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Jan 06, 2024

Founded in 1956, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts fosters the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. The Graham realizes this vision through making project-based grants to individuals and organizations and producing exhibitions, events, and publications.

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CURRENT EXHIBITION
  The Graham Foundation is an official site for CAB 5:  This is a Rehearsal, part of the fifth edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB). Curated by the interdisciplinary arts collective the Floating Museum, CAB 5: This is a Rehearsal, takes an expansive view of design as an iterative rehearsal process to explore architecture, cities, and the different social, ecological, economic and political forces that shape them.
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UPCOMING EXHIBITION
  Cally Spooner, 2024 Graham Foundation Fellow, presents a repertoire of works from Deadtime, a multi-year research project started in 2018.  
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UPCOMING EVENT
  Cally Spooner: Deadtime, an anatomy study opens to the public on February 17 with A Thesis on Spillage—a symposium featuring performances, choreographies, conversations, and lectures by Nuar Alsadir, Marquis Bey, Wendy Brown, Joshua Chambers-Letson, Tony Cokes, Hendrik Folkerts, Melody Giron, Irena Haiduk, Sarah Herda, Darrell Jones, Ralph Lemon, and Cally Spooner, among others. 
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2023 Grantees (Alphabetical by grantee)

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NEWS

  CAB 5: This is a Rehearsal is on view through Jan 27, 2024. Open Wed through Sat from 12–5 p.m., the exhibition includes works by Cecil McDonald, Jr., Dream The Combine, Larissa Fassler, and a collaborative project curated by interim studio.
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  The Graham Foundation is honored to announce the 2023 Carter Manny Awards for doctoral dissertations and research by emerging scholars. Through this annual program, the Graham supports work that contributes to new narratives in contemporary understanding of architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society.
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2023 GRANTEES CONT.

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2023 Carter Manny Awards

Yale University School of Architecture 2023 Carter Manny Writing Award

Yale University, School of Architecture 2023 Carter Manny Research Award

AN TAIRAN
Princeton University, School of Architecture
Writing Citation

DEEPTHI BATHALA
University of Michigan, A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Writing Citation

ANGELIKA JOSEPH
Princeton University, Humanities Council and School of Architecture
Research Citation

ADAM LONGENBACH
Harvard University, Graduate School of Design
Research Citation

MICHAEL MOYNIHAN
Cornell University, Department of Architecture
Writing Citation

QIRAN SHANG
University of Pennsylvania, Weitzman School of Design
Research Citation

CHELSEA SPENCER
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture + Planning
Writing Citation

SYLVIA WU
University of Chicago, Department of Art History
Writing Citation

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2023 Grantees cont.

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