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Grants & Fellowship Opportunities

Chicago Public Program

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.

Opendox
$50,000
Kingston, New York
2023

To support Designing For Dignity: A Convening of Possibilities 02, Deem Journal’s second symposium, to be held in-person at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and virtually. The event brings together designers, practitioners, and community members for dialogues around emergent and liberatory directions within design. Through a wide range of presentations, workshops, site/studio visits, and art installations, the event explores how design can draw on diverse perspectives to create more equitable and inclusive communities and futures. The program takes place as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

American Indian Center of Chicago
$50,000
Chicago, Illinois
2023

To support Indigenizing Urban Intertribal Arts, a series of artmaking workshops led by Native practitioners that includes contemporary expressions of traditional Indigenous techniques in feather fans, moccasins, quillwork, and Hand Drums. 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.

Folded Map
$50,000
Chicago, Illinois
2023

To support unBlocked, an initiative led by social justice artist Tonika Johnson that is a response to racist Land Sale Contracts in the 1950s and ’60s and their lasting impact on today’s residents. The project, in partnership with the Chicago Bungalow Association, brings together community members, artists, and other collaborators to catalyze the transformation of an Englewood block through arts-based and physical improvements and repairs to individual homes whose present-day property (de)valuation can be traced to racist housing policies. The program takes place as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Public Media Institute (PMI)
$50,000
Chicago, Illinois
2023

To support Artist-Run Legacies: Conversations between Generations of Artist-Run Culture in Chicago, a project that convenes and amplifies the voices of artists and organizers who have built independent artist-run platforms in Chicago over the past 45 years through the development of a story archive, in-person conversations broadcast on Lumpen Radio and Lumpen TV, and a culminating publication. PMI is pursuing this project in its capacity as caretaker of MdW, an affiliation of artist run organizations in the Midwest, and its partnership with the Hyde Park Art Center’s Artist Run Chicago Fund. The program takes place as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Red Line Service Institute
$50,000
Chicago, IL
2023

To support “Designing Belonging,” a lecture and workshop series engaging houseless artists in the reimagination of public spaces in Chicago. The programming consists of eight public lectures featuring scholars and practitioners of design and two workshop series for houseless artists to co- design an object aimed at making public space more hospitable and to conduct research for a historic tour. The culminating event features a keynote talk on the history of access and exclusion in public space. The programs take place as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago. 

Illinois Humanities
$50,000
Chicago, IL
2023

To support “Chicago Style: Fashion and Design, Past and Present,” a series of programs focused on the role of vernacular design—specifically fashion and style—in the lives of everyday South Side Chicagoans. A design cohort creates a new episode of the livestreamed web series, “Spinning Home Movies,” using archival footage, original music, and oral interviews that are screened in conjunction with moderated conversations at local thrift shops and at a culminating event, featuring a fashion show and discussion as well. The programs take place as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago. 

Media Burn Archive
$15,000
Chicago, Illinois
2020

To support “Chicago Lost and Found,” a four-part program series exploring the history of Chicago art and artists. Utilizing its vast collection of archival videos, Media Burn offers a lens into the art scenes of the past through four 90-minute multidisciplinary public programs, featuring documentary clips, panel conversations, live performances, and historical re-enactments.

Hyde Park Art Center
$15,000
Chicago, Illinois
2020

To support public programs to be held in conjunction with an exhibition of contemporary work inspired by the historic South Side Community Art Center, titled Planting and Maintaining a Perennial Garden IV: Demise Shrouds. The public programs highlight how the two institutions have each shaped the arts and art making in Chicago, how arts spaces evolve over time, and how community and art in Chicago intersect through social practice.

Greater Chatham Initiative
$14,000
Chicago, Illinois
2020

To support “Black Arts, Black Power, and the Birth of Kwanzaa,” a free panel conversation exploring the ways in which artists shaped the tradition of Kwanzaa celebrated across the United States. The program, which takes place as part of a Greater Chatham Initiative’s larger Kwanzaa community celebration, features artists and scholars in discussion about the relationship between Kwanzaa and Chicago’s Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and ‘70s.

National Veterans Art Museum
$25,000
Chicago, Illinois
2019

To support programming offered in conjunction with the inaugural National Veterans Art Museum Triennial, featuring a survey exhibition exploring 100 years of veteran art, from World War I to the present day. Public programming includes gallery tours, public dialogues, and workshops.