Museum of Fine Arts, Boston – $37,500

This multi-year grant will support the reinstallation of the 18-century Art of the Americas galleries at the MFA Boston in preparation for the U.S. 250^th anniversary. The new galleries will include paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, and works on paper from the period 1680 to 1820 from across North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean, including Indigenous and island nations. The galleries will be reimagined to “show the interplay of the diverse cultures active in this period, and to consider the role of the arts in shaping our understanding of the nation’s founding, and our broader ideas about the Americas and Americanness – as a place, an identity, and an aspiration.”