More than $200,000


Museum of Vernacular Arts and Knowledge
$800,000
Chicago, IL
2025

To support organization planning and the expansion of the New Art School Modality (NASM), an innovative and affordable alternative to traditional art schools. NASM offers free or low-cost art and art history courses to a diverse community, emphasizing underrecognized art histories, forms, and learning methods. The program fosters collective teaching, intergenerational exchange, and collaborative approaches rooted in various cultural contexts.

Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa
$250,000
Cape Town, South Africa
2025

To support exhibitions of the work of Cauleen Smith in 2025 and Kambui Olujimi in 2026, marking the first museum surveys of their practices on the African continent. Both presentations delve into shared narratives of Black life, resistance, and visions of liberatory possibilities. English-language catalogues accompany the exhibitions.

Centre Pompidou
$250,000
Paris, France
2024

To support Paris Noir, an exhibition that brings together works of 150 artists who are Black and/or part of the African diaspora—from Africa, the Caribbean, South and North America—and who are still widely overlooked in France. The transdisciplinary artists featured in the exhibition work across painting, literature, music, dance, fashion, and cinema. A catalogue with substantial essays will highlight this historical survey and a conference, Paris Noir. From Présence Africaine to Revue Noire (1947–1991), will be offered.

Forge Project
$550,000
Taghkanic, NY
2024

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.

Yinka Shonibare Foundation
$220,000
London, UK
2024

To support Cultivation: Guest Artists Space Residencies and Re-Assemblages: African Arts Libraries Lab and Conference, a two-day interdisciplinary conference featuring scholars, publishers, artists, and representatives of cultural institutions and universities, that engages in dialogue, roundtables, and presentations themed on new directions in restitution through the lens of African and Afro-diasporic archival publications and library collections.

Brooklyn Museum
$225,000
Brooklyn, New York
2024

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. 

University of Maryland—David C. Driskell Center
$280,000
College Park, Maryland
2024

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. 

Portland Art Museum
$250,000
Portland, Oregon
2023

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.

Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art
$250,000
Oviedo, Florida
2023

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.

Amistad Research Center
$1,000,000
New Orleans, LA
2023

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.

Hyde Park Art Center
$300,000
Chicago, IL
2023

To support the Artist-Run Chicago Fund, which awards unrestricted grants to artist-run spaces and collaboratives. The fund supports 25 artist-run groups with unrestricted grants and offers 15 project awards to engage the public through exhibitions and installations, talks, community events, and workshops. It also offers professional development and networking opportunities. The initiative takes place as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago. 

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
$250,000
Houston, TX
2023

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.