Foundation Report 2019–22: Grants Awarded FY2022

Ackland Art Museum
$75,000
Chapel Hill, NC
To support Unsettled Things: Art from an African American South at the Ackland Art Museum, after the show’s presentation as the inaugural exhibition at the International African American Museum in South Carolina. Comprising forty-four works by makers from the American South, the exhibition seeks to contest the canonical framework that marginalizes makers described as “folk,” “visionary,” “vernacular,” and “self-taught” figures. A publication accompanies the exhibition.

Albright-Knox Art Gallery
$75,000
Buffalo, NY
To support Marisol: A Retrospective, presented at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, and the Toledo Museum of Art. Drawn almost exclusively from a bequest of the artist Marisol Escobar’s estate to the Albright-Knox, the exhibition presents more than one hundred objects in a range of media to create a holistic view of Marisol’s creative identity as it unfolded. A publication accompanies the exhibition.

Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
$75,000
San Francisco, CA
To support Into View: Bernice Bing, the first installment of a new exhibition series that brings pressing social issues and underserved voices in contemporary art into view. Comprising ten works recently acquired from the artist’s estate, the exhibition examines the work and life of Chinese American painter Bernice Bing and poses questions about how themes of race, gender, and sexuality are essential to the understanding of postwar American abstraction.

Arizona State University Art Museum
$75,000
Tempe, AZ
To support Making Visible, the first exhibition in the series Tierras Reimaginadas/Reimagined Territories. Featuring approximately forty artworks, Making Visible examines how museums have created cultural narratives around collection objects that perpetuate and fortify mythologies of the American West, and it invites audiences to reconsider ideas such as identity, value, and hierarchy within these cultural constructions.

Autry Museum of the American West
$75,000
Los Angeles, CA
To support planning for Three Views, an exhibition featuring one hundred beaded items and other cultural materials from the Autry’s historical Native American collection and from loaned contemporary works. The exhibition explores and unveils the meanings, histories, and concepts embedded in many aspects of Native cultural materials.

Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive
$50,000
Berkeley, CA
To support planning for an exhibition featuring Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive’s recently received bequest of more than 3,000 quilts. The exhibition focuses on the role of quilts in sustaining culture, memory, kinship ties, and creative expression for African Americans, especially in the context of twentieth-century migrations. An exhibition publication is planned.

Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
$63,000
Colorado Springs, CO
To support Signs of the Americas, a collection reinstallation that brings together the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center’s Modern & Contemporary, Southwest, and Regional Collections. Focusing on themes such as migration, politics, portraiture, and landscape, the reinstallation opens dialogues between artworks from different times and places to foreground untold and marginalized histories. An exhibition publication is planned.

Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum
$75,000
New York, NY
To support Design, Texture, Color: Dorothy Liebes and American Modernism (working title), the first monographic exhibition of Dorothy Liebes in over fifty years. Featuring a multimedia display of more than ninety objects, the exhibition celebrates Liebes’s influence and achievements as a woman designer working in the male-dominated realms of architecture and textile production. A publication accompanies the exhibition.

David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art
$40,000
Chicago, IL
To support Monochrome Multitudes, a temporary exhibition examining the uses of monochromy in American art that will be on view from September 22, 2022, to January 8, 2023. The exhibition will be accompanied by educational programming and a smartphone app featuring audio in which students, lenders of art for the exhibition, and community members provide commentary on works in the exhibition.

Detroit Institute of Arts
$75,000
Detroit, MI
To support the reinstallation of the Detroit Institute of Arts’ Native American art galleries. With an emphasis on cultural continuity, vibrancy, and the agency of Indigenous peoples, the reinstallation aims to spark imaginations while deepening understanding of Indigenous communities in galleries animated by Native American voices and perspectives.

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
$75,000
San Francisco, CA
To support planning for the reinstallation of the de Young’s Native American art galleries. The interpretive framework and narrative structure of the reinstallation focuses on historical objects, showing their living histories and connections to ways of knowing.

Foundation of the State University of New York at Binghamton, Inc.
$72,000
Binghamton, NY
To support Ed Wilson: The Sculptor as Afro-humanist, the first retrospective in over fifty years of the Binghamton-based artist Ed Wilson. Drawn from the museum’s significant institutional holdings of his work, the exhibition presents a comprehensive overview of Wilson’s long career, including his autonomous figures carved from stone and wood and his large-scale public artworks. A publication accompanies the exhibition.

Friends of the Elisabet Ney Museum
$40,000
Austin, TX
To support the collection reinstallation at Formosa, the historic home and studio of Elisabet Ney, a groundbreaking radical Progressive, gender nonconformist, and celebrity sculptor who left Germany as a political refugee and settled in Southeast Texas. Reopening after extensive renovations, the museum is reframing its 110-year-old storytelling narrative to focus on Ney’s remarkable life.

Gilcrease Museum
$75,000
Tulsa, OK
To support planning for the Gilcrease Museum’s new core galleries of American art. The presentation features the museum’s interdisciplinary collection as a means to tell stories that expand narratives of American art by representing Oklahoma’s diverse populations and by challenging preconceived perceptions.

Heard Museum
$75,000
Phoenix, AZ
To support Arriving Forever Into the Present World, an exhibition of pottery, textiles, and basketry from the Heard’s collection that showcases living artistic traditions within Southwestern Indigenous cultures. Thirty-two works in pairings explore several generations of work in different ways, including across tribal traditions and within particular familial lines.

