Foundation Report 2019–22: Grants Awarded FY2021

The Andy Warhol Museum
$75,000
Pittsburgh, PA
To support a temporary exhibition titled Marisol and Warhol Take New York. The exhibition travels to the Perez Art Museum Miami.

The Art Institute of Chicago
$94,597
Chicago, IL
To support the first major re-conception of The Art Institute’s American art galleries since 1993 and 2005.

The Baltimore Museum of Art
$75,000
Baltimore, MD
To support planning, development, and a reinstallation of the Baltimore Museum of Art’s American Wing.

Benton Museum of Art, Pomona College
$75,000
Claremont, CA
To support a temporary exhibition titled Cahuilla Basket Weavers, Emil Steffa, and Their Legacies.

Boston Athenaeum
$75,000
Boston, MA
To support planning, development, and a reinstallation of art in the Boston Athenaeum’s National Historic Landmark Building.

Brooklyn Museum of Art
$75,000
Brooklyn, NY
To support planning and development for a reinstallation of the Brooklyn Museum’s American, Arts of the Americas, and Decorative Art Collections.

Cheekwood Estate & Gardens
$51,600
Nashville, TN
To support a temporary exhibition titled The Sculpture of William Edmondson: Tombstones, Garden Ornaments, and Stonework. The exhibition will be co-presented at Fisk University Galleries.

Colby College Museum of Art
$75,000
Waterville, ME
To support planning, development, and reinstallation of Colby College Museum of Art’s American Southwest art collections, placing Pueblo art and history at the center.

Dyer Arts Center, Rochester Institute of Technology
$50,000
Rochester, NY
To support a temporary exhibition titled Shaped by the American Dream: Deaf History through Deaf Art.

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
$75,000
Hanover, NH
To support a temporary exhibition titled This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World.

Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art
$75,000
Indianapolis, IN
To support a reinstallation of the Eiteljorg Museum’s Native American Gallery.

El Museo del Barrio
$75,000
New York, NY
To support planning and development for a collection reinstallation titled IDENTITY REIMAGINED: Reframing La Colección.

The Field Museum
$75,000
Chicago, IL
To support the development of a publication titled The Future is Indigenous, accompanying the Field Museum’s reinstallation of its Native North America Hall.

Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
$31,350
Chicago, IL
To support Henry Darger: Behind the Scenes, an exhibition series that will inform planning and development for the reinstallation of Intuit’s Henry Darger Room Collection.

Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
$65,000
Kalamazoo, MI
To support a temporary exhibition titled Art, Music, Feminism & the Mid-Century Quest for Change.

Knoxville Museum of Art
$75,000
Knoxville, TN
To support a collection reinstallation titled Higher Ground: A Century of the Visual Arts in East Tennessee.

Mead Art Museum, Amherst College
$54,000
Amherst, MA
To support a temporary exhibition titled Never Settled: American Art from Indigenous Perspectives.

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
$74,000
Memphis, TN
To support a temporary exhibition titled Persevere and Resist: The Strong Black Women of Elizabeth Catlett.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
$75,000
New York, NY
To support a temporary exhibition titled Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room.

Minneapolis Institute of Art
$75,000
Minneapolis, MN
To support a collection reinstallation titled Re-Imagining Native/American Art.

New-York Historical Society
$75,000
New York, NY
To support the planning, development, and implementation of a temporary exhibition titled Monuments.

The Norman Rockwell Museum
$75,000
Stockbridge, MA
To support planning and development for the reinstallation of Norman Rockwell’s permanent collection, addressing and contextualizing systemic racism in illustration art.

Ogden Museum of Southern Art
$75,000
New Orleans, LA
To support a collection reinstallation titled The New Story of the South: A 20th Anniversary Exhibition.

Peabody Essex Museum
$75,000
Salem, MA
To support a reinstallation of the Peabody Essex Museum’s Native American and American Collections.

Portland Art Museum
$75,000
Portland, OR
To support planning, development, and implementation of a temporary exhibition titled Black Artists of Oregon.

Rebuild Foundation
$75,000
Chicago, IL
To support the presentation of a large-scale photographic installation and archive titled Facsimile Cabinet of Women Origin Stories at the Stony Island Arts Bank.

