Terra Summer Residency Fellowships in Giverny, France, 2001–2021
Annual residency program that brought together ten scholars of American Art and artists worldwide for a program that offered time and space for independent work, seminars, and mentoring by established art historians and artists to foster reflection and debate from 2001 and 2020.
Terra Foundation Affiliated Fellowship for Chicago-based Visual Artist at the American Academy in Rome, 2023–2025
A six-month fellowship in Rome, Italy, to expand the fellow’s artistic practice that included access to studio space and the Academy’s library, photo archive, and Archeological Study Collection, as well as lectures, exhibitions, and a network of scholars.
Terra Foundation Fellowships at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2005–2025
One-year residential fellowships at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, that supported full-time independent and dissertation research by scholars from the US or abroad.
Terra Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Centre for American Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, 2019–2025
A postgraduate fellowship designed to give a postdoctoral scholar an opportunity to facilitate research that investigates art from the United States and in its international, transnational, and global contexts and contribute to the Centre for American Art’s academic programs.
Terra Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Paris, 2017–2023
Residential fellowships at the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA) in Paris that offered a postdoctoral scholar the opportunity to pursue their own work while in residence for 12 months.
Terra Foundation for American Art-Paul Mellon Centre Fellowship, 2018–2021
Four-month research fellowships designed to facilitate original, rigorous, and exciting new scholarship on an aspect of the artistic relationship between Britain and the United States from 1500 to 1980.
Terra Foundation Fellowship in American Photography at the Rijksmuseum, 2020–2022
A fellowship designed to conduct research on American photographs in the Rijksmuseum collection and allow the fellow to engage with the museum’s curators of photography over a twelve-month period to research selected works, photographers, and themes in preparation of a major exhibition of the museum’s American photography collection.
Terra Foundation Research Fellowship in American Art at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2020–2022
A two-year fellowship in Madrid that gave the fellow an opportunity to conduct in-depth research on a selected group of nineteenth-century paintings from the permanent collection of the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza.
Terra Foundation Collection Research Fellowship in American Art at Museum Ludwig, 2018–2022
A two-year fellowship that supported the fellow’s opportunity to join Museum Ludwig’s staff and work with curators to research individual artworks and propose a re-installation of several galleries that included source material, ephemera, and related works.
Terra Foundation Visiting Professorship at University of Oxford, 2016–2025
A visiting professorship at Worcester College, Oxford, where candidates undertook their own research in the history of American art, gave a series of four public lectures at Oxford, and organized a study day.
Terra Foundation Visiting Professorships at Doshisha and Kobe Universities, 2019–2022
Hosted jointly at Doshisha and Kobe universities in the Kansai region of Japan, visiting professors offered annual courses in American art history before 1980, as well as offered individual research consultation to undergraduate and graduate students working in related fields and organized an academic conference.
Terra Foundation Visiting Professorships at Freie Universität Berlin, 2016–2025
The Terra Visiting Foundation Visiting Professorships at Freie Universität Berlin gave the visiting professor the opportunity to devote his/her time to classroom teaching, student advising, public lecturing, the organization of symposia, and personal research.
Terra Foundation Visiting Professorships at the University of Sydney, 2023–2026
The Terra Foundation Visiting Professorships at the University of Sydney was a three-year program at the Power Institute Foundation for Art and Visual Culture at the University of Sydney that introduced Native American art to Australian students and initiated research on connections between the Indigenous cultures of Australia, Asia-Pacific, and North America.
Terra Foundation Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowships at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2016–2025
The Terra Foundation Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowships at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin allowed two postdoctoral fellows to teach and engage in research on American art history over a two-year period each.
Terra Foundation Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellowships at Université Paris Nanterre and Université de Paris, 2018–2024
The Terra Foundation Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellowships at Université Paris Nanterre and Université de Paris nominated fellows for a two-year period to instruct American art history and visual culture to graduate students in art history and American cultural history.
Terra Foundation Affiliated Fellowship in Rome, 2018–2023
This fellowship offered support for a postdoctoral or senior scholar to conduct research on American art and visual culture prior to 1980 while in residence at the American Academy in Rome for a period of four to six months. Topics dealing with Italian-American exchanges and requiring firsthand exposure to collections and archives in Rome and its vicinity were prioritized.
AAMC Foundation Engagement Program for International Curators, 2016–2021
With the Engagement Program for International Curators (EPIC) initiative, the AAMC Foundation creates and strengthens international relationships between curators by providing a cross-cultural platform. By engaging with their counterparts, EPIC participants lead multi-national conversations and advance their professional skills. AAMC Foundation’s Engagement Program for International Curators (EPIC), supported by the Art Fund and Terra Foundation for American Art, offers curators around the globe a platform for cross-cultural networking and exchange.
Fulbright-Terra Foundation Awards in the History of American Art in China & Europe, 2015–2018
The Terra Foundation supports opportunities to teach American art history in China, at Tsinghua University and Peking University, and in a European country (excepting France, Germany, and England). The awards to teach in China target US scholars at the assistant professor level or higher, with a minimum of five years of university-level teaching experience. The awards to teach in Europe are open to US scholars of all levels.
Terra Foundation Research Travel Grants, 2003–2022
Research travel grants provided support to doctoral, postdoctoral, and senior scholars from both the US and outside the US for research topics dedicated to the art and visual culture of the United States prior to 1980. The grants fostered firsthand engagement with American artworks and art historical resources; built networks for non-US-based scholars studying American art; and expanded access to artworks, scholarly materials, and communities for US-based scholars studying American art in an international context. The grant program was administered by College Art Association 2022–2022.
Terra Foundation Immersion Semesters Student Fellowships, 2018–2021
The student fellowships complemented the range of teaching programs developed between the foundation and four European universities: The Courtauld Institute of Art, London; Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Université Paris-Diderot; and Université Paris Nanterre. The fellows enableed a European graduate student affiliated with one of these four universities to attend a semester at a US university recognized for its program in American art history. Recipients received support to deepen their research, expand professional networks, experience different methods of graduate instruction, and encounter firsthand American art collections outside Europe.
