To support Ruth Duckworth: Life as a Unity (September 2023–January 2024), an exhibition that explores the art and influences of Ruth Duckworth and features 50 sculptures she created in Chicago, repositioning Duckworth as a pioneering modernist deeply engaged with the natural world. The grant request includes support for an engagement fellow, who leads an outreach project co-developed with teaching artists and teens involved in the museum’s Smart Teens program. The project is part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

To support Entre Horizontes: Art & Activism Between Chicago and Puerto Rico (August 2023–May 2024), an interdisciplinary exhibition that examines the affinities and relationships between the social-justice and anticolonial movements and artistic production of the Puerto Rican diaspora from 1960s to present. The grant request includes support for an engagement fellow, who facilitates programs developed for and with the Puerto Rican community. The project is part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

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 support The United Colors of Robert Paige (April–August 2024), a 50-year retrospective exhibition of works in multiple media by Robert Paige, an artist/designer perhaps best known for his textile designs. The grant supports an engagement fellow, who leads a curriculum-development project and programs connected to the exhibition. The project is part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

To support Floating Monuments: Mecca Flats, a large-scale inflatable public work of art that references a historic building called Mecca Flats (no longer extant) on Chicago’s South Side that was significant to the city’s cultural and social history. The movable structure, installed in several Chicago parks sites in 2024, is accompanied by programs that celebrates the arts and artists associated with the Mecca Flats and Chicago’s Black Renaissance while at the same time addressing the legacy of displacement and disinvestment in several of the city’s neighborhoods. The project takes place as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.