High Museum of Art
$75,000
Atlanta, GA
To support planning for Patterns in Abstraction: Aesthetic Innovation in African American Quilts, an exhibition showcasing the High Museum of Art’s holdings of quilts by African American women. Patterns in Abstraction features quilts that are variations on Birds in the Air and Housetop themes, two quilt patterns with origins in the nineteenth century that are geometric distillations of natural phenomenon and human-made environments. An exhibition publication is planned.

Illinois State Museum
$50,000
Springfield, IL
To support an exhibition and accompanying full-color catalogue showcasing works from the museum’s permanent collection by Illinois artists identifying as African American, Asian American, Indigenous, and/or LGBTQ. The project will be collaboratively developed by three guest curators. The exhibition will be on view at the Illinois State Museum in 2024 before traveling to the Lockport Gallery in Lockport, Illinois, and to Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts
$75,000
Stanford, CA
To support East of the Pacific: Making Histories of Asian American Art, an exhibition inaugurating the Cantor’s recently formed Asian American Art Initiative. Comprising approximately one hundred objects by Asian American artists, the exhibition aims to fundamentally challenge, complicate, and expand the history of American art so that the contributions of Asian American/Asian diasporic artists can be more accurately credited and reflected.

Milwaukee Art Museum
$50,000
Milwaukee, WI
To support Native Voices: Art of the American West Reinterpreted, a collection reinstallation that presents works crossing traditional curatorial boundaries as have been determined by date, country of origin, and media. Along with honoring Native cultures and their distinct contributions, the exhibition seeks to illuminate themes that speak to contemporary social issues, ranging from the environment and land use to settlement and postcolonialism to materials used in artistic production.

Mingei International Museum
$75,000
San Diego, CA
To support Textures and Tones—Stitching America, a project examining Mingei’s holdings of nearly four hundred American quilts made by self-taught artists through lenses of race, class, and gender. The project aims to yield a rich crowdsourced understanding of the collection to inform a future exhibition of approximately fifty quilts. An exhibition publication is planned.

Mississippi Museum of Art
$75,000
Jackson, MS
To support the reinstallation of New Symphony of Time to focus on Mississippi culture through musical genres such as blues, rock and roll, and gospel, all of which flourished there before spreading to other regions. Inspired by Margaret Walker’s lines of poetry, “I gave music to the world/and called it Syncopation,” the presentation reflects the museum’s diverse community and its interests. A publication accompanies the exhibition.

Montclair Art Museum
$75,000
Montclair, NJ
To support the reinstallation of historical and contemporary Native American artworks to reflect new collaborative and critical museological approaches. Approximately sixty objects are presented in a manner that privileges Indigenous relationships to art, contextualizes the work within the larger context of American art history and challenges ideologies that can delimit what Native art is or can be.

Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
$75,000
Santa Fe, NM
To support Horizons: Weaving Between the Lines with Diné Textiles, showcasing forty historical and contemporary textiles from the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture and the American Museum of Natural History’s collections. The exhibition highlights the localized and land-based knowledge systems that guide Navajo textile production and advances discourse on Native American textile art, craft history and theory, and issues of cultural preservation and heritage. A publication accompanies the exhibition.

Museum of Nebraska Art
$75,000
Kearney, NE
To support In Search of Ourselves, the first collection presentation to be exhibited when the Museum of Nebraska Art opens its new galleries after a major expansion. The exhibition shares a broad history of American art, with a focus on Nebraska, through approximately eighty-five works of art and a diversity of artists, perspectives, and stories.

National Portrait Gallery
$75,000
Washington, DC
To support Out of Many: Portraits from 1600 to 1900, a collection reinstallation presenting a broad range of popular art forms, including silhouettes, sheet music, theatrical posters, and playing cards alongside paintings and sculptures. The presentation aims to expand the understanding of American visual culture during this historical period, enlarge definitions of portraiture, and to challenge preconceptions about what merits historical analysis and museum display.

Neuberger Museum of Art
$75,000
Purchase, NY
To support planning for a collection reinstallation that brings together, for the first time, the Neuberger Museum of Art’s collections of American modern and contemporary art and African art. The reinstallation is a more holistic presentation of the museum’s collections and a reframing of traditional historical narratives.

New Orleans Museum of Art
$75,000
New Orleans, LA
To support a suite of American art galleries devoted to the New Orleans Museum of Art’s collection that presents the first comprehensive installation of American art in the museum’s history. Foregrounding the work of Black, Indigenous, and female artists and makers, the installation seeks to challenge existing hierarchies and to offer an inclusive appraisal of American art and history, emphasizing the often under-acknowledged role of New Orleans.

North Carolina Museum of Art
$75,000
Raleigh, NC
To support the reinstallation of American art at the North Carolina Museum of Art to mark the 75th anniversary of the North Carolina legislature’s establishment of the People’s Collection. The new installation highlights the multiplicity of voices that have contributed to art and culture and features site-specific commissioned works alongside historical works to introduce expanded dialogues and ways of understanding. A publication accompanies the exhibition.

Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum
$75,000
Columbus, OH
To support the reinstallation of the collection at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum in order that a more complete story of the history of comics as an American art form can be told. The inclusive and equitable presentation better represents the scope of the museum’s more than three million items and the diversity and richness of comics and cartooning.

Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum
$75,000
Miami, FL
To support Together/Apart: Modern and Contemporary Art of the United States, an exhibition comprising works from the Frost Art Museum and the Wolfsonian—both embedded institutions under the auspices of Florida International University. Approximately seventy-five objects are organized in thematic sections to focus on the construction of identity in the United States and pose the question, “What does it mean to be ‘American’ in the Americas?”