Seattle Art Museum
$75,000
Seattle, WA
To support a collection reinstallation of the Seattle Art Museum’s American galleries titled A New Vision for American Art.

Smithsonian American Art Museum
$75,000
Washington, DC
To support planning and development for a collection reinstallation titled American Voices: Re-Interpreting the National Collection.

South Side Community Art Center
$75,000
Chicago, IL
To support a temporary exhibition titled Love is Universal.

Tacoma Art Museum
$75,000
Tacoma, WA
To support planning and development for a collection reinstallation titled (Re)Frame: Haub Family Collection of Western American Art.

Toledo Museum of Art
$75,000
Toledo, OH
To support planning and development for a collection reinstallation titled Expanding the Narrative of American Art: Foregrounding Under-represented Stories.

Tougaloo College Art Collections, Tougaloo College
$75,000
Tougaloo, MS
To support a collection reinstallation titled FREEDOM: Tougaloo College, Abstract Expressionism and the Civil Rights Movement.

Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro
$75,000
Greensboro, NC
To support planning and development for a collection reinstallation titled Leading with Objects: Engaging the Community in Institutional Change.

Stanley Museum of Art
$75,000
Iowa City, IA
To support planning, development, and implementation of temporary exhibitions titled Collective Vision—Curating in Cohorts.

David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland
$50,000
College Park, MD
To support a temporary exhibition titled American Landscapes.

Worcester Art Museum
$75,000
Worcester, MA
To support a reinstallation of Worcester Art Museum’s American art collection titled Conspicuous Consumption: The Price of Luxury in American Art (1675–1870).

Africa International House USA, Inc.
$25,000
Chicago, IL
To support a public symposium, “Art & Agency: Exploring the African American Quilting Tradition,” at the University of Chicago’s Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, examining the history and significance of quilting within African American communities and the broader African diaspora, with emphasis on quilting’s role as an art form and a medium for storytelling and resistance.

Bard College
$20,000
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
To support “Reshaping the Field: Arts of the African Diaspora on Display,” a three-day program that aims to re-examine the legacy of exhibitions that have featured art by Black artists in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Clark University
$14,904
Worcester, MA
To support “Race in the History of Design: Objects, Identity, Methodologies,” a two-day, workshop-style program that brings together ten scholars from the US and Europe to share research on the topic of race in the field of design history, an underexamined area in the study of objects. The program is set to take place at the Centre de Formation et de Seminaires in Remich, Luxembourg.

Courtauld Institute of Art
$12,000
London, United Kingdom
To support “Deconstructing America: Art and Politics in the United States” at the Courtauld Institute of Art. This conference looks to American visual culture to interrogate the fabric of the contemporary political moment. The conference will be recorded and posted on the Courtauld’s website and across its social media channels.

Fachgebiet Architektur und Kunstgeschichte, Technische Universität Darmstadt
$11,950
Darmstadt, Germany
To support “Current Research in Germany on Art of the United States” at Fachgebiet Architektur und Kunstgeschichte, Technische Universität Darmstadt. The symposium focuses on ways to enrich and cultivate US art history in Germany. Participants may edit their presentations for publication in a German (English-language) journal. A webpage devoted to the symposium accompanies the program on the Architecture and Art History department’s website.

Krannert Art Museum
$25,000
Urbana, IL
To support “Hal Fischer Photographs: Seriality, Sexuality, Semiotics,” a three-day international, interdisciplinary symposium that accompanies a retrospective exhibition at the Krannert Art Museum (KAM) on the conceptual photography of Hal Fischer. The symposium presented at the KAM theater aims to expand dialogue between the visual and the verbal, situating Fischer’s photographic work in a range of contexts.

Laboratoire de Recherches sur les Cultures Anglophones
$25,000
Paris, France
To support “About Time: Temporality in American Art and Visual Culture,” a two-day symposium to be held at the Université de Paris that aims to establish the concept of time and temporality as an essential category in American art from the seventeenth century to today.

