GrantOctober 11, 2022
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago announced that it had been awarded a substantial grant from the Mellon Foundation. The $1 million contribution will allow the MCA to launch an institution-wide Latinx and Caribbean art initiative to include the development of two exhibitions and related scholarly publications, acquisitions to its permanent collection, continued curatorial research, community partnerships, and engagement, and the transition to a bilingual Spanish/English museum.
The MCA is developing two ambitious Latinx and Caribbean focused exhibitions, each with an accompanying publication. Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–Today, will open this November 19 and remain on view through April 23, 2023. The exhibition is an innovative rethinking of “Caribbean art,” focusing on the art of the Caribbean diaspora and featuring an intergenerational group of thirty-seven artists who live and work across the Americas and Europe. Later in 2023, the museum will feature Entre Horizontes: Art and Activism Between Puerto Rico and Chicago, a group exhibition that recognizes and critically examines the aesthetic, social, and cultural affinities between the artistic genealogies of the Puerto Rican diaspora in the city of Chicago.
Further to these special exhibitions, the MCA is ramping up efforts to deepen its permanent collection acquisition of additional works by Latinx and Caribbean artists. The museum’s transcultural approach to collecting considers cultural narratives on their terms and strives to create exchanges and dialogues among these cultural contexts, considering gender, race, and geography.
Pritzker Director Madeleine Grynsztejn and Carla Acevedo-Yates, Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator will lead the Latinx and Caribbean initiative. Acevedo-Yates’s work focuses on the scholarship, exhibition, and acquisition of art across Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States.
The MCA is developing two ambitious Latinx and Caribbean focused exhibitions, each with an accompanying publication. Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–Today, will open this November 19 and remain on view through April 23, 2023. The exhibition is an innovative rethinking of “Caribbean art,” focusing on the art of the Caribbean diaspora and featuring an intergenerational group of thirty-seven artists who live and work across the Americas and Europe. Later in 2023, the museum will feature Entre Horizontes: Art and Activism Between Puerto Rico and Chicago, a group exhibition that recognizes and critically examines the aesthetic, social, and cultural affinities between the artistic genealogies of the Puerto Rican diaspora in the city of Chicago.
Further to these special exhibitions, the MCA is ramping up efforts to deepen its permanent collection acquisition of additional works by Latinx and Caribbean artists. The museum’s transcultural approach to collecting considers cultural narratives on their terms and strives to create exchanges and dialogues among these cultural contexts, considering gender, race, and geography.
Pritzker Director Madeleine Grynsztejn and Carla Acevedo-Yates, Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator will lead the Latinx and Caribbean initiative. Acevedo-Yates’s work focuses on the scholarship, exhibition, and acquisition of art across Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States.