Phillips Collection
$70,000
Washington, DC
To support planning for an exhibition at the Phillips Collection of selections from its collection alongside artworks from the Howard University Gallery of Art. The collaborative exhibition is a joint project of the Phillips Collection and Howard University Gallery of Art, institutions with a longstanding relationship dating to the 1930s.

Plains Art Museum
$70,000
Fargo, ND
To support Continuity of Culture, the first collaborative exhibition between Crow’s Shadow Institute for the Arts (Portland, Oregon) and the Plains Art Museum. Exploring narrative threads surrounding Indigenous creativity as it relates to cultural existence, the exhibition of sixty-eight historical Native American artworks and contemporary prints expresses the past’s timeless and continuous validity. A publication accompanies the exhibition.

Portland Museum of Art
$75,000
Portland, ME
To support the reinstallation of American art galleries at the Portland Museum of Art. The new installation focuses on such themes as the environmental and social impact of the coastal scenes depicted in nineteenth-century American painting; the histories and artistic traditions of First Nations artists in Maine; and questions of materiality, natural resources, colonial and imperial commercial systems, and domesticity.

Princeton University Art Museum
$75,000
Princeton, NJ
To support Object Lessons in American Art, an exhibition organized around the rubrics of race, gender, and the environment to expand the boundaries of American art. Comprising 94 artworks from the Prince University Art Museum’s collection, the exhibition will be presented at the Georgia Museum of Art, the Florence Griswold Museum, and the Westmoreland Museum of American Art. A publication accompanies the exhibition.

Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art
$75,000
Providence, RI
To support the reinstallation of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art’s modern and contemporary art and design collections with a focus on newly acquired and rarely exhibited works by underrepresented artists and designers. The presentation counters narratives that isolate American modern and contemporary art from European, Latin American, African, and Asian modern art, drawing instead connections across perspectives, cultures, and media.

Riverside Art Museum
$75,000
Riverside, CA
To support the development of an exhibition program for the new Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture of the Riverside Art Museum. The Cheech opened in May 2022, stewarding more than five hundred pieces gifted from Cheech Marin’s collection, among other works, and presenting programs that uplift historically marginalized Chicano artists and their contributions to the American art canon.

Speed Art Museum
$75,000
Louisville, KY
To support the reinstallation of the Speed Art Museum’s Kentucky Gallery with the goal of making it more inclusive, engaging, and relevant to the diverse communities it serves. Featuring paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, drawings, prints, and other objects from the Speed’s extensive Kentucky Collection, the gallery is the largest and most visited presentation dedicated to the historical art of the state.

Tampa Museum of Art
$20,000
Tampa, FL
To support Purvis Young: Redux at the Tampa Museum of Art upon completion of a major building renovation. Comprising the museum’s complete holdings of ninety-one works by Purvis Young, the exhibition explores themes significant to the artist’s practice—social justice, immigration, systemic racism, hope, spirituality, and survival—and examines his visual language and symbols.

Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block
$75,000
Tucson, AZ
To support More Than: Expanding Artists Identities from the American West at the Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block. The multidisciplinary, identity-based, and collaborative exhibition of more than forty works seeks to expand the definition of the genre and examine narratives that are often overlooked or made invisible. A publication accompanies the exhibition.

University of Nevada, Reno Foundation
$75,000
Reno, NV
To support the Lilley Co-Lab, an interactive planning project to inform the Lilley Museum of Art’s new permanent collection display. The project engages the community in activities to help determine the concept, object selection, and narrative structure of the exhibition.

University of New Mexico Foundation
$75,000
Albuquerque, NM
To support the University of New Mexico Art Museum’s new iteration of HINDSIGHT/INSIGHT: Reflecting on the Collection, which examines traditional genres of art, including portraiture, landscape, and abstraction, in conjunction with various topics and themes demonstrating the validity of a plurality of narratives drawn from the same works of art. A publication accompanies the exhibition.

University of Wyoming Art Museum
$43,000
Laramie, WY
To support the University of Wyoming Art Museum’s fiftieth-anniversary exhibition, which explores the museum’s place in the American West. Selections from the museum’s collection of Western art are presented in ways that enhance representation of Indigenous and women artists and highlight notable omissions and nuances in the interpretation of works from the region. A publication accompanies the exhibition.

Weisman Art Museum of the University of Minnesota
$75,000
Minneapolis, MN
To support planning for a reinstallation of the Weisman Art Museum’s collection of American art. The project lays the groundwork for a presentation and related publication foregrounding an expanded view of the collection and definition of American art.

Westmoreland Museum of American Art
$75,000
Greensburg, PA
To support planning for the reinterpretation and reinstallation of the Westmoreland Museum of American Art’s permanent collection galleries. The project centers the theme of labor as a lens to interrogate the collection in order to make connections to the museum’s regional history and communities.

Whitney Museum of American Art
$75,000
New York, NY
To support A Very Long Line: Migration, Displacement, and the Struggle for Land and Refuge (working title), comprising approximately two hundred artworks, including paintings, sculptures, works on paper, installations, and time-based media from the Whitney’s collection. Taking its title from a 2016 video work by the artist collective Postcommodity, the exhibition examines the definition of American art as it has evolved throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Archives of American Art
$24,000
Washington, DC
To support a computer art study day at the Archives, which focuses on the first decades when artists began to incorporate emerging computer technologies into their practices. The study day explores how to collect, preserve, and make available key archival collections documenting the medium’s history. Interviews with attendees after the event will be posted online.

