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A group of people looking at a painting on a wall as they walk by at an exhibition. — Installation view, "entre horizontes: Art and Activism Between Chicago and Puerto Rico," MCA Chicago. August 19, 2023 – May 5, 2024. Photo: Ricardo Adame.

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Art Design Chicago

Terra Foundation Launches Art Design Chicago: A Citywide Event And Exhibition Series

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A person standing at the front of a classroom-style room, with a projection on a wall behind them. People are seated at tables in front of them. — Pascale Ife Williams leads a session of the Art Design Chicago Partner Network, September 27, 2023.

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Art Design Chicago

Reflections on Community Engagement from Terra Foundation Senior Engagement Fellow Pascale Ife Williams

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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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Pascale Ife Williams, Terra Foundation Senior Engagement Fellow

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Art Design Chicago

Terra Foundation Senior Engagement Fellow: Meet Pascale Ife Williams

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Addressing Sexuality, Gender, and the Decorative since the 1970s: Lari Pittman & David J. Getsy

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A person looks into a plexiglass case housing teal-colored ceramics. — Visitors to Arte Diseño Xicágo: Mexican Inspiration from the World’s Columbian Exposition to the Civil Rights Era, National Museum of Mexican Art, 2018. Supported in part by Art Design Chicago.

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Art Design Chicago

Chicago Partnerships: Supporting Arts and Culture in the City

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Toward a Transnational Approach to American Art: Isamu Noguchi in India and Beyond

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Art vidéo californien at Institut national d’histoire de l’art

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Walker Evans and Renewals of American Documentary

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Terra Foundation Initiative

Terra Foundation Publications

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A painting of an expanse of land that has been deforested, with stumps of trees scattered in the foreground. It is dusk, and a mountain rises in the distance. — Sanford Robinson Gifford, Hunter Mountain, Twilight, 1866. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1999.57

Terra Collection Initiative

Terra Collection Initiative: The Studio of Nature, 1860–1910. The Terra Collection in Context

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American Art in the 1940s: Global Currents, Local Tides. A Study Day in Memory of Professor François Brunet” at Institut national d’histoire de l’art & Université Paris Diderot

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