Forge Project’s editorial and publishing initiatives, including a new yearlong cohort program for Native writers through Forging, a digital-first journal that features long-form essays, cultural criticism, and reviews that elevate Indigenous voices and challenge settler colonial narratives; and to support the completion of the first published reader on Native contemporary art.

To support Elizabeth Catlett: A Revolutionary Black Artist and All that It Implies (working title), co-organized by the Brooklyn Museum and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. The exhibition explores the contributions of Elizabeth Catlett through rarely seen early paintings, drawings, and ephemera, demonstrating her engagement with multiple artistic and political movements over the course of the twentieth century. 

To support a three-year programming and publication project to establish an institutional archive documenting the first 25 years of the David C. Driskell Center’s history and legacy as the leading institution for the study and presentation of African American arts. The archive will also make accessible the papers of arts administrator Terrie S. Rouse-Rosario. 

To support the official US presentation of Jeffrey Gibson: the space in which to place me at the 60th International Art Exhibition in Venice. Gibson transforms the US Pavilion with newly produced sculptures, mixed-media paintings, site-specific murals, a multi-channel video installation created in 2020, and an exterior installation that invites deep reflection on identity and advocates for a widening of access to democracy, freedom, and empathy for all. A fully illustrated catalogue from the US pavilion accompanies the show.

To support five years of operating costs, enabling Panorama to grow its networks, reach, and capacity to continue to advocate on behalf of an expanded narrative of American art. By ensuring and upgrading staffing, technical support, and outreach, as well as inaugurating a contributor compensation plan, the journal is taking an active stance toward diversifying its editorial board, contributors, and readership, and is pivoting away from traditional centers to promote equity in publishing.

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.

To support phase two of The Latinx Papers project undertaken by the International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA) at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, working in collaboration with archival repositories and community researchers across the US. Thousands of new documents related to the history of Latinx art and artists are being recovered, digitized, and published on the ICAA’s Documents of Latin American and Latino Art Project portal, the premier digital repository for these art historical and curatorial fields, so that key intellectual source materials can be made freely accessible to students, researchers, and the general public. Documents sourced from partner repositories and individuals will be promoted via ICAA’s social media channels and its Papelitos blog space. Links to finding aids, when available, reinforce an emphasis on the physical location of documents and increase the visibility of partner collections.