2008


Cataloguing Project
$23,553
Paris, France
2008

To support the creation of an online database of the Terra Foundation’s existing library holdings of 4,000 titles in Europe, in preparation for the opening of the Terra Foundation’s European Center. This will allow all of the material to be catalogued according to current bibliographical standards in an online catalog compatible with both American and European library standards, making the full breadth of the collection readily available to scholars for on-site use and known via the online records.

 

Chicago Architecture Foundation
$15,000
Chicago, Illinois
2008

To support the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s “Schoolyards to Skylines: Teaching with Chicago’s Amazing Architecture,” which is both a curriculum resource and series of teacher and student programs about the language and history of Chicago’s built environment.

Terra Teacher Lab
$100,000
Chicago, Illinois
2008

To support the Terra Teacher Lab, a professional development program designed to help social studies, art, and language arts teachers bring American art into their curricula. Currently in its third year, the Teacher Lab has served sixty-five teachers from Chicago Public Schools. The program includes a nine day summer institute for teachers; five to six Saturday follow-up sessions during the school year; student field trips to the Art Institute of Chicago; and online resources.

New Britain Museum of American Art/Milwaukee Art Museum
$140,000
New Britain, Connecticut/Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2008

To support the catalogue and the 2009 exhibition The Eight and American Modernisms, organized by the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Terra Foundation. The exhibition showcases approximately seventy works by The Eight (Arthur B. Davies, William Glackens, Robert Henri, Ernest Lawson, George Luks, Maurice Prendergast, Everett Shinn, and John Sloan, who exhibited together in 1908). Drawn from the three organizing institutions’ collections of American art, it will be on view at the New Britain Museum of American Art and at the Milwaukee Art Museum.

Northeastern Illinois University
$40,000
Chicago, Illinois
2008

To support the third year of “American Art in Classroom Teaching,” a professional development and curriculum development program for K–8 teachers organized by the Chicago Teachers’ Center of Northeastern Illinois University.

National Trust for the Humanities
$25,000
Washington, D.C.
2008

To support “Picturing America,” a project of the National Endowment for the Humanities that makes American art teaching resources available to Chicago Public Schools.

Marwen
$18,000
Chicago, Illinois
2008

To support four teacher courses on American art during the summer of 2008. Each fifteen-hour course serves fifteen K–12 teachers, primarily from the Chicago Public Schools. Participants learn about American art and artists on which they will base studio projects appropriate for the classroom and learn writing activities and approaches to guiding discussions about art that can be used with students.

Children First Fund, Chicago Public Schools
$51,600
Chicago, Illinois
2008

To support “Rediscovering Chicago’s School Murals,” a project consisting of teacher and student programs and a curriculum resource focusing on the Chicago Public Schools’ collection of Progressive-era and WPA murals, one of the largest in the Midwest and possibly in the United States.

Art Resources in Teaching
$40,000
Chicago, Illinois
2008

To support the 2008 “American Art Partners” summer institute, which serves Chicago Public School elementary school teachers and three “American Art Partners” institute participants and their students.

Art Institute of Chicago
$30,000
Chicago, Illinois
2008

To support the production of a new version of the museum’s American Art Manual, a curriculum resource for K–12 teachers, and a related professional development program. The publication will feature twenty-five objects from the museum’s collection, along with descriptions, contextual and biographical information, suggested classroom activities, and a timeline.