Funding will advance the museum’s planning for more sustainable collection care and building operations The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University has received a $25,000 grant from the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation through the Frankenthaler Climate Initiative, established in association with Environment & Culture Partners to catalyze climate action in the visual […]
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The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University is thrilled to announce the receipt of a $100,000 grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in support of the upcoming Winter 2022 exhibition A Site of Struggle: American Art Against Anti-Black Violence. This is the second round of support the Warhol Foundation has presented […]
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Northwestern University’s Block Museum of Art is proud to announce the receipt of a $45,000 Arts Project grant from National Endowment for the Arts. The grant will support the upcoming Winter 2022 exhibition A Site of Struggle: Making Meaning of Anti-Black Violence in American Art and Visual Culture. The Block’s forthcoming exhibition is among 1,073 […]
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The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University is the recipient of a $105,000 grant from the Terra Foundation of American Art in support of research and development for an exhibition that approaches the art history of the Chicago region from Indigenous perspectives. Tentatively titled Indigenous Chicago: Confluence, Rupture, Flow, the exhibition will take place […]
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The Block Museum of Art is pleased to announce that Janet Dees, The Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art has received a Curatorial Research Fellowship from the Warhol Foundation. The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts will award a total of $413,500 in Fall 2018 Curatorial Research Fellowships. Fellows will […]
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The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University is the recipient of a major exhibition implementation grant of $350,000 from the National Endowment for Humanities. The grant supports the exhibition Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa, opening at The Block Museum in January 2019 before traveling to […]
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