MARe/Muzeul de Artă Recentă
$34,000
Bucharest, Romania
To support “Voiced On,” a series of public programs that accompanies three solo exhibitions of, respectively, the American artists Dan Graham, Matt Mullican, and Cindy Sherman. The programs, which involve the artists as well as invited scholars, are presented in formats for a variety of local audiences to raise awareness of American art in Romania. The programs are recorded and widely disseminated in video and audio formats with the aim of creating a digital platform that can be updated and expanded for audiences going forward.

Zurbarán Centre for Spanish and Latin American Art
$45,500
Bishop Auckland, United Kingdom
To support two academic workshops that bring together European, US and Latin American scholars to expand on research undertaken for Hot Art, Cold War (Routledge, 2020). The workshops are designed to stimulate further debate and research into Iberian-US artistic relations, and open up a path into Latin American relations with US art.

Barbican Centre Trust
$310,000
London, United Kingdom
To support Carolee Schneemann at the Barbican Art Gallery and possibly two additional venues. The exhibition is the first survey of Carolee Schneemann to be shown in the United Kingdom. An English-language catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

Barbican Centre Trust
$350,000
London, United Kingdom
To support ISAMU NOGUCHI, an exhibition to take place at four venues: Barbican Centre Trust, Museum Ludwig, Zentrum Paul Klee, and a fourth venue that has yet to be determined. This retrospective seeks to address Isamu Noguchi’s reputation as one of the most experimental and important sculptors of the twentieth century in relation to his involvement with social and political issues of his time. English- and German-language catalogues accompany the exhibition.

Centre Pompidou
$150,000
Paris, France
To support Georgia O’Keeffe at each co-organizing institution: Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza; Centre Pompidou; and Fondation Beyeler. The exhibition offers differing approaches at each venue but aims overall to chart the progression of the artist’s entire oeuvre through approximately 100 works, including paintings, drawings, and sculptures. Spanish-, English-, French-, and German-language catalogues accompany the exhibition.

Centre Pompidou
$250,000
Paris, France
To support Women in Abstraction at the Centre Pompidou and the Guggenheim Bilbao. The exhibition illustrates the contributions made to abstraction by women artists in the twentieth century working in the United States and around the world, along with insights into their nineteenth-century predecessors. A French-language catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events
$90,000
Chicago, IL
To support CHICAGO: Where Comics Came to Life (1880–1960), an exhibition highlighting the historical and aesthetic significance of the comic strip in American art and visual culture, and Chicago’s role in the art form’s development and evolution. The exhibition, to be presented at the Chicago Cultural Center, is accompanied by public programming and a brochure, to include both printed and digital versions.

Fondation Beyeler
$150,000
Riehen, Switzerland
To support Georgia O’Keeffe at each co-organizing institution: Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza; Centre Pompidou; and Fondation Beyeler. The exhibition offers differing approaches at each venue but aims overall to chart the progression of the artist’s entire oeuvre through approximately 100 works, including paintings, drawings, and sculptures. Spanish-, English-, French-, and German-language catalogues accompany the exhibition.

Harvard Art Museums
$100,000
Cambridge, MA
To support Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970 at the Harvard Art Museums. This exhibition is an investigation into US military activities and their role as the nation’s leading source of pollution through a presentation of more than 100 photographs that explores issues of militarism, pollution, ecology, public health, land use, feminism, race, and activism. An English-language catalogue accompanies this exhibition.

Katonah Museum of Art
$50,000
Katonah, NY
To support Arrivals at the Katonah Museum of Art. This exhibition explores a variety of American peoples’ origins and/or arrival stories to the United States. An English-language catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

Minneapolis Institute of Art
$100,000
Minneapolis, MN
To support Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the first museum exhibition to examine broadly the centrality of otherworldly concerns and the spectral imagination to American artists. An English-language catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris
$150,000
Paris, France
To support Anni and Jose Albers: Art and Life at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris. The exhibition is the first in France to focus on the work and lives of Anni Albers and Josef Albers. English- and French-language catalogues accompany the exhibition.

