AWARDS GRANTS IN EXCESS OF $3.3 MILLION

Between JUNE 2005 and JUNE 2006

(Chicago, Illinois)— The Terra Foundation for American Art announces the following recipients of Terra Foundation grants totaling $3,354,110:

Chicago Exhibition Program, Academic and Public Program & K-12 Education Program:

ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO

$100,000

To support the presentation of the 2006 exhibition Charles Sheeler: Across Media at the Art Institute of Chicago and related educational programming.

CHICAGO HUMANITIES FESTIVAL

$45,000 over 3 years

To establish the annual Terra Foundation Lecture on American Art. Each year during the Chicago Humanities Festival, a respected scholar, curator or artist will give a presentation on American art and visual culture.

ART RESOURCES IN TEACHING (A.R.T.)

$36,000

To fund a summer institute for teachers whose students participate in “American Art Partners,” a program offered by A.R.T. with the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC), which engages Chicago Public Schools students with American art in the AIC collection.

CHICAGO CONSERVATION CENTER

$25,000

To support educational programs related to the conservation of the Hamilton Park and Pulaski Park field house murals, in Englewood and Bucktown respectively, presented in conjunction with the Chicago Parks District and Chicago Public Schools.

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART

$25,000

To support a public panel discussion, additional adult programming, and professional development programs for K–12 teachers offered in conjunction with the 2006 exhibition Andy Warhol/SUPERNOVA: Stars, Deaths, and Disasters, 1962–1964.

THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY

$25,000

To fund “Art in the High School Classroom,” a seminar program that will bring together local scholars and Chicago Public Schools high-school teachers to examine the theme “frontier and wilderness in American art, literature, and history” and create related curricula.

CHICAGO ARTS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION (CAPE)

$25,000

To provide professional development in American art for Chicago Public Schools fine arts teachers currently serving as Magnet Cluster Lead Teachers in Fine and Performing Arts Magnet Schools.

CHILDREN’S FIRST FUND, CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

$24,360

To support the “Progressive & WPA Mural Workshop Project,” which will provide professional development for Chicago Public Schools (CPS) teachers related to the CPS mural collection.

NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY

$20,500

To support “American Art in Classroom Teaching,” year one of a four-year initiative being developed by the Chicago Teachers’ Center, a unit of Northeastern Illinois University’s College of Education.

MARY AND LEIGH BLOCK MUSEUM OF ART

$16,000

To support the symposium “Marion Mahoney Griffin: Reevaluating Her Artistic Legacy,” presented in conjunction with the 2005 exhibition Marion Mahoney Griffin Drawings: The Form of Nature.

HYDE PARK ART CENTER

$15,000

To support “Traveling the Spaceways: Sun Ra, the Astro Black, and Other Solar Myths,” a November 2005 symposium that will explore the influence of artist and jazz musician Sun Ra on art and culture in Chicago and beyond.

CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION (CAF)

$15,000

To support the CAF’s professional development programs (which serve approximately 400 teachers), student programs, and the updating and printing of their award-winning curriculum resource, “Schoolyards to Skylines,” intended to help teachers integrate Chicago’s built environment into multi-discipline elementary and secondary education.

INTUIT: THE CENTER FOR INTUITIVE AND OUTSIDER ART

$14,150

To fund three (3) fall 2006 panel discussions focused on the history of outsider art in Chicago and its influence on the city’s cultural landscape.

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

$11,500

To support 2005—6 planning meetings between representatives from Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois at Chicago, the Newberry Library, and the Art Institute of Chicago toward the formation of a Chicago Art History Consortium (CAHC).

DEPAUL UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ART

$10,000

To support the catalogue and 2006 exhibition Undiscovered Worlds: Julia Thecla and Chicago and educational programming.

ANCHOR GRAPHICS

$9,000

To support Anchor Graphics’ 2006—7 lecture series entitled “Returning to the Surface,” which will focus on printmaking in Chicago and the Midwest.

CHICAGO HUMANITIES FESTIVAL

$7,000

To support the November 2005 Chicago Humanities Festival lecture, “American Artists at the Louvre,” given by Olivier Meslay, Curator of Spanish, British, and American Paintings, Musée du Louvre.

Exhibition Program:

WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART (New York, New York)

$250,000

To support the catalogue and 2006 exhibition Picasso and American Art at the Whitney Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Walker Art Center.

MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS (Montreal, Canada)

$215,000

To support the catalogue and 2009 exhibition Expanding Horizons: American and Canadian Landscape in Painting and Photography at the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the St. Louis Art Museum, and the international symposium to be presented in Montreal in 2009.

WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART (Hartford, Connecticut),

BUCERIUS KUNST FORUM (Hamburg, Germany)

$190,000

To support the catalogue and 2007 exhibition, Hudson River School Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, at the Bucerius Kunst Forum in Hamburg, Germany and two additional international venues, and to support the Hudson River School symposium to be presented in Hamburg on October 11, 2006.

WILLIAMS COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART (Williamstown, Massachusetts)

$90,000

To support the catalogue and 2007 exhibition Muses of the Avant-Garde: Sara and Gerald Murphy and Their Circle at Williams College Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Dallas Museum of Art.

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART (Los Angeles, California)

$50,000

To support the 2006 exhibition Robert Rauschenberg: Combines at two international venues, Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, France) and Moderna Museet (Stockholm, Sweden), and international educational programming.

DIA ART FOUNDATION (New York, New York)

$50,000

To support the 2006 exhibition Dan Flavin: A Retrospective at two international venues, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (Paris, France) and Pinakothek der Moderne (Munich, Germany); the translation of the exhibition catalogue into the French language; and international educational programming.

CHAZEN MUSEUM OF ART (Madison, Wisconsin)

$15,000

To support the catalogue and 2006 exhibition Woodcuts International and educational programming.

