Convenings


University of Minnesota Foundation
$25,000
Minneapolis, Minnesota
2023

To support the Truth & Reconciliation Initiative: Harm Reparation Around Repatriation of the Mimbres Collection at the Weisman Art Museum, a convening to be held on June 4–6, 2025, at the Weisman Art Museum of the University of Minnesota. The convening brings together interdisciplinary and multigenerational Native artists, scholars, organizers, and curators with non-Native museum professionals to engage in public dialogue and action around harm reparation at the Weisman Art Museum.

The New School
$25,000
New York, New York
2023

To support Correction*—A Series of Public Convenings on the Perils and Promise of “Correcting” the Past, the final convenings of a two-year research seminar organized by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics (VLC) investigating the theme of correction, are held monthly between January and May 2024. Participating artists, curators, and art historians, members of the VLC’s network from the US, Canada, and Mexico, include Native American, First Nations, and Indigenous artists. Each convening includes a reading and resource list created collectively during the program that is shared for free along with the program recordings on the VLC’s website.

University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology
$23,850
Vancouver, Canada
2023

To support Meddling in the Museum Redux, a two-day symposium with an evening public event at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, scheduled for May 2024. Meddling in the Museum Redux looks at the way ancestral and contemporary artworks are brought into relation with one another in museums, focusing on the anthropological museology of Indigenous Northwest Pacific art.

Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
$,25,000
Madrid, Spain
2023

To support Disobeying the mandate, interrupting the narrative, amplifying the apparatus, a convening to be held on September 28–29, 2024, organized by the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in partnership with grassroots associations FelipaManuela, Espacio Afro, La Parcería, and Periferia Cimarronas. The convening aims to enable the development of tools and strategies to transform cultural institutions and advance them toward adopting inclusive models in their programming, collections, work teams, and governance systems. There are lectures and talks for the general public, as well as workshops and working sessions with staff from other museums and cultural institutions.

Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
$20,000
Paris, France
2023

To support a series of three roundtables with contemporary African American visual artists Glenn Ligon, Jordan Casteel, and Hank Willis Thomas, joined by local French artists, scholars focusing on their work, and museum professionals. The roundtables take place once a year from 2024 until 2026. Events are open to the public and free of charge; are livestreamed and made available on the websites of the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle and of the French American Museum Exchange (FRAME).

Serpentine Galleries
$25,000
London, United Kingdom
2023

To support Infinite Ecologies Marathon, an interdisciplinary festival of ideas that addresses environmental justice and the role played by culture in catalyzing systemic change, framed around key topics such as biodiversity, human rights, conservation, and reparations. Scheduled over a weekend in July 2024 across the entirety of the Serpentine Galleries’ physical and digital campus, the program addresses wildfires and cultures of fire management from the Pacific coast of the US and Canada. Invited participants include artists, architects, designers, and thinkers such as Torkwase Dyson, Macarena Gómez-Barris, Jack Halberstam, Sky Hopinka, Maya Lin, and Jacolby Satterwhite.

Electronic Arts Intermix
$25,000
New York, New York
2023

To support Video After Television: Open Circuits Revisited, a three-day series of workshops in May 2024 co-organized by Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), MoMA, and New York University’s Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, to honor the 50th anniversary of MoMA’s exhibition Open Circuits: An International Conference on the Future of Television. Addressing the historical inequities and exclusions central to mainstream depictions of video and media art history, the gathering recasts these prevailing narratives by complicating the medium’s history and its contemporary practice. ASL interpretation, open captions, audio descriptions, livestreaming, and site accessibility are prioritized to ensure better accessibility.  

di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art
$25,000
Napa, California
2023

To support the final two sessions in June and October 2024 of the multipart convening Towards an Archaeology of the Future, co-organized by the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, the California Indian Museum and Cultural Center (CIMCC), and independent curator Gavin Kroeber. Native land stewards, fire ecologists, landscape architects, fire managers, art historians, eco-humanities scholars, survivor community members, environmental justice activists, and contemporary artists will gather to respond to Northern California’s wildfire crisis. The program includes expert-led fire ecology walks, Native land site visits, artist-led field exercises, film screenings, prescribed fire workshops, and roundtables on eco-art, decolonization, and posthumanism. Each session features public programs at the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art and CIMCC.

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
$25,000
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
2023

To support Black Artists Retreat (Houston Freedmen Town Edition): Black Land Ownership and Space, a four-day convening in May 2024 organized by the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in partnership with Houston Freedmen’s Town and the City of Houston. The convening will bring together local and national curators, community organizers, and a cohort of Houston-based Black artists, architects, archivists, and urban designers with the aims of expanding awareness of the story of Freedmen’s Town and of exploring the use of art as a vehicle for economic development in Black communities.

Alfredo F. Tadiar Library
$25,000
San Fernando, La Union, Philippines
2023

To support Networks of Survival, Ecologies of Flourishing, a weeklong convening for artists and academics from different Philippine and Filipinx diasporic contexts, to workshop critical and creative projects that explore themes of social survival and ecological sustainability. The program invites North American–based Filipinx American artists and diasporic artists from Australia and Europe to share their work alongside Philippine-based artists at the Alfredo F. Tadiar Library in San Fernando, La Union, Philippines.

Alfredo F. Tadiar Library
$$25,000
San Fernando, La Union, Philippines

To support Networks of Survival, Ecologies of Flourishing, a weeklong convening for artists and academics from different Philippine and Filipinx diasporic contexts, to workshop critical and creative projects that explore themes of social survival and ecological sustainability. The program invites North American–based Filipinx American artists and diasporic artists from Australia and Europe to share their work alongside Philippine-based artists at the Alfredo F. Tadiar Library in San Fernando, La Union, Philippines.

Independent Curators International
$25,000
New York, NY
2023

To support “The Chicago Assembly,” offering professional development and network building for a group of Chicago curators, and the “Curatorial Forum,” a national convening of curators at EXPO CHICAGO that explores urgent issues within the curatorial and museum fields. The Assembly cohort helps to shape the 2024 Forum, focused on the civic role of American contemporary art institutions, parts of which are open to the public. Additionally, cohort members receive mentorship tailored to their needs and interests. The project takes place as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.