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes
$200,000
Nantes, France
To support United States of Abstraction: American Artists in France, 1946–1964 at each co-organizing institution: the Musée d’arts de Nantes and the Musée Fabre, Montpellier. The exhibition explores the impact made by American artists on the trajectory of abstract art in France from the 1940s to the 1960s. A French-language catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

El Museo del Barrio
$200,000
New York, NY
To support Raphael Montañez Ortiz: Breaking The Limits, an exhibition to take place at two venues: El Museo del Barrio and Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo. This retrospective showcases the work of El Museo’s founder, Raphael Montañez Ortiz, to highlight the fundamental issues in Montañez Ortiz’s production and contextualize them among consumer products made in the United States and abroad. An English- and Spanish-language companion book accompanies the exhibition.

Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
$150,000
Madrid, Spain
To support Georgia O’Keeffe at each co-organizing institution: Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza; Centre Pompidou; and Fondation Beyeler. The exhibition offers differing approaches at each venue but aims overall to chart the progression of the artist’s entire oeuvre through approximately 100 works, including paintings, drawings, and sculptures. Spanish-, English-, French-, and German-language catalogues accompany the exhibition.

Museum der Moderne Salzburg
$50,000
Salzburg, Austria
To support Teasing Chaos. David Tudor at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg. This retrospective is a comprehensive look at the pioneering work of David Tudor in the field of live electronics and his interdisciplinary collaborations with significant but lesser-known contemporary visual artists. German- and English-language catalogues accompany the exhibition.

Museum für Moderne Kunst
$150,000
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
To support Marcel Duchamp: A Revision of the Object at the Museum für Moderne Kunst. The exhibition seeks to answer why Marcel Duchamp’s signature innovations—among the most thoroughly debated iconoclastic artistic strategies of twentieth-century avant-garde art—matter today. German- and English-language catalogues accompany the exhibition.

Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami
$100,000
North Miami, FL
To support My name is Maryan, an exhibition to take place at two venues: Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, and Tel Avi Museum of Art. This retrospective critically examines all periods of the postwar avant-garde artist Maryan. English- and Hebrew-language catalogues accompany the exhibition.

Museum of Contemporary Photography
$50,000
Chicago, IL
To support Much Unseen is Also Here, an exhibition exploring the links between works by An-My Lê and Shahzia Sikander, artists who explore the concepts of the monument and monumentality as a means of probing historical narratives, systems of power, and cultural identity. The exhibition reveals connections among the artists’ works and thematic concerns, ranging from climate change and migration to the Western art-historical canon and the embrace of otherness. The project is part of the multi-institution initiative, “Toward a Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40.”

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
$250,000
Boston, MA
To support an exhibition with the working title Sargent and Fashion at each co-organizing institution: the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Tate Britain. This exhibition addresses the role of dress in the work of John Singer Sargent. An English-language catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

The Newberry Library
$50,000
Chicago, IL
To support Chicago Avant-Garde: Six Women Ahead of Their Time at The Newberry Library. The exhibition explores the experimental culture that emerged in Chicago across a range of artistic disciplines during the first half of the twentieth century. An English-language catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art
$225,000
Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan
To support Viva Video!: The Art and Life of Shigeko Kubota at each co-organizing institution: The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art; The National Museum of Art, Osaka; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. The exhibition is the first major survey of Shigeko Kubota in Japan in nearly three decades. A bilingual catalogue in Japanese and English accompanies the exhibition.

Patricia & Philip Frost Art Museum
$70,000
Miami, FL
To support In the Mind’s Eye: Landscapes of Cuba and US/Cuba Cultural Exchange at the Patricia & Philip Frost Art Museum. This exhibition is an exploration of American painters active from 1850 to 1910 whose landscape portrayals of Cuba reflect social, political, and ideological changes in both countries. English- and Spanish-language catalogues accompany the exhibition.

