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Terra Foundation Partnerships & Initiatives

CEC ArtsLink
$20,800
New York, NY
2023

To support a small group of US-based artists and representatives of potential international host organizations to visit Bishkek, Kyrgyztan in Fall 2023 during the Trash Festival led by former ArtsLink International Fellow Bermet Borubaeva, enabling the group to further hone their concept for the US fellowship program to be launched in 2024. Mirroring the renowned ArtsLink International Fellowships program established in 1993, the ArtsLink US Fellowship program is designed to leverage an investment in individual artistic practitioners; stimulate the creative practice of the artist at a key career moment through embedded research and travel; deepen the impact and understanding of their work at home and internationally; and contribute to discourse that is addressing urgent concerns. Following the study visit, the organization convenes a group of thought partners for a virtual dialogue focused on US artists’ needs and desires for an international residency program, coupled with potential host organizations’ offerings and assessment of community interest in hosting visitors.

Museum of Vernacular Arts and Knowledge
$150,000
Chicago, Illinois
2023

To support The New Art School Modality, a new art school model that provides free or low-cost art and art history courses delivered online and in-person to a culturally, geographically, and generationally diverse community of students. The project, which provides an affordable alternative to art schools, is rooted in a revised set of values centering art histories and art forms that have been underrecognized and ways of knowing and learning about art (including collective teaching and intergenerational and collaborative methods) that draw upon a range of cultural contexts.

Folded Map
$30,000
Chicago, Illinois
2023

To support the Folded Map Curriculum Project, an extension of photographer and social-justice artist Tonika Johnson’s Folded Map project exploring the history and legacy of segregation in Chicago. Using a compelling artistic approach, the project takes insights informed by decades of social science research and makes them accessible to a broad audience. Offered to Chicago area middle- and high-school teachers free of charge, the professionally designed curriculum includes a teacher’s guide and a student edition in the form of a full-color artist-illustrated booklet.

Arts Alliance Illinois
$50,000
Chicago, Illinois
2023

To support Arts Alliance Illinois in its work to strengthen the vitality and resiliency of the arts. The grant supports the following types of activities: Liberation Learning Groups, which provide antiracism training and accountability workshops for arts administrators; the One State Arts Conference, which annually brings together members of the creative sector from across Illinois for professional development, resource sharing, networking, and mutual support, as well as field-driven research pertaining to the arts sector in Illinois, organized in partnership with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Àkéte Art Foundation
$150,000
Lagos, Nigeria
2023

To support the fourth edition of the Lagos Biennial, dedicated to the theme of refuge, as well as the participation of US artists and speakers. Featuring an international cohort of artists in a multilayered exhibition mounted at Tafawa Balewa Square, the biennial reaches toward a reimagined future in which alternative forms of community and togetherness would flourish. Founded in 2017 by a group of artists, the Lagos Biennial facilitates the presentation, production, and critical reception of contemporary art through research and exhibitions, public programs, and an oral history training program for the rising generation (ages 17–22). It embraces innovative artistic approaches and aims to address current social and political issues, engage new audiences, and establish new modes of interaction.

NXTHVN
$95,000
Next Haven, CT
2023

To support Black Portraitures: Shifting Paradigms, a major global convening organized by NXTHVN that offers comparative perspectives on the historical and contemporary roles played by artists, intellectuals, curators, practitioners, scholars, writers, and collectors in generating new discourse that centers the Black subject in Africa and its diaspora. It consists of a series of interdisciplinary panels with 20-25 participants to be held in Venice, Italy in April 2024 over two days during the opening week of the 60th anniversary edition of the Venice Biennale titled “Foreigners Everywhere.” The convening is a continuation of the ten conferences staged by New York University in collaboration with Harvard University’s Hutchins Center.

Black Trustee Alliance for Art Museums
$25,000
New York, New York
2023

To support the alliance’s 2024 convening, an annual gathering of Black trustees serving on the boards of art museums across the country. The guiding theme of the convening, to be held in concert with EXPO Chicago (April 11–13, 2024), is “the Civic Role of the Museum Trustee.” The theme builds on Chicago’s legacy of civic activism and its vibrant Black culture, which are reflected in programming offered in partnership with local cultural organizations. Topics for discussion include board diversification, artist equity, and the role of artists and art museums in Black communities.

Portland Art Museum
$250,000
Portland, Oregon
2023

To support the official US presentation of Jeffrey Gibson: the space in which to place me at the 60th International Art Exhibition in Venice. Gibson transforms the US Pavilion with newly produced sculptures, mixed-media paintings, site-specific murals, a multi-channel video installation created in 2020, and an exterior installation that invites deep reflection on identity and advocates for a widening of access to democracy, freedom, and empathy for all. A fully illustrated catalogue from the US pavilion accompanies the show.

First Americans Museum
$150,000
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
2023

To support the research and documentary project WINIKO: Reunions (January 2023–December 2024), which informs and will live on beyond the run of WINIKO: Life of an Object, an exhibition opening in Spring 2025. The exhibition is being built using a curatorial framework that reunites objects, collected over a century ago and on loan from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian’s collection, with their people and cultures. Once completed, the results, findings, and stories are published as a catalogue and provide the content for a feature-length film (August 2024–June 2025), as well as conference presentations and reports back to tribal nations.

Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art
$250,000
Oviedo, Florida
2023

To support five years of operating costs, enabling Panorama to grow its networks, reach, and capacity to continue to advocate on behalf of an expanded narrative of American art. By ensuring and upgrading staffing, technical support, and outreach, as well as inaugurating a contributor compensation plan, the journal is taking an active stance toward diversifying its editorial board, contributors, and readership, and is pivoting away from traditional centers to promote equity in publishing.

Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio, Inc.
$25,000
Southampton, New York
2023

To support the one-on-one documentation of artists and the provision of weekly artist-led presentations and artistic workshops for Shinnecock people local to Southampton, NY, from January through August 2024. The documentation of Shinnecock artists and their work, as well as the recordings of the various opportunities created for exchange (panel discussions, workshops, and presentations), are available on the Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio, Inc. website and through social media channels. The program culminates in a public exhibition and a printed catalogue available for purchase both online and in-person on the annual Labor Day Weekend Powwow at Shinnecock Nation.

Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art
$15,000
Paris, France
2023

the 36th International Committee for Art History Congress in Lyon, France, June 23–28, 2024. The International Committee for Art History Congress is a global platform of exchange in the field of art history held every four years in a different location. It brings together emerging and established art historians and researchers from related disciplines around a specific theme for six days of in-depth exchanges, lectures, roundtables, and debates, as well as visits to local cultural institutions and historic sites.