Terra Foundation for American Art

New Initiative Allocates $5M for Latinx Art in Museums

Institutions Receive Critical Funding to Create and Support Curatorial Positions with Expertise in Latinx Art CHICAGO—Mellon, Ford, Getty, and Terra Foundations today announced Advancing Latinx Art in Museums (ALAM)—the new initiative represents the second phase of a multi-year funding collaboration seeking to nurture and prioritize US Latinx art. The funding partners have committed a combined […]

Artwork featuring neon lights installed in a gallery space. — *Patrick Martinez: America is for Dreamers*, a 2017 exhibition at VPAM curated by Pilar Tompkins Rivas with Joseph Valencia, who has assumed the role of Curator of Exhibitions there thanks to the ALAM initiative. Courtesy of VPAM and Charlie James Gallery, photo by Monica Orozco. Artwork © Patrick Martinez

Las fundaciones Mellon, Ford, Getty y Terra anuncian una nueva iniciativa de $5 millones destinada al programa Advancing Latinx Art in Museums (Promoviendo el arte latino en los museos)

Diez instituciones recibirán fondos para crear puestos de curaduría para especialistas en arte latino CHICAGO—Las fundaciones Mellon, Ford, Getty y Terra anunciaron hoy el programa Advancing Latinx Art in Museums (Promoviendo el arte latino en los museos; ALAM, por sus siglas en inglés). La iniciativa es la segunda fase de una colaboración de varios años […]

Grants Awarded November 2022

Three details from portrait paintings, set side by side. — Detail views of paintings by (left to right): Hisako Hibi, *Study for a Self-Portrait*, Topaz, Utah, ca. 1944. Japanese American National Museum; Miki Hayakawa, *Untitled*, ca. 1930s. Collection of Richard Sakai; and Miné Okubo, *Portrait Study*, ca. 1937. Trustees of the Miné Okubo Art Collection at the Center for Social Justice and Civil Liberties, Riverside Community College District, California.

Grants Awarded June 2022

The Terra Foundation awarded 74 grants in June 2022, amounting to a total of over $7 million, to support projects that question and broaden understandings of American art and engage in transforming how the story of American art is told. The grants listed below support a range of projects, including convenings, permanent collection reinstallation planning […]

A black-and-white photograph of a group of people dressed in business attire walking together between two buildings in New York City. — A group photo of (front L-R) Councilman Fred Samuel, Mayor Edward I. Koch, Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell, C. Elaine Parker, Terrance Moan, (rear L-R) Charles A. Shorter, Jr., Commissioner Bess Myerson, Fred Price, circa 1979, courtesy of The Studio Museum in Harlem

Grantees Announced: Second Round of Re-envisioning Permanent Collections Grants

The Terra Foundation for American Art is pleased to announce the 2022 grant recipients of Re-envisioning Permanent Collections: An Initiative for US Museums. Grants totaling nearly $3.1 million were awarded to 45 arts and cultural organizations in the United States to support permanent collection projects that share full and representative histories of American art with […]

Painting of a dragon against a sunset. There are lanterns on the top of the painting, a building in the lower left corner, and children in the bottom right. — Martin Wong (American, 1946–1999), *Chinatown Dragon*, 1993. Acrylic on canvas. © The Martin Wong Foundation. Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University; Gift of The Martin Wong Foundation, 2019.202.

Terra Collection-in-Residence: A New Approach to Loans and Partnerships

Installation photograph of an exhibition. Two paintings hang on a blue wall on the left side of the image, and three artworks hang on a white wall on the right side of the image. — Installation of the exhibition *FREEDOM: Abstract Expressionism, Tougaloo College and the Civil Rights Movement*. FREEDOM is a permanent teaching exhibition located within the Ronald O. Schnell Art Gallery, Bennie G. Thompson Academic and Civil Rights Research Center, Tougaloo College, Mississippi. Photograph by Mark Geil.

Terra Foundation for American Art Appoints Turry M. Flucker as Vice President of Collections and Partnerships, a Newly Created Position

CHICAGO—The Terra Foundation for American Art is pleased to welcome Turry M. Flucker as its Vice President of Collections and Partnerships. In this newly created position, Flucker will oversee the foundation’s 750-object American art collection with the goal of sharing expansive narratives of American art locally and globally, as well as foster collaborative, interdisciplinary partnerships […]

Turry M. Flucker, photo by Mark Geil.

Meet Alba Campo Rosillo: 2021–22 Terra Foundation Research Fellow in American Art

Alba Campo Rosillo is a curator of American Art and the 2021–22 Terra Foundation Research Fellow in American Art at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza. She discusses the opportunity to write new narratives for American Art.

Woman seated in a gallery. — Alba Campo Rosillo, curator and scholar of American Art and Terra Foundation Research Fellow in American Art at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza (2021–22)

Terra Foundation adds Amina Dickerson, Eric T. McKissack, Ravi Saligram and Amanda Williams to Board of Directors

CHICAGO—The Terra Foundation for American Art is pleased to welcome Amina Dickerson, Eric T. McKissack, Ravi Saligram, and Amanda Williams to its Board of Directors. “We are thrilled to welcome these four thought leaders to our Board of Directors to help us envision new futures for American art during this moment of change and transition […]

Four headshots arranged in a square. — Clockwise, from top left: Amina Dickerson; Eric T. McKissack; Amanda Williams, photo by Tony Smith; Ravi Saligram.

Grants Awarded March 2022

The Terra Foundation awarded 35 grants in March, amounting to a total of over $2.3 million, to support projects that encourage collaborative practices between Chicago-based arts and cultural organizations, exhibitions on American art worldwide, and new strategic initiatives focused on expanding narratives of American art.