Swiss Institute
$91,000
New York, NY
To support Rosemary Mayer, an exhibition to take place at four venues: Swiss Institute, Kunstverein (Dusseldorf), Lenbachhaus, and Spike Island. This survey of the career of Rosemary Mayer explores the artist’s radical experiments in sculpture, paintings, drawing, and performance. An English-language catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

Yale Center for British Art, Yale University
$100,000
New Haven, CT
To support Mickalene Thomas/Against the Sharp White Background at the Yale University Art Gallery. The exhibition positions Mickalene Thomas in the dual role of artist and curator. The exhibition is the first of its kind, blending Thomas’s work with pre-Civil War-era portraits of African American sitters. An English-language catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

6018|North
$20,000
Chicago, IL
To support research and development activities for an exhibition with the working title Land, water, garden – urbs in horto – Greening the Swamp, which explores the art and design of Chicago’s green infrastructure as it has unfolded from its Indigenous roots to contemporary green designs and environmental initiatives. The grant supports a series of research convenings and public programs with scholars, environmental activists, practitioners of design, and members of the public, all of which yield input on exhibition plans. The project is expected to lead to an exhibition as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

The Art Institute of Chicago
$94,000
Chicago, IL
To support research and development activities for an exhibition tentatively entitled Christina Ramberg, which explores the artist’s interests in historical craft and dress and investigates her work in the context of exchange networks between teachers and students, formally educated and self-taught artists, and within the scope of local versus European artistic production and traditions. The grant supports local research travel, two national trips to relevant museums and archives, and the hiring of a Terra Foundation Research Fellow. The project is expected to lead to an exhibition as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture
$25,000
Chicago, IL
To support research and development for an exhibition tentatively entitled Bridging Two Cultures: Lithuanian Immigrant Artists in Chicago 1950–2000. The project examines Lithuanian immigrant artists’ engagement with local, national, and international creative networks and assesses Chicago’s impact on artistic production locally and in Lithuania. The grant helps to support a research convening, a research trip to Lithuania, and a Terra Foundation Research Fellow who serves as curator. The project is expected to lead to an exhibition as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Center for Native Futures
$25,000
Chicago, IL
To support the Mounds Summit, the inaugural two-day conference of the newly formed Center for Native Futures, dedicated to scholarship addressing Indigenous Futurisms, and the contemporary art and creative art practices of Native people.

Chicago Architecture Center
$49,500
Chicago, IL
To support the research, development, and piloting of two new digital walking tours examining Chicago’s history of public art and contested spaces in neighborhoods. The grant supports development of a mobile app and accompanying website, in addition to work with a diverse advisory committee comprising specialists in public art and the history of African American, Mexican American, and Native American art. The tours are available as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events
$23,600
Chicago, IL
To support research and development for an exhibition tentatively entitled In the Abstract: Art in Chicago 1980s–1990s, which examines a group of prominent artists who emerged in Chicago during the 1980s and the city’s influence on their creative practice and careers. The grant supports research convenings, curatorial research travel, and the hiring of a Terra Foundation Research Fellow who serves as co-curator. The project is expected to lead to an exhibition as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Chicago History Museum
$70,000
Chicago, IL
To support research and development activities for an exhibition tentatively entitled Chicago Designs for Change, exploring the confluence of Chicago design and the city’s politics during the 1960s and ’70s, encompassing how artists and designers used their creative practices to respond to critical contemporaneous social and political events including the activism of the Civil Rights, peace, women’s liberation, and environmental justice movements. The grant supports local research travel, the hiring of a Terra Foundation Research Fellow, and consulting and collaboration with local advisors and partners. The project is expected to lead to an exhibition as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

DePaul Art Museum
$19,650
Chicago, IL
To support research and development for the first retrospective exhibition of the Chicago artist and designer Edgar Miller, recognized for his ability to work in a range of media. The project examines the development of Chicago’s bohemian culture and other aspects of the city’s cultural history through the lens of Miller’s art and career. The grant supports the hiring of a Terra Foundation Research Fellow who serves as guest curator and regional research travel. The project is expected to lead to an exhibition as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Design Museum of Chicago
$24,750
Chicago, IL
To support research and development activities for an exhibition with the working title Chicago Types: Letterforms for Everyone, examining the role of underrepresented artists and designers (such as the contributions of women, people of color, and those with marginalized gender/sexuality identities) in Chicago’s history of typography. The grant supports a planning convening, local research travel and one national research trip, and the hiring of a Terra Foundation Research Fellow. The project is expected to lead to an exhibition as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago
$27,900
Chicago, IL
To support research and development activities for an exhibition tentatively entitled Learning Together: Art, Education, and Community, examining the art and pedagogy of Chicago artist educators in the later twentieth century up through the present. The grant supports two planning convenings in partnership with the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum and the hiring of a Terra Foundation Research Fellow. The project is expected to lead to an exhibition as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Green Lantern Press
$7,000
Santa Fe, NM
To support Fleeting Monuments for the Wall of Respect, a scholarly publication edited by art historian Romi Crawford with contributions from more than thirty artists, writers, cultural theorists, and others, reflecting on the history and significance of the historic Wall of Respect mural created by a community of artists on Chicago’s South Side, and ways to commemorate this influential but no longer extant work of public art. The book is published and distributed by the University of Minnesota Press.