Asia Society
$20,000
New York, NY
To support the Asia Society’s 2021 Arts & Museum Summit, “Reimagining Museum Narratives in the 21st Century,” which will explore issues of decolonization in the arts, and in particular how a recalibration of best practices through this lens impacts museum collections, programming, museum boards, and museum staff.

Chicago Humanities Festival
$30,000
Chicago, IL
To support two Terra Foundation programs on American Art to take place during the fall 2022 and/or spring 2023 program seasons of the Chicago Humanities Festival, a multi-week event hosted at venues throughout the city featuring nationally and internationally recognized artists, scholars, writers, and other influential cultural thinkers.

Crocker Art Museum
$25,000
Sacramento, CA
To support the convening series “Indigenous Voices in Film,” which benchmark, explore, and document the history of artmaking practices of Indigenous peoples in the surrounding Sacramento and Northern California region through the intersection of film, video art, and media arts.

FRONT Exhibition Company
$25,000
Cleveland, OH
To support the two-day symposium “Recentered Periphery: An Inclusive Future of Art History” in September 2022, organized in collaboration with Case Western Reserve University and Assembly for the Arts. The symposium provides the opportunity for a conversation on the past, present, and future of racial equity within museums and arts institutions, exploring inclusive and equitable practices and critical methodologies suitable for adoption by organizations and communities. A digital archive, academic papers, and essays will accompany the symposium.

Goethe-Universität (Institut für Ethnologie/Dept. of Social and Cultural Anthropology)
$35,000
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
To support the two-day symposium “Tithu Between Wor(l)ds. Cultural Items as Art or Artifact” at the Museum am Rothenbaum–Kulturen und Künste der Welt (MARKK) (Hamburg, Germany). Tribal representatives, art historians, and cultural anthropologists share perspectives on Katsina representation and non-Hopi appropriation while considering how Katsina collections can be evaluated and understood within museums and academic settings. Program content from the symposium will be published on a dedicated website (www.tithu.uni-frankfurt.de) available to a worldwide audience.

Heard Museum
$25,000
Phoenix, AZ
To support the symposium “Remembering the Future” in fall 2022 at the Heard Museum. The symposium includes approximately twenty Native American and First Nations artists, scholars, and thought leaders who address current issues in the field and will document the ongoing evolution of artistic developments and the progression of ideas and creative expression through moderated panel discussions and keynote presentations.

Hellenic American University
$25,000
Nashua, NH
To support “Terra (in) cognita: Dialogues between Greek Culture and Modern American Art,” a four-day conference to be held at the Athens Campus of Hellenic American University. The event explores the wide spectrum of associations between modern American art, with a focus on Abstract Expressionism, and iconic aspects of Greek culture. An English- and Greek-language book will be published following the conference.

Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO)
$124,000
Leipzig, Germany
To support “Linking Art Worlds: American Art and Eastern Europe in the Cold War and Since,” a program jointly funded by the Terra Foundation and the Getty and led by GWZO. The program consists of a series of traveling seminars, including an opening symposium in Prague and a writing workshop in Giverny, France. While the overall thematic lens is devoted to overcoming national frameworks through the study of official/unofficial encounters and engagements between the art scenes on both sides of the Iron Curtain, the content of the symposium and seminars is driven by site visits to archives and collections as well as by meetings with local experts.

National Museum of Mexican Art
$21,000
Chicago, IL
To support the October 2022 convening of the Mexican Cultural Arts Alliance, a professional cohort of leaders from nine small and/or emerging cultural organizations across North America that center Mexican and Mexican American arts. Participants will also begin co-planning a traveling exhibition showcasing the work of artists in each of the cohort members’ cities. Additional topics for presentations include approaches to curating, city tourism, and how community arts organizations can support artists beyond mounting exhibitions of their work.

Photography Network
$30,000
New Brunswick, NJ
To support the Photography Network’s symposium “Intersecting Photographies” in fall 2022 at Howard University, the first of what will be an annual series. The event aims to contribute to art history’s ongoing interrogation of photography as a colonizing technology and to explore the medium’s ability to promote social justice.

Smithsonian American Art Museum
$24,955
Washington, DC
To support “Discussing the Shape of Power,” a series of four hybrid in-person/virtual convenings at Howard University and the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM). The convenings engage community members at Howard University, the exhibition’s scholarly Advisory Council, and additional potential partners who are collaborating with SAAM curators and educators in developing interpretive strategies and content for the forthcoming exhibition The Shape of Power.

University of California, Los Angeles
$25,000
Los Angeles, CA
To support “The Forgotten Canopy,” a series of three conferences and three related Native American community-based meetings/workshops in Southern California throughout 2022–23. The series aims to share and amplify the critical contributions of Native Americans and Black Americans to the architecture of the Americas.

University of Copenhagen
$25,000
Copenhagen, Denmark
To support a two-day conference that highlights the groundbreaking practices of the Light and Space movement, connecting past and present generations of artists. The event will be recorded and be made available on Copenhagen Contemporary’s website.

The University of Edinburgh
$45,000
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
To support “Hot Art, Cold War: East Central Europe Workshops on American Art,” to be held in Poznań, Bucharest, and Dresden. These workshops expand on research undertaken for the Terra Foundation–funded anthology Hot Art, Cold War: Southern and Eastern European Writings on American Art, 1945–1990 (Routledge, 2020). Organized by the University of Edinburgh, the thematically related workshops stimulate further debate and research on artistic relations between East Central Europe and the US in the context of the Cold War.

