To support a two-year, postdoctoral professional development experience from September 2006 to August 2008, which will offer a broad range of curatorial activities. The Fellow will concentrate on research and exhibition of the Terra Foundation Collection.
To support “American Art in Classroom Teaching” (AACT), part of a four-year initiative-“Every Art, Every Child” (EAEC)-being developed by the Chicago Teachers’ Center (CTC), a unit of Northeastern Illinois University’s College of Education.
To support Modern Masters North and South of the Border, which will contextualize grand-scale public art in the United States by connecting it to the story of the Mexican Muralist movement.
Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum: January 19 – May 28, 2008
To fund the 2006 and 2007 Terra Teacher Labs, a program designed to deepen participating Chicago Public Schools teachers’ understanding and appreciation of American art and to encourage integration of American art in their curricula. Full implementation of the Terra Teacher Lab consists of the following elements for participants: a summer institute, Saturday workshops during the school year, online resources, and a teacher fellowship.
To support the March 2006 symposium at the International Cultural Center (Krakow, Poland) in conjunction with the exhibition Faces of America: Portraits from the Collection of the Terra Foundation for American Art, 1770–1940. Organized by the International Cultural Center and the Musée d’Art Américain Giverny/Terra Foundation for American Art.
To support the March 2006 symposium at Jagiellonian University in conjunction with the exhibition Faces of America: Portraits from the Collection of the Terra Foundation for American Art, 1770–1940. Organized by Jagiellonian University and the Musée d’Art Américain Giverny/Terra Foundation for American Art.
To support the June 2006 symposium at the Musée du Louvre in conjunction with the exhibition American Artists and the Louvre, which was co-organized and supported by the Terra Foundation. Organized by the Musée du Louvre (Paris, France) and the Musée d’Art Américain Giverny/Terra Foundation for American Art.
To fund an April 2006 international conference at the Courtauld Institute of Art in conjunction with the exhibition Winslow Homer: Poet of the Sea, which was co-organized and supported by the Terra Foundation. Organized by the Courtauld Institute of Art (London, United Kingdom), the Dulwich Picture Gallery (London, United Kingdom), and the Musée d’Art Américain Giverny/Terra Foundation for American Art.
To fund the April 2006 symposium at the International Cultural Center in conjunction with the exhibition Faces of America: Portraits from the Collection of the Terra Foundation for American Art, 1770–1940. Organized by the International Cultural Center (Krakow, Poland) and the Musée d’Art Américain Giverny/Terra Foundation for American Art.
To support the May 2007 two-day symposium at the Musée d’Art Américain Giverny and at the Musée d’Orsay in conjunction with the exhibitions Giverny: International Artists’ Colony (Musée d’Art Américain Giverny, April–May 2007) and La Forêt de Fontainebleau, un atelier grandeur nature (Musée d’Orsay, March 6–May 13, 2007). Organized by the Musée d’Orsay (Paris, France) and the Musée d’Art Américain Giverny/Terra Foundation for American Art.
To fund a two-year (2006–8) Terra Foundation curatorial fellowship in Chicago that focuses on the foundation’s collection under the guidance of the foundation’s curator. Administered by the Terra Foundation for American Art.
To fund “Art in the High School Classroom,” a seminar program bringing together local scholars and Chicago Public Schools high-school teachers to examine the theme “frontier and wilderness” in American art, literature, and history and to create related curricula.
