The Terra Foundation for American Art publications program consisted of a portfolio of projects that broadened and enriched the research and study of the visual arts of the United States in a global framework. Projects supported original manuscripts, translations, and digital initiatives, including titles published by the Terra Foundation.
Past Publication Grant Opportunities
- Terra Foundation International Essay Prize awarded the Smithsonian American Art Museum a grant to administer a biennial prize that recognized scholarship by a non-US scholars working in the field of historical American art. The aim of the award is to stimulate and actively support non-US scholars working on American art topics, foster the international exchange of new ideas, and create a broad, culturally comparative dialogue on American art.
- Terra Foundation-Yale University Press American Art in Translation Book Prize offered prizes for unpublished manuscripts or previously published manuscripts in a language other than English written by a non-US author. The manuscripts made significant contributions to scholarship on historical American visual arts and/or Native American arts.
- Terra Foundation for American Art International Publication Grant supported book-length scholarly manuscripts in the history of American art, visual studies, and related subjects that are under contract with a publisher.
Digital Publication Initiatives
Digital Publication Initiatives are innovative projects that promote the use and application of computational technology and data in the study of the visual arts of the United States and the dissemination of the resulting research.
Terra Foundation Publications
The foundation produced titles that resulted from the past work of the foundation’s curatorial and academic program teams. These books include exhibition catalogues in multiple-language editions, scholarly monographs, critical anthologies, and a thematic research series and serve as a resource to scholars, students, and the arts-interested public.
All our titles are available through the University of Chicago Press.