University of Miami
$25,000
Coral Gables, FL
To support “Geoffrey Holder: Prismatic Blackness, A Writers’ Workshop,” a two-day event organized by the Center for Black Global Studies, which convenes scholars, archivists, writers, and editors to support the development of an integrated web-based archive and academic publication dedicated to the work of Geoffrey Holder.

Washington Project for the Arts
$15,000
Washington, DC
To support the three-day, research-based convening “How can we gather now?,” which explores how and why we gather, and how we can do it better in a time of lingering health and societal divides. A website and publication will accompany the convening.

Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library
$29,652
Winterthur, DE
To support the two-day symposium “Shifting Tides: Art in the 18th-Century Caribbean” at Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library October 27–28, 2022. The symposium focuses on centering the significance of the greater Caribbean region in the eighteenth century, rethinking the existing narratives of colonial American art both North and South, and reimagining the relationship between historical collections in public institutions and the communities they serve.

Yale University
$25,000
New Haven, CT
To support “Surrogates: Embodied Histories of Sculpture in the Short 20th Century,” a three-day symposium—organized in collaboration with University of Graz and Museum Brandhorst—exploring how modern sculpture became the locus for impassioned debates about the human, investigating the intersection of corporality, subjectivity, and ideology across four revisionist histories: postcolonial, feminist, queer, and antiracist. The symposium will be shared via a website, live streaming, and possibly an edited volume.

Baltimore Museum of Art
$200,000
Baltimore, MD
To support Survivance: Centering Native Voices through Anti-Colonial Actions, to be shown at the Baltimore Museum of Art. This exhibition initiative centers Native voices and challenges collective understandings of the role of Native peoples in US history. An English-language publication accompanies the exhibition.

Bard Graduate Center
$85,500
New York, NY
To support the presentation of Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850–1915 at a museum in Stoke-on-Trent, England. Comprising 178 works, the traveling exhibition traces the history of majolica from its beginnings in England to its transformation in the United States, where it shaped American decorative arts and visual culture. A three-volume catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

Barnes Foundation
$175,000
Philadelphia, PA
To support Water, Wind, Breath: Southwest Native Art in Community, an exhibition to be presented at the Barnes Foundation that explores Pueblo and Navajo ceramics, textiles, and jewelry as living artistic traditions. An English-language publication accompanies the exhibition.

Centre Pompidou
$220,000
Paris, France
To support Shirley Jaffe: An American in Paris, an exhibition that explores the full scope of the artist’s career that travels to Kunstmuseum Basel, Musée Matisse (Nice), and possibly one additional venue. A French- and English-language catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

Copenhagen Contemporary
$225,000
Copenhagen, Denmark
To support Light & Space, an exhibition examining the Light and Space movement that emerged on the US West Coast in the 1960s, including exploring the important contributions of women artists and the movement’s influence on contemporary European art. An English-language catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art
$100,000
Chicago, IL
To support implementation for the traveling exhibition, Bob: Thompson: This House Is Mine, organized by the Colby College Museum of Art, at the Smart Museum of Art.

Denver Art Museum
$150,000
Denver, CO
To support Moving Papers: Chapters in Apsáalooke Material Culture, an exhibition to be shown in Denver, and possibly at two additional venues. The exhibition includes historical Apsáalooke artworks from the DAM’s permanent collection, loaned works, and recent work by artist Wendy Red Star. An English-language digital publication accompanies the exhibition.

Grey Art Gallery
$350,000
New York, NY
To support Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962, an exhibition to be shown at the Grey Art Gallery, The NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery, and one additional US venue, that assesses the expatriate scene in Paris in the years after World War II. An English-language catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

Hamburger Kunsthalle
$150,000
Hamburg, Germany
To support Double Vision, the first joint exhibition of German artist Gerhard Richter and American artist Vija Celmins. Organized with the support of both artists, the exhibition explores the striking parallels between these two contemporaries through 65 works of different media. A bilingual (German/English) catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
$150,000
Boston, MA
To support an exhibition of the work of Simone Leigh at the United States Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia and the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. An English-language catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen
$200,000
Düsseldorf, Germany
To support Anne Truitt: Color in Space at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid and the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen. The first survey exhibition of American painter, sculptor, and writer Anne Truitt presents 80 artworks across four decades to explore her role as a pioneer of minimalism. Catalogues in German, Spanish, and English accompany the exhibition.

KW Institute for Contemporary Art
$175,000
Berlin, Germany
To support Martin Wong: Malicious Mischief, the first large-scale monographic exhibition in Europe of the Chinese-Mexican-American artist Martin Wong. The traveling show presents more than 100 artworks around thematic groupings of place, framing the artist as a key proponent of the countercultural scenes of the United States in which he lived and worked. An English-language catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
$175,000
New York, NY
To support Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents at The Met and the National Gallery London. The exhibition is a re-examination of the artist’s work through a lens of conflict and addresses his lifelong engagement with the subjects of race, nature, and the environment. An English-language catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal
$125,000
Montreal, Canada
To support Designed by Women (working title) at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal. The exhibition presents a history of American and Canadian women in design from 1870 to 2021, showcasing some 350 artworks and exploring the ways design has propelled social change. A bilingual (French/English) catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

Musées de la Métropole Rouen Normandie
$25,000
Rouen, France
To support Sheila Hicks: Off-limits at the Corderie Vallois Industrial Museum, a former textile factory in Rouen that retains its original nineteenth-century hydraulic operation. This exhibition of American artist Sheila Hicks comprises a specially created installation by Hicks that transforms the old factory into a huge textile piece, in addition to more than 20 artworks that span her decades-long career. A French-language catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

Museum of Fine Arts Boston
$200,000
Boston, MA
To support Carolina Clay: Black Potters and the American Experience, an exhibition to be mounted at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibition focuses on African American potters in the nineteenth-century American South, specifically those who worked in Edgefield, South Carolina, and the contemporary artists who have responded to this body of work. An English-language publication accompanies the exhibition.

