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Applications are ow open for the Terra Foundation Collections Grant Program to encourage organizations worldwide to re-interpret and re-present their permanent collections.

They support permanent collection projects that broaden understanding and pursue inclusive and expansive practices of American art, whether through reinstallation or temporary exhibitions drawn primarily from an institution’s permanent collection. They welcome proposals from museums, art centers, and community-based cultural organizations of varying sizes, annual budgets, and diverse geographies, within and outside the United States.

The Terra Foundation supports projects that engage the visual arts of the United States and Indigenous art of North America, while questioning and broadening understandings of American art and transforming how its stories are told. They hope to support endeavors that will exert a long-term impact on institutional practices, such as:

• presentation of a multiplicity of artists and themes

• inclusion of a plurality of voices

• rethinking of collections to re-tell local or regional histories

• engagement with local communities in collaborative program and content creation

Funding Information

• Planning grants typically range between $25,000 and $75,000.

• Implementation grants are up to $100,000.

Eligible Projects

• They encourage projects that:

  • collectively reflect the full breadth and complexity of American art and its histories through the artists represented, voices included, and stories told

  • engage artists, scholars, and communities who present a plurality of perspectives and methods, including intercultural and interdisciplinary approaches

  • catalyze inclusive and expansive practices in the field of American art.

Ineligibility Criteria

• Grants are not made to individuals.

• Currently, they do not accept requests for:

  • the creation or acquisition of existing or commissioned artwork

  • acquisitions or capital expenditures or permanent equipment (including technology, construction other than temporary gallery walls, contracted exhibition or architectural design, exhibition furniture/vitrines, etc.)

  • projects that are exclusively online

  • projects previously opened that are touring to new venues.

Eligibility

• All applicants must hold United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt 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. 

• If an organization has received a Collections research and planning grant, it may subsequently apply for Collections implementation support for the same project.

Post Date: July 11, 2025