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Grants & Fellowship Opportunities

Less than $50,000

Chicago Collections Consortium
$16,000
Chicago, Illinois
2023

To support A Digital Look at Chicago’s Art Fairs and Art Festivals (working title), a digital exhibition of archival material drawn from an array of collections that documents Chicago’s rich history of art fairs and art festivals and their impact on the diverse communities they serve. Related public programs feature archivists, historians who contributed to the project, and organizers of specific art fairs and festivals. The program takes place as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Chicago Art Department
$25,000
Chicago, Illinois
2023

To support Seeds IV: Healing Stages, an annual initiative that centers BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) voices and cultivates cross-cultural healing through multilayered celebrations. Seeds in My Pocket bridges the performing and visual arts to amplify direct support for artists, performers, storytellers, and other creative practitioners through a series of free public exhibitions, performances, and programs created with community partners. The program takes place as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Newberry Library
$40,000
Chicago, Illinois
2023

To support Immigrant Printing in Chicago (December 2024–March 2025), an exhibition that reflects on the lived experiences of immigrant printers, designers, and bookmakers in Chicago and explores how printing by and for immigrant communities has shaped the city’s cultural landscape. The project is part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Albertine Foundation
$40,000
New York, New York
2023

To support Opening Passages: Artists Respond to Chicago and Paris (April–July 2024), a multi-site photographic exhibition in Chicago that features recent bodies of work by ten artists who engage the dynamic social landscapes of either Chicago or Paris, staging a cross-cultural reflection on contemporary life in two global cities. The project is part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

The Drawing Center
$25,000
New York, New York
2023

To support the exhibition Joan Jonas: Animal, Vegetable, Minera at the Drawing Center. This exhibition is a definitive look at the integral place of drawing in the career of a pioneering feminist artist who makes self-reflective conceptual and time-based art that is not object-oriented. The exhibition is accompanied by a publication devoted to the history of Jonas’s drawing practice, co-published with DABA Press.

Gregory Allicar Museum of Art
$30,000
Fort Collins, Colorado
2023

To support qóóxoneeʼnohoʼóoóyóóʼ /Ho’honáa’e Tsé’amoo’ese: Art from the Rocky Mountain Homelands of the Hinono’ei and Tsistsistas Nations at Colorado State University. This project is the first major art exhibition at Colorado State University dedicated to artists of the Hinonoʼei (Arapaho) and Tsistsistas (Cheyenne) Nations, whose homelands intersect with the plains and foothills east of the Rocky Mountains in what is now known as Colorado. A scholarly catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

California State University Sacramento, University Galleries
$35,000
Sacramento, California
2023

To support the exhibition She Laughs Back: Feminist Wit in 1970s Bay Area Art, opening in February 2024 at the University Library Gallery at Sacramento State. The exhibition presents two- and three-dimensional artworks in various media created by women based in the region during the “long 1970s” (c. 1965–85). The exhibition, events, website, and accompanying catalogue explore strategies of feminist humor to challenge gender stereotypes widely questioned in the 1970s, a decade marked by far-reaching shifts in consciousness.

Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
$25,000
Omaha, Nebraska
2023

To support the solo exhibition Paul Stephan Benjamin: Variations on Blackness, opening in May 2024 at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art. The exhibition explores the Atlanta-based artist’s diverse meditations on the color and the “sound” of black. Variations on Blackness is an ongoing investigation of blackness through concept, thought, and perception. A scholarly printed gallery guide accompanies the exhibition along with a five-minute video of Paul Stephan Benjamin speaking about his artistic practice and the works in the exhibition.  

CEC ArtsLink
$20,800
New York, NY
2023

To support a small group of US-based artists and representatives of potential international host organizations to visit Bishkek, Kyrgyztan in Fall 2023 during the Trash Festival led by former ArtsLink International Fellow Bermet Borubaeva, enabling the group to further hone their concept for the US fellowship program to be launched in 2024. Mirroring the renowned ArtsLink International Fellowships program established in 1993, the ArtsLink US Fellowship program is designed to leverage an investment in individual artistic practitioners; stimulate the creative practice of the artist at a key career moment through embedded research and travel; deepen the impact and understanding of their work at home and internationally; and contribute to discourse that is addressing urgent concerns. Following the study visit, the organization convenes a group of thought partners for a virtual dialogue focused on US artists’ needs and desires for an international residency program, coupled with potential host organizations’ offerings and assessment of community interest in hosting visitors.

Folded Map
$30,000
Chicago, Illinois
2023

To support the Folded Map Curriculum Project, an extension of photographer and social-justice artist Tonika Johnson’s Folded Map project exploring the history and legacy of segregation in Chicago. Using a compelling artistic approach, the project takes insights informed by decades of social science research and makes them accessible to a broad audience. Offered to Chicago area middle- and high-school teachers free of charge, the professionally designed curriculum includes a teacher’s guide and a student edition in the form of a full-color artist-illustrated booklet.

Black Trustee Alliance for Art Museums
$25,000
New York, New York
2023

To support the alliance’s 2024 convening, an annual gathering of Black trustees serving on the boards of art museums across the country. The guiding theme of the convening, to be held in concert with EXPO Chicago (April 11–13, 2024), is “the Civic Role of the Museum Trustee.” The theme builds on Chicago’s legacy of civic activism and its vibrant Black culture, which are reflected in programming offered in partnership with local cultural organizations. Topics for discussion include board diversification, artist equity, and the role of artists and art museums in Black communities.

Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio, Inc.
$25,000
Southampton, New York
2023

To support the one-on-one documentation of artists and the provision of weekly artist-led presentations and artistic workshops for Shinnecock people local to Southampton, NY, from January through August 2024. The documentation of Shinnecock artists and their work, as well as the recordings of the various opportunities created for exchange (panel discussions, workshops, and presentations), are available on the Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio, Inc. website and through social media channels. The program culminates in a public exhibition and a printed catalogue available for purchase both online and in-person on the annual Labor Day Weekend Powwow at Shinnecock Nation.