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Polaroid photographs arranged in a grid.

Letitia Quesenberry, from the series little darlings, 2014–ongoing, panel, lacquer, photo, wax, resin, 6 x 5 x .25 in each, photo courtesy of the artist

Foundation News, Partner Stories

Convening Grants

Grants Awarded June 2023

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A purple cloth with embroidered imagery titled Becoming White, by artist Ger Xiong.

Ger Xiong, Becoming White, 2021; fabric, thread, and copper; 71 x 61 x 2 in. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Bill Moree. Photo courtesy of the John Michael Kohler Arts Center.

Foundation News, Partner Stories

Collections Grants

Grants Awarded March 2023

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Headshots, clockwise from top left, of Kaywin Feldman, Henry P. Johnson, Catherine Sarr, Victoria Rogers

Image: Clockwise, from top left: Kaywin Feldman, Henry P. Johnson, Catherine Sarr, Victoria Rogers

Press Release

Terra Foundation adds Kaywin Feldman, Henry P. Johnson, Victoria Rogers, and Catherine Sarr to Board of Directors

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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

Press Release

New Initiative Allocates $5M for Latinx Art in Museums

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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

Press Release

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)

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President's Reflections

Letter from Our President & CEO, Winter 2023

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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.

Foundation News, Partner Stories

Convening Grants

Grants Awarded November 2022

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Installation photograph of framed paintings on three walls.

Installation photograph, Pelas ruas: vida moderna e experiências urbanas na arte dos Estados Unidos, 1893–1976, Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Brazil, photo by Isabella Matheus

Terra Collection Initiative

Terra Collection Initiative: In The Streets: Modern Life and Urban Experiences in the Art of the United States, 1893-1976

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President's Reflections

Letter from Our President & CEO, Summer 2022

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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

Foundation News, Partner Stories

Collections Grants

Grants Awarded June 2022

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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.

Foundation News, Partner Stories

Collections Grants

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

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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 including, left to right, Albert Eugene Gallatin's Room Space (1937-38) and Arshile Gorky's Mannikin (1931). Photo by Mark Geil

Foundation News, Partner Stories

Terra Collection-in-Residence

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

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