National Gallery
$175,000
London, United Kingdom
To support Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents at The Met and the National Gallery London. The exhibition is a re-examination of the artist’s work through a lens of conflict and addresses his lifelong engagement with the subjects of race, nature, and the environment. An English-language catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

National Public Housing Museum
$50,000
Chicago, IL
To support a public-art installation for the façade and entrance of the National Public Housing Museum, titled Threshold and designed by artists Amanda Williams and Olalekan Jeyifous. The project, composed of steel and fritted glass, references iconic public housing complexes in Chicago and their residents

Public Art Fund
$21,300
New York, NY
To support the Chicago installation of a multi-city exhibition of work by Wendy Red Star, an Oregon-based multimedia artist and member of the Apsáalooke (Crow) nation. Red Star will develop ten to fifteen new works that challenge the representations of Crow people in United States museums following extensive research at museums and archives in Chicago, Boston, and New York City.

Swiss Institute
$160,000
New York, NY
To support Karen Lamassonne at the Swiss Institute; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; and Medellín Museum of Modern Art in Spain. Organized in collaboration with Karen Lamassonne, the exhibition is the first institutional survey of the Colombian American artist, presenting more than 70 multimedia artworks that span her decades-long career. A bilingual (Spanish/English) catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

Whitney Museum of American Art
$250,000
New York, NY
To support Edward Hopper’s New York (working title) at the Whitney Museum and the Seoul Museum of Art in Korea. The exhibition brings together more than 200 works along with a trove of little-known personal materials from the Whitney’s newly acquired Sanborn Hopper Archive to offer unprecedented insights into Edward Hopper’s world and his way of working. An English-language catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

6018|North
$20,000
Chicago, IL
To support community-engagement research-and-development activities that will inform engagement strategies for an exhibition tentatively entitled Land, water, garden – urbs in horto – Greening the Swamp, which is expected to take place as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture
$20,000
Chicago, IL
To support community-engagement research-and-development activities that will inform engagement strategies for the exhibition Bridging Two Cultures: Lithuanian Immigrant Artists in Chicago 1950–2000, which is expected to take place as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events
$20,000
Chicago, IL
To fund community-engagement research-and-development activities that will inform engagement strategies for the exhibition In the Abstract: Art in Chicago 1980s–1990s, which is expected to take place as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Chicago History Museum
$20,000
Chicago, IL
To support community-engagement research-and-development activities that will inform engagement strategies for the exhibition Chicago Designs for Change, which is expected to take place as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Chicago Public Library Foundation
$20,000
Chicago, IL
To support community-engagement research-and-development activities that will inform engagement strategies for the exhibition An Immigrant among Immigrants: Pilsen through the Lens of Akito Tsuda, which is expected to take place as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Chicago Public Library Foundation
$40,000
Chicago, IL
To support research and development for an exhibition entitled An Immigrant among Immigrants: Pilsen through the Lens of Akito Tsuda. The grant supports a series of convenings, local research travel, and travel for Tsuda to Chicago, along with the hiring of both a guest curator 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.

David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art
$20,000
Chicago, IL
To support research-and-development activities informing community-engagement strategies for the exhibition Ruth Duckworth: Themes and Variations that will take place as part of Art Design Chicago 2024. Research-and-development activities will include youth programming (as part of the museum’s ongoing Smart Teens Program which serves teens living in Chicago public housing) in which students will build plans for exhibition content, interpretation, and audience engagement.

DePaul Art Museum
$20,000
Chicago, IL
To fund community-engagement research-and-development activities that will inform engagement strategies for an exhibition examining the art and career of the Chicago artist and designer Edgar Miller (1899–1993), which is expected to take place as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Design Museum of Chicago
$20,000
Chicago, IL
To support community-engagement research-and-development activities that will inform engagement strategies for the exhibition Chicago Types: Letterforms for Everyone, which is expected to take place as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Gallery 400
$51,800
Chicago, IL
To support community-engagement research-and-development activities that will inform engagement strategies for the exhibition Together: Art, Education, and Community, which is expected to take place as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Hyde Park Art Center
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support community-engagement research-and-development activities that will inform engagement strategies for the exhibition Robert Paige: Patterns of Progress, which is expected to take place as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
$20,000
Chicago, IL
To support community-engagement research-and-development activities that will inform engagement strategies for the exhibition Chicago as Catalyst: Immigrant Communities Nourish Self-Taught Artists, which is expected to take place as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
$20,000
Chicago, IL
To support community-engagement research-and-development activities that will inform engagement strategies for the exhibition Together: Arts and Education and Community, which is expected to take place as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
$20,000
Chicago, IL
To support community-engagement research-and-development activities that will inform engagement strategies for the exhibition Indigenous Chicago: Confluence, Rupture, Flow, which is expected to take place as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
$20,000
Chicago, IL
To support community-engagement research-and-development activities that will inform engagement strategies for an exhibition examining the artistic genealogies of the Puerto Rican diaspora in Chicago from the 1970s to the present; the show is expected to take place as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Museum of Contemporary Photography
$20,000
Chicago, IL
To support community-engagement research-and-development activities that will inform engagement strategies for the exhibition Dawit L. Petros: Prospetto a Mare, which is expected to take place as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Museum of Vernacular Arts and Knowledge
$75,000
Chicago, IL
To support two new iterations of the Black Arts Movement School Modality, a two-week virtual course exploring ideas and knowledge structures that emerged from the Black Arts Movement (BAM) of the 1960s and ’70s. Each seminar will feature a core faculty of original BAM practitioners. The seminars will take place virtually in August 2022 and January 2023 with a focus on BAM and its practitioners in New York City and its environs and in California, respectively.

