The Terra Foundation invites proposals for exhibitions to be presented as part of Art Design Chicago.
Donor Name: Terra Foundation
State: Illinois
City: Chicago
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/10/2023
Size of the Grant: $25,000 and $125,000
Details:
Art Design Chicago is a platform for collaboration and exchange developed with cultural practitioners throughout Chicago. The initiative seeks to catalyze transformative approaches to co-creation and community engagement and stimulate expansive narratives of Chicago art and design, past and present. Recognizing current and historical inequities in presentations and understandings of American (and Chicago) art history, the Terra Foundation encourages exhibitions that address these disparities and exclusions.
To be considered, programs should focus on the visual arts and/or design of Chicago, whether historical or contemporary, including Native American arts of the region. Contemporary art projects should offer a reflective and critical engagement with histories, arts, and/or art histories associated with Chicago contexts.
Priorities
The foundation supports visual-art projects that question and broaden understandings of American art and transform how stories of American art are told. They encourage exhibitions 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 (and Chicago) art and design; and
- commit to inclusive and equitable practices across project development and implementation in order to lead to structural change.
Additionally, they encourage Art Design Chicago exhibition projects that:
- are accompanied by strong audience- and community-engagement strategies, employing approaches to programming and interpretation that are co-generated and relationally based with audiences and community partners;
- are conceived to connect with a broad audience representative of Chicago’s diverse population;
- are documented in a publication or other type of lasting and publicly available resource that will serve future research;
- are timed to open between May 2024 and the end of 2024.
Funding Information
It anticipate that individual grants will range between $25,000 and $125,000.
What they Fund
Grants will offset implementation costs for exhibitions and related programming and publications. Grant proposals are reviewed by an external panel made up of curators and arts professionals who reflect a diverse range of backgrounds, perspectives, and approaches.
Eligibility Criteria
For this program, the Terra Foundation accepts proposals from institutions with United States 501(c)(3) status based in the Chicago metropolitan area. If co-organizing a temporary exhibition with a partner organization, the co-organizers should apply jointly. Grants are not made to individuals.
The foundation does not accept proposals for:
- acquisitions or capital expenditures;
- exhibitions of primarily single private or commercial collections, even if on long-term loan to a museum (promised gifts are acceptable as are exhibitions with works primarily borrowed from a living artist);
- exhibitions that are exclusively online;
- exhibitions previously mounted that are touring to new venues;
- exhibitions previously declined by the Terra Foundation
For more information, visit Art Design Chicago Exhibitions Grants.
