Research & Development


Threewalls
$75,000
Chicago, IL
2022

To support research-and-development activities for Call-and-Response: Dreaming of a Future, an exhibition and publication project developed as part of Threewalls’s twentieth anniversary. The initiative explores community visions for the future and the institution’s place within the history of Black visual-art spaces and collectives in Chicago and other cities. The project is presented as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago. 

Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
$20,000
Chicago, Illinois
2022

To support community-engagement research-and-development activities that will inform engagement strategies for the exhibition High Craft in Chicago in the 1970s–80s, which is expected to take place as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Smart Museum of Art
$20,000
Chicago, Illinois
2022

To support community-engagement research-and-development activities that will inform engagement strategies for the exhibition Ruth Duckworth: Themes and Variations, which is expected to take place as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago. 

Puerto Rican Arts Alliance
$20,000
Chicago, Illinois
2022

To support community-engagement research-and-development activities that will inform engagement strategies for the exhibition Puerto Rico to Chicago: The Shaping of an Arts Community, which is expected to take place as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

National Museum of Mexican Art
$20,000
Chicago, Illinois
2022

To support community-engagement research-and-development activities that will inform engagement strategies for the exhibition Re-presenting: Developing Identity at Chicago’s 1893 Columbian World’s Fair, which is expected to take place as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Museum of Contemporary Photography
$20,000
Chicago, Illinois
2022

To support community-engagement research-and-development activities that will inform engagement strategies for the exhibition Dawit L. Petros: Prospetto a Mare, which is expected to take place as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
$20,000
Chicago, Illinois
2022

To support community-engagement research-and-development activities that will inform engagement strategies for an exhibition examining the artistic genealogies of the Puerto Rican diaspora in Chicago from the 1970s to the present; the show is expected to take place as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago. 

Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
$20,000
Chicago, Illinois
2022

To support community-engagement research-and-development activities that will inform engagement strategies for the exhibition Indigenous Chicago: Confluence, Rupture, Flow, which is expected to take place as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
$20,000
Chicago, Illinois
2022

To support community-engagement research-and-development activities that will inform engagement strategies for the exhibition Together: Arts and Education and Community, which is expected to take place as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
$20,000
Chicago, Illinois
2022

To support community-engagement research-and-development activities that will inform engagement strategies for the exhibition Chicago as Catalyst: Immigrant Communities Nourish Self-Taught Artists, which is expected to take place as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago. 

Hyde Park Art Center
$20,000
2022

To support community-engagement research-and-development activities that will inform engagement strategies for the exhibition Robert Paige: Patterns of Progress, which is expected to take place as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Gallery 400
$20,000
Chicago, Illinois
2022

To support community-engagement research-and-development activities that will inform engagement strategies for the exhibition Together: Art, Education, and Community, which is expected to take place as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.