Hyde Park Art Center
$59,360
Chicago, IL
To support research and development activities for an exhibition documenting the work and influence of artist/curator Don Baum and artist/educator Alice Shaddle, particularly through their mentorship and pedagogy, on the development of art in Chicago. The grant supports three planned convenings; local, regional, and national travel to conduct archival research and oral history interviews; and the hiring of a guest curator and Terra Foundation Research Fellow. The project is expected to lead to an exhibition as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Hyde Park Art Center
$29,300
Chicago, IL
To support research and development activities for an exhibition tentatively entitled Patterns of Progress, exploring the life and legacy of Robert Paige and bringing renewed attention to his full body of work, including textiles, paintings, collages, and sculptures, while also highlighting his legacy as a member of the Black Arts Movement. The grant supports two planning convenings, local research travel, digitization of Paige’s art and personal papers, and hiring of a Terra Foundation Research Fellow. The project is expected to lead to an exhibition as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Illinois Institute of Technology, Institute of Design
$25,000
Chicago, IL
To support the two-day Design + Activism Symposium, examining design’s role in social movements and activism in Chicago past and present, to be held in conjunction with the Chicago History Museum’s research project to develop the 2024 Art Design Chicago exhibition Chicago Designs for Change.

Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
$20,000
Chicago, IL
To support research and development activities for an exhibition tentatively entitled Chicago as Catalyst: Immigrant Communities Nourish Self-Taught Artists, exploring the impact of immigration and the immigrant experience on self-taught artists who began or expanded their artistic practice after arriving in Chicago. The grant supports virtual convenings, research travel to local and regional archives and collections, and the hiring of a Terra Foundation Research Fellow. The project is expected to lead to an exhibition as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
$23,000
Chicago, IL
To support research and development activities for an exhibition tentatively entitled Learning Together: Arts and Education and Community, generating new research on the unique role of Hull-House Settlement in the development of arts education in Chicago; in particular, understanding the pedagogy of the settlement’s network of Progressive Era activist artists. The grant supports two planning convenings to be organized with Gallery 400 and the hiring of both a Terra Foundation Research Fellow and an oral historian. The project is expected to lead to an exhibition as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
$105,000
Evanston, IL
To support research and development for a major exhibition tentatively entitled Indigenous Chicago: Confluence, Rupture, Flow, which explores the confluences that have shaped Indigenous creative practices in the Chicago area from the early 1800s to the present. The grant supports planning convenings as well as regional and national curatorial research trips, and the hiring of a guest co-curator with expertise in the Native art of the Great Lakes region and Indigenous curatorial practices, along with a Terra Foundation Research Fellow. The project is expected to lead to an exhibition as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
$25,000
Chicago, IL
To support research and development for an exhibition that critically examines the artistic genealogies of the Puerto Rican diaspora in Chicago from the 1970s to the present, with a focus on artists’ responses to social justice movements and participation in them. The project includes three research convenings and curatorial research travel to visit collections in New York City, the Midwest, and Puerto Rico. The three-year project is expected to lead to an exhibition as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Museum of Contemporary Photography
$68,000
Chicago, IL
To support research and development activities for an exhibition and catalogue tentatively entitled Dawit L. Petros: Prospetto a Mare, examining how colonialism and cultural memory are inscribed within the visual culture and built environment of Chicago. The project introduces a Chicago chapter to photographer Petros’s ongoing body of work examining cross-border flows and diasporas spanning Italy, North and West Africa, and North America, as well as the ways Fascist design and politics asserted itself in Chicago and within a larger transnational context. The grant supports one national and two international curatorial research trips and the hiring of a Terra Foundation Research Fellow. The project is expected to lead to an exhibition as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Museum of Vernacular Arts and Knowledge
$25,000
Chicago, IL
To support the Black Arts Movement School Modality, a two-week virtual convening open to students, artists, and scholars from across the United States and around the world to learn about the Black Arts Movement from a group of creatives who were central to its founding in Chicago during the 1960 and 1970s.