National Museum of Mexican Art
$20,000
Chicago, IL
To support community-engagement research-and-development activities that will inform engagement strategies for the exhibition Re-presenting: Developing Identity at Chicago’s 1893 Columbian World’s Fair, which is expected to take place as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Newberry Library
$20,000
Chicago, IL
To support research and development for an exhibition that repositions Chicago, through art and visual culture, as an Indigenous space by emphasizing the diverse stories, connections, and meanings ascribed to the city by Native Nations and Indigenous communities. The grant supports a planned convening. The project is expected to lead to an exhibition as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Puerto Rican Arts Alliance
$20,000
Chicago, IL
To support community-engagement research-and-development activities that will inform engagement strategies for the exhibition Puerto Rico to Chicago: The Shaping of an Arts Community, which is expected to take place as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
$20,000
Chicago, IL
To support community-engagement research-and-development activities that will inform engagement strategies for the exhibition High Craft in Chicago in the 1970s–80s, which is expected to take place as part of the Terra Foundation initiative Art Design Chicago.

University of Delaware
$25,000
Newark, DE
To support an October 2022 convening in Chicago presented as part of “Conduit: Black Art Preservation Project,” an initiative aimed at the preservation of Black art found in Midwestern communities outside of museum contexts in Chicago, Detroit, Columbus, and Minneapolis/St. Paul. Twenty conservation and preservation professionals, artists, collectors, and graduate students will convene to discuss strategies for alliance formation, new methods for documenting and preserving cultural heritage in communities, cooperative structures for resource sharing, and plans for continued dialogue.

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

Courtauld Institute of Art
$199,350
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
$141,500
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
$39,800
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.

Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery
$327,800
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.

University of Oxford
$397,200
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.

Art Gallery of Ontario
$50,000
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
To support the Art Gallery of Ontario’s 2021 and 2022 gatherings called “aabaakwad (it clears after a storm),” annual Indigenous-led conversations on Indigenous art by those who create, curate and write about it.

Brooklyn Rail
$250,000
New York, NY
To support a daily virtual conversation series “The New Social Environment,” in which thinkers from across the arts, the humanities, and the sciences engage in accessible and diverse conversations on the role of art and artists in society. The conversations, which include audience participation, are recorded and archived.

Chisenhale Gallery
$27,000
London, United Kingdom
To support Circe (working title), the first major solo exhibition in a UK institution of Los Angeles–based artist Nikita Gale. Comprising boundary-pushing sculpture and audio components, the installation draws on a long tradition of African American storytelling to articulate the complexities of the contemporary moment. A catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

Chisenhale Gallery
$34,200
London, United Kingdom
To support a one-year curatorial fellowship as the fellow assists Chisenhale’s annual 2022–23 commissions and develops their professional capacity through mentorship and through placement in an ecosystem of institutions in London. The institutional learning is shared through professional development workshops and peer networks of other curatorial fellows.

Kunstinstituut Melly
$78,180
Rotterdam, Netherlands
To support “Tools for De-modernizing,” a collective learning program that seeks to rethink the legacy of modernism within art institutions. This multi-pronged initiative includes the creation of a global network of peer institutions in the field of contemporary art along with the development and implementation of a training program co-designed by members of the network guided by principles of diversity and inclusivity. Drawing from Black, Indigenous, and queer cultures, the program encourages the development of more mindful and inclusive institutional practices through these trainings, as well as via in-person and online lectures and events, and the creation of a chapbook.

New Museum of Contemporary Art
$75,000
New York, NY
To support programming and catalogue production developed in conjunction with the exhibition Theaster Gates: Young Lords and Their Traces, the first survey exhibition in New York of work by the Chicago-based artist. Programming includes activations developed in partnership with Gates, including the recording of an album by the Black Monks, a performance group he founded, and a series of convenings considering the relationship between Soviet film, communism, and the Black radical tradition.

Palais de la Porte Dorée
$73,651
Paris, France
To support “Sharing Museums,” a three-day event featuring roundtables focusing on four themes: migration museums’ approaches and relationships to contemporary art; museums’ connections to diasporas; diversity and inclusion; and the restitution of artworks. This public convening will be livestreamed, with recordings to be made accessible on the museum’s website. A bilingual edition of the museum’s journal Hommes & Migrations will be published following the event.

Serpentine Galleries
$75,000
London, United Kingdom
To support Black Chapel, the 2022 Serpentine Pavilion designed by visual artist Theaster Gates and constructed with the architectural support of Adjaye Associates. The pavilion will be open from June 10 to October 16, 2022, and will be accompanied by a series of live artist interventions and an illustrated catalogue examining Black Chapel within the larger context of Gates’s body of work.

Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture
$75,000
Madison, ME
To support The Skowhegan Book (working title), a publication that marks the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture’s first foray into the history of its origins, philosophy, physical site, and artists since its opening in 1946. The publication is constructed from archival work drawn from interviews, oral histories, ephemera, and lectures, highlighting how Skowhegan’s School of Painting and Sculpture has created, and continues to create, an equitable, accessible, and expansive mode for studio work in a community context.