Academic and Public Programs:

SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM (Washington, D.C.)

$600,000 over 5 years

To fund the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Terra Foundation for American Art fellowships, which seek to foster a cross-cultural dialogue by emphasizing the study of American art in an international context.

SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM (Washington, D.C.)

$45,000

To support the symposium “American Art in a Global Context,” to be held September 28–30, 2006, as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s re-opening celebration.

COURTAULD INSTITUTE OF ART (London, United Kingdom),

INSTITUT NATIONAL DE L’HISTOIRE DE L’ART (Paris, France),

JOHN F. KENNEDY- INSTITUT FÜR NORDAMERIKASTUDIEN (Berlin, Germany)

$43,000

To fund three (3) 2007 doctoral travel fellowships and three (3) 2007 post-doctoral travel fellowships for European scholars whose research projects concern American art or transatlantic artistic relations.

COURTAULD INSTITUTE OF ART (London, United Kingdom),

INSTITUT NATIONAL DE L’HISTOIRE DE L’ART (Paris, France),

JOHN F. KENNEDY- INSTITUT FÜR NORDAMERIKASTUDIEN (Berlin, Germany)

$43,000

To fund three (3) 2006 doctoral travel fellowships and three (3) 2006 post-doctoral travel fellowships for European scholars whose research projects concern American art or transatlantic artistic relations.

JOHN F. KENNEDY-INSTITUT FÜR NORDAMERIKASTUDIEN (Berlin, Germany)

$20,000

To support “Narratives of American Art”, a 2 ½ day international conference at the Kennedy Institut in May 2007 co-organized by the Terra Foundation, which will examine different models that have shaped German perceptions of American art scholarship and exhibitions.

MUSÉE D’ORSAY (Paris, France)

$23,800

To support “Entre Barbizon et Giverny: territoires du paysage moderne”/ “Between Barbizon and Giverny: Territories of Modern Landscape Painting,” a two-day symposium at the Musée d’Art Américain Giverny and at the Musée d’Orsay in May 2007, in conjunction with the exhibitions Giverny: International Artists’ Colony (Musée d’Art Américain Giverny) and La Forêt de Fontainebleau, un atelier grandeur nature (Musée d’Orsay).

COURTAULD INSTITUTE OF ART (London, United Kingdom)

$20,000

To fund the April 2006 international conference “Heroism and Reportage,” in conjunction with the Terra co-organized and supported exhibition, Winslow Homer: Poet of the Sea, currently on view at the Musée d’Art Américain Giverny (Giverny, France).

MUSEO NACIONAL DE ARTE (Mexico City, Mexico)

$15,000

To fund the February 2007 symposium “Painting National Identities: Art in Mexico and the United States, 1750-1950,” an exploration of the relationship between Mexican and American art and artists.

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Tempe, Arizona)

$14,250

To support “Surrealism and the American West,” a conference that will explore the surrealist response to Arizona and the American West to be held October 26—27, 2006, and New World Surrealism, a new online journal.

Terra Foundation Initiatives:

MUSÉE DU LOUVRE (Paris, France)

$573,000

In an unprecedented partnership, the Musée du Louvre and the Terra Foundation for American Art collaborated on American Artists and the Louvre/ Les artistes américains et le Louvre, an exhibition that explores the roots of Franco-American artistic exchange and the Louvre as a site for artistic inspiration. American Artists and the Louvre will be on view from June 14—September 18, 2006, and is accompanied by a fully-illustrated scholarly catalogue, published in French and English as well as educational programming, including the June 2006 symposium, “On Democracy in America: Arts, Science and Politics, 1776-1865” held in the Auditorium of the Louvre.

TERRA SUMMER RESIDENCY (Giverny, France)

$450,000 over 2 years

The Terra Summer Residency (TSR) is the signature program of the Terra Foundation Academic Programs in France. TSR provides ten (10) summer fellowships in residence to artists and scholars from the United States and Europe. Each fellow receives a stipend and eight weeks room and board, in addition to the benefits of the academic program. These fellowships are awarded to doctoral students engaged in art historical research with an American or transatlantic component and artists who have completed their studies at or above the Master’s level.

THE TERRA TEACHER LAB (Chicago, Illinois)

$207,500 over 2 years

Since summer 2005 the Terra Foundation has been piloting the Teacher Lab, a program designed to deepen participating Chicago Public Schools teachers’ understanding and appreciation of American art and encourage integration of American art in their curricula. In 2006—7, full implementation of the Terra Teacher Lab will consist of the following elements for CPS participants: a summer seminar, four (4) Saturday workshops during the school year, online resources, and a teacher fellowship.

TERRA FOUNDATION POSTDOCTORAL CURATORIAL FELLOWSHIP (Chicago, Illinois)

$80,000 over 2 years

The Terra Curatorial Fellow, chosen after a national competitive search, will participate in a range of curatorial activities focused on the Terra Foundation’s collection and gain valuable professional experience under the guidance of the Curator of the Collection. Fellowship term extends for two years, with an annual stipend of $40,000.

PHASE II OF THE TERRA TEACHER LAB PILOT (Chicago, Illinois)

$36,000

Phase II of t The pilot lab took take place during the 2005—6 school year with teachers who participated in the summer-seminar portion of the Terra Teacher Lab. Funding allowed for follow-up meetings with teachers and for professional evaluation of the Lab.

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The Chicago-based Terra Foundation for American Art is dedicated to promoting the exploration, understanding, and enjoyment of the visual arts of the United States. With financial resources of more than $200 million and an exceptional collection of American art from the Colonial era to 1945, it is one of the world's leading foundations focused on American art, and devotes approximately $8 million annually in support of American-art exhibitions, projects, research, and the Musée d’Art Américain Giverny.