National Museum of Mexican Art
$60,000
Chicago, IL
To support research and development for an exhibition tentatively entitled Re-presenting: Developing Identity at Chicago’s 1893 Columbian World’s Fair. The project examines the fair as a platform for expressions of cultural identity and the ways it may have forged connections between Chicago and Mexican art communities. The grant supports a two-day research convening, two curatorial research trips to Mexico, and a Terra Foundation Research Fellow. The project is expected to lead to an exhibition as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

The Newberry Library
$25,000
Chicago, IL
To support the multiday seminar “Chicago Designs: New Approaches for Teaching Politics, Commerce, and Culture.” Developed for university faculty from a variety of disciplines, the program highlights key topics in Chicago’s design history, ranging from the legacy of the New Bauhaus to the impact of the city’s African American design community, and provides hands-on opportunities at the Newberry Library and other local archives. Participants build and share curricular projects to be made available on a website created to host materials produced through the program. The program is part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Newberry Library
$14,000
Chicago, IL
To support research and development activities for an exhibition exploring the centrality of immigrant makers and communities to the history of printing in Chicago from the nineteenth century to the present. The grant supports a planning convening that includes designers and typographers, scholars of art and design, community partners, and audience-engagement specialists. The project is expected to lead to an exhibition as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Puerto Rican Arts Alliance
$25,000
Chicago, IL
To support research and development for an exhibition tentatively entitled Puerto Rico to Chicago: The Shaping of an Arts Community. The research project documents Puerto Rican artists who came to Chicago starting in the 1940s and explores how the relationship between city and island influenced the visual arts in both places. The project includes research convenings in Chicago and Puerto Rico, and curatorial research travel to Puerto Rico. The project is expected to lead to an exhibition as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

South Side Community Art Center
$69,000
Chicago, IL
To support research and development activities for an exhibition tentatively entitled RE Source: Art and Resourcefulness in Black Chicago, exploring the history and legacy of the practices of resourcefulness and reuse by African American artists in Chicago from the 1930s to the present. The grant supports one research convening; the formation of an advisory group comprising scholars, artists, and environmental activists; four national research trips; and the hiring of both a Terra Foundation Research Fellow and a Terra Foundation Engagement Fellow. The project is expected to lead to an exhibition as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
$34,455
Chicago, IL
To support research and development activities for an exhibition entitled High Craft in Chicago in the 1970s–80s. The project is expected to lead to an exhibition as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

University of Chicago Arts
$24,000
Chicago, IL
To support research and development activities for an exhibition tentatively entitled Ruth Duckworth: Theme and Variations, investigating the effect of Chicago on the sculptor’s creative output, while also situating Duckworth’s work and charting her influence in the history of twentieth-century ceramics in Chicago. The grant supports one public symposium and two curatorial research trips. The project is expected to lead to an exhibition as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

For the full list of individuals who received fellowships from the following fellowships and visiting professorships, please view the fellows database.

American Academy in Rome
$76,450
New York, NY
To support a residential fellowship at the American Academy in Rome for postdoctoral or senior scholars conducting research on American art and visual culture while in residence at the American Academy in Rome. The fellowship allows scholars to pursue their work in an atmosphere conducive to intellectual and artistic freedom, interdisciplinary exchange, and innovation.

Chicago Parks Foundation
$40,000
Chicago, IL
To support the TRACE Community Curatorial Fellowship, a three-year program offering a cohort of five to eight teen fellows the opportunity to learn about the community mural movement in Chicago and, guided by teaching artists, to work with community members to develop three or more murals in Chicago neighborhoods. Participants learn about careers in the arts through interactions with museum and other art professionals. The grant also supports the development of a curriculum based on the program, to be created by Park District staff and teaching artists.

