Grants & Fellowship Opportunities

Exhibitions

Woodmere Art Museum
$100,000
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2023

To support Drawn to Music: The Art of Jerry Pinkney at the Woodmere Art Museum. The exhibition features approximately 75 works from throughout the career of Jerry Pinkney (1939– 2021), whose more than 100 illustrated books have reached millions globally. As a Black artist, Pinkney interpreted American history and identity through the lens of music throughout his career. The exhibition will be at Woodmere (September 2023–January 2024) and then at the Eric Carle Museum (February–July 2024), and it may travel to additional venues. Educational materials in a variety of formats for scholars, families, and teachers accompany the exhibition.

Springfield Museums
$25,000
Springfield, Massachusetts
2023

To support Nelson Stevens’ Color Rapping at the Springfield Museums. The exhibition centers Nelson Stevens (1938–2022), an early member of AfriCOBRA (African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists)—an art collective born out of the Black Arts Movement (BAM). Stevens brought the movement to Springfield in the 1970s. This exhibition features a survey of Stevens’s work across six decades, while reprising and honoring an essential period of Springfield’s history. This exhibition, curated by Treston Sanders, curator at University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC), makes connections between Stevens’s work and his impact in Massachusetts. A scholarly catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

Museu de Arte de São Paulo
$75,000
São Paulo, Brazil
2023

To support Melissa Cody—Webbed Skies (working title) at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP). Melissa Cody (b.1983) is a Navajo artist who belongs to the fourth generation of artists in her family. Cody’s weavings are made using the traditional techniques of the Navajo people, passed down from generation to generation. This temporary exhibition is situated within a year-long curatorial program dedicated to Indigenous Histories, a theme that provides the thematic axis of the museum’s 2023 programs. It is also the first solo show of Melissa Cody’s work in Brazil and, after its installation at MASP, it will travel to venues in the United States. An English and Portuguese catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

American Federation of Arts
$50,000
New York, NY
2022

To support Whitfield Lovell: Passages at the El Paso Museum of Art and the Phoenix Art Museum. This exhibition of the contemporary artist’s Conté crayon drawings, assemblages, and multisensory installations focuses on aspects of African American history, identity, and memory. It is designed to promote a broader understanding of American history and African American art, encouraging engagement with the ephemerality and mutability of memory and time. A fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition.  

Whitney Museum of American Art
$75,000
New York, New York
2022

To support A Very Long Line: Migration, Displacement, and the Struggle for Land and Refuge (working title), comprising approximately two hundred artworks, including paintings, sculptures, works on paper, installations, and time-based media from the Whitney’s collection. Taking its title from a 2016 video work by the artist collective Postcommodity, the exhibition examines the definition of American art as it has evolved throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Westmoreland Museum of American Art
$75,000
Greensburg, Pennsylvania
2022

To support planning for the reinterpretation and reinstallation of the Westmoreland Museum of American Art’s permanent collection galleries. The project centers the theme of labor as a lens to interrogate the collection in order to make connections to the museum’s regional history and communities.

Weisman Art Museum of the University of Minnesota
$75,000
Minneapolis, Minnesota
2022

To support planning for a reinstallation of the Weisman Art Museum’s collection of American art. The project lays the groundwork for a presentation and related publication foregrounding an expanded view of the collection and definition of American art.

University of Wyoming Art Museum
$43,000
Laramie, Wyoming
2022

To support the University of Wyoming Art Museum’s fiftieth-anniversary exhibition, which explores the museum’s place in the American West. Selections from the museum’s collection of Western art are presented in ways that enhance representation of Indigenous and women artists and highlight notable omissions and nuances in the interpretation of works from the region. A publication accompanies the exhibition.

University of New Mexico Foundation
$75,000
Albuquerque, New Mexico
2022

To support the University of New Mexico Art Museum’s new iteration of HINDSIGHT/INSIGHT: Reflecting on the Collection, which examines traditional genres of art, including portraiture, landscape, and abstraction, in conjunction with various topics and themes demonstrating the validity of a plurality of narratives drawn from the same works of art. A publication accompanies the exhibition.

University of Nevada, Reno Foundation
$75,000
Reno, Nevada
2022

To support the Lilley Co-Lab, an interactive planning project to inform the Lilley Museum of Art’s new permanent collection display. The project engages the community in activities to help determine the concept, object selection, and narrative structure of the exhibition.

Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block
$75,000
Tucson, Arizona
2022

To support More Than: Expanding Artists Identities from the American West at the Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block. The multidisciplinary, identity-based, and collaborative exhibition of more than forty works seeks to expand the definition of the genre and examine narratives that are often overlooked or made invisible. A publication accompanies the exhibition.

Tampa Museum of Art
$20,000
Tampa, Florida
2022

To support Purvis Young: Redux at the Tampa Museum of Art upon completion of a major building renovation. Comprising the museum’s complete holdings of ninety-one works by Purvis Young, the exhibition explores themes significant to the artist’s practice—social justice, immigration, systemic racism, hope, spirituality, and survival—and examines his visual language and symbols.