Art Institute of Chicago
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Grants
24
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Total Awarded
$10,209,250
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Years
1979 - 2018
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Categories
Grants
2018 (5 years)
$500,000
The Art Institute of Chicago (the Museum) collects, preserves, and interprets high quality works of art, representing the world’s diverse artistic traditions. The Museum is comprised of an art museum, two libraries, three archives, seven conservation departments, a cinema and film center, performing arts venue, and its school of fine arts. The Museum offers free programs to the public every day year round. The Museum also provides workshops, classes, docent-led tours, and after-school programs that bring more than 110,000 students and teachers to the Museum each year. This award recommends renewed general operating support to the Art Institute of Chicago.
2017 (3 years)
$50,000
The Art Institute of Chicago is one of the premier encyclopedic visual art museums in the world. The Art Institute is collaborating with South African A4 Arts Foundation on an exchange that explores the intersections of curatorship, community-based arts education, and contemporary art of Africa and the African diaspora. Award funds will be used to support travel, accommodations, documentation, and a public symposium in Chicago.
2013 (5 years)
$500,000
The museum of the Art Institute is one of the premier encyclopedic visual art museums in the world. It is one of the largest and most prestigious art museums in the United States. The museum’s collection has 270,000 objects; it contains works of international importance by Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Georges Seurat, Vincent van Gogh, Grant Wood, Edward Hopper, and many others. The Art Institute has 93,000 members and receives 1.4 million visitors each year. This grant will support the general operations of the Art Institute including exhibitions, visitor engagement, and educational programs.
2008 (1 year)
$40,000
In support of a cultural exchange with Nigerian scholars and dignitaries for the exhibition, "Benin-Kings and Rituals: Court Arts of Nigeria."
2003 (4 years)
$50,000
In support of a new museum wing (over four years).
2002 (4 years)
$2,200,000
In support of a new museum wing (over four years).
1994 (5 years 6 months)
$925,000
To reach new audiences in Chicago's African-American and Latino communities (over four years).
1993 (3 years)
$90,000
In support of general operations (over three years).
1992 (1 year)
$19,250
To support a planning retreat for the staff of the Department of Museum Education.
1991 (1 year)
$150,000
In support of general operations (over three years).
1988 (3 years)
$225,000
In support of general operations (over three years).
1986 (1 year)
$150,000
In support of general operations.
1985 (1 year)
$3,800,000
To support special exhibition programs.
1984 (1 year)
$150,000
In support of general operations.
1983 (1 year)
$75,000
In support of general operations.
1982 (1 year)
$75,000
In support of general operations.
1981 (1 year)
$50,000
In support of general operations.
1980 (1 year)
$50,000
In support of general operations.
1979 (1 year)
$50,000
In support of general operations.