Courtauld Institute of Art
$94,896
London, United Kingdom
To support the programs of the Centre for American Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Founded in 2016, the Centre is the only art history program in Europe exclusively devoted to the teaching and study of American art prior to 1980. A special unit within the Courtauld, the Centre promotes research and education for undergraduate and graduate students with a wide range of scholarly programs.

Freie Universität Berlin, John F. Kennedy Insitut für Nordamerikastudien
$70,000
Berlin, Germany
To support visiting professorships at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies. The program supports one 8-month visiting professorship per academic year, and complements the postdoctoral fellowship program at Humboldt- Universität zu Berlin.

Institut national d’histoire de l’art
$41,800
Paris, France
To support an annual research fellowship for post-doctoral candidates at the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, the central art historical institute in France. During their residency at INHA, fellows will advance their postdoctoral research and work towards the completion of a book manuscript. Additionally, the fellow will have access to local libraries and archives, including the INHA library, one of the largest art history libraries in the world.

Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo
$134,650
São Paulo, Brazil
To support “Art Across the Americas: Professorship, Interdisciplinary Workshop, and Conference,” co-organized by the Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo (MAC USP), the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), the Institute of Philosophy and Humanities of the University of Campinas (IFCH – UNICAMP), and the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo. The program spans three years; each year includes a semester-long graduate student seminar, a workshop, and a conference that addresses one of the following major themes: Indigenous Art in the United States; African American Art; and Immigration and Art in the United States.

Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery
$204,930
Washington, DC
To support the Terra Foundation Fellowships in American Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. First introduced in 2005, the Fellowship program supports significant international scholarship on American art and its global context, providing scholars the opportunity to pursue independent research closely related to the Smithsonian’s collections.

Université Paris Nanterre
$102,500
Paris, France
To support the teaching program in American Art starting in fall 2018, hosted by a consortium of two universities: Université Paris Nanterre and Université Paris Diderot. The program consists of a combination of two-year postdoctoral teaching and research fellowship supported by TFAA and short-term visiting professor fellowships, funded by the host institutions’ regular programs of fellowships for invited foreign researchers. In addition, this grant also supported a one-semester course on the history of American Art within the master’s program in International Art History in fall 2017.

University of Oxford
$173,291
Oxford, United Kingdom
To support the renewal of the annual Terra Foundation for American Art Visiting Professorship at the University of Oxford for three years, starting fall 2018 and ending in spring 2021. The Professor teaches courses at the master’s and undergraduate levels, supervises master’s students, and gives a series of public lectures on campus and elsewhere.

Smarthistory
$110,000
Pleasantville, NY
To support “Seeing America Expanded,” a project to further diversify content featured on the Seeing America website, designed for teaching and learning about American art and US history. The grant supports the creation of 13 new conversational videos with related content about artists of color, women artists, and art forms currently under-represented on the Seeing America website—public art and civic monuments and memorials. The “Expanded” project is informed by an advisory committee comprising experts in the fields of African American, Native American, and Latin American art among other disciplines.

Smarthistory
$66,000
Pleasantville, NY
To support a revised version of the Terra Foundation for American Art’s website “Civil War in Art: Teaching and Learning from Chicago Collections” (Civilwarinart.org), to be published on Smarthistory’s website, which incorporates updated scholarship and additional works of art to better reflect contemporary and historical perspectives (particularly those of Black, Indigenous, Hispanic, and women scholars and artists) on the war and its legacy, and on Civil War monuments as contemporary sites of discourse and activism.

Exhibition research and development grants support curatorial research travel in preparation for each institution’s respective forthcoming exhibition or convening.

Art Gallery of Ontario
$25,000
Toronto, Canada
Convening: “Nyuhtawę́ʔe/Niagara Falls Gatherings”

Swiss Institute
$2,776
New York, NY
Exhibition: Karen Lamassonne

University of St Andrews
$6,370
St Andrews, Fife, Scotland
Exhibition: Dorothea Tanning