Soul of Nations Foundation
$150,000
Florence, Italy
To support a residency and professional development program at the Soul Center for the Arts in Florence, Italy, which includes ten fellowship grants for five Native American, three African American, and two Afro-Italian artists. This program provides the artists with space to work and opportunities to further cross-cultural dialogue regarding geographically displaced BIPOC experiences. Fellows will engage in public programs locally, and their art will be shared via the internet and through publications.

South Side Community Art Center
$625,000
Chicago, IL
To support a four-year project to expand the South Side Community Art Center’s capacity to preserve its art and archival collections and make them accessible for research and study.

The Studio Museum in Harlem
$1,000,000
New York, NY
To support “Unearthing the Archive,” a four-year research project that explores archival materials, oral histories, primary documents, and other sources to illuminate the histories and legacy of the Studio Museum as a nexus for Black art in Harlem’s epicenter. Publications as well as accessible and alternative modes of storytelling will accompany the archival work, giving voice to the creative ideas, output, and patrimony of Black art and culture. This project anticipates the opening of the museum’s new building in 2024.

American Academy in Rome
$159,400
Rome, Italy
To support two six-month affiliated fellowships for early- and mid-career Chicago-based artists who identify as BIPOC, providing them with opportunities to work on their art, cultivate their practice with mentors, and make new connections in an interdisciplinary context.

Voices in Contemporary Art
$100,000
New York, NY
To support the three-year pilot initiative “Native Voices,” which aims to illuminate the art-making practices and materials of six contemporary Native American artists alongside their personal and social histories and to advance best practices for the long-term preservation of their work, addressing the significant voids in professional knowledge about the unique conservation needs of contemporary Native American art. The initiative includes four major program threads: artist interviews (VoCA Talks), artist interview workshops, artist interview archiving and dissemination, and an issue of the VoCA Journal.

Ackland Art Museum / Terra Foundation for American Art
$100,000
Chapel Hill, NC
To support a four-year Terra Collection-in-Residence loan of four paintings from the Terra Foundation Collection and related programs. Works by Ammi Phillips, Robert Henri, Lyonel Feininger, and Archibald J. Motley will be displayed in the museum’s permanent collection galleries and will be used for academic outreach.

Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology / Terra Foundation for American Art
$100,000
Oxford, United Kingdom
To support a four-year Terra Collection-in-Residence loan of one painting and 37 prints from the Terra Foundation Collection and related programs. A painting by Thomas Moran is installed in the museum’s permanent galleries while the works on paper are available to students, faculty, and other visitors in the museum’s Western Art Print Room.

Colby College Museum of Art / Terra Foundation for American Art
$75,000
Waterville, ME
To support a three-year Terra Collection-in-Residence loan of four paintings from the Terra Foundation Collection and related programs. Paintings by Frederic Church, George Caleb Bingham, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Thomas Hart Benton are installed in the museum’s permanent galleries, expanding opportunities for education and interpretation.

Georgia Art Museum / Terra Foundation for American Art
$100,000
Athens, GA
To support a four-year Terra Collection-in-Residence loan of five paintings from the Terra Foundation Collection and related programs. Paintings by John Singleton Copley, John F. Peto, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Charles Sheeler, and Joseph Stella are integrated into the permanent galleries, expanding opportunities for education and interpretation.

Harvard Art Museums / Terra Foundation for American Art
$100,000
Cambridge, MA
To support a four-year Terra Collection-in-Residence loan of paintings and prints from the Terra Foundation Collection and related programs. Works by Mary Cassatt, Frederic Church, Samuel Colman, Martin Johnson Heade, and Samuel F.B. Morse will be displayed in the museum’s permanent collection galleries and will be used for academic outreach.

Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig / Terra Foundation for American Art
$75,000
Leipzig, Germany
To support a three-year Terra Collection-in-Residence loan of five paintings from the Terra Foundation Collection and related programs. Paintings by Willard Metcalf, William Merritt Chase, Lilla Cabot Perry, Dennis Miller Bunker, and Jamie Wyeth are installed in the museum’s permanent galleries and in focused exhibitions

Tougaloo College Art Collections / Terra Foundation for American Art
$100,000
Tougaloo, MS
To support a four-year renewable Terra Collection-in-Residence loan of two artworks from the Terra Foundation Collection and related programs. Artwork by A.E. Gallatin and Arshile Gorky are integrated into the college’s permanent collection galleries and academic outreach.

DePaul Art Museum
$50,000
Chicago, IL
To support a two-year pilot project to research and develop a community-informed programming model for the museum based on the Stockyard Institute’s practices.

Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
$70,000
Chicago, IL
To support the “Teacher Fellowship Program” in the 2019–20 and 2020–21 school years. The program provides professional development for Chicago Public School teachers centered on teaching with American outsider or non-mainstream art. During more than 50 program hours, teachers explore outsider art concepts, collections, and artists, and are guided in creating interdisciplinary lesson plans designed to help students make personal connections and responses to these individuals and their work. Culminating in an exhibition of student art, the program is expected to serve annually approximately 26 Chicago Public Schools teachers at 10–14 schools and 640 students.

National Museum of Mexican Art
$25,000
Chicago, IL
To support “Nuestras Historias: Teaching the Story of America through Art” in the 2022–23 school year, a program that includes professional development for teachers, curriculum development, field trips for students, and artist residencies in classrooms.