Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica

FAIN: GE-290818-23

Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL 60603-6488)
Matthew S. Witkovsky (Project Director: August 2022 to present)

Planning for a traveling exhibition that explores the art, history, and culture of twentieth-century and contemporary Pan-Africanism.

The Art Institute of Chicago respectfully requests a one-year grant of $40,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to extend research and planning—ongoing since fall 2019—for the major temporary loan exhibition Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica, scheduled as the Art Institute’s premier exhibition for winter 2024/25.