The Terra Foundation for American Art awarded 32 grants in October 2023 through its Art Design Chicago initiative, supporting projects that highlight Chicago’s unique artistic heritage and creative communities. Supported projects for this grant cycle include Folded Map’s public program “unBLOCKED,” which aims to educate the public about Chicago’s racist housing policies, including predatory land-sale contracts and redlining, National Public Housing Museum’s exhibition Still Here: Linking Stories of Displacement, that uses art, archives, and public dialogue to explore and connect histories of displacement on the land where the museum is located, and South Asia Institute’s exhibition Seen and Unseen: South Asian American Art in Chicago, a multifaceted project that documents and shares the history of South Asian art and artists in Chicago through an archival exhibition and an installation of contemporary art.
“Recentering these long-neglected art histories and connecting them to the present in this unprecedented exhibition will assure South Asia Institute’s role as one of the nation’s leading South Asian American art institutions, and we hope that it will lay the groundwork for similar projects across the country.” – Shireen Ahmad, Founder and Director of South Asia Institute
