NY
2024

To support Willie Birch: Stories to Tell, the first career retrospective and national tour for the New Orleans–based artist (b. 1942). The exhibition, co-organized with the New Orleans Museum of Art, brings together works from the early 1960s to the present that chronicle Birch’s unique vision of the Black American experience. The exhibition will be accompanied by the artist’s first major retrospective catalogue, containing essays by leading scholars.

Dia Art Foundation
$100,000
New York, NY
2024

To support a survey exhibition of work by Renée Green (b. 1959), the first major New York museum exhibition dedicated to her practice, curated in close collaboration with the artist. A leading figure of post-Conceptualism and research-based art, Green has created installations that confront topics ranging from specific histories of colonialism to more abstract considerations of our conditions of perception. A publication will be the primary vehicle for new scholarship, research, and bibliographic content to be delivered to the public

Japanese American Cultural and Community Center
$100,000
Los Angeles, CA
2024

To support Hirokazu Kosaka: Art & Asymmetry, a project that contextualizes the evolution of Kosaka’s artmaking, from his visual, sound, landscape, and solo body experiments of the early 1970s to his current large-scale collaborative projects that seamlessly incorporate contemporary Western art concepts with traditional Japanese art forms and Shingon Buddhism. A catalogue with essays by scholars and curators will accompany the exhibition, and a website dedicated to the artist will share research materials, recorded lectures, and other content.

Abbe Museum
$75,000
Bar Harbor, ME
2024

To support In the Shadow of the Eagle, an exhibition timed to align with the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence that reveals Indigenous Americans’ ongoing complicated relationship to American democracy. Through the power of contemporary Native art, the exhibition centers the Wabanaki experience in Maine and illuminates the complex nature of treaty-making, military service, voting rights, protest, and sovereignty, all of which have real ramifications in the present. The accompanying publication will feature a series of essays by curators and/or advisory members.

Great Plains Art Museum
$75,000
Lincoln, NE
2024

To support Reflections of Our People, Our Ways, Our Land, a project that brings together 20 Otoe-Missouria artists working in multiple genres to co-create an exhibition focused on healing, reconciliation, and reconnecting to the land of their ancestors in southeast Nebraska. An exhibition catalogue will be available in print and digital formats.

High Museum of Art
$75,000
Atlanta, GA
2024

To support planning, research, and development for Isamu Noguchi: “I am not a designer.” Taking Noguchi’s highly polemical statement “I am not a designer” at its point of departure, the project seeks to problematize the artist’s declaration and expand the understanding of his diverse creative practice by focusing on the myriad design disciplines that Noguchi practiced: architecture, industrial design, ceramics, furniture, lighting, stage sets, and works of landscape design including playgrounds, fountains, plazas, and gardens.

Honolulu Museum of Art
$75,000
Honolulu, HI
2024

To support the development of Noguchi + Hawaiʻi, an exhibition that includes Noguchi’s studio works, public art commissions, maquettes, drawings, and archival materials in dialogue with seven modern and contemporary artists of Hawaii. Artists include Sean Kekamakupaʻaikapono Kaʻonohiokalani Lee Loy Browne, Kaili Chun, Sean Connelly, Leland Miyano, Kamran Samimi, Toshiko Takaezu, and Tseng Yu-ho.