Collections Grants for American Art – Aug 1

Posted by Terra Foundation for American Art on July 9, 2024

Terra Foundation for American Art invites applications for Collections Grants

In partnership with organizations and individuals locally and globally, the Terra Foundation for American Art fosters intercultural dialogues and encourages transformative practices to expand narratives of American art. Recognizing current and historical inequities in presentations and understandings of American art history, the foundation encourages permanent collection projects that address these disparities and exclusions at institutions worldwide.

The foundation invites applications for its Collections Grants program, which provides support for organizations to reinterpret and re-present their collections through reinstallations or temporary exhibitions drawn from their permanent collections. The foundation encourages proposals from organizations (e.g., museums, art centers, and community-based cultural organizations) of varying sizes and annual budgets and representing the full spectrum of geographic regions, within and outside the United States. Grants will offset planning and/or implementation costs for: research and planning for permanent collection reinstallations or temporary exhibitions drawn primarily from an institution’s permanent collection (e.g., convenings, travel, research fellows or assistants, advisory groups); temporary exhibitions drawn primarily from an institution’s permanent collection; and permanent collection reinstallations.

The foundation supports visual arts projects with a focus on art of the United States and Indigenous art of North America that question and broaden understandings of American art and transform how its stories are told. Projects are encouraged that: generate knowledge and interpretive frameworks that reflect the range and complexity of American art and its histories through the diversity of artists represented, voices included, and stories told; center artists, scholars, and communities who have been systemically excluded from narratives, practices, and presentations of American art; and commit to inclusive and equitable practices across project development and implementation in order to lead to structural change. The foundation also encourages multilingual written materials when possible and relevant to the project and/or its audiences.

The foundation anticipates that individual grants will range between $25,000 and $75,000.

The foundation will accept proposals only from institutions with United States 501(c)(3) status or its international equivalent. Only the project organizer(s) may apply for support; if co-organizing with a presenting partner institution, the co-organizers must apply jointly.

Letters of inquiry are due August 1, 2024, and upon review, selected applicants will be invited to submit a full proposal due October 7, 2024.

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Terra Foundation for American Art website.

Deadline: August 1, 2024 (Letters of Inquiry)