Graham Foundation announces $338,000 in grants to organizations furthering architecture and design ideas | News

The Graham Foundation has announced its annual list of organizational grants featuring a total of 36 recipients from around the world whose work furthers institutional goals to support the development and exchange of ideas about architecture and design.

This year’s class included projects from a variety of organizations located in Buenos Aires, Colombo, London, New York, St. Louis, Toronto, Chicago, and elsewhere. Podcasts from the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation and the Society of Architectural Historians’ Race and Architectural History Affiliate Group were awarded alongside public presentations, exhibitions, and publications like Lucy Sante’s engrossing Nineteen Reservoirs and the forthcoming Cornelia Hahn Oberlander on Pedagogical Playgrounds from Concordia University Press.

New organizations such as Lesley Lokko’s African Futures Institute (the publishers of FOLIO), The Lower East Side’s a83 gallery, and the Buenos Aires-based Disponible were also included in a total allotment that equaled $338,000. The Graham Foundation shares that it has now awarded some $42 million to individuals and organizations since its inception in 1956, adding that the majority of the recipients from this year’s class were founded in the last 15 years or less. In a press statement, they said: “This continues the commitment of the Graham Foundation to support emerging organizations that take risks to engage new ideas and audiences.”

Below are the 2022 Grant Organization Recipients:

EXHIBITIONS

• a83 (New York, NY) – Architectural Image-Making in 1980s New York: The John Nichols Printmakers & Publishers Collection
• Anyone Corporation (New York, NY) – Model Behavior
• Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL) – Himali Singh Soin: Static Range
• The Arts Club of Chicago (Chicago, IL) – Rathin Barman: Unsettled Structures
• The Center for Land Use Interpretation (Culver City, CA) – Harper’s Ferry: An Interpretive Epicenter

• Counterpublic (St. Louis, MO) – Counterpublic 2023
• Disponible (Buenos Aires, Argentina) – Making Architecture Available 2022-23 Program
• LIGA — Space for Architecture (Mexico City, Mexico) – Architecture for Gods
• MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House (West Hollywood, CA) – Seeking Zohn
• Museum of Design Atlanta (Atlanta, GA) – Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip—Hop Architecture

• Queens Museum (Queens, NY) – Charisse Pearlina Weston: of [a] tomorrow: lighter than air, stronger than whiskey, cheaper than dust
• Ragdale Foundation (Lake Forest, IL) – Echo, 10th Anniversary Ragdale Ring: Reconnecting to Our Roots
• Storefront for Art and Architecture (New York, NY) – On the Ground
• Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, OH) – Sharing Circles: Carol Newhouse and the WomanShare Collective
• Floating Museum (Chicago, IL) – Floating Monuments: Mecca Flats

FILM, VIDEO, AND NEW MEDIA PROJECTS

PUBLIC PROGRAMS

• Association of Architecture Organizations (Chicago, IL) – 2022 Design Matters Conference
• Mobile Makers Chicago (Chicago, IL) – Interdisciplinary and Intergenerational Design Summit

PUBLICATIONS

• African Futures Institute (Accra, Ghana) – FOLIO: Journal of Contemporary African Architecture, Volume 3: 19.8
• Bracket (Toronto, ON) – Bracket [On Sharing]
• California College of the Arts—Architecture Division (San Francisco, CA) – Reviewing Design Book Review
• Concordia University Press (Montreal, QC) – Cornelia Hahn Oberlander on Pedagogical Playgrounds
• The Experiment (New York, NY) – Nineteen Reservoirs: On Their Creation and the Promise of Water for New York City
  Written by author Lucy Sante

• Faktur (University Park, PA) – Faktur: Documents and Architecture, Issues No. 4 and 5
• Geoffrey Bawa Trust (Colombo, Sri Lanka) – Drawing from the Geoffrey Bawa Archives
• Goldsmiths College, London University—Centre for Research Architecture (London, UK) – Research Architecture: Provocations, Practices, and Propositions
• Manifest Institute of the Americas (New York, NY) – Manifest: A Journal of the Americas, Issues 4–5
• MAS Context (Chicago, IL) – MAS Context 34: AIR
• New York Review of Architecture (New York NY) – New York Review of Architecture, 2022

STUDENT-LED PUBLICATIONS