In 2022, Teiger Foundation renewed its commitment to Collaborative Arts Network New York and funded Los Angeles Visual Arts Coalition and other artworker-run groups that drive change within the field including W.A.G.E. and the climate-action pioneers Artists Commit, Art into Acres, Art + Climate Action, Art/Switch, Gallery Climate Coalition, and Ki Culture, who, with additional partners, make up PACT. Independent Curators International (ICI), Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL), and the Contemporary Curators Conference, a self-organized group of U.S. curators meeting since 1999, also received funds.
The year also saw grants for small organizations that center artists and communities. Among these were PARTICIPANT INC, The Clemente, University Museum at Texas Southern University, The Lab, and California African American Museum—all curator-run and leveraging their size for innovative experimentation and community engagement.
The Foundation supported a variety of individual, curatorially-authored projects in different stages of development, such as Drum Listens to Heart at its beginning; A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, which started in Jackson and Baltimore and traveled to Detroit, Brooklyn, Los Angeles, and Berkeley; and Tropical is Political: Caribbean Art Under the Visitor Economy Regime, which was presented by its co-organizers in New York and San Juan, and traveled to Amherst; and Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969, the first large-scale exhibition to explore performance and theater as foundational elements in contemporary art by Native artists.
On the international stage, support was extended to the curatorial council of the 57th Carnegie International, documenta 15, and transnational organizations like Mophradat, which supports the Arab diaspora, and Asia Art Archive, headquartered in Hong Kong with a presence in New Delhi and Brooklyn, NY. Additional support went to artist-activists of Artists at Risk, the Kyiv Biennial’s Emergency Support Initiative, the Ukrainian Emergency Art Fund, and the Prince Claus Fund’s Cultural Emergency Response, assisting in preserving cultural heritage in crisis regions like Ukraine. Read more about them here.