The Terra Foundation for American Art awarded 22 grants in spring 2024 through its Art Design Chicago initiative. Totaling nearly $820,000, these grants support projects that highlight Chicago’s unique artistic heritage and its creative communities. The grants include support for Art Design Chicago’s public programs, as well as research and learning resources.
Supported projects for this grant cycle include Art on Sedgwick’s public program “Intersections: An Exploration of a Neighborhood through the lens of William Walker’s All of Mankind,” Comfort Station’s public program “Edra Soto: GRAFT in the Public Commons (en los Comunes Públicos),” and Design Museum of Chicago’s public program “Chicago Sukkah Design Festival.”
About the Sukkah Design Festival, Design Museum of Chicago Founder and Executive Director, Tanner Woodford explained: “This autumnal Jewish holiday celebrates the harvest and commemorates liberation. The festival celebrates the heritage of North Lawndale, building solidarity among the Jewish community that formerly lived there, the predominantly Black community there today, and the broader Chicago community.”
