American Heritage

Challenging Masterpieces: Art and Identity in American Furniture “Challenging Masterpieces” will spotlight Winterthur’s renowned American furniture collection to explore past and present definitions of “masterpiece.” The exhibition will highlight diverse skills, design ingenuity, regional attributes, and use of rare materials to inspire appreciation for the creativity that went into this craft and instill deeper understanding […]

Blackfeet Perspectives in the Art of Charles M. Russell The Denver Art Museum will use this grant to present an exhibition entitled “Blackfeet Perspectives in the Art of Charles M. Russell.” The exhibition will explore Russell’s representations of and relationships with Blackfeet (Niitsitapi) art, culture, and community, and will pair Russell’s works with Blackfeet art

From Many, One: Results of Revolution This grant supports the Brick Store Museum, which was founded in 1936 and is housed in a landmark 1825 general store and four adjacent early 19th-century buildings in Kennebunk, Maine, as it embarks on a transformative project to expand upon the one-man narrative of the town’s history that grew

Potential Threads: Un-Raveling and Un-Settling the American Sampler With this grant, the American Folk Art Museum (AFAM) will convene a public event in February 2027 entitled Potential Threads: Un-Raveling and Un-Settling the American Sampler to discuss and interpret artworks presented in the upcoming AFAM exhibition entitled Locating Girlhood: Place and Identity in Early American “Schoolgirl”

Roots in the Rushes: African American Basketry of the Lowcountry This grant will support a planned exhibition at the Telfair Museums in Savannah, GA that will focus on the bulrush basket craft tradition historically practiced by communities of enslaved individuals from West Africa that blended features of their heritage with European American cultural traits and

Luce/Americana Curatorial Fellowship With this grant, Historic Deerfield will create a one-year fellowship position (the Luce/Americana Curatorial Fellow) to research, share, and publish new scholarship on early 19th-century New England women artists. These artists often defied expectations, overcame serious obstacles with determination, and challenged gender roles to create artworks of significant value and importance. The

American Handwork, a publication in conjunction with Handwork 2026 Americana awarded this grant to Craft in America to support a publication (American Handwork) that will trace the trajectory of American craft to reveal America’s collective heritage. The book will focus on 100 defining objects of material culture from pre-contact, Colonial America, and the 19th, 20th,

Revolutionizing Icons: Reimagining the 18th-century Art of the Americas Galleries 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. 250th anniversary. The new galleries will include paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, and works on paper from the period 1680 to 1820

Worlds Collide: Archaeology and Global Trade in 18th-Century Williamsburg Colonial Williamsburg will use this grant to create a contextual video to accompany “Worlds Collide,” an exhibition of archaeological materials excavated in Williamsburg, VA, that will be on view at the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum from October 2024 through October 2029. The display will highlight