Project African American Designers in Chicago: Art, Commerce, and the Politics of Race
Location Chicago, Illinois, United States
Amount $125,000
Program Past Program
Year 2017
Additional Grantees
  • Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
  • Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois, United States

All additional grants and collection loans to Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events

Primary Organization Project Primary Location Amount Year

Primary Organization Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events

Project Victoria Martinez: Braiding Histories

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $80,000

Year 2023

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Primary Organization Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events

Project In the Abstract: Art in Chicago 1980s–1990s

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $20,000

Year 2022

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Primary Organization Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events

Project CHICAGO: Where Comics Came to Life (1880–1960)

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $90,000

Year 2021

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Primary Organization Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events

Project In the Abstract: Art in Chicago 1980s–1990s

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $23,600

Year 2021

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Primary Organization Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events

Project At Home in the World: African American Designers in Chicago

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $22,500

Year 2020

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Primary Organization Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events

Project Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $150,000

Year 2019

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Primary Organization Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events

Project Procession: The Art of Norman Lewis

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $100,000

Year 2016

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Primary Organization Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events

Project 50x50: Celebrating 50 Years of Public Art in Chicago, 1967–2017

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $25,000

Year 2016

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Primary Organization Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events

Project African American Designers in Chicago, 1900–2000: The Making of a Profession

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $48,185

Year 2015

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Primary Organization Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events

Project Rising Up: Hale Woodruff's Murals from Talladega College

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $25,000

Year 2012

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Primary Organization Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events

Project From Process to Print: Graphic Works by Romare Bearden

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $60,000

Year 2009

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Primary Organization Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events

Project Hidden Treasures: The Lane Tech Murals

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $50,000

Year 2008

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Primary Organization Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events

Project Chicago Cultural Center Reinterpretation

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $50,000

Year 2007

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All additional grants and collection loans to Northwestern University

Primary Organization Project Primary Location Amount Year

Primary Organization Northwestern University

Project Terra Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in American Art 1600–1950 in the Department of Art History

Primary Location Evanston, Illinois

Amount $230,000

Year 2009

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Primary Organization Northwestern University

Project Modernism and the Black Metropolis

Primary Location Evanston, Illinois

Amount $31,350

Year 2007

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Primary Organization Northwestern University

Project 2005–6 Meetings toward the formation of the Chicago Art History Consortium

Primary Location Evanston, Illinois

Amount $11,500

Year 2005

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All additional grants and collection loans to Art Institute of Chicago

Primary Organization Project Primary Location Amount Year

Primary Organization Portland Museum of Art

Project Jeremy Frey: Woven

Primary Location Portland (Maine), Maine

Amount $75,000

Year 2024

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Primary Organization Brooklyn Museum

Project Elizabeth Catlett: A Revolutionary Black Artist and All that It Implies

Primary Location Brooklyn, New York

Amount $225,000

Year 2024

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Primary Organization Art Institute of Chicago

Project Art + History field-trip program

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $110,000

Year 2020

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Primary Organization Art Institute of Chicago

Project Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $819,860

Year 2017

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Primary Organization Art Institute of Chicago

Project John Singer Sargent and Chicago's Gilded Age

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount

Year 2016

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Primary Organization Art Institute of Chicago

Project Home Grown: The School of the Art Institute in the Permanent Collection

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount

Year 2015

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Primary Organization Art Institute of Chicago

Project Terra Foundation American Sources Program: Teachers Using Artworks as Primary Sources

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $320,000

Year 2015

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Primary Organization Art Institute of Chicago

Project Whistler and Roussel: Linked Visions

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount

Year 2014

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Primary Organization Art Institute of Chicago

Project American Sources: Using Visual Art in the Humanities Curriculum

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $100,000

Year 2014

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Primary Organization Art Institute of Chicago

Project American Sources: Using Visual Art in the Humanities Curriculum

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $100,000

Year 2013

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Primary Organization Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center

Project Migrations: Chicago and the Art of the New American Experience, 1900–1950

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $76,327

Year 2012

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Primary Organization Art Institute of Chicago

Project American Art lecture

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $23,000

Year 2012

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Primary Organization Art Institute of Chicago

Project Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture and Cuisine

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount

Year 2011

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Primary Organization Art Institute of Chicago

Project Echo Effect

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $30,500

Year 2011

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Primary Organization Art Institute of Chicago

Project John Marin's Watercolors: A Medium for Modernism

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount

Year 2010

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Primary Organization Art Institute of Chicago

Project A Case for Wine: from King Tut to Today

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount

Year 2009

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Primary Organization Art Institute of Chicago

Project Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount

Year 2007

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Primary Organization Art Institute of Chicago

Project February 2008 Council on American Studies Education (CASE)

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $10,500

Year 2007

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Primary Organization Art Institute of Chicago

Project American Art Partners

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $36,000

Year 2006

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Primary Organization Art Institute of Chicago

Project Expanded Galleries of American Art

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $165,000

Year 2005

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All additional grants and collection loans to Newberry Library

Primary Organization Project Primary Location Amount Year

Primary Organization Newberry Library

Project Say It with Pictures: Black Photography, Chicago, and the Great Migration

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $25,000

Year 2025

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Primary Organization Newberry Library

Project Contemporary arts collaborative public programs

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $20,000

Year 2024

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Primary Organization Newberry Library

Project Indigenous Chicago

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $125,000

Year 2023

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Primary Organization Newberry Library

Project Immigrant Printing in Chicago

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $40,000

Year 2023

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Primary Organization Newberry Library

Project Newberry Library exhibition

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $20,000

Year 2022

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Primary Organization Newberry Library

Project Newberry Library Research & Development

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $14,000

Year 2021

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Primary Organization Newberry Library

Project Chicago Designs: New Approaches for Teaching Politics, Commerce, and Culture.

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $25,000

Year 2021

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Primary Organization Newberry Library

Project Chicago Avant-Garde: Six Women Ahead of Their Time

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $50,000

Year 2021

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Primary Organization Newberry Library

Project Art and Visual Culture of World War II.

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $15,600

Year 2017

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Primary Organization Newberry Library

Project History of the American Postcard, Clubs and small arts organizations in Chicago from the 1890s to 1920s, and History of typography and book design in Chicago

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $22,000

Year 2017

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Primary Organization Newberry Library

Project Chicago: City of Design and Commerce, 1890–1990

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $16,330

Year 2017

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Primary Organization Newberry Library

Project Pictures from an Exposition: Visualizing the 1893 World's Fair

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $75,000

Year 2016

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Primary Organization Newberry Library

Project American Art and Visual Culture seminar

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $25,000

Year 2015

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Primary Organization Newberry Library

Project Teachers as Scholars

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $10,000

Year 2012

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Primary Organization Newberry Library

Project Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War North

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $371,399

Year 2011

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Primary Organization Newberry Library

Project Art & Exploration in Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Culture

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $10,000

Year 2011

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Primary Organization Newberry Library

Project Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War North

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $8,000

Year 2010

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Primary Organization Newberry Library

Project Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War North

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $14,984

Year 2010

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Primary Organization Newberry Library

Project Terra Foundation for American Art Fellowship in Art History

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $304,500

Year 2007

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Primary Organization Newberry Library

Project Art in the High School Classroom

Primary Location Chicago, Illinois

Amount $25,000

Year 2006

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