Call for LOIs: Convening Grant Program (US)

The Terra Foundation encourages convenings that address these disparities and exclusions at institutions worldwide. Grant support is available for programs that foster exchange and collaboration, such as workshops, symposia, and colloquia. Programs should advance innovative and experimental research and professional practice in American art and address critical issues facing the field. They also welcome requests for convenings intended to inform projects in their early stages, which will benefit from the learning and practice that can be developed through dialogue.

This program is open to organizations within and outside of the United States. Convenings held in person and/or online are eligible for support.

Goals

• The Terra 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.
• They encourage projects 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
  • commit to inclusive and equitable practices across project development and implementation in order to lead to structural change
• Projects with a primary goal of influencing practice change should also demonstrate an engagement with the field of American art.

Funding Information

• Convening grants are typically between $10,000 and $25,000, unless an award outside this range is warranted by unusual circumstances. Up to $5,000 of an awarded grant may be used for resulting proceedings or publications, whether online or printed; funds for this purpose need to be spent within one year of the event. Up to 20% of a Terra Foundation grant may offset direct administration costs; and up to 15% of a grant may be applied to indirect costs.

Eligibility Criteria

• For this program, the Terra Foundation accepts proposals only from institutions with United States 501(c)(3) status or the international equivalent. Convening grants are not made to individuals.
• These programs are intended for scholarly and public audiences. Programs designed primarily for the general public, travel grants, fellowship programs, research databases, and capital expenditures are not eligible for funding through this program. While the Terra Foundation welcomes recurring requests over time, organizations that submit applications in subsequent rounds should note that the foundation aims to fund a broad array of organizations.

For more information, visit Terra